LRC Fall Hours

Beginning August 22, 2011

Monday-Thursday 8:00a.m.-8:00p.m.

Friday-8:00a.m.-3:00p.m.

It's Not About the Book: Information Sharing in a Digital World

Recently a distinguished University Librarian at Stanford University published a column in a library trade journal in which he discussed the phenomenon of the ever-increasing availability of digital information sources. Paper is decreasing in popularity as the preferred medium of information sharing as more consumers turn to eBooks and online journals. In January of this year sales of e-books outpaced sales of paperbacks at Amazon.com. What are the implications for you as a Sauk Valley student, employee, or community member?

The Learning Resources Center is committed to providing the best possible library and media services to you in response to your individual and collective needs. Due to the increasing prevalence of digital research resources and their greater versatility compared to print resources, the LRC has developed a collection of databases that provide access to many thousands of articles covering a wide array of research topics. As e-books are made available in increasingly user-friendly formats we have purchased and will continue to purchase titles that support the Sauk Valley Community College curriculum. The overwhelming advantage of these formats is that they can be used by students off-campus, which is especially important to our distance learners.

We will also continue to purchase books that can be checked out and used by our patrons who prefer the tactile, page-turning experience. Our aim is not to abandon or ignore one format in place of another. The mission of the library has always been, and continues to be that of providing information to people when they need it, in the format best suits their needs. To that end we always welcome your suggestions and input, so that we can continue to make informed and responsive choices using the resources provided to us by the citizens of the Sauk Valley.

Getting the most out of SFX

Have you ever searched for a journal article and found a graphic that says “SFX”? Did you wonder what it was? Well, SFX connects citations from one Sauk database to another Sauk database via a link resolver. That way you do not have to search each and every database to locate your full text article; in a sense SFX does that for you. To learn more about SFX, click below.