Monday, May 17, 2021

Mental Health Awareness Month - "Tools to Thrive" 2021

May is "Mental Health Awareness Month" and Logue Library would like to provide resources for members of the Chestnut Hill College Community.

This annual event has been in existence since 1949. The 2021 theme for the 72nd Anniversary is "Tools 2 Thrive," We will list some tools that are available for your research at Chestnut Hill College.

Logue Library's Links to books on the topic of Psychotherapy/Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Educational Psychology

Human Behavior

Social Psychology

The Mental Health America's website has the following free information:

Fact Sheets:

Accepting Reality

Adapting After Trauma and Stress

Connecting with Others

Creating Healthy Routines

Dealing with Anger and Frustration

Eliminating Toxic Influences

Finding the Positive After Loss

Getting Out Of Thinking Traps

Owning Your Feelings

Processing Big Changes

Supporting Others

Taking Time for Yourself

DIY Tools:

Detoxing Your Life

How to Identify Feelings – So You Can Deal with Them

Looking for Good: 4 Steps to Find the Positives in a Bad Situation

7 Tips for Talking to a Loved One about their Mental Health

8 Steps to Create a Healthy Routine

Logue Library is a great resource to help you with your research project..

Links to Psychology Resources available in Logue Library...

Psychotherapy.net Streaming Videos

This is a convenient streaming subscription service that offers anywhere anytime access to the best training in the fields of Psychotherapy, Counseling and Social Work.(CHC username and Password required.)

APA PsychTHERAPY

APA PsycNet

Dissertations of Chestnut Hill College:

PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS - This database contains Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) students' dissertations linked from ProQuest. For an online Dissertation, search ProQuest first. It is published there before it is available in the Logue Library Catalog.

Books in Logue Library...

If you search in the library catalog for Mental Health Awareness you will find more than 187 results including 165 eBooks and 22 Print books.

Using the same search terms Mental Health Awareness in the EBSCO search box yields 11,194 results as well.

Videos on this topic...

What is Mental Health?

Break the Stigma

APA PsycTests - Filter Instruments by Type on APA PsycNet

We All Have Mental Health

Nature and Mental Health - Mental Health Foundation

PSA: May Mental Health Awareness Month - Health Department

What causes anxiety and depression - Inside Out

Feel free to comment on this blog.

Thank you to the following Logue Librarian with helping me with this blog:

Mary Jo Larkin, SSJ Dean of Library & Information Resources with editing for this blog.

Posted by J. Presley, Systems Management Librarian.

Monday, May 03, 2021

Happy National Teachers' Week 2021!

The first week of May celebrates the recognition of Teachers Appreciation in our lives. From Pre-K to College, these individuals work effortlessly to educate students for the importance of learning new topics while they gain knowledge on various topics of interests. The National Parents Teachers Association (PTA) theme this year is "#Thank an Teacher."

President Joe Biden, issued on April 30, 2021 A Proclamation on National Teacher Appreciation Day and National Teacher Appreciation Week, 2021. He stated that, “Every one of us has been shaped by someone who inspired our curiosity and helped us find our confidence, who guided us to think more clearly and pushed us to strive for better.”

To see the "100 Best Teacher Appreciation Thank You Notes Ever Written," click here.

Convinced that capable educators are the key to the future of society, Chestnut College offers a variety of Education programs, both Graduate and Undergraduate, to prepare fine teachers for the future. Not only can students major in Education(Pre-K, Special Education and Secondary Education) but they can also earn a degree in Early Education with Montessori Specialization.

If you wish to research this topic in depth, Logue Library will be a great help.

If you search in the library catalog for Teacher Appreciation you will find more than 11 results including 7 eBooks and 4 Print books.

Using the same search terms Teacher Appreciation in the EBSCO search box yields 11,194 results as well.

If you search in the library catalog for Teacher you will find more than 2,618 results including 1,813 eBooks and 805 Print books.

Using the same search term Teacher in the EBSCO search box yields 2,290,210 results as well.

Books in Logue Library...

Videos on Teacher Appreciation Week...

Teacher Appreciation Day 2020

Teachers Have Been Amazing This Year

Why you should thank a teacher today

Thank a Teacher

Feel free to comment on this blog.

Thank you to the following Logue Librarian with helping me with this blog:

Mary Jo Larkin, SSJ Dean of Library & Information Resources with editing for this blog.

Posted by J. Presley, Systems Management Librarian.

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

"Celebrating the History of the Library" - National Librarian Day – April 16, 2021

April 16th Marks the anniversary of "National Librarian Day."

To commemorate this occasion Logue Library presents a short History of the Libraries along with some library information that will help you with your research.

1. History of Libraries (Videos)

The History of Libraries

Library of Congress, Washington DC 4K UHD

The World’s Most Magnificent Libraries

History of Libraries and Librarians

The 15 Best Libraries In The World

History of Libraries - Behind the News

2. Who funded the libraries.. Andrew Carnegie

Carnegie Libraries - Thread Through Time - MPB

3. Logue Library Facts

Here is a historical image of the first books being transferred from the old library in St. Joseph's Hall to Logue Library..

The Chestnut Hill College Lacrosse team removing unused bound periodicals from the basement stacks

Logue Library construction in 1961

Logue Library today

Logue Library is named for Chestnut Hill College's first Dean, Sister Maria Kostka Logue, SSJ, who presided as Dean, and, later President (1924-1954).

The Brimmer Children's Collection was named for Sister Regina Maria Brimmer, Library Director, and later Curriculum Librarian, (1982 - 2012).

Logue Library & Gruber Theater

4. Logue Library Tutorials

(Contact us at Loguelibrarians@chc.edu if you wish us to email them to you)

How to Access the Kanopy Streaming Service
How to search for Scholarly Journals in Logue Library
How to set-up your Google Scholars preferences
How to download an Academic Journal Article from EBSCO
How to access Psychotherapy.net Streaming Training Videos

Link to our Social Media Pages and other resources

Staff Directory

YouTube Instructional (and fun) videos

Online Study Resources

(Includes Flash Cards for Studying, videos and interactive games)

Interlibrary Loan Request Form

Logue Catalog

Keyword Worksheet

Feel free to comment on this blog at

Thank you to the following Logue Librarians with helping me with this blog:

Mary Jo Larkin, SSJ Dean of Library & Information Resources and Gail Cathey, Print Resources/ Access Services Librarian with editing and research for this blog.

Posted by J. Presley, Systems Management Librarian.

Monday, March 22, 2021

The Literary Contribution of the Vietnam Veterans - National Vietnam War Veterans Day - 2021

March 29th marks National Vietnam War Veterans Day, To commemorate this occasion, Logue Library will salute the Literary Contribution of the Vietnam Veterans to our society.

Not only were the solders battling in the depths of this war, but they found the time to create original poetry, music and other writing as well.

Here is some great trivia

How long was this war?

Well, according to the website, The World Atlas, " However, it is believed and accepted by many that the war began on November 1, 1955, and ended on April 30, 1975."

Below is a poem by a Soldier in the 4th Infantry in Vietnam, Larry Manuel

The Logue Library Staff is ready to help students with their research papers via in person or remotely. If you are interested in learning more about the Vietnam for a class assignment or for your own interest, contact us and we will be happy to help.

If you are a CHC Student with the following majors listed below, you will find many resources to research this topic.

Check the library site for links for English, Psychology, Political Science, and History, majors.

If you search on the topic "Vietnam Veterans" in Logue's Catalogue, you will get 180 results that present 142 eBooks and 30 Print Books. Additionally, the EBSCO Database has at least 35,400 articles for you to review.

If you search on the topic "Vietnam War Veterans" in Logue's Catalogue, you will get 156 results that present 127 eBooks and 23 Print Books. Additionally, the EBSCO Database has at least 22,800 articles for you to review.

Books on this topic..