In your English 101 course, you will need to access the MCC Library to do research. You will need to use the library's resources to locate information that will help support your ideas when writing several different papers in this course.
For most assignments that require library use, you will be looking for articles published in magazines, newspapers, or scholarly journals, that provide information related to your topic. Using the library for assignments depends on your instructor, and they will let you know which assignments in your course will require you to use the library for finding information. This orientation will provide the basics. We'll look at how to access the library, where to go to get help using the library, and where to go to access the library's digital collections, which are also called "databases."
The library is located on the North Campus in Madisonville in the Learning Resource Center building.
We have computers, study space, and a collection of 20,000 books you can borrow at any time. Most of our resources and services are available online. You can access most of our digital collections through the college's website.
You can access the college's website by going to madisonville.kctcs.edu. There are two ways to get to the library's website. Go to "Quick Links" at the top of the page and then select "Current Students."
From this page, scroll down to that second row of tiles, and click "Library."
The other way to access the library is through MyPath. Click on "MyPath" at the top left.
Log in with your MCC student username, which is your KCTCS email address. For example, jsmith0001@kctcs.edu, and your password. Logging into MyPath will sign you in to Blackboard, your email, and into the library, all with one login.
From the MyPath page, scroll down to "Library."
And then choose "Madisonville Community College" from the list of different college libraries.
Or, scroll all the way down to the local links, where you will find a link to the library for Madisonville.
This is the MCC Library's website. You can use the search box at the top of the screen to search our book collection, our digital collection (which is mostly articles published in different newspapers, magazines, and journals), or our streaming video collections.
We're not going to use the library search box today. Instead, we'll look at one of the library's individual collections, also called "databases." You'll be using one of the databases today to find some information, and we'll show you how to do that later.
Before we do that, let's scroll down. To access individual databases, you can click on the first tile. Information about the library, located on campus, is on that second tile. And then if you need help, click on the third tile to access our help page. Let's look at that first.
Our "Get Answers" page is our help platform, where you can access frequently asked questions about using the library. During daytime hours, you can get help through our chat box on the left, and you can always email the library at mcclibrary@kctcs.edu.
For help using specific collections or databases, click on "Database Help." Here you can access step by step instructions on how to search using different databases.
For example, this page shows you how to use the library search box.
Let's go back to the library's webpage. Today we're going to find some articles using one of the library's databases.
Databases are digital collections of library materials. Mostly the databases are collections of published articles that appear in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. The library also has databases for streaming video collections, and eBook collections. Click on the first tile to access the list of different databases.
The library's three largest databases are located in the box at the top: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and Gale Academic OneFile. The second box features some smaller databases: Gale In Context Opposing Viewpoints, which is great for finding information for English 101, Access World News from NewsBank for newspaper articles including from the Madisonville Messenger, Credo Reference for finding general information on a topic, and JSTOR.
More databases can be located at the bottom of the page, and you can access an entire list of databases the library offers on the right, or select databases by vendor.
In the next video, we'll search for some information using one of the library's databases.