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SLRC News & Updates

02/12/2025
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The LSC Libraries have database trials for possible art, communications, current event, and health resources available this semester.
08/08/2023
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Read up on your new and alternative tools.
08/23/2021
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The online MLA guide has been switched over to the 9th edition! No need to update any bookmarks or D2L links -- it's still at upresearch.lonestar.edu/mla. We also have a copy of the handbook on reserve at the front desk if you'd like to peruse.

What Stayed the Same: The Vast Majority

  • Document format - heading, spacing, etc.
  • Same basic principle with the universal checklist of elements for building citations. Some small changes to labeling ("optional" elements > "supplemental"; "other contributors" > "contributors").

Mostly this edition focused on refining the 8th edition handbook rather than sweeping changes. MLA added much-requested guidance and explanations about writing style in particular as well as citations. The 9th handbook is over twice as long as the 8th, with more visuals, as a result.

 

What Changed:

  • EBSCOhost and ProQuest are to be treated as secondary containers for database citations, as opposed to the (actual) database names like Academic Search Complete.
  • E-books will say "e-book ed." for version, in addition to any editions, etc.
  • URLs may include the https:// rather than strictly omitting it, depending on whether you want live, clickable links or not.  In our guide, we have stuck with omitting it. However, we recommend specifying in your assignments whether you want live (i.e. clickable, blue, underlined) links or not (or links that are clickable but don't look like it). As ever, the most important thing is internal consistency.

 

What Was Added:

  • 1 page about annotated bibliographies. Not worth mentioning -- design your assignment as you see fit with regards to these.
  • New chapter on using inclusive language.

 

01/02/2021
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It's the unofficial day of celebrating sci-fi (and Isaac Asimov's birthday, for that matter). Hop on over to our guide to get a run-down on the history of the genre + a representative but non-exhaustive set of title recommendations, all available for free through the public domain or the library.

01/11/2019
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The latest databases to join our collection:
New
Current business information, from scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry, and market-focused trade news, with some historical coverage back to 1900.
  • ABI includes access to The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Maclean’s, and U.S. News & World Report, among other news, scholarly, and trade publications.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
 
Full-text database designed to support continuity experts and information professionals. It covers all aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR), including risk evaluation, emergency preparedness and crisis communications.
Provides full text for industry-leading journals, magazines, books, trade publications on sustainability initiative management.
 

Returning Database:

This database was dropped from TexShare; Lone Star College Libraries have acquired it directly.
Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources.
 

Trial Resource: