The document provides an orientation for nursing students at the E. Perrin Edmunds Library at Northern Maine Community College. It discusses the library resources available to support nursing students, including books, journals, databases, ebooks, librarians, and a Nursing LibGuide. It emphasizes using the library for studying and research, forming study groups, reserving study rooms, and getting help from librarians with research and APA style. The document also covers other services like borrowing laptops and devices, the nursing program archives, library confidentiality, and tips for staying well.

1. E. Perrin Edmunds Library
Nursing Orientation 2012 Nursing Resources

2. Nursing Resources
E. Perrin Edmunds Library
Northern Maine Community College
• Library has books, journals, databases, ebooks & more
What does the library have for you?
Resources (physical & online)
Help from librarians – Kim Ferguson & Gail Roy
Group study rooms
•Nursing LibGuide – All nursing sources on one page
Find what you need when you need it
No time to waste
Let us help you be more productive
We are here to help you succeed

3. Agenda
You will need excellent time
management skills
Stay focused and positive and organized
1 Set your priorities
2 Keep up with your reading. Use the library.
✓ 3 Ask for help and know that help is everywhere on campus.
4 Focus on now. No preworry. No postworry.
5 Look for stress reduction wherever you can find it.
6 Find humor.
7 Eat right, exercise, sleep, stay connected to friends & family.

4. Use the Library
Quiet space to study without
distractions We are here to support your information and
Many students find the library a research needs. We can show you ways to
1 great place to work. locate resources for your topics. We have a
materials budget to buy items to support the
nursing program. We also purchase items
Form a Study Group based on your requests. We provide
books, articles, DVDs, streaming videos that
Study groups aren’t for everyone.
complement your classroom learning.
2 Set and follow rules with your
study group. Reserve group
study rooms. The style used for citations in nursing
professional papers and journals is APA.
Get help with research and APA American Psychological Association (6th
edition). The library can provide help with this.
Ask librarians for help.
3

5. Your Library Card
14 digits on the bottom of your
student ID card are used to access
online resources off-campus
Your card will give you user
privileges at University of Maine PI
and Mark & Emily Turner Memorial
Library
Check out books, use
wireless, study rooms (both have
Sunday hours)

6. Library Confidentiality
What happens in the library stays in the library
Title 27 § 121: Confidentiality of Library Records
Maine Statute §121. Confidentiality of library records
Records maintained by any public municipal
library, the Maine State Library, the Law and
Legislative Reference Library and libraries of
the University of Maine System, Maine
Privacy
Community College System and the Maine
Maritime Academy that contain information
relating to the identity of a library patron
relative to the patron's use of books or other
American Library materials at the library are confidential. Those
Association records may only be released with the express
Resolutions
written permission of the patron involved or as
the result of a court order. [2007, c. 67, §5
(AMD).]

7. Nursing Program
Library maintains the college archives
Your own footer

8. Locate Five Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
From Nursing Journals
What is peer-reviewed? What is a professional nursing How do I locate articles?
journal?
1 Peer review is the process 2 American Journal of 3 tLibrary Databases
of subjecting an author's Nursing
scholarly work, research, or Geriatric Nursing The major databases for
ideas to the scrutiny of Pediatric Nursing the field of nursing are:
others who are experts in American Nurse Today
the same field, before a Journal of Gerontological CINAHL
paper describing this work Nursing Ebsco Nursing Reference
is published in a Center
professional journal. ProQuest Nursing & Allied
Health

9. APA is the Citation Style for Nursing
APA Online APA Help Noodlebib
1 2 Purdue OWL 3 Noodlebib is a citation
Online Writing Lab software to help you
with your citations
See Owl @ Purdue Online bibliographic
management program
that allows users to
create a personal
Citation Chart database of references
http://owl.english.purdue.ed and generate
u/owl/resource/949/01/ bibliographies.
Best to use this in
APA Style Blog conjunction with the
http://blog.apastyle.org/ APA style book and with
online resources such
as OWL @ Purdue.

10. What do we loan out?
What would you like us to loan out?
• Laptops
• iPads, KindleFire, Nooks
• Wii for campus events
• Snowshoes, badminton, tennis
• Books, ebooks, audiobooks
• We have resources you need

11. What else do you need to know
About library services and resources
• Nursing texts, journals, reserve articles as
part of your suggested readings
• Library has Facebook page
• Twitter
• Online nursing videos
• You Tube
• We purchase items you request

12. • Great place to study
• Relax
• Refresh
• Take a break
Great place to study. Quiet. Wi-fi. Sit near the windows. Food and drinks allowed.

13. Form a study group and reserve a room in the library
Group Study Room A
Reserve at the circulation desk

14. Form a Study Group and
Reserve a Group Study
Room in the library.
Group Study Room B

15. Located between the
Library and Academic
Success Center.
IT Department is just
across the hall.
Media Center

16. Important things to know
Library and Media Center Save your work
1 Library and Media Center 2
are open the same hours. Save often
Save in multiple locations
Media Center computers Network
have a program called Go Jump drive
Back. Do not save Email file
anything on the desktop. Google Docs
When the computer shuts
down, everything is put
Save locally
back to original state.

17. Study Groups
Tips for a successful group
Understand and accept the purpose or mission.
1
Contribute ideas, information, opinions, feelings. Encourage other members to do the same.
2
Listen intently.
Demonstrate respect and support for other members.
3
4 Help keep discussion relevant. Help summarize the major points.
5 Give examples and share pertinent clinical experiences.
Recognize conflict and controversy as potentially positive and refuse to see them as personal rejection.
6
7 You are together to study. Refrain from other activities during the session.

18. Your Logo

19. How are YOU going to stay well
and healthy?

20. Wellness Collection
• Wellness LibGuide
• http://northernmainecc.libguides.com/cont
ent.php?pid=355995&sid=2911338
• Student Health 101
• Health, fitness, and wellness books,
DVDs, magazines
• Stress reduction workshops

21. Volunteer Request
Let’s try something new
• First year nursing student
• Serve as library liaison for your class
• What does this entail?
• How can it help you and your class?
• Looking for one volunteer to serve as the
liaison between the library and level 1
nursing students

22. Survival Tips from students
• Take care of yourself
• Take care of each other
• Take one day at a time
• Take care of business

23. Keep Calm and Carry On

24. Keep Calm and Carry On

25. Relax In Your Library