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System Announcements

• News from the Library and the Academic Resource Center (Monday, August 10, 2009)
  

  Lourdes Library at Gwynedd Mercy College

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  To learn how to effectively find and use the resources of the Lourdes Library, visit Information Literacy  where you will access tutorials on finding articles and books, evaluating websites, and avoiding plagiarism. 
  
  Online access to the library catalog, full text journal and newspapers, e-books, and other materials can be found at  Lourdes Library on the Web 

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  Academic Resource Center 215-646-7300 x 225

   The Academic Resource Center (ARC) at Gwynedd-Mercy College is the College's central location for academic support. The Center, which is located on the second floor of Lourdes Library, can accommodate many of the academic needs of all students, faculty, and staff.  We offer one-on-one and small group tutoring, a computer lab, and workshops.  Call us, stop up or click here for more information.

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  Academic Integrity Policy
  Click here to view the campus-wide Academic Integrity Policy.
  (This is a Word document)

   

• Turnitin Student Manuals (Wednesday, August 5, 2009)
  

   Turnitin manuals

  Click here to review or download the Turnitin.com Student Manual. ( 3.94 MB file)

  Click here to review or download the Turnitin.com Quick Start Student Guide

  (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view this file.)

• Support Tools and Plug-ins
  

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  Plug-ins, Players, and Viewers
  
  Plug-ins and other helper applications  help to properly display Web documents. If you encounter an element (such as video or animation) that requires one of these helpers, you may see a message that your browser isn't equipped for that content type. Viewers are tools needed to display certain files formats, such as a PowerPoint slide show. Players allow users to view video directly on computer systems. Listed below are some common plug-ins, viewers, and players that are used on the Web in general, and may also be used in your Blackboard courses.

  
  Adobe Acrobat Reader is free and freely distributable software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Download only if Acrobat Reader is not already installed on your computer.

  Apple QuickTime player is used for viewing video in Apple's QuickTime format. It works with over 30 audio, video and image formats.

  Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003   and Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 are used for viewing and printing PowerPoint presentations (if PowerPoint is not already installed). You should download one of these files if you do not already have PowerPoint installed on your computer.

  
  
  
  

  Macromedia Shockwave and Flash is used for viewing interactive content in various Macromedia formats.

  Real Player is one of the general players used for streaming audio and video content.