Mardigian Library News

The list of new books and other materials added to the library’s collection in November has been posted. Click on “…more New Arrivals” on the library’s home page. Or, go directly to http://library.umd.umich.edu/newbooks/.

Examples from the November list include:

       

Library hours will be shorter during Spring Break:

Saturday, February 23 - CLOSED
Sunday, February 24 - CLOSED
Monday, February 25 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 26 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 28 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, March 1 - 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Library Research Center hours will also be shorter:

Friday, February 22 - 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 23 - CLOSED
Sunday, February 24 - CLOSED
Monday, February 25 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 26 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 28 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday, March 1 - 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

On Saturday, March 3 our regular Winter Semester hours resume .

Hours for the ITS Computer Lab in the library can be found on the ITS website.

Are you looking for someone to help you make your paper better? You can talk to a student Writing Center Consultant in the Writing Center’s Mardigian Library location. Look for the table past the Library Research Center and the shelves with College/Career Information. See the Writing Center’s website for more information about how the Writing Center can help you, as well as locations and hours.

Due to system maintenance, from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. today, some library services will be unavailable. This includes:
• off-campus access to databases
• check-out of materials
• and paying fines
• ILLiad

It could get noisy in the computer area of the first floor on Tuesday, February 5 and Wednesday, February 6. Wiring will be installed between the elevators and the northwest corner of the building and this will involve a lot of drilling.

SpringerMaterials comprises 400 Landolt-Börnstein volumes, 44,000 chemical safety documents, a subset of the Dortmund Data Bank Software & Separation Technology comprising 300,000 data points, and the Linus Pauling files on inorganic solid phases. SpringerMaterials is expanded and updated quarterly.

The ECS Digital Library provides searchable online access to the various journals published by The Electrochemical Society. The goals of the ECS journals are:

• to advance the theory and practice of electrochemistry, solid-state science, and allied subjects; and
• to encourage research and dissemination of knowledge in these fields

We recently added the following Japanese language resources:

CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) Articles allows the search of information about academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins, and articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index.

Bungei Kurabu is a citation/abstract database for the literary magazine Bungei Kurabu (1895 - 1912). The magazine includes works by major authors.

Koyukai zasshi is a citation/abstract database for the Japanese language magazine Koyukai zasshi (1890 - 1944) published by Dai 1 Koto gakko whose members were cultural elites and creators of literary works.

Taiyo was a major Japanese language magazine (1895 - 1928) covering politics, military, economics, social issues, art, literary criticism, etc. about Japan during this era.

All videos in the Mardigian Library collection can be shown in the classroom to the registered students of a course for purposes that support that course's learning outcomes. In addition to these classroom rights, the Mardigian Library has secured non-commercial public performance rights for some videos. This list of movies can be shown at meetings of student groups or honors colloquia, for example, as long as there is no charge for the showing. For information about securing the performance rights for a movie for which we don’t have public performance rights, see the Campus Policy for Commercial Videos.

The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive and the Mardigian Library at the University of Michigan-Dearborn are co-sponsoring the traveling exhibit “Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints.” The exhibit features photographs, documents, text panels, and blueprints of the camp that document both its development and expansion. There is also poetry by Paul Celan and a short audiovisual presentation. All materials are on loan from the American Society for Yad Vashem.

The exhibit runs through Feb. 22, 2013 and will feature a closing ceremony on Feb. 24 with a discussion of both the camp and the exhibit by award winning author Robert van Pelt, Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. Van Pelt’s presentation will begin at 2:00 p.m. on the second floor of the library. (Due to the university's spring break, the library will only be open from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Feb. 24 for this event.) Light refreshments will be served.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. Free parking is available.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend the presentation on Feb. 24: (313) 583-6300 or e-mail holocaust@umd.umich.edu

The exhibit and presentation are on the second floor of the library. The exhibit is open during library hours.

Directions to UM-Dearborn

Anyone requiring accommodations under the provisions of the ADA should contact (313) 593-5236 prior to February 20, 2013 to allow time for arrangements to be made. The University of Michigan-Dearborn does not necessarily endorse speakers’ views.

Are you working on a term paper? Are you just getting started on a research assignment? Do you have a presentation that requires library research? There are many ways to contact a reference librarian or one of our knowledgeable student assistants:

• In-person – stop by the Library Research Center on the first floor of the library (next to the public computers).
• Make an appointment with a subject specialist librarian
• Telephone – call 313-593-5563
• Text messaging – text your question to 66746, and start your question with “AskLRC”
• E-mail – ask-a-question@umd.umich.edu
• Instant messaging/chat – see our Ask a Question page
• Open Research Workshops for students (see blog post)

On January 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died. Frost was a prolific writer of poetry and prose who earned many accolades. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times, received over 40 honorary degrees, and received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. Frost spent 1921 to 1927 in Ann Arbor, where he was a teaching fellow. The house he lived in while in Ann Arbor now is at Greenfield Village.

The library has many books by and about Robert Frost. Check one out today and find out why Frost was so admired.

Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, films, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, and other labels and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.

Oxford Reports on International Law includes most relevant case law from over 65 jurisdictions as determined by leading experts in the field, covering issues in areas such as general international law, human rights law, and international criminal law. Oxford Reports on International Law includes traditional headnotes supplemented by analytical commentary on each case, full texts of all decisions in the original language, translations of all non-English language decisions, archive going back to the start of 2000, and new cases and updates added frequently.

This online Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is a full revision of the print edition, with more than 1,700 articles and 700 new topics not covered in the print edition. The articles are written by experts, peer reviewed, and edited by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law. The additional content covers important developments in areas such as international criminal law, international dispute settlement, trade law and environmental law.