From
Kim Kelley
Assistant Vice President of Information and
Library Services (ILS)
Welcome to the first edition of the UMUC Information and Library
Services Newsletter. This newsletter is designed to keep you up-to-date
with new services, sites of interest on the Internet, developments
at the Shady Grove Library/Media Center, and special services for
faculty.
It is an exciting time in Information and Library Services. The
demand for our services has never been greater and the potential
services we can provide have never been as plentiful. We are constantly
seeking to make our services better, more robust, and available
whenever and wherever you may need them. In addition, we are
exploring synchronous, Web-based reference, and trying to implement
24/7 reference service. As we develop these and other new services,
we will keep you up-to-date and informed on UMUC’s emerging
virtual library. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, complaints,
and compliments.
I hope you will find this newsletter helpful and informative. Further,
I hope you will let us know what topics you think we
need to cover in subsequent issues.
Online Databases
Information and Library Services (ILS) has added
19 new databases to our collection of electronic resources. Click
here (http://www.umuc.edu/library/newsletters/newdatabases.html)
to find out more about them. Several of those databases
are being made available to the UMUC community through the new
statewide initiative, Maryland
Digital Library (MDL) (http://md-diglib.org/). You
can access the MDL and other new databases through the MdUSA gateway.
Not able to access a MdUSA database? To find out more about the
status of a particular database in MdUSA, go to the Database
Status (http://polaris.umuc.edu/library/libweb/database/dbstatus.html)
page. If you do not find information about the database there,
contact ILS (https://www.umuc.edu/library/question.html).
Hot Sites
This time, we're highlighting a few distance
learning sites:
- Distance-Educator.com
(http://Distance-Educator.com/)
Features daily news headlines about distance education published
each weekday from around the world, webcasts, featured universities
and e-mail notification of new content.
- Collaborative Learning Support Site for Distance
Learning Educators (http://www.bus.indiana.edu/instruction/teachln/epss_p600/home.htm)
Focuses on collaborative learning tools, including a Taxonomy
of Collaborative Tools and a glossary of collaborative learning
terms.
- Center
for Research and Development in Distributed Learning (http://depts.washington.edu/crddl/)
Features a collection of courses, a research archive and tools
for working in a distributed learning environment.
For Your Information...
For UMUC Faculty:
The Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment provides a number
of faculty development workshops which focus on finding information
and using it fairly. This fall, workshops have been offered on UMUC
subscription databases; "free" search engines; "fair
use, faculty ownership and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act";
as well as helping students to avoid plagiariam. Some of the workshops
can be taken online, providing a more convenient method to learn.Watch
the link at faculty
development workshops (http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/ctla/workshops.html)
and register for spring workshops when available.
For UMUC Students:
The Research
Skills Tutorial (http://www.umuc.edu/library/tutor/intro.html)
identifies information resources available to students and provides
tips on how to conduct research more effectively. Take a look!
Faculty Corner
Reserve readings can enhance your class and many readings
can be made available electronically! Whether you assign journal
articles, book chapters, or lecture notes, students only need to
click to access the materials immediately through WebTycho.
Once you decide which materials you wish to place on electronic
reserve, Electronic
Reserves on Web Tycho (http://www.umuc.edu/library/ereserve/resfaq.html)
provides details on procedures and copyright issues. ILS will process
your request and post the reserve reading (or directions on how
to reach the full text article through MdUSA), notifying you as
soon as the material is ready for viewing.
In addition, print or audiovisual
reserves may be placed at McKeldin Library on the College Park campus,
and at the Shady Grove Library/Media Center. Call us at 301-985-7209
or send us e-mail at
library@info.umuc.edu for more information.
Shady Grove Library/Media
Center
The University System of Maryland (USM) Shady Grove
Library/Media Center is located in Rockville, MD. It serves primarily
the students, faculty, and staff at the Shady Grove Center; however,
many of its resources and services are available to all USM patrons.
They include:
- on-site circulating book collection and print
journals and newspapers
- on site access to 80 electronic databases via
MdUSA
- pick up and return location for UMS library books
- reference assistance
- ten computer workstations
- photocopier and microfiche reader
- study carrels
- Career Corner
Check out the Shady Grove Library/Media
Center (http://www.lib.umd.edu/shadygrove/)
for location, hours, and additional information. For questions,
please call 301-738-6020 or e-mail shadylib@info.umuc.edu
Information and Library
Services Hours
Need to find us? Please see our Hours and Locations
(http://www.umuc.edu/library/help/refhours.html) for more
information.
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