New Edition of MLA Handbook Arrives

The long-awaited seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, the standard style and documentation guide for millions of college students, has arrived in the Richland Library! The new edition has made many changes to MLA documentation style and has simplified guidelines for citing information found on the Web, in digital files, and graphic narratives. "The new edition builds on input from scholars, librarians, and students to create the best tool ever for writing research papers," says MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal.

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue offers a quick look at some of the changes in the new edition.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/

NoodleTools plans to incorporate the changes in their July update. The Richland Librarians are busy updating all of our MLA handouts, our examples on our Web site, and our classes. We will begin teaching 7th edition of the MLA Handbook in the fall.

Copies of the new MLA Handbook are available for purchase at the MLA Web site.
http://www.mla.org/store/CID24/PID363

A hidden gem from our reference book collection: Business: The Ultimate Resource 2nd edition. This 2,000 page book contains just about everything you ever wanted to know about business and management and has been described by USA Today as “..the closest we have to a business bible.” It includes best practices relating to people and culture, marketing, systems, productivity, and others. Additionally there are numerous checklists and action lists one can refer to while on the job or while looking for a job. Profiles of business thinkers and management giants are also available. Find it in the reference collection at call# HD 38.15 .B878 2006.

Interesting Facts About the Richland College Library

• The Library has more than 90,000 books.
  
• 160 subscription databases are provided by the DCCCD, Richland, and TexShare.
  
• Through TexShare we have access to
• 12,947 full-text journals
• 1,318 newspapers
  
• 4654 reference books
  
• 28,281 NetLibrary ebooks
  
• nearly 600,000 primary source documents.
  
• Average Number of Information Literacy Classes taught each year: 360.
  
• Average Number of Students attending Information Literacy Classes each year: over 5,000.
  
• Information Literacy Certificates awarded: 2,000 since program began in Spring 1998.
  
• The Library has received three national Awards over the last 10 years
  
• American Library Association/ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award 2004
  
• American Library Association Library of the Future Award 2001
  
• EBSCO Achievement Award for Outstanding Program Development 1999
  

Read more facts about the library at www.richlandcollege.edu/library/about.php.