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Demographics Now provides intelligence for business and marketing plans and other uses of demographic data. It breaks down Census data and other statistical information such as demographic, income, and expenditure data by various geographic levels, including state, county, zip code area, and census tract. Users can select prepared reports or generate custom reports that include graphs, summaries, comparisons, rankings, and maps.

Demographics Now is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

Effective July 1, 2007, Interlibrary Loan and MeLCat fines will be 25 cents/day for the first 8 days and $5.00/day for each day over 8 days.

We rely on other libraries to share their materials. In order for us to continue receiving these resources, please return items on time.

The University Libraries in Ann Arbor and the Mardigian Library are discontinuing our subscription to the SAE Digital Library. SAE's current policies, such as a significantly higher price than last year, continued restrictions on access, a lack of archival rights, and the requirement to implement some DRM controls have made us come to this decision.

We are not the first University to make this decision. We are joining forces with our colleagues to provide a distinct message to SAE regarding their high prices and extensive controls.

SAE Technical Papers for selected years can now be found:

• 1994-2006 are available through SAE Technical Papers via Terminal Services
• 1967-1971 and 1992-1997 are available in microfiche in the Mardigian Library
• 1946-1970 (incomplete) are available in paper format in the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, UM-Ann Arbor

Papers from 2007 can be purchased from the SAE website

The SAE Global Mobility Database can also be used to find citations (no full-text) from 1908 - present.

If you have concerns and suggestions please contact the SAE Board of Directors and/or the Publication Board at SAE. If you wish to contact the library about this matter, please contact Joel Seewald, Engineering Librarian.

Check out the Mardigian Library Newsletter Spring 2007 (pdf) contents:

• Attention UM-D Alumni - What We Can Do For YOU
• Bean Bag Chairs: They're Back
• Evidence-Based Librarianship
• Collection of Excellence Endowment Fund
• New Location for the University Archives
• Alumni Authors Program
• Central Search
• Support the Mardigian Library

Browser Searches
Search for books or articles directly from your browser toolbar without going to the library website!

Just visit our new Web Tools and Gadgets page to select and install one of the browser searches. Installing one of these searches will allow you to search the library catalog or selected databases instantly from your web browser.

The browser searches are compatible with Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. Installation is quick and easy and does not require a download. See Web Tools and Gadgets to give them a try.

More Cool Tools

• Google Toolbar users can add a Mardigian Library Catalog/News button to their Google Toolbar.
• Subscribe to Library News to keep up to date on library resources and services.
• Google Scholar - set your preferences to include Mardigian Library availability.
• Worldcat - Add WorldCat search to your iGoogle home page or download the Yahoo toolbar with WorldCat searching.

All are available at Web Tools and Gadgets. Look for more updates as we add more cool research tools!

Mardigian Library Newsletter Fall 2005 (pdf)

• Library celebrates 175 years of children's literature
• Library recognizes its second "Distinguished Library Faculty Friend"
• Library starts new collection of alumni books
• Armenian Research Center and library collaborate
• Fifth annual library donor luncheon
• A student perspective
• What's new at the library?
• Collection of Excellence update
• Support the Mardigian Library

Friends.Doc: Mardigian Library Newsletter Summer 2004 (pdf)

• Collection of Excellence
• From the Director
• Library's Annual Staff Retreat
• Library Staff Receives Campus Recognition Awards
• Library Services for Faculty Members
• Library's Annual Donor Luncheon
• Student Highlight
• Thanks!
• University Archives

The Middle English Dictionary provides a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. It includes all entries from the 15,000 page printed Middle English Dictionary, and tools to search for words, headwords, phrases, and quotations.

The library also provides access to the Oxford English Dictionary online. This major reference work provides a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The online edition is based on the 2nd edition and supplements published from 1993-1997, and now includes regular updates of new and revised entries.

Additional general and specialized dictionaries are available on the library web site. All can be used by currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

Friends.Doc: Mardigian Library Newsletter Summer 2003 (pdf)

• Library Presents "Distinguished Faculty Library Friend" Award to Dr. Lawrence I. Berkove
• Celebration of the New Circulation Desk
• Music Archives
• Library Promotes and Supports Student Workers
• Library Student Workers: Eva Gronowska
• Graduating Student Assistants
• Club Cappuccino
• Thank You
• Ways to Give
• Quality of Service

Friends.Doc: Mardigian Library Newsletter Spring 2002 (pdf)

• Library Evaluated by External Team
• Friends of the Mardigian Library Liaison
• The Quigley Collection
• The Hurdle of Electronic Libraries
• Volunteers Making a Difference: Josie Price and Nancy Jeakle
• Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology
• Holocaust Web Site Redesigned
• Our Librarians are Involved
• The Friends of the Library Help Again
• Leave a Lasting Legacy to Mardigian Library

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online is an important source for the quantitative facts of American history. Last updated in 1975, this new edition includes statistics from over 37,000 data series collected from over 1,000 sources. Topics include population, work and welfare, economics, government, international relations, and more. Data tables are accompanied by essays that provide the context for these statistics.

This online edition offers advanced features such as the ability to create custom charts, graphs, plots, and tables and to download tables in Excel or CSV.

Historical Statistics of the United States is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

Black Studies Center is a source for scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and other resources for researching African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa. It combines several important research collections: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) Full Text, The Chicago Defender historical backfile, (1909 - 1975) and Black Literature Index (1827 - 1940.)

Black Studies Center is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

Earlier this semester, the library conducted an online survey about the kinds of communication tools used by UM-Dearborn students. You can view results of the survey (any personal information has been removed.)

Three randomly selected survey participants received Barnes & Noble gift cards. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey!

Look for the link to our next student survey in an upcoming Mardigian Library E-News for Students email.

The 10th annual Enriching Scholarship Conference will take place May 7-11, 2007. It is sponsored by the U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC), in cooperation with the U-M Academic Technology Commons. It comprises an exciting mix of over 100 presentations, seminars, and workshops that focus on creative use of new technologies that facilitate effective learning, teaching, and research.

Enriching Scholarship offers various workshops on CTools. Faculty members who are moving course materials from ERes may want to take advantage of this opportunity to learn about CTools as an alternative online course management system.

All sessions are free to the University of Michigan faculty and instructional staff. Register at the Enriching Scholarship website.