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The Library has partnered with the Office of Sponsored Programs to provide access to the IRIS database. IRIS is a database of funding opportunities in every field from agriculture to zoology. You can also view upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas. IRIS, as well as our other databases, can be accessed through our Database page.

The Library of Congress has a YouTube Channel where you can see early animation films, such as Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse 1916 cartoon.  Visit  the   Library of Congress YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress.

Since the sixth edition of the APA Style Guide was published in July, faculty and librarians noticed pages of errors and inconsistencies.  Most errors appear in the sample papers and citations.  APA recently changed its position that it would not replace copies of the first printing with copies of the corrected second printing.  If you, or your students, have purchased a paperback copy of the first printing, APA will send you, free of charge, a copy of the second printing.   Contact the APA’s service center (customerservice@apa.org ) to submit your request between November 2 and December 15.   

If you want to view corrected copies, just stop by the library – we have manually corrected copies on reserve and at the reference desk.  Our online style guide for APA, http://www.fairfield.edu/library/libgd_apacitations.html,  is also correct.   To view the corrected pages online, visit http://www.apastyle.org/ and click on “Corrections to the First Printing.”

On October 1, President Obama declared October National Information Literacy Awareness Month. Every day we are bombarded with information in various formats – print, digital, audio, visual - at all hours of the day. The ability for anyone to create and disseminate information online makes it harder for us to determine fact from fiction. Amid this information influx and “crisis of authenticity,” librarians are able to help you. Information literacy is the ability to effectively find, evaluate and ethically use information. At the DNL, we believe that information literacy skills are an essential component of our students’ development into scholars, informed citizens, and socially responsible individuals. We are available to teach the principles of information literacy to students, faculty, and staff. We can do this in a class, workshop, individual appointment, online instruction through videos, or at the reference desk. Contact a librarian for more information!

We've just added Accounting Research Manager to our holdings. ARM provides access to objective and analytical accounting, auditing and SEC information with primary source data from standards boards and regulators, including standards from FASB, AICPA, EITF and IASB.  It's a great place to start your accounting research. This database allows only one user at a time- please check back later if in use. For other accounting resources, see our Best Bet For Research Guide for Accounting: http://librarybestbets.fairfield.edu/accounting

RefWorks will now be offered to Alumni as a standard feature of RefWorks, providing lifelong access to users. Alumni will have access to this bibliographic software, allowing them to continue using their personal research databases for future professional and academic endeavors.