Library Buildings
The name of the desk you go to in Ellis Library to check out books, DVDs, electronics, chargers, or even umbrellas
What is Circulation Desk?
The use of this punctuation mark causes most databases to search multiple words as a single, undivided phrase.
What are punctuation marks?
The eBook package from which MU has access to "AI for Peace"
What is Safari?
The means you use to limit your Discover@MU search results to peer reviewed articles
What is the checkbox for Academic (Peer-Reviewed) Journals?
The next day and hour that Ellis Library will be closed
What is Friday, October 25 at 7:00 PM? (or: tomorrow at 7 PM).
This specialized MU library, located to our south, is currently being renovated.
What is Health Sciences Library?
Two words your search results are most likely to include if you search for sustainab*
What are sustainable, sustainability?
The call number of the book "Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action"
What is S475.B62 J36 2021 ?
Of these publication outlets, the one that likeliest to be peer reviewed: C-Span; Chronicle of Higher Education; New York Times; Journal of Eastern African Studies; Random House
What is Journal of Eastern African Studies?
What you do in Discover@MU if you only want publications in English
What is filter by language (or: limit results to English)?
The Haunted Museum takes place tomorrow from 4-6 PM at the Museum of Art & Archaeology, which is located in the basement of this building.
What is Ellis Library?
The search string to use if you want results to include one of these words: humanitarian humanitarianism humanity but NOT the word humanist?
What is humanit*
The technical impediment that could keep you from reading the e-book "Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health"
What is "one user at a time" or "it's a single user ebook"?
The likely job title of a peer reviewer for an academic journal (that is, their salaried job, not their work doing peer reviews)
What is professor?
The key detail MISSING from this article citation:
Greener, B. K. “UN Peacekeeping in Theory and Practice.” International Peacekeeping, vol. 28, no. Issue 4, pp. 693–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2021.1929185.
What is the date (or: publication date)?
According to the Ellis Library sensory maps, this floor of the building has the MOST quiet study space
What is 2nd floor?
A reason to limit search results to items where your search terms are in the TITLE of the article/book/chapter
What is "to add focus," "to increase relevance," "to reduce irrelevant results" or similar
The name of the library service you use to get books that are unavailable at MU
What is ILL@MU (interlibrary loan or ILL also acceptable)?
What is updated news?
The number of reservable study rooms in the Engineering Library
What is 4?
The floors of Ellis Library that have all-gender restrooms
What are 2nd and 4th floors?
The SEARCH LIMIT in the left sidebar of the Discover@MU results screen that allows you to limit to items found in MU Ellis Library
What is Library Location?
The floor of Ellis Library where you will find a book on restorative justice, with the call number HV8688 .S78 2004
What is 2nd floor East (or: 2E)?
The name of the post-publication peer review process where an article that turns out to have significant problems gets "taken back" by the publisher
What is retraction? (or: retracting an article)
The link to click on from the MU Libraries homepage if I want to know if the library subscribes to the journal Antipode.
What is "Specific Journal"?