Farm business management resources

The Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis Library has an array of print and electronic resources you can consult and use for the Farm Business Management module.

You can search our Online Public Access Catalog to locate print resources: such as books or magazines.

EBSCOhost Databases and more specifically Academic Search Premier.

UWIC electronic resources. For more information on usernames and passwords consult the Registrar.


These are some web sites we selected for you very carefully.

International Farm Management Association
U.S. Small Business Administration
Elite Farmer
NCDA Market News
AgriBiz
Ag Decision Maker (AgDM)

Seminar Announcement

As you all know there has been a change over the referencing system used for your assignments. The transition would be from MLA to Harvard Referencing and it would be effective officially from the new Academic Year 2009 - 2010.

Therefore we decided to hold a two hour seminar taking place at the Library Amphitheater on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 from 12:30 to 14:00.

See you there!

Interesting articles

The 100th special issue of Organic Farming (Spring 2009) magazine just arrived with some very interesting articles like:

Cover feature: Soil matters p.24

It's a gas: anaerobic digestion: a renewable energy option? p. 29

Unheated tomato production: advice on growing this important glasshouse crop p.40


Organic farming is published by the Soil Association (UK). Check here for more details on the Association.

Grammar Sources continued...

Adjectives & adverbs

How to use adjectives

Using adverbs

The Writing Center – Hyper Grammar, Building clauses

Theory on adjectives from the writing center of Pudue University




Phrasal Verbs & idiomatic Expressions

Theory mainly and some exercises

More phrasal verb exercises

Developing a Search Strategy

When you are seeking for specific information on your assignments it is important to develop a search strategy in order to retrieve the best possible results.

* You need to know what you are looking for, so read you topic carefully, identify and underline the most important keywords or phrases.
* Find definitions of unknown terms. Think of synonyms; include singular and plural terms; spelling variations and broader terms.
* Think what type of materials you need: Books, Journals or electronic sources.
* Decide where to begin your search. There are two options: you can use the Library resources and (or) the Internet.


At the Library:

* Locate items using the Library's OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog). There you can find library materials, such as books, contained in a collection in the Library.
* Library print subscriptions of journals and magazines.
* Databases available at you Library. EBSCO is an online reference system accessible via the Internet, which offers a variety of databases from leading information providers.
* Databases available through UWIC libraries. They hold subscriptions to an important number of electronic databases.


On the Internet


You need to be careful when you search on the Internet and check if the information is credible and relevant to the topic. On the Internet you can locate all sorts of information in various forms and through various paths. However, keep in mind the following:


* Thus far, Wikipedia is not considered a credible or appropriate source in the academic environment. It may be used for initila information about a subject, but it is not accepted as source used in papers, projects, or presentations.
* Blogs are not considered appropriate as an appropriate source as well
* Use search engines in a smart way. Use features such as Google Scholar, Google Book, and remember to use the Advanced search options, because you can limit your retrieved results to specific file types for example.
* You can locare useful information on conference web sites, web pages of professional Associations, Organizations or Institutions as well as free online magazines.

Good luck on your exams!

The Library staff say

and some useful tips!

Try not to panic, remember to take deep breaths!

Sleep!

Eat!

Exercise - it relieves you from stress!

and take breaks to talk with friends or go for a coffee!

Parenthetical citations: electronic

The past couple of weeks many of you came to ask clarifications on how to formulate parenthetical citations from electronic sources. In this post I will give you 2 examples on how to write them down.

Using parts of texts of electronic resources in your assigments posses certain particularities. First of all web pages are not numbered which means that when you have an online article for example you can't write in the parenthetical citation a page number. However, you can use paragraph numbers.

For example, you have an article of 15 paragraphs written by John Wilson . The sentence(s) of the article you want to copy in your assignment is on paragraph 6. The parenthetical citation would be as follows: (Wilson par. 6). As in print parenthetical citations you write the surname of the author, you write the abbreviation of the word paragraph which is par. and then the corresponding number.

Another issue you are most likely to encounter is to find an article without an author. In this case, and if you believe that the article is suitable for your assignment, you write in the parenthetical citation the title of the article followed by the corresponding paragraph number. If the title of the article is too long you can use the first words of the title.

For example you have an article under the title Agribusiness and you used a sentence from the second paragraph. Your in-text citation will be (Agribusiness, par. 2)

New acquisitions: selections

Van Horne, James C. and John M. Wachowicz, Jr. Fundamentals of Financial Management. 13th ed. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2009.

This a required reading for your Agricultural Finance class.

Copies are available at the Reserve collection. Call number RES 658.15 Van

Check this link for more information about this title.

Spears, Deanne M. Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Reading for College Students. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

This title belongs with the Recommended readings for the class
Intermediate Reading /Vocabulary 1.

This title will be available for loan at the Circulating collection. Call number 428.64 Mil

Check this link for additional information.

Murphy, Raymond. Essential Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

This a required reading for your Intermediate reading / Vocabulary I classes.

Copies are available at the Reserve collection.

Check this link for any additional information regarding this title.

Interesting articles

Check out the latest issue of Organic Farming Magazine, Winter 2008, Issue 9 received at the Library.

There is an interesting article on page 36 under the title " Pointers for Profitability: what are the key characteristics of a profitable organic farmer or grower".

Also, check the Successful Farming magazine December 2008 issue on how creativity in your agricultural business can save you money. You can also start reading the article when you press here

Parenthetical citations: print sources

When you are writing a research paper “you must indicate to your readers not only what works you used in writing the paper but also exactly what you derived from each source and exactly where in the work you found the material” (Gibaldi 204). So wherever you use in your assignments another person’s words or ideas you must provide the appropriate information using parenthetical or in-text citations. Parenthetical citations lead your readers to the Works Cited list which is located at the end of your document.

Print Sources

In print resources like books, magazines, or journals the author (s) last name (s) and the specific page number (s) identify your source.

For example we have the book

Farkas, Meredith. Social Software in Libraries. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007.

and you selected to use a sentence from this book in your assignment and it is from page 179.

There are two ways you can write the quotation.

In the first way you open a quote, write down the sentence, close the quote, leave one space and in the parenthesis you write the surname of the author, again leave one space, write down the page number and close the parenthesis.
“We are becoming an increasingly mobile society, where people are able to access the web and communicate virtually no matter where they are” (Farkas 179).

The second way to cite a direct quote is to include the authors name in the sentence. For example:

According to Farkas “we are becoming an increasingly mobile society, where people are able to access the web and communicate virtually no matter where they are” (179).

In this case and since the name of the author is already mentioned in the text you just write in the parenthesis the page number.

Note: if you have a print source with two authors’ you use both authors, for example (Jacobson and Waugh 210).

Works cited

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Citations: Electronic sources

An entire web site

Basic format:
Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address].

For example:

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 November 2008 http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory.

A page on a web site
Wikipedia example

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440 .

An Article in a Web Magazine

Basic Format
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Online Publication. Date of Publication. Date of Access.

Example:

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing The Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. 16 August 2002. 4 May 2006 http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving.


For more details on citing electronic sources visit the Owl at Purdue web site

Citations: Print sources

These are basic guidelines to form proper citations for books. If you need any further clarifications please do not hesitate to ask!

A Book by a Single Author

REVERSE the AUTHOR’S NAME for alphabetizing

Write the title of the book and italicize

Publication information to include: Place of publication: Publisher and Year of publication

Example:

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, 1958.

A Book by Two Authors

• Give authors' names in same order as on the title page.
• Reverse the name of the first author only, add a comma, and
• Give the other name(s) in normal form.

Example:

Tyson, Shaun, and Alfred York. Human Resource Management. Oxford: Butterworth - Heinemann, 1996.

A Book by Three or More Authors

• Reverse the name of the first author ONLY
• Add a comma and write the name of the second author then
• add comma the word AND and the name of the third author

Example:

Barry, Peter J., John A. Hopkin, and C. B. Baker. Financial Management in Agriculture. Danville, Illinois: Interstate, 1995.

Subtitle

Lansdale, Bruce M. Cultivating Inspired Leaders: Making Participatory Management Work. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2000.

State TITLE in FULL, INCLUDING any SUBTITLE. If the book has a subtitle, put a colon directly after the main title

In both titles and subtitles, CAPITALIZE the FIRST WORDS

ITALICIZE the entire title including the subtitle.

A Book Published in a Second or Subsequent Edition

When using a later edition of a work, identify the edition by number (2nd ed., 3rd ed.) or by name (rev. ed.)

Example:

Parker, Charles, and Thomas Case. Management Information Systems: Strategy and Action. 2nd ed. New York: Mitchell McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Cite the piece as you would in any other work in a collection but do not include the publisher information.

If the article is signed, give the author first; if it is not give the title first.

If the reference book is organized alphabetically, as most are, you may omit the volume or the page number of the article or item.

Encyclopedia example:

Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropedia. 15th ed. 1987.

“Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.

Library Resource Guide for the Grammar II module

Following are free online exercises for those of you who want to practice your English grammar skills:

• Articles, Nouns, Expressions of Quantity

Grammar Exercises - 'Articles'

English Media Lab quiz: Definite or Indefinite article

Grammar Exercises - 'Countable-Uncountable'

• Types of Clauses (Definite and Indefinite)

The writing Center – Hyper Grammar, Building clauses

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html

English Grammar Online 4U – Conditional Sentences

• Tenses
  

English Tenses Timeline Chart

All tenses: Theory And Exercises

Grammar Exercises - 'Tenses'

Present Tenses

Grammar Exercises - Present

Simple Present Tense Quiz

Past and Perfect Tenses

Future

Grammar Exercises - 'Future'

Interactive exercises – future tenses

Future Time Quiz

Library Print Resource Guide for the Grammar modules

Note: This guide is a list of resources the Library holds and proposes for the purposes of the Grammar courses

Print Resources: Next to each book title there is the call number in the parenthesis so you can locate the book on the library shelves. If you still have a problem you can always ask at the reference desk.

Boukouvalas, John. Getting to Cambridge. Athens : Boukouvalas, 1995(428.24 Get)

Bozini, Agapi. Methodology and teaching practice. Thessaloniki, Greece : CODEX publications, 1994 – (Ref 428.24 Boz)

Dixson, Robert James. Grammar essentials : graded exercises in English. White Plains, NY : Longman, c2004 (RES 428.2 Dix)

Eggenschwiler, Jean. Writing : grammar, usage, and style. Lincoln, Neb. : Cliffs Notes, c1997 – (REF 808.042 Egg)

Hacker, Diana. Rules for writers : a brief handbook. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1985 – (808.02 Hac)

Hacker, Diana. A writer's reference. 3rd ed. Boston : Bedford Books, c1995
(REF 428.2 Hac)

Hairston, Maxine. The Scott, Foresman handbook for writers. 6th ed. New York : Longman, c2002 – (808.042 Hai)

Murphy, Raymond. English grammar in use : a reference and practice book for intermediate students. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994
(428.2 Mur)

Soars, Liz. Headway. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991 (RES 428.24 Soa)

Soars, Liz. New headway English course. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996
(RES 428.24 Soa)

Soars, John. New headway English course Pre-Intermediate student's book. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2000 – (CAS 428.24 Soa)

Soars, John. New headway English course Upper-Intermediate student's book. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, c2005 (RES 428.24 Soa)

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Get to know us better

Although we introduced ourselves officially through various library orientation sessions, this is a good opportunity to refresh your memories of who we are and what we do. So here is the line up!

Vicki Syroglou-Bouki

Head Librarian

tel. 2310 492 889

e-mail: vsyrog@afs.edu.gr

Damiana Koutsomiha

Librarian, Collection Development and Reference

tel. 2310 492 883
e-mail: dkouts@afs.edu.gr

Fotini Traka

Librarian, Cataloging & Retrospective Conversion

tel. 2310 492 881
e-mail: ftraka@afs.edu.gr

Sissy Bamba
Library Assistant, Acquisitions
tel. 2310 492 880

e-mail: sbamba@afs.edu.gr

Evi Gkaragouni

Library Intern

Undergratuade of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Department of Library Science and Information Systems

Nancy Birk
Archivist, Professor Emerita Kent State University

Mrs Birk is offering her volunteer services towards the organization and digitization of the American Farm School Archives

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