Information Resources for

GE3100 Depositional Systems

William Everham, Professor

Dave Lepse, Librarian (487-1443; dlepse@mtu.edu)

 

Circulation

To borrow an item from the collection, bring the book to the Circulation Desk with your "Tech Express" card. Books may be borrowed by graduate students for seventeen weeks, but are subject to recall after three weeks if needed by another borrower. Periodicals may be borrowed for three days.

 

Interlibrary Loan

To request books and articles from other libraries, complete an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. Forms are available at the Circulation Desk, or on the Library Web Page by selecting Library Services, then Interlibrary Loans. There is no charge for this service.

 

Research assistance

For individual assistance or instruction from a librarian, visit or phone the Reference/Information Desk (487-2507), or use the Ask a Librarian buttonon the Librarys web page.

 

Library Hours

Monday Thursday 7:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.; Friday 7:45 am 5:00 p.m.

Saturday 12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.; Sunday 12:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m.

Break and holiday hours will be posted.

 

Locating Books on the Library Shelves

Shelved by Library of Congress call number in the Main Collection on Third Floor.

 

Locating Periodicals on the Library Shelves

Periodicals are shelved by Library of Congress call number in these locations:

CURRENT JOURNALS (1^st Floor): Recent issues kept here until bound or reissued in microfilm or microfiche.

BOUND JOURNALS AREA (Garden Level): Bound periodicals dated 1971 or later.

MICROFORMS AREA (1^st Floor ) Microfilm & Microfiche cabinets located on the east side of the building.

 

Electronic Journals at JRVP

JRVP subscribes to an increasing number of journals which provide electronic versions of their publications online. You can browse them by selecting e-journals on the librarys home page. You can limit your selection to Earth Sciences, or Geology, Stratigraphy. Please note that many geology journals include papers on stratigraphy and sedimentology.

 

Reference Collection 2^nd Floor

The reference collection contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, catalogs, etc., shelved by Library of Congress Classification System call number.

 

Suggested print reference materials

 

Glossary of Geology

QE5.B38 1997 Ref

 

Lexicon of geologic names of the United States

QE75.A1b n.1565 Ref

Includes standard names for stratigraphic units as well as a select list of relevant papers for each unit.

 

Guide to USGS geologic and hydrologic maps

QE77.G85 1992 Ref Desk

 

Guide to USGS publications

QE36.G8 1997 Ref Desk

 

 

JRVP Online Catalog

On the Librarys web page at www.lib.mtu.edu.

Use to find what books, journals and government publications that the Van Pelt Library owns and where they are located. When you enter the catalog, a Basic search screen appears.

 

To search for a periodical title, click on the Journal Title button, then type the title of the periodical in the box provided. A Journal Title search may result in a list of several records for the same title; you may need to view more than one of these to find the issue date youre seeking.

 

When searching for more complex titles such as conference proceedings, a keyword search is usually effective. Click on the Keyword Search button, then enter several of the most unique keywords from the conference title, then select all of these from the pull-down menu on the right.

 

Please note that most USGS publications are on third floor. Call numbers start with QE75.A1

 

MTU theses and dissertations in Geology can be found through a Keyword Search as follows:

Search for: geology geological [any of these]

Search for: thesis dissertation [any of these]

Search for: mtu

 

Other catalogs

WorldCat

Unified catalog of OCLC member libraries

Linda Hall Library

The largest private science and engineering library

RedLightGreen

An easy to search database of books, based on the RLG (Research Library Group) Union Catalog

 

 

Databases of journal article abstracts, technical reports, and conference papers

 

To find citations to recent articles from journals, conference proceedings, and other publications, go to the Librarys web page at www.lib.mtu.edu and select E-Resources, then search for a database.

 

The resulting screen offers four search options for finding databases or electronic journals: (1) Keyword search of database titles and/or descriptions, (2) Search by subject area, (3) Search by collection name, (4) Browse an alphabetical list by title.

 

Suggested databases

Please note: database descriptions can be found on the Librarys Databases web page

 

Current Research @ Michigan Technological University

Dissertation Abstracts

GeoBase

GeoRef

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

Scirus

Web of Science

 

 

Suggested websites

 

Geolex

USGS web server for searching lithologic and chronologic units. This is the online version of the Lexicon. It has more recent information, but isnt as complete. It does not contain full citations to the selected relevant papers.

 

National geologic map database

Similar to the paper index. Has more recently published information, but isnt as complete. Also includes limited coverage of geologic maps published by state surveys, universities, societies, etc.

 

Field trip guidebooks for North America

Field guidebooks provide detailed, local information not typically found in journal papers. To find a complete reference, it may be necessary to also use the librarys catalog, WorldCat, or GeoRef.