What's New

New Books, Videos, CDs, etc.    View monthly lists of the titles added to the CSU Library's collection.

January 2012

APA Database Provides Fulltext Access to Psychological Tests

PsycTESTS from the American Psychological Association provides the full text of psychological tests and measures as well as structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated monthly, PsycTESTS includes a wide variety of test types: achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and more. Includes fields for validity and reliability data (when available), test purpose, construct, format, number of items, and more. Includes descriptive summaries of commercially available tests with links to the publisher, and provides full text, descriptive summaries, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching.

Education Full Text, Play Index, and Other Wilson Databases Now on the EBSCOhost Platform

CSU's four databases published by the H.W. Wilson Company are now being provided on the EBSCOhost platform. Regular users of Book Review Digest Plus, Education Full Text, Essay and General Literature Index, and Play Index will now see these Wilson resources in the look and feel of EBSCOhost databases such as Academic Search Premier.

Library Staff Changes

Ralph Green has joined the staff in the AV Department on the library's second floor. Deirdre Jones has moved from the AV Department to the first floor Circulation Desk, replacing Tammy Fagan. A warm welcome to Ralph!

October 2011

New Faces in the Library

Join the CSU Library in welcoming two new reference librarians and two part-time circulation assistants. Douglas Davies comes to us with over 30 years experience, most recently from Indiana Wesleyan University. Virginia native Ruth Castillo recently received her Master's in Library Science from the University of South Carolina. The Circulation Desk staff now includes Tammy Fagan and Lauren Seidenschmidt. Stop by soon to say hello to Doug, Ruth, Tammy, and Lauren!

September 2011

e-Duke Collection Adds Humanities and Social Science Journals

The e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection: Expanded provides online access to journal titles published by Duke University Press. Subjects include the Humanities and Social Sciences. The number of titles in the collection is expected to grow from year to year. All of the journals are also accessible by title through the library's Journals by Title webpage.

August 2011

NetLibrary Becomes EBSCO eBook Collection

NetLibrary is now known as the EBSCO eBook Collection. While still providing the same electronic books as before, it now offers all the user-friendly features you are used to in other EBSCO databases such as Academic Search Premier. In addition, accessing these over 21,000 ebooks from off campus now uses the same username and password as all other CSU library resources.

MS Office 2010 Added to All Student Computers in the Library

Microsoft Office 2010 has been added to all student-use computers in the library, including those on the first floor and those in the BILT Center on the second floor.