Staff from the Alva Public Library will be in the J. W. Martin Library on the Alva campus.
They will be visiting from to . This is a great chance to sign up for a public library card.
Have you ever hit the backspace button only to see your font mysteriously change back to the default setting?
On and again on , we will hold workshops explaining simple techniques to manage your word processor. You can save time, avoid aggravation, keep your documents organized, and produce perfectly formatted papers.
The workshops will be at in Room 101 of the J. W. Martin Library. Feel free to bring a lunch.
If you can’t make it in person, contact dgdavidson@nwosu.edu to join over Zoom.
Our catalog system is updating.
We are currently updating the records of our electronic book holdings. For this reason, if you locate an eBook in our catalog, the system may not accurately report whether you can access the book online.
For the time being, we recommend searching for eBooks directly in our eBook databases, which you can find on our A–Z Database Page or access right here:
Search and view the full text of eBooks.
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of eBooks covering a large selection of academic subjects and features eBooks from leading publishers and university presses.
November has over the last decade become a month for personal challenges. One of the most popular is National Novel Writing Month.
The goal of National Novel Writing Month is simple: Produce a rough-draft manuscript of 50,000 words or more. That means an average of 1,667 words per day.
Although some participants eventually land book deals (the organization running the challenge reports about 250 successful publications, which is a small percentage of total participants), the goal of the challenge is not to produce a good book but a complete book. For an aspiring writer, completing a manuscript can be a daunting task, but “NaNoWriMo” encourages new authors to do exactly that.
Here are some tips:
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Write daily. For any author, writing regularly is vital. Professionals write at the same time every day, treating the task like a job.
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Don’t edit. To a beginner, this sounds counterintuitive, but the goal is to get that first draft done, not get it perfect. Write. If you dream of publishing, your job is not done once the draft is done: You have a second, third, probably twenty-third draft in your future, as well as editing by a third party. But all of that comes later.
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Remove distractions. Put the phone on silent and unplug the internet. Nothing kills composition like excuses to procrastinate. Some suggest having snacks or music, but most professionals face the blank page alone, without aids. Whatever you do, don’t let anything take your attention away from writing.
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Write when you don’t feel like it. Sometimes it flows, but often it doesn’t. The key is to get those words onto the page whether you want to or not.
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Write in the library. Want to meet up with others taking the same challenge? On Wednesdays at noon throughout the month (except during Thanksgiving Break), Room 101 in the J. W. Martin Library will be open to aspiring writers to write, brainstorm, or share their progress.
Come join us!
Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer or have plans to publish a book, sometimes it’s good to challenge yourself. So during November, write in the library!
The company that hosts most of our databases, EBSCO, has released a new version of its mobile app.
Formerly, our online research guides and help pages mentioned the EBSCO app with a brusque warning, “not recommended,” as it severely lacked the functionality of EBSCO’s online database platform. Now, however, a new version of the app is available. What’s more, EBSCO has made it the preferred way to read electronic books from our eBook collections on your mobile device.
We are working to familiarize ourselves with the new app and to update our eBook help guide and other documentation. In the meantime, be aware that you are no longer required to download Adobe Digital Editions to read eBooks on your mobile device, but can instead both search for eBooks and read them right in the new EBSCO mobile app.
Adobe Digital Editions is still necessary to read downloaded eBooks on your desktop.
You can acquire the new app for both Android and Apple devices from EBSCO’s mobile app page.