Geography in the News

What is Geography in the News?

Geography in the News is on line resources from The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), which is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830.

Our school subscribed to Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)  as School Member.

Description:

Geography in the News provides support for KS3, GCSE, IB and A level students through:

• A growing bank of 125+ topical in-depth case studies providing geographical interpretation to contemporary news issues.
• Case studies linked to KS3, GCSE, IB and AS/A2.
• Access to academic research to enhance your subject knowledge.
• Interviews with leading geographical experts.
• Online lectures about key geographical issues including Chris Pattern on surviving the 21st century and Lord Stern on climate change.
• Teaching resources to accompany our 21st Century Challenges discussion series, focusing on the big geographical issues that will affect our future.

Access Limit: Unlimited (School Membership)

Access:
For NJC students, teachers and staff. Available on and off-campus, username and password required.

How to Access:
Follow asknlearn where you need to login using your IC for authentication purposes. Then you can find details user name and password for Geography in the News under "Links" menu tab.

NJC Online Library Catalogue

Online library classic catalogue Spydus is our library solution system where you can search any specific item you are looking for from our extensive collection of books, DVDs, CDs and periodicals.

Apart from Spydus system, our library has incorporated new system called Sorcer as online library catalogue. It is an alternative to our normal classic library catalogue system Sypdus.
Sorcer is a user-friendly way to search for movies, music, and books held in our National Junior College Libraries. It is a social network for readers where the users can be shared their reading experiences, interests, favorites and reviews with Sorcer friends.

It is quick and easy to find what you want and has great features:

-Customise your account
-Find new items for books, movies or music by using the tabs provided
-Browse the collection without using search terms
-Find similar books to one you've interested
-Limit results by format, genre, audience, language, publication date and more
-Write reviews and rate things you've borrowed and see other reviews and ratings
-Update what your friends are reading and holding on to the items


How do I use Sorcer?

Anyone can browse and search using Sorcer. In order to get the best out of it you need to login using library account. You can login with your IC number as username and your PIN as password. If you do not have password please approach one of our library staff.

Once you logged in, you can see your current account information such as your loan status, reservation etc. We encourage you to update your particulars such as phone number and email address. It will help us to send you the messages such as due date and reminder notices. It will be good practice to return the items on time in such a way that help others to re-borrow the items as share resources.

You can also view suggested books, movies and music based on your previous borrowing history.

Here is training slides on how you can use Sorcer system via Prezi presentation tool. This presentation was presented on Best Practices Seminar 2011 at NJC.

EBSCOHost Research Database

What is EBSCOHost?

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet or via the Intranet connection through AskNLearn. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Our school subscribed to Academic Search Elite (via EBSCOHost) edition.

Description:

A cross-disciplinary database indexing with over 3,700 abstracted and indexed journals, more than 2,100 full-text journals and over 2,900 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals. It also indexes more than 1,700 peer-reviewed full-text journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985. Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and many more.

Access Limit: Unlimited

Access:
For NJC students, teachers and staff. Available on and off-campus, username and password required.

How to Access:
Follow asknlearn where you need to login using your IC for authentication purposes. Then you can find details user name and password for EBSCOHost under "Links" menu tab.

List of Journals and Magazines
List of Other Resources
Subject Title List

Learner

The National Junior College Library is the heart of  information center promoting research, collaboration and e-resources. The library functions as an information  hub where students, teachers and staff are encouraged to use a wide variety of materials, such as - books, CDs, magazines, maps, databases and many more.

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