The library facility is a separate structure which was purpose built during the institution's 2000 expansion program. The collection of over 30,000 volumes is catalogued and arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification. All holdings are held in a computerized database. Open shelving and the computerized database enables prompt, easy access for the students. The teaching faculty, student researchers and librarians are actively involved and supportive of the enhancement and development of the library collection.
There is a constant update of the resource material required for students as a part of the library's policy to ensure that the latest editions are available. The elimination of outdated resource material is conducted on an on-going basis.
A library orientation program is mandatory for all English Composition I students.
Computer terminals are connected to the Internet. Students may access the library database online to view and identify books from the in-house collection. The librarian and library staff will assist you when you use the library. Please do not hesitate to ask for help.
Library Tutorials
Library Hours
Electronic Resources
Library Catalog
Library Rules
TILT Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) is an interactive, self-paced and fun tutorial designed to help students learn about library and Internet resources.
First time users of the tutorial must register with TILT. Several learning modules guide students through issues and topics, helping them to gain confidence in the use of information resources. Quizzes at the end of each module measure progress and proficiency.
FALL, SPRING AND SUMMER SEMESTERS
Sunday - Thursday 8.30 am - 5.00 pm
These hours are subject to change. The library will be closed on Fridays, Saturdays, all public holidays and during the semester break in December.
If there is any change in the library hours a notice will be posted on the door of the library.
Library Contact Number:
00971 - 04 - 2821305
All students who are currently enrolled in the BBA and Transfer Program have access to electronic databases for research purpose. Please follow the link given below and collect the password from the Library http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/acd1
ELECTRONIC LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR THE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DEGREE
Business, Economics & Management
Business and Economic History OnLine, a selection of papers presented at the Business History Conference's Annual Meeting... more
Contemporary Management Research
The Contemporary Management Research is a double-blind referred academic journal for all fields of management, such as accounting, management information system, electronic commerce, information systems and technology, business administration, marketing, consumer behavior, internet marketing, financial and banking, human resource, economics, international business, operations management, technology and innovation management, business ethics... more
URL: http://www.doaj.org/
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Articles from Business, Management and Economics Journals are also included...more
Neatly organized portal listing links to specific subject categories...more
Fetch E-Journal Database
From the Manhattan College Library: "The Free E-Journals List contains over 11,000 journals that have all or part of their text available free over the internet...more
NewJour
This is the archive for the internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet. Multi disciplinary full-text database...more
Business News
Wall Street Journal: URL: http://online.wsj.com/public/us
Bloomberg: URL: www.bloomberg.com/
Forbes: URL: www.forbes.com/
Fox Business: URL: www.foxbusiness.com/
Financial Times: URL: www.ft.com/
Harvard Business Review: URL: hbr.harvardbusiness.org/
CNBC: URL: www.cnbc.com/
Market Watch URL: www.marketwatch.com/
MEED: URL: www.meed.com/
Arabian Business: URL: www.arabianbusiness.com/
Scholarly & Multidisciplinary
research.allacademic.com
URL: http://www.acjournal.org/
Online Publications (mostly free)
Collections of periodicals or journals which are Internet accessible...more
Findarticles.com
This site offers a search engine that scans over one million articles. In addition to a general search engine search you can also browse by subject or by publication. For example you can browse through magazines by topics such as: Arts and Entertainment, Automotive, Business and Finance, Computers and Technology, Health and Fitness, Home and Garden, News and Society, Reference and Education, and Sports. Good source for the sophisticated researcher...more
List of journals available free online:
This is a general list of selected particularly notable journals with at least some free content...more
Internet Public Library
An extensive listing of sites for books available online...more
MemoWare
"Thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.)" free -- for the PDA...more
The National Academies Press
Thousands of online books, free and for sale. Accessed by topic and subtopics. By the National Academies, "advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, & Medicine...more
University of Adelaide Library (Australia):ebooks @ Adelaide
Alphabetical, chronological, theme searches for e-books in the collection. Includes a listing of e-texts from other sources...more
SparkNotes
Free online study guides...more
GENERAL EDUCATION - Social Sciences
Behavior & Social Issues
Behavior and Social Issues is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that serves as a primary scholarly outlet for articles that advance the analysis of human social behavior, particularly with regard to understanding and influencing important social problems. The journal is particularly interested in publishing work related to issues with social justice, human rights, and environmental implications, but all significant social issues are of interest...more
Current Research in Social Psychology
Current Research in Social Psychology (CRISP) is a peer-reviewed, electronic journal covering all aspects of social psychology...more
http://potsdam.libguides.com/content.php?pid=22872&sid=164044
A variety of useful information about psychology. Student Psychology provides a gateway to Psychology Press' online interactive resources, revision aids and information for undergraduate psychology students or those interested in studying for a psychology degree. Student Psychology also contains links to multimedia e-Learning materials to tie in with our best-selling psychology course textbooks...more
Free online journals
Provides a comprehensive listing of the different initiatives which provide researchers in low and middle income countries with free access to academic journals. It is a listing of collections of free online journals related to the social sciences...more
Intute - Social Science resources
A free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists...more
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Social Sciences Journals
Directory of links to online social science journals from around the world. Also links to WWW e-journals. [12/07] Journals, Periodicals: Assorted publications by Specific topic...more
URL: http://potsdam.libguides.com/content.php?pid=13285&sid=93784
A variety of useful information about anthropology
http://www.rhodes.edu/barret/11076.asp
Selected anthropology online resources
Arts and Humanities
URL: http://eserver.org/
The EServer is an arts and humanities e-publishing co op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
URL: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Public domain works of 14,000+ American, English literature and Western philosophy. Creator: Eric Lease Morgan, since 1994. [12/07]
Bartelby.com: Great Books Online
URL: http://www.bartleby.com
An internet provider of free books: reference, fiction, poetry. Large database of quotations. Began by Steven H. van Leeuwen in January, 1993. [12/07]
ClassicReader
URL: http://www.classicreader.com
Fiction, non-fiction, Shakespeare, classical, short-stories. [12/07]
EText Center
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
Over 2100 e-books available, full text searchable, viewable in HTML format. For the Microsoft Reader or Palm. University of Virginia Library. [12/07]
URL: http://eserver.org/
URL: http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary/
URL: http://www.manybooks.net/
PSU's Electronic Classics Site
URL: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htmPDF files of classical English works of literature and publications of PSU. Created in 1997, Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis. [11/07]
Science
www.worldwidescience.org
It is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multi-lateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. This search gateway provides free federated search access to science databases from government agencies worldwide.
Law and law enforcement
Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk
URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=2585
Online Law Journals – free reference
Education
NCES Electronic Catalog
URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
This website serves the research, education and other interested communities.
Gateway to numerous journals and other educations publications
All Academic Research
http://research.allacademic.com/one/www/research/
A guide to free academic resources online.
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center
UR: www.eric.ed.gov
An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Library
URL: http://www.servicelearning.org/library/journals/
Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) operates America's premier website supporting the service-learning efforts of schools, higher education institutions, communities, and tribal nations.
News and Periodical Resources on the Web
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lists.html
Listing of sources for newspapers and journals available via the Internet.
Newspapers
URL: http://www.newspaperindex.com/
Specific Newspapers
Al Jazeera in English
Athens News (Greece)
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
Die Welt (Germany)
El País (Madrid, Spain – in Spanish)
Evening Standard Online (London, England)
Guardian Unlimited (United Kingdom)
Independent (United Kingdom)
International Herald Tribune
Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
Kashmir Times (Jammu & Kashmir, India)
La Reppublica (Rome, Italy – in Italian)
Le Figaro (France – in French)
Le Monde (France– in French)
L'Osservatore Romano (Vatican City)
Montréal Gazette (Montréal, Québec, Canada) [06/08]
Moscow Times (Moscow, Russia)
News.com.au (Australia)
News International (Karachi, Pakistan)
Ottawa Sun (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Público (Lisbon, Portugal – in Portuguese)
The Standard China's Business Newspaper. (Hong Kong, China)
Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia)
Times (London, England)
Times of India (New Delhi, Delhi, India)
News Wire Services and Internet News Service
1stHeadlines
Collected from newspapers and news services around the world.
NewsBlip
Search engine for news.
NewsDirectory.com
URL: http://www.ecola.com
Access to websites of over 14,000 English-language news sources, including newspapers and magazines.
NewsIndex
Index of more than 300 news sources.[not working – 11/02]
NewsLink
Searchable database and links to news sources by subjects, city, or country.
PR Newswire: News and Information
A variety of news sources listed by continent and country.
Total News
Searchable news database featuring major network news outlets.
Yahoo! News
Headlines from major news providers from around the world.
The Library Catalog includes titles on the following subjects. The books are catalogued by the Library of Congress Classification.
Book Requisition
Faculty and students who would like us to add books to the library collection may Click here for the Book Requisition Form.
The following regulations have been formulated to provide a quiet, pleasant environment in which to relax and work without being disturbed.
Loitering, shouting or running around in the library is forbidden.
Eating, drinking (including bottled water) or smoking in the library is not allowed.
Silence must be observed in the Library. Mobile phones, and watch alarms should be switched to silent mode before you enter the Library.
Please leave your bags on the shelves near the circulator desk before coming in to select books from the holding area.
If you wish to refer to books within the precincts of the library, you should register your student number, name and the title(s) of book(s) at the circulation desk.
Do not put the books back on the shelves. You must deposit books which you have taken from the shelves, but do not wish to borrow, on top of the small shelves. Library staff will return the books to the shelves.
Library materials may not be borrowed from the Library unless they have been properly issued by Library staff.
Members must ensure that materials checked out to them are returned or renewed on or before the date due.
Fines may be imposed, library privileges may be suspended or withdrawn for breach of any of the Library rules.
The Library Staff may (if necessary) check all books and personal belongings at the exit.
Please note that Library staff has the right to:
Ask students to leave the library if they are causing a disturbance
Remove any book, file, bag, food or any other personal belongings left on the reading tables.
The Library will not be responsible for the loss of any personal belongings.
Only the following categories of reading material can be used in the library:
Current periodicals
Reference materials, including reference books, press clippings, standards, compact discs, theses and academic exercises.
Borrowing books
Text books or course books are available for lending/borrowing from the text book centre.
Supplementary texts and reference books are available in the main library.
Students may check out five supplementary texts at a time. However, when there is a demand for books on a particular subject/topic only 2 books will be issued. Students who do not return books by the due date will be fined @ 0.50fils a day.
Books in great demand will be checked out for ten days only.
Books will be re-issued provided there is no advance booking by staff/students.
Students can reserve books in advance.
Reference books are for use in the library only.