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From Kim Kelley

Hot Sites

For Your Information...

Faculty Corner

ILS  Hours and Locations

Next Generation Library System

In the past you may have used VICTORWeb, the online catalog of the University System of Maryland, to find one or more of the millions of books and other materials available to you. You may even have used your 14-digit barcode to borrow books directly or have them sent to you through the distance education book delivery system Information and Library Services provides.

Now you can look forward to an improved Web-based catalog system, which the libraries of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) will be implementing in early spring 2003. This next generation integrated library system from Ex Libris will replace VICTORWeb and provide a new searching interface with enhanced features. When the system is fully functional, materials will also be available from St. Mary's College of Maryland and the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library.

Look for more announcements in the coming months about this impending change in library access. To ensure that you will be able to use all the features comfortably and effectively, Information and Library Services (ILS) will be providing information and training opportunities to UMUC students, faculty, and staff.

Information and Library Services Brochure

Do you need some information about where to find library materials or library assistance? Is it difficult to remember where to find ILS forms and resources on the ILS Web page?

Great news!!! Now you have access to a convenient, compact source for all this information--the new Information and Library Services brochure! Inside you will find descriptions of ILS services and resources. On the back is a handy quick guide to the most frequently used ILS URL's.

You can pick up a brochure at the Information Desk in the Student and Faculty Services Building (SFSC) in Adelphi and in Information and Library Services in Room 2255, SFSC. It will also be distributed in library instruction, training, and orientation sessions. Look for a link to an electronic version of the brochure on the ILS Web page later this fall.

Online Databases

Databases Add Links to Full Text

Some of the ILS subscription databases that formerly contained just citations and abstracts now have links to full text articles in other databases.

• E-Psyche now has links to full text in JSTOR, PsycARTICLES, ERIC, ScienceDirect, and Ingenta; more links are coming
• Historical Abstracts and American History and Life now have full text links to JSTOR

New E-Journals

UMUC now has access to the full text of the e-journals in the Berkeley Electronic Press Journals collection, including economics, business, law, and political science journals. You will find them on the MdUSA login page under New Databases and under the e-journals link on the ILS Web page.

We have also added some education journals to our list of electronic journals on the Web. Distance Education, Open Learning, and Transactions on Education are among the recent additions. You can access them from the e-journals link on the ILS Web page.

What's in a Name?

The names database vendors create for their databases frequently do not reveal much about the type of information patrons can retrieve from that database. In this issue we'd like to highlight a few very useful databases that include information on subjects, especially business and management, not suggested by their titles.

• ScienceDirect

  As its name implies, ScienceDirect is an excellent database for finding information on all the sciences, engineering, and technology. What few people know is that it also includes many journals in all the social sciences, including psychology, education, and sociology journals and a significant collection of journals in business, management, accounting, and decision sciences. The next time you are looking for articles in any of these areas, browse the ScienceDirect journal title list to see what journals are available and/or try a search in ScienceDirect.

• Emerald

  Contrary to its title, you will not find information on minerals, jewelry, or even the Emerald Isle in this database. But it is the database to search if you need information on accounting, auditing and economics as well as all kinds of management: educational, environmental, food and nutrition, general, healthcare, hospitality and services, human resources, information, library and information science, logistics and supply chain, marketing operations and production, police, public sector, quality, and training. For a complete listing of the journals you will find in Emerald, see the Emerald journal listing.

Hot Sites...Information Literacy!!!

"The workplace of the present and future demands a new kind of worker. In a global marketplace, data is dispatched in picoseconds and gigabits, and this deluge of information must be sorted, evaluated, and applied.... There is no question about it: for today's and tomorrow's workers, the workplace is going through cataclysmic changes that very few will be prepared to participate in successfully and productively unless they are information literate."

American Library Association. (1998). A Progress Report on
	Information Literacy: An Update on the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report. Retrieved August 12, 2002, from http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/nili.html.

In this issue we're highlighting Web sites relating to information literacy, the set of skills necessary to succeed in today's technology rich information society.

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Gateway
A comprehensive source for resources on information literacy in higher education.

The Big Blue
A global perspective on the issues relating to information literacy in higher education.

Information and Library Services Research Skills Tutorial
This online tutorial is designed to assist UMUC students by reviewing general research skills and introducing specific resources available to them.

For Your Information...

Database Search Guides

Puzzled about the best way to search in a specific database? You are not alone. While there are certain searching techniques that work in most databases, each database also has unique search features that can be difficult to decipher. To help you learn to navigate the different databases successfully, ILS has added a new resource, database search guides.

Look for the guides in the Database Descriptions and Search Tips section of the ILS Web page. Right now you will find guides to ABI Inform, Expanded Academic Index ASAP, and Academic Search Premier. ILS staff are continuing to develop guides and will notify you when new ones are posted.

Database Searching Tips

This month we'd like to introduce the multidisciplinary databases in MdUSA and explain how to create a customized topic for cross-searching several databases within the MdUSA interface.

Create a Customized Topic in MdUSA

The News/Current Events Topic Area in MdUSA includes three multidisciplinary databases that are a good starting point for research in most academic disciplines. Once you have logged into MdUSA, click on the News/Current Events topic area. When you get to the search screen, you will notice three databases that use the MdUSA interface: Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic Index ASAP, and WilsonSelect Plus. You can add databases to this list and save your customized topic area.

To do so, follow these instructions:

• Click on "Customize Topic" under the database list on the left.
• From the new list of databases you retrieve, select the ones you want to add.
• Scroll to the top, delete the news/current events name, and type in the name you want to give your topic.
• Then click on Profile in the menu at the top.
• Click on Save Profile.

The next time you log into MdUSA you will find your individualized topic area in the list of topic areas. Now click Back on your browser a few times to get to the search screen. Select all the databases on the left and type in your search terms to perform a cross-search of the databases.

Faculty Corner

New Acquisitions

View a list of some of our recent acquisitions in distance education, instructional design, information literacy, higher education, and writing.  If you're in Adelphi, come in to ILS at SFSC 2255 and browse through our collection. 

LIBS 150 for Faculty

LIBS 150 for Faculty got off to a successful start this summer. 103 faculty members signed up this summer for the pilot course taught by Kim Kelley. Faculty benefited from the opportunity to see the information literacy and research course from two perspectives. They experienced the course as a student by actually taking the course, doing the assignments, and participating in the conferences. As faculty they discussed the content of the course, the implications for instruction in other classes, and new materials and development for LIBS 150. Discussions were enthusiastic, lively, informative, and instructional for all. Faculty participating in the course considered it an enlightening, useful, and worthwhile experience. A new section of the course will be offered beginning October 26. Watch the CTL Web site for details.

Faculty Reminder: Request Electronic Reserves for fall 2002!!
Take Advantage of the Library's Electronic Reserves Services!

What we can do for you:

• Process electronic Reserved Readings and post them in your WebTycho or Web-enhanced classes.
• Obtain copyright permissions for Reserved Readings.
• Provide instructions to Reserved Readings through MdUSA and various research databases.

What we need from you:

• Your requests at least four weeks before the beginning of the semester, so we can have them ready by the start of your class. If this is impossible, please contact us and we will attempt to fulfill your request in a timely manner.
• If you have used e-reserves in the past, please indicate whether you would like to use the same readings again.

What to do:

• First, visit our FAQ.
• Then, fill out the E-reserve Web Request Form .
• We will process your request and post the readings on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have any questions regarding electronic reserves please contact the Information & Library Services Reserves Team: Yu-Hsiu Wang, Electronic Services Librarian and Ann Meade, Library Technician III.

ILS Hours and Locations

Need to find us? Please visit Hours and Locations for more information.