General Resources

Credo Reference, an online collection of over 430 full-text reference sources from over 60 scholarly publishers, is now available.

LexisNexis Academic is now available to our users. This database provides full-text access to over 6,000 business, legal and news sources from around the world.

You can find LNA at this link:
http://proxy.luther.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnac... or by searching Encore and Magnus. It is also listed on the Library Research page in the “by Resource Type” pulldown menu under Newspapers and Current News.

As a result of this new subscription we have retired our subscription to Westlaw Campus Research.

Have you ever found yourself without a piece of paper or a pen after finding a call number in the library catalog?

Now, if you are searching in Magnus, you can send a text message to your phone which will include the title, author and call number for your book.

Just click the “Send via Text Message” button found in the middle of most Magnus item displays (here’s an example), then enter your phone number and select your cell provider — it’s that simple!

The texting service is available for the following cell providers:

• Alltel
• AT&T/Cin

Magnus now has the ability to display example citations for many of the books, journals, videos, and music in the Luther Library Collection.

When looking at a full item record in Magnus (here’s an example), on many records you will now see a link immediately below title and imprint information, labeled “Cite this Item (from WorldCat).” Example citations will be given in the following formats:

• APA
• Chicago (Author-Date)
• Harvard
• MLA
• Turabian

“Cite this Item” is provided by OCLC, and is also available from WorldCat.org

The library has collected a number of tools which introduce the research process and provide help in using common library tools.

From NITLE:

Professional Development Events

A full list of NITLE events lives at http://www.nitle.org/www/events. Register participants online from the event web page, or send an e-mail to participate@nitle.org with the event title and registrant’s name, job title, and e-mail address.

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The Naxos Music Library: Jazz is now available for up to 10 simultaneous users. Over 2,300 albums of classic jazz, blues and R&B from some (but not all) of the most important record labels of the 1950s, 60s, and beyond can be streamed to your computer. Labels represented include Milestone, Prestige, Riverside & Original Jazz Classics.