1. LIBRARY
Introduction to Library Resources and Services for English Graduate Students
Friday, September 1, 2017
Vince Graziano
English Librarian

2. Overview of Library Services
Interlibrary Loans – COLOMBO
Click on Create Request (if necessary)
Login with Concordia NetName
Article Delivery (2 working days)
Via an online form, articles from our printed/microform collection will be scanned into PDF and delivered via
BCI card
Request at Circulation Desk
Dissertation Writers Rooms
Graduate students only (ID card entry)
Webster 5th floor

3. Overview of Library Services
Intercampus delivery
For books at the other campus, you will need to go to the Vanier Library on Loyola Campus or request an intercampus delivery via the request feature in CLUES, the Library catalogue.
Rush catalogue
For books that have arrived but are not yet catalogued or processed, you can request a rush catalogue via the request feature in CLUES
Allow 2-3 working days for delivery

4. Electronic Journals Collections with substantial humanities content:
Project MUSE (Recent issues)
JSTOR (Older issues)
Oxford Journals (recent and archive)
Literature Online (LION)
Literature Resource Center
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
ProQuest Central
British Periodicals I and II ( )
American Periodicals ( )
Periodicals Archive Online ( )
Many other electronic journal collections

5. Electronic Books Collections with substantial humanities content:
Literature Online (LION)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) –
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925)
Oxford Scholarship Online (recent and ongoing)
Cambridge University Press e-books ( )
Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses)
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (ongoing)
Palgrave Macmillan (2010-)
ACLS Humanities E-books
Canadian Publishers Collection
EBSCO E-books
Many other electronic books

6. Databases for Literary Criticism
MLA International Bibliography:
References to articles in 4,400 journals from 1926 onward
ABELL:
British equivalent to MLAIB
From 1920 onward
Literature Resource Center:
Contains 260 full text periodicals, both academic and non-academic
Literature Criticism Online:
Full text or selections of full text of essays and articles re-published in the following reference works: Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
This database is NOT updated

7. RefWorks RefWorks is a Web-based tool that:
Facilitates organization of references
Is accessible from any Internet connection
Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies
Access RefWorks through the Quick Links menu on the Library website
Help
Tutorials on Library website
Workshops at Webster Library

8. Help is Available At the Reference Desk Library website
Literatures in English Subject Guide
Ask a Librarian
form
Chat with a Librarian
Ask Vince:
, ext. 7689
Office hours: by appointment