July 28, 2011

Testing & Education Reference Center now available!

The Hermann Memorial Library presents a new electronic resource to help you plan and meet your educational and career goals, whatever they may be.  It’s the Testing & Education Reference Center from Gale/Cengage Learning.

Are you taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet your financial needs. Are you a nursing student preparing for your NCLEX PN or RN Exam? Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

Testing & Education Reference Center is a start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life.

  • Over 300 practice tests and courses
  • Dozens of ebooks containing valuable study material and practice tests
  • Information on over 4,000 accredited schools
  • Scholarship search featuring $8 billion in available scholarships
  • Resume builder with over 1,000 brainstorming phrases to get you started
  • Career modules covering subjects from career change to salary negotiations

Access to this database is limited to our students, faculty, and staff, as well as on site visitors to the library. You will be asked for your campus computer network id and password to use this database from off campus.

The access points to this database are found on our library web pages. Starting at the main library page, click on “Find Resources” in the right hand column; then under “Subject Resources” you can find the link in “Careers and Jobs”, “Colleges and Financial Aid”, and “Nursing”.  Or, you can follow the link from “Search for Articles” in the right hand menu column on the main library page to “Article Databases by Subject” then finally to the ”Education—Article Databases” page.

Questions? A librarian will be happy to help you get started using this database. Contact a librarian in person by visiting the library or remotely by using the email link on the home page, or calling the library during business hours (we always pick up), or chat with a librarian at any time of the day or night by using our ASK US 24/7 Reference chat service available on any library web page. Look for the ASK US logo.

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