LRN Library Reference Network. This term is specific to COM Library. The LRN is where library patrons may do research on computers in the library. This includes access to the Internet as well as databases that COM Library pays to access. A collection of articles generally written by staff or freelance writers and aimed at the general public.
Articles tend to be brief with no references listed or credentials of the author given.
Fortune, Reader's Digest, Time . In COM Library online databases list articles and may include abstracts or full text articles. In a library setting, a patron is someone who uses the library, such as COM students, faculty, staff and community members. A periodical is a publication which is issued periodically, such as a magazine, journal or newspaper. Check out is usually for brief periods of time and sometimes items cannot leave the library.