MIDDLESEX COUNTY COLLEGE LIBRARY

Hope you are all excited and looking forward to taking classes at MCC!

Here are the links to the websites we discussed:

Middlesex County College website

Reading
Calculate Your Reading Speed

Test Your Reading Speed

Speed Reading Pacing Methods

The SQ3R Reading Method

SQ4R and alternatives

Writing
The OWL at Purdue

Citation Machine

Assignment Calculator

Test Preparation
Accuplacer Self-Assessment

Accuplacer- Mathematics

Accuplacer Practice Tests

You can also look for SAT test preparation books in your local library.

The Testing Center (Johnson Learning Center Rm 229) has handouts of sample test questions.

Research
MCC Library’s Homepage
Searching our catalog iBistro and close to 20,000 libraries in Worldcat does not require a password and ID. All of the databases listed under “Magazines, Newspaper and Journals Articles” and “Reference, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.” can be searched on campus, but you must be a current MCC student to search them from home.

Cost of Living Calculator

Librarian’s Index to the Internet

Infomine

Frank Potter’s Science Gems

Google Book

Google Scholar

Ask

Remember that the Reference Librarians are here to help!
Stop by the Reference Desk
Email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com
Call us at 732 906-2561
Post a question on this Blog
or
Chat with a Librarian online at QandAnJ

Use the following for your advertising topics paper:

Check iBistro (the Library’s book, video, DVD, etc. catalog)

To find articles, check the following databases:

Communications & Mass Media Complete Library database

Lexis-Nexis Academic Library database
Best for newspaper articles back to the early 1980s.

ABI/Inform Library database

PsycInfo Library database

Remember that the Reference Librarians are here to help!
Stop by the Reference Desk
Email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com
Call us at 732 906-2561 or
Post a question on this Blog.

Start off by using the Assignment Calculator is at U of Minnesota Libraries.

• Look for books, DVDs and videos available in our Library by using iBistro.
• For books, DVDs and videos available in other libraries, try WORLDCAT. Use Interlibrary Loan for items MCC Library does not have. Forms are also available at the Reference Desk.

LIBRARY DATABASES

The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance

Literary Reference Center

Biography Reference Bank

Academic Search Premier

Lexis-Nexis

Historical Newspapers- The New York Times- 1851-2003

Project Muse

WEBSITES

ArtsLynx

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Selected Internet Resources

Yale Theater Studies Research Guide

New York Magazine Theater

Remember, MCC Reference Librarians are here to help:
Call 732 906-2561
Email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com
or post a question on this blog.