 The Terminator Beam Library empowers our community with resources for faith and learning. Putting you in touch with important resources for your studies and growth is what we do best. For a few minutes, let's explore the library homepage, your information gateway to the library's catalog, databases, research help, and other online resources. Find the Beam Library on the web at library.oc.edu. Or from the Oklahoma Christian homepage under Study at OC, click the Library button. You may want to bookmark the library homepage for easy access. The library website is a portal to huge amounts of information, including books, article databases, and information on the web. The Find Books tab offers access to the Beam Library catalog, a searchable listing of all the books in our collection. Books can be both physical, printed copies like what you'd find on the shelf in the library, or they can be electronic so that they can be read online. The library catalog provides the records for all our books, both print and electronic, and the eBooks button allows you to search exclusively within much of our electronic book collection. Other resources under the Find Books tab like WorldCat will be very helpful in your studies, but we'll learn more about some of these resources in library videos for other courses. The Find Articles tab offers access to the library's article databases, virtual spaces in which enormous amounts of information is organized to make it easier to locate. Article databases provide a level of access to newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, as well as other types of information, like chapters in an edited book. Locating a specific database or finding which databases are linked to general subject areas can be accessed here. Effective searching within these databases takes practice and we'll learn more about finding an article in a different video. The Find Websites tab offers links to specific websites that librarians consider credible, informative, and potentially helpful for your research. We've grouped these websites by subject. The Find Websites tab also provides access to other resources like helpful practice tests for the GRE, MCAT, and others. The Find Research Help tab puts you in contact with resources created by librarians to support your studies. For example, we've created guides for specific courses tailored to the research needs and assignments for that class. In a different video we'll learn more about these lib guides created by librarians. Also note the various information and services located at the bottom of the page. You can find out about our hours, learn more about the library faculty and staff, reserve a study room, or even connect with us on Twitter. This feature is our discovery tool. Just enter a search phrase in the box and this tool will retrieve results from nearly all of our available resources. A word of caution, learning how to use this tool and how to effectively limit results takes practice and we'll learn more about this tool in videos for other courses. You can also find quick access to specific resources in the Quick Links menu here. One of the most helpful features of the library home page is the Ask a Librarian tab located on the right side of the screen. The Ask a Librarian tab is available on each page throughout our website and it offers students a quick and easy means for contacting librarians with questions. Just type a question into the search box. Sometimes an answer to your question is already available and you can quickly learn what you need to know. If not, you can enter a question here, provide us with your email and a librarian will get back with you as quickly as possible. You can also ask your question through a text message or when a librarian is available through chat. The Beam Library home page provides access to a lot of information but we're here to help. Be sure to use the Ask a Librarian tab, give us a call or text, or stop by the library and see us anytime you need help finding resources. The Beam librarians and staff are here to help you succeed throughout your studies at Oklahoma Christian University and we look forward to getting to know you.