Career Transitions is here!

This brand new resource will be available shortly to library patrons. Take a look now so you will be ready to help folks. Click on the FAQ link on the lower nav bar, and get a feel for what users might ask. Watch for 1-page handout coming to your branch soon. See the details page.

Go ahead and create your own user account (required) so you can explore!

What does it have?

• Resume builder, job application wizard and a personal profile that stores a user's references, action plan and more
• Assessment engine that identifies career interests and transferable skills
• Career explorer, industry explorer and geography explorer
• Ability to target specific careers, industries and locations to see projected growth
• Interviewing tips & Networking help
• Will locate low-cost Adult education distance learning classes to enhance employment prospects
• Links to unemployment services and other social services
• Comprehensive job search that incorporates a user's career, industry and location targets.
• Apply for listed job vacancies within Career Transitions
  

How Is It Arranged? Choose one of these 5 main sections to begin:
1) Discover My Interests
2) Explore Careers
3) Prepare Resume
4) Improve My Chances
5) Find Jobs

How Do You Use It?
Career Transitions users must create a personal profile and login each time. Use your profile and the to build and save resumes, cover letters, and references. Return to your profile or resuman anytime-- in the library--or remotely--to track and update your progress in job searching, career exploration, and education planning.

Didn't finish? Remember to "Save as You Go"
Be sure to click Save option when creating a resume or taking an assessment! For privacy, Career Transitions. sessions will time out and unsaved work will be lost.

Tthe last values you entered in each step of Prepare Resume will be identified with your personal account and saved. You can continue where you left off the next time you use Career Transitions. If your resume is complete you can the same resume the next time you need it, or make edits and save the new version.

You can also copy and paste your resume into a website. In the Preview step within Prepare Resume, just save your resume in text format; then, copy the text and paste it into the website.

Any questions? Call or email Sally or Gwen.

Historical New York Times with Index Overview - Introduction

TA DA! We now get online access to the complete New York Times Index (1851–1993) in search results for the Historical NYT. Take a look at this overview/demo
Historical New York Times with Index -- Demo & Introduction
and get an idea of what's just been added to our Historical NYT access.

Tips:
You may search the specific fields of the index by searching the following fields on the advanced search (the ones that are asterisked): subject*, company/org*, creative work*, person*, location*. Most of these fields are available in the drop down menu next to each search row and in the “more search options” area at the bottom. You may search these fields in either area or in any combination.



Try this search: enter Amelia Earhart in the person field (either by selecting person* from the drop down menu next to the search row or using the person* field in the “more search options”). On the corresponding results page, select the abstract or citation for one of the results and you’ll see the search term highlighted in the person field of the indexing.

Did you notice? the Index dates of coverage are slightly different than the paper itself? It's not an evil plot, it's just that the printed idex was not produced past the early 90's.

Coverage for the Historical complete New York Times Index is 1851–1993
Coverage for the Historical NYT NEWSPAPER is currently: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2005.

The end date is a rolling date, usually with one added every 12 months. AND, just to keep you on your toes...the Historical NYT, the WP and the WSJ all have different coverage dates--it's all up the to publisher.

S0 what's the fastest way to check historical coverage? Look at "Database Selected" at upper left, of the ProQuest screen. In fact, this is also true for "non-historical" newspapers we get from ProQuest.

let me know the most intesting thing YOU found, using the online index!