Entries by Sara Memmott

The library now provides access to the full text of ASTM standards and historical industrial standards. Standards include construction, general test methods, metals, paint, petroleum products, plastics, rubber and electrical insulating materials, textiles, and others.

ASTM Standards are available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

After nearly a decade of service to the campus, ERes, the library's electronic reserves system, will be decommissioned on May 31, 2008. No new account requests will be accepted after December 31, 2006.

We encourage faculty members currently using ERes to move their course materials to:

• CTools
• VLT
• WebCT (School of Management)

The Faculty Lounge is closed due to water damage. It will reopen when the damage is repaired; we do not yet know when the repairs will be complete. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The library news blog has moved to a new location. The new address is:

http://library.umd.umich.edu/news/

If you use an RSS reader such as Bloglines or read blogs through Thunderbird, you should now use our new rss feed address. Additional feeds, including feeds for individual news categories, are available on the right-hand side of the news pages.

Not familiar with RSS? How to explain RSS the Oprah way offers a clear explanation of how you can use RSS to keep up-to-date on blogs and web sites.

Faculty members: to guarantee that your reserve materials are available for the first
day of the Winter 2007 semester please submit no later than December 4, 2006:

1. your list of items that you wish placed on course reserve
2. any photopcopies or personal copies of books you wish to have placed on reserve

Requests for reserve items that are received after this date will be processed on a first come, first served basis. We cannot guarantee that items requested after December 4, 2006 will be available at the start of classes.

Reserve forms are available at the Circulation Desk or the library web site.

Next R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat, Discuss) Meeting

• Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Date: Wednesday, November 8
• Time: Noon to 1 pm
• Location: 1210 ML

The Naxos Music Library offers over 140,000 music tracks for online listening. It includes classical, jazz, blues, folk, world, and also a small selection of pop and rock. New releases are added monthly. Users can search music tracks by genre, composer, artist, period, and more.
Naxos Music Library is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations. The Mardigian Library subscription to Naxos Music Library allows for up to three simultaneous users.

GuideStar is now available through the library web site. GuideStar provides financial data on over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States. It lists the mission and programs, balance sheets, annual reports, lists of officers, and IRS 990 Forms for nonprofits, including foundations. Currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff can use GuideStar on campus, or from off-campus with your UMID.

Does that term paper have you feeling stressed out? Are you rushed, frustrated or just need help? Student learning is the Mardigian Library's first priority! The library is open seven days a week, until 11:45 pm Sundays through Thursdays, and our website resources are available anytime, anywhere. What's new

• Central Search - Search multiple library resources and Google with one easy search! Try it now.

Research basics

• Can't seem to get started writing that paper? Learn about the research process
• Check out Library News to learn about new resources and more.

Get help!

• For no hassle, convenient access to a librarian, talk to one:
  • in person
  • by phone, 313-593-5563
  • via email
  • or via instant messaging
• If you're not sure where to find things in the library, our floor plans will lead the way.

Prizes!

• Try Central Search and complete a quick survey by October 15, 2006 to be entered in a drawing to win a prize!

The Mardigian library supports your teaching activities and student learning. Bookmark the Faculty Services webpage for easy access to the library tools you need. What's new?

• Central Search - Search multiple library resources with one easy search! Try it now.
• The library's website has been revised to include the university's template. Most library webpage addresses remain the same.

Student research

• Will your students be writing a term paper? Consider scheduling a Research Education session for your class.
• Don't have time in your busy course syllabus? Encourage students to attend Research Education open sessions offered at the library several times per semester.
• Our website resources are available anytime, anywhere.
• Consider adding library information to your syllabus.

Did you know that the Mardigian Library's resources are available to staff members either for professional or personal use?

• The Mardigian library's resources are available anytime, anywhere via our website
• Want to read that hot new thriller? Request it using MeLCat, and it will be delivered to our library for your use within three to five days.
• Join our bookclub, R.E.A.D., which meets four times a year during the lunch hour.

Today you'll see two significant changes to the library web site:

• Central Search is now available.
• The look of the library web site has been updated to correspond with the new campus web design.

Central Search is a new tool that allows researchers to search multiple library databases at the same time. Central Search includes articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers and also includes books, DVDs, and other items in our library, as well as encyclopedia articles and other reference information. It saves time by letting you search multiple library databases at once. Try Central Search on the library home page.

We’d like to get your opinion! After you try Central Search, fill out a quick survey to let us know what you think.

You can also send us general comments about the library web site or other library services.

The Library Research Education program provides course-related instruction that can help your students learn how to do academic research. Librarians can work with you to develop a session that can include:

• Demonstrations of Central Search, a new tool that allows researchers to search multiple library databases simultaneously,
• Individual resources from the 150+ research databases provided by the library,
• Searching skills so students are able to use the research tools more effectively,
• Evaluating information resources to help students learn to distinguish appropriate academic resources from the flood of web pages and other sources available,
• And much more...

You can bring your class to the library for a session, or in some cases a librarian can visit your classroom. We look forward to working with you! Request a class session or contact Teague Orblych, mtorblyc@umd.umich.edu or 313-593-5562 More information or view a pamphlet for our program.

We’ve expanded access to ebooks, adding 3,300 online books in July. The library now has over 9,000 netLibrary online books available through the library catalog. You can find available titles by searching the library catalog. Look for the "ebook" format in any search results and click on the "Access Web Version" link to view the entire book online.

Need help with a technical issue related to computing? Use Safari Tech Books Online! Thousands of books from leading IT publishers are available — often, new titles appear in Safari even before they appear in print! You can either read books from cover to cover or search them for a specific item of interest.

• Searching: All books can be searched for keywords or for code fragments using the Search box on the home page. You can also Find a Specific Book if you know its title, author, publisher, or ISBN.
• Browsing: Interested in a topic, but don’t have a specific keyword or book? Click on one of the links under Browse by Category. Many categories are available, including Databases, E-Commerce, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Operating Systems, Security, and Software Engineering.

Some of the publishers included in Safari Tech Books are: Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Macromedia Press, Microsoft Press, O’Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Que, Sams, and Sun Microsystems Press.