Contents
- From
Kim Kelley
Online
Databases- What's New!
Hot
Sites
For
Your Information...
Faculty
Corner
- ILS
Hours and Locations
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From Kim Kelley
Associate Provost,
Information and Library Services
Looking Ahead...
Next Generation Library System
The libraries of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated
Institutions (USMAI) will be joining MIT, Harvard University and
others in implementing a new library catalog system, ALEPH 500,
from Ex Libris USA, in 2002. The next generation integrated library
system will provide a new searching interface with enhanced features.
Look for more announcements in the coming months about this upcoming
change in library access.
New E-Journal Subscriptions
ILS now subscribes to several electronic journals. Unlike the subscription
databases in MdUSA, which index a large collection of articles from
journals and magazines, e-journal subscriptions provide access to
full issues of a particular journal online. The following titles
will soon be available to UMUC students, faculty, and staff:
- Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and
Management Information Systems
- Research Interfaces
- Management Science
- Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning
- Organization Science
Look for the link to E-journals from the library Web page coming
soon.
Access to New Library Databases
ILS will soon provide access to new subscription databases before
they are mounted in MdUSA. Your access to them will be similar to
MdUSA access. Also, best of all, you will be able to use these new
products as soon as we get them; there will no longer be a waiting
period. Look for the link from the library Web page coming soon
to preview newly acquired databases.
Online Databases
What's New!
These featured databases are new this Fall:
- GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus
on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature
and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public
policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's
studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly
journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications,
books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government,
nongovernmental, and special reports.
- Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Includes 45,000+ articles on every aspect of the visual arts
from prehistory through the present; over 30,000+ links to color
images from high-quality museum and other art sites; more than
100,000+ images from the Bridgeman Art Library.
Hot
Sites
This time, we're highlighting career resources:
- Career and Cooperative
Education Center (http://www.umuc.edu/career/ccec.html)
UMUC's own career site! Includes CareerQuest, an online matching
system, for students and employers, job search tips, articles,
and a pilot of a self-guided, Web-based academic and career management
system in partnership with Campus@PBS and America’s Learning
Exchange (ALX).
- Wetfeet.com
(http://www.wetfeet.com/advice/careerpath_switch.asp)
A Forbes Favorite, this searchable directory of career and industry
resources includes articles, discussions, and advice on job seeking
and career changes.
For
Your Information...
Expanded Hours and Services
Two popular ILS services are growing!
- The UMUC Office in McKeldin Library, College Park, Md. is expanding
its service hours. The room will be staffed for consultations
Mon.-Thurs. 5pm-10pm, Sat. 10pm-5pm, and Sunday noon to 4pm. By
the way, the office has not changed locations; however, the room
number is now 6259 because of a renumbering program at McKeldin.
As in previous years, UMUC library staff can also be found at
the McKeldin service desk on weekend afternoons to assist students.
- Chat with a Librarian, a program which allows worldwide interactive
synchronous consultation with UMUC library staff is also expanding
its hours and will now be available evenings and weekends. The
service will be available during the following hours EST:
| Mon.-Thurs. |
1pm-10pm |
| Fri. |
1pm-5pm |
| Sat. |
1pm-4pm |
| Sun. |
1pm-4pm |
New Information Literacy and Research Methods Class
- Watch for LIBS150, the new information literacy course created
by ILS staff for Undergraduate Studies. This seven week WebTycho
course uses a research log to simulate the research process. Students
will learn how to do research more effectively, evaluate information,
and properly cite the materials they find. The class will be piloted
in fall 2001; and in the spring, will be required for all new
undergraduates before they earn sixteen credits at UMUC.
Faculty
Corner
Here are some upcoming online and F2F workshops where you can learn
more about library services:
- Information and Library Services will be presenting a workshop
on library and copyright issues at the the CTL Fall Faculty Technology
Conference on October 27. Information about how to register
will be available on the CTL Web site: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/ctla/.
- There will be an online workshop for faculty on MdUSA databases
in October. For more information, please contact Casey Grimmer
at cgrimmer@ad.umuc.edu.
- There will be an online workshop offered by CTL,
"Using the "Free" Web for Academic Research,"
facilitated by UMUC librarians Beth Mulherrin and Miriam Matteson
in October. An announcement will be released shortly about
this workshop. Information about how to register will be available
on the CTL Web site: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/ctla/
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