The library offers many sources of high-quality information. From the library home page you will be able to find library hours and contact information, a floor plan, and additional resources to help you.
The library catalog lets you look up printed books, as well as material in audio-visual formats. Change the drop-down list from Chemeketa Community College to All CCRLS libraries in order to view and request books from other libraries in the system. You can also pass your search through to Summit, the catalog of 34 college and university libraries in Oregon and Washington. You can request items from the CCRLS libraries or from Summit and have them delivered to a library that is convenient for you. For more information, see
Your ID card is your library card. You can also use a public library card from a library in the CCRLS district. Books check out for three weeks at a time. Magazines and journals check out for one week at a time. The periodicals that the library subscribes to are indexed in our article databases.
The library has many resources available in electronic form. Most are available through the library's Off Campus Database Page. If using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password. Host-provider students may obtain a special user name and password from their instructor.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection has hundreds of full text reference books published by Oxford University Press, combining "quick reference coverage of the full subject spectrum with the rich resources of the Oxford Companions." Users can search a single source or the whole collection, which includes numerous subject dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries, and quotations & proverbs. The Oxford Companions are one-volume subject encyclopedias.
Literature Resource Center has the contents of many literary reference books published by Gale. It also contains literary criticism appearing in journal articles.
The library has many indexes to magazines and newspapers available in paper or electronically from our database page. Some of the most popular resources are:
If using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password. Host provider students may use the host provider access page.
All the online indexes are easy, but each works in a slightly different way.
Just click on the name of the database. You will see a small search box at the left side of the computer screen. Type a key word, for example "family," and press the Enter key. A list of topics will appear at right. Just click on the one you like.
If using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password. Host provider students may use the host provider access page.
If using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password. Host provider students may use the host provider access page.
Once you have chosen your database by clicking on Academic Search Premier, a screen with a search space will appear. Type your search word or phrase in the space. For more complete instructions, see How to Use EBSCOhost, or the audiovisual tutorials.
Many articles have links to full text, where you can read or print the article online. If an article has full text, you can also e-mail it to yourself. More information on printing, saving, and e-mailing articles is at the EBSCOhost instructions page.
If the magazine is one the library has ("Chemeketa subscribes..."), you will need the name of the magazine and the date to find it on the shelf.
There is a page on how to use the Oregonian online at http://newterra.chemeketa.edu/library/instruction/oregonian.htm.
Some reference databases are available only on campus. ReferenceUSA, which contains U.S. business and residential directories, is available remotely.
Theatre in Video has high-quality, professional productions of plays in streaming video format. It is available both on and off campus.
If the article you want is not available online or in our library system, you can request an interlibrary loan.
Please allow extra time for interlibrary loan. The amount of time needed depends on many factors, including how many libraries have the item. It may take from a few days to several weeks; allow a minimum of one week.
To find Internet sources for your topic, try the Useful Sites or Search Tools at the library's Internet Search Center. Sections of special interest on Useful Sites include Statistics, Speech, Writing, and Government & Law.
If you need to turn in a list of your sources, you will need to know how to cite them in MLA or APA format. General guides are available in "Useful Sites, Writing" (see section above). Citation formats for electronic resources to which Chemeketa subscribes, including those on this page, are given at Citing Sources From Online Databases.
For help with information resources, phone Chemeketa's friendly reference librarians at 503-399-5231, e-mail reference@chemeketa.edu, or use our online form.
Chemeketa belongs to L-Net, a service that provides 24/7 chat reference to Oregon library patrons.
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