LC-2024-10: Tech Library

America’s News provides full text content from thousands of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, news video, and news blogs. Find information on business and economics, international events, political issues, social issues, STEM, and other topics.

Included in America’s News is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock), The Courier (Russellville), Times Record (Fort Smith), Log Cabin Democrat (Conway), the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and 56 more Arkansas newspapers.

Create an account to save articles or search alerts, which will send search results to your email either multiple times per day, daily, or weekly.

A large provider of the library’s databases, Proquest, has just enabled a beta version of their AI powered “Research Assistant.”

Since September, some databases from Proquest have added this additional feature that shows synonyms for keyword searches, key takeaways from article results, a description of important topics, and suggested additional sources.

Currently, this feature is only enabled for ProQuest One Business and ProQuest One Literature. For more information, check out this ProQuest Research Assistant: FAQs or watch the ProQuest Research Assistant Video.

Are you planning a podcast related to your teaching or research? Good audio is essential to the success of your podcast and we can help you. Visit the Audio for Podcasting guide and consider borrowing equipment from the ATU Media Production Labs for a one-week loan.

Reach out to Lowell Lybarger, ATU Media Librarian for any questions you might have for improving the audio in your media productions and what we have available at the ATU MPL.

The Library will host the Spooky Trivia Night on Tuesday October 29, 2024 from 7pm to 9pm in RPL 300A! There will be 5 rounds of 10 questions, with various Halloween themes, and a bonus round that could make or break the game.

Create a team with your colleagues or students: two to six people per team. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams.

This is a great opportunity to interact with students outside of the classroom. And there will be snacks...

The Ross Pendergraft Library & Technology Center opened in June 1999 and was dedicated on October 30, 1999.

See more photographic memories of the current library building starting in 1997.

Some familiar names and faces might make you smile... And then, the information on the 4^th page of the brochure might make you snicker at the technology considered top notch at the time...

Visit the Online Research Commons @ ATU to download the library grand opening and dedication documents.

A Guided Individual Brainstorm at the Library through Serendipity is an activity you can offer your students during the month of October. It allows the students to discover the physical facility through playful activities.

Learn more about the GIBLS. View the GIBLS calendar. The GIBLS offerings are in yellow in the calendar.

Volume 2, Issue 5