Tulsa Community College Learning Resources Center Services for Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

LRC Services Information for Adjunct Faculty (MS Word)

AdjunctNation.com - Description from Lii.org (Librarians' Internet Index) :
"This site is a companion to the Adjunct Advocate magazine, a publication for and about temporary college faculty in the United States and Canada. The site offers selected articles from the current issue and complete contents of recent past issues (with free registration). Also includes information about jobs and fellowships, a syllabus database, message boards, and links to related information." Searchable.

Books & Journals Publication Search

Alibris - out of print publications bookseller website

Books In Print - Bowker - TCC subscription

E-journal Title Search - Serial Solutions TCC subscription
Search this database by journal title or journal subject to find full-text articles in
TCC subscription databases

Ulrich's Periodical Directory - Ulrich TCC subscription
Research a periodical for detailed publication information

WorldCat - OCLC
Find a book or journal subscription in library in OK or the United States

LRC Services on Blackboard LRC content and e-reserves (under construction)

LRC Advisory Committee
Chair: Mike Rusk, Dean of Learning Resources Centers
Members:
Lynnda Brown/DistLearn/tcc, Cherie Hughes/LibArts/tcc, Jerry Humphrey/BusServ/tcc, Steve St John/BusServ/tcc, Tiffany Engel/PerformingArtsInst/tcc, Mary Cantrell/CommServ/tcc
Darin Combs/LibArts/tcc, Joyce Friske/SciMath/tcc, Diane Knapp/LibArts/tcc, Rosemary Carlson/SciMath/tcc, Ann Taff/BusServ/tcc

E-Reference Books/Databases

Oxford Reference Online - Oxford (TCC subscription)
"online access to the world's most trusted reference collection"
Subjects & Books and New User tips for this database

Gale Biography Resource Center subscription shared with OSU-Tulsa
"The Biography Resource Center combines over 427,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people from over 960 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders,... with over 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report."Gale

Gale Virtual Reference Library (TCC subscription)
"Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7." Gale.
Titles in full-text include:
Science:
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia;
Literature:
Contemporary Poets, Drama for Students, Poetry for Students, Short Stories for Students;
Geography:
Countries and Their Cultures, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ;
Religion: Contemporary American Religion, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World ;
Psychology and Sociology: Child Development, and Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Oxford English Dictionary - Oxford (TCC subscription)
Full-text encyclopedias and dictionaries in many subjects. "The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books." from Oxford.

World Almanac - Facts on File (Facts.com) (TCC subscription)
Find It Fast! Subjects include: Arts and the Media, Astronomy, Calendar, Economy and Business, Health and Nutrition , Nations of the World, Noted Personalities, Science and Technology, Sports and Games, U.S. Cities, U.S. Presidential Elections, U.S. States, World Almanac Featured Articles.

Databases on Education

ERIC - Ebscohost (TCC subscription)

Curriculum Essentials - ProQuest (TCC subscription)

Professional Development Database - Ebscohost (TCC subscription)

Chronicle of Higher Education (TCC subscription)

Professional Resources for Faculty

Arts and Letters Daily

Campus Technology - companion website to the print journal

Chronicle of Higher Education (TCC subscription)

Educause - Transforming Education Through Information Technologies

Merlot - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

World Lecture Hall - description from Lii.org (Librarians' Internet Index)
"An annotated directory of "links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language." Includes courses "delivered entirely over the Internet," or "designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between." Searchable, and browsable by topic. From the Center for Instructional Technologies, University of Texas at Austin."

Information Literacy and Tutorials

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and ALA (American Libraries Association)
Introduction to Information Literacy overview

Information Literacy for Faculty and Administrators

SearchPath
An information literacy tutorial adapted by University of Central Oklahoma Chambers Library

TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
Created by University of Texas at Austin

Search Strategies on the Internet - by NoodleTools

FLYERS - tutorial from University of Dayton, Ohio.

TCC Metro Campus
Reference Desk
(918) 595-7296
Email Librarian

TCC Northeast Campus
Reference Desk
(918 )595-7555
Email Librarian

TCC Southeast Campus
Reference Desk
(918) 595-7705
Email Librarian

TCC West Campus
Reference Desk
(918) 595-8010
Email Librarian

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