Spring 2001

Volume 1, Issue 2

From Kim Kelley

Online Databases- What's New!

Hot Sites

For Your Information...

Faculty Corner

Shady Grove Library/Media Center

ILS  Hours and Locations

Online Chat Service

• Information and Library Services (ILS) is piloting a new service in Spring 2001 using Live Assistance software for online reference. During this pilot phase, librarians will be available to chat with UMUC patrons 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST, Monday through Friday, simply by logging in at https://www.umuc.edu/library/help/chat.html. Please help us evaluate the chat service by e-mailing library@umuc.edu or filling out the survey, available soon, after a chat session is finished. Hours will be expanded depending on usage and feedback.
  

Document Delivery Enhancements

• You may now have a digital copy delivered to your desktop! Using Prospero, patrons can access documents requested via Interlibrary Loan by downloading the requested documents from a web server. Call 301-985-7209 for details.

Online Databases

• What's New!

EIU Viewswire

• EIU Viewswire, from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), provides daily business information from countries around the world. EIU economists supply daily analysis on the politics, economy, financial situations, and businesses, industries, and regulations of 195 countries. The information available in EIU Viewswire includes full text articles, statistics, forecasts, latest indicators, corporate strategies, and tax and trade regulations.

• From within EIU Viewswire, users have the option to create a profile. With the profile users can choose to be notified via e-mail when information on particular countries, industries, economic statistics, or other news is updated.

netLibrary E-book Collection Growing

• netLibrary e-books are electronic versions of print publications. All UMUC students, faculty, and staff have access to over 3,000 books via netLibrary. ILS has recently purchased e-books in the area of Management and we will continue to add to the collection in the various disciplines related to the UMUC graduate and undergraduate curricula in the coming months

• Electronic books are indexed both in netLibrary and in the University System of Maryland library catalog VICTORWeb.

• The collection of electronic books in netLibrary can be searched by title, author, subject, key word, and full text. The entire book can be viewed in full text, including table of contents, index, and appendices, and may be downloaded to be read offline.

For more information about using netLibrary to access electronic books, see the netLibrary E-books FAQ.

Hot Sites

This time, we're highlighting a few plagiarism sites:

• Digital Integrity Search (http://findsame.com/)
  You submit an entire document, and Digital Integrity Search will return a list of Web pages that contain fragments of that document.

• Turnitin.com
  (http://turnitin.com/)
  UMUC is considering an institutional license for Turnitin.com, a service for both instructors and students to "ensure the originality of their intellectual property." Visit the link above to register for a free trial and find out more.

For Your Information...

For UMUC Alumni:

• All members of the UMUC Alumni Association are eligible to purchase an annual University of Maryland College Park Special Borrower Card at a reduced rate of $35.00. The card is valid for one year and allows for the borrowing of materials from UMCP libraries only. To apply for the card, you may fill out the Borrower Card Application online.

• UMUC alumni may currently borrow materials from the Shady Grove Library/Media Center and the UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library with an alumni ID at no charge.

Call the Office of Alumni Relations at 301-985-7179 or Information and Library Services at 301-985-7209 for more information.

For UMUC Students:

• UMUC students can now participate in Late Night Study at McKeldin Library on the College Park Campus. Limited access to quiet study areas, photocopiers and public computers is available from 11p.m. until 8a.m. Sunday through Thursday. You must have a card to enter the building after 11p.m.

To apply for the card, fill out the Late Night Study Access Card Application.

Faculty Corner

• Keep in touch with what's going on with your European colleagues! Check out the online Maryland in Europe Faculty Newsletter.

• ILS would like to introduce you to Jennifer Scolari, our new Electronic Reserves Librarian for UMUC. To learn more about E-reserves, visit the Information and Library Services FAQ on Electronic Reserves.

For Asian and European Division Faculty:

• The Asian Division Library serves the faculty of UMUC-Asia with a collection of books and videos intended for classroom use, Reserve shelf placement in local libraries, and background and professional reading and viewing. The collection is searchable online at: http://ad.umuc.library.net. [Note, added 6/7/2005: Materials from this library can now be searched along with materials from other UMUC libraries in the USMAI Library Catalog.]

• Visit the Faculty Loan Library (FLL) Web page for information about library services for European Division faculty. The purpose of the FLL is to provide Maryland faculty with background materials for use in preparing and conducting classes in the University of Maryland University College European Division.

Shady Grove Library/Media Center

What's new at Shady Grove:
Our collection is growing!

We are adding:

• New psychology and early childhood education periodicals.
• Journals on microfiche
  We recently acquired a new state-of-the-art microfiche scanner that enables patrons to scan, e-mail, and print articles.
• Videos
  We are in the process of expanding our video collection.

Expanded Library Services:

• Borrowing privileges at Montgomery College for daytime Universities@Shady Grove students.
• Book delivery service for UMB students from HS/HSL library.
• Library instruction
  We offer instruction one-on-one or face-to-face or in the virtual classroom. Please contact us!

Visit us in person in Rockville or virtually at our Shady Grove Library/Media Center Web site