Using the Library's New Course Reserves Service

In this session, you'll learn how to place requests for electronic articles and book chapters using the 7FAST document delivery service and to post these materials to your CTools course site. Tips for organizing materials will also be included.

Dates for these workshops are:

• 7/16, 1:30 PM to 3 PM
• 8/18, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• 9/2, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Finding and Linking to Full-Text Articles From Your CTools Site

Do you want to provide access to full-text articles in your CTools site without uploading them to Resources? In this session you will learn how to find articles using the "Citations Helper", a feature within the Resources tool that searches library databases and Google Scholar. You'll also learn how to make stable links to e-journal articles.

• 8/25, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

All sessions will be held in the Faculty Exploratory, Room 206, second floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library

Register at: https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/ShowSessions.asp?confid=2&sDate=todayafter&shwd=1&shwd=0

The 2009 Michigan Debate Institute is taking place from June 21st - August 8th. This nationally recognized experience provides students with an excellent opportunity to develop critical thinking and persuasive communication skills. Debate Institute participants are instructed by the nation's most accomplished and experienced workshop faculty, comprised of national champion high school and college coaches and outstanding intercollegiate debaters who are committed to providing a constructive and stimulating educational environment for students. Workshop faculty have coached fifteen college and high school national championship teams over the past decade.

Each year, the University Library plays an integral role in the success of the Michigan Debate Institutes. Besides providing the wealth of resources available to the debaters, library staff holds a series of instructional sessions designed to help participants use the array of databases and materials available in our libraries as well as assisting students with many day to day questions.

This year, the debaters will primarily be using the Shapiro Undergraduate, Hatcher Graduate, Social Work and Public Heath Libraries.

We welcome the 2009 Debate Institute and the opportunity to demonstrate once again the Library's commitment to this important program. ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:00:40 EDT Services http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/stories/new_online_resources_525.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/stories/new_online_resources_525.html

• The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974, brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. The database currently has over 35,000 pages.
• The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities provides updated and electronic access to the paper versions of certain Cabell Directories: Educational Curriculum and Methods, Educational Psychology and Administration, and Educational Technology and Library Science. New and electronic access is also now available for the Psychology and Psychiatry directory.

  These directories assist researchers in the organizing and preparing of manuscripts by providing the publishing information of thousands of academic journals. The index in each Directory includes information about the subject areas emphasized by each journal, type of review process, acceptance rate, number of reviewers, time required for review, and availability of reviewer comments.

Take a peek at MLibrary's new website, just released today, May 4, 2009! A year in the making, we are pleased to announce the live preview of our new site. Links to the new site are available from a meta-header on every page of the Library's current website (see http://www.lib.umich.edu/about/ as an example), as well as at http://beta.lib.umich.edu/.

The goal of the new site is to provide a web environment that makes it easy to find our content and connect to our expertise. We want to make it easier to Find More. To that end, the site is built around a persistent Find Bar from which you can Search, Browse and Get Help.

In addition, we've created a new Home Page to help present the Library in a more comprehensive fashion. We are not only a great repository of information, we make news, we host exhibits, seminars and talks. We house extraordinary treasures --some of which we can now feature prominently. We encourage you to Search, Browse, Ask, and to otherwise explore this new door to MLibrary's rich resources.

Please tell us what you think -- what you like, what you don't like, and where we can improve it more-- using the Feedback Form available from the footer of the new site.

The new website is set to replace the current one on August 3, 2009. Your input, feedback, and enthusiasm will help us understand how it will be used, and how we can make it even better. ]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 10:56:11 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/stories/mlibrary_to_host_2009_conference_and_members_meeting_of_the_tei_consortium_506.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/stories/mlibrary_to_host_2009_conference_and_members_meeting_of_the_tei_consortium_506.html The ninth annual conference and members' meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium will be held November 11-15, 2009, in Ann Arbor. The University Library is a member of the TEI-C and uses the TEI guidelines as the basis of digital text activities in the Text Creation Partnership, Digital Library Production Service, and Scholarly Publishing Office.

For more information, please see the conference website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/.

With over 35,000 titles Deep Blue is one of the fastest-growing and most robust online institutional archives anywhere. Deep Blue's mission is to preserve and make easily accessible online the work of U-M faculty, which in many cases is difficult to find, out of print, or only available through expensive subscriptions to journals or other databases. Jim Ottaviani, Deep Blue's Coordinator, prefers not to overplay the ranking's importance as the sole indicator of Deep Blue's impact, focusing instead on the quality of its service: "We've had hundreds of active users and over a million downloads in our first year, so we're pleased Deep Blue has such strong campus support. We're excited that we are able to attract very high quality work and enable the greatest possible access to U-M research."

In the larger category of digital collections, the University of Michigan Library's online collections ranked fourth. Above the U-M on the list are the renowned collections PubMed Central and arXiv, covering biomedical and physics literature, respectively. PubMed is run by the federal government, and arXiv has had broad disciplinary support for more than fifteen years, so it is especially significant that a university library ranks favorably alongside them.

U-M Library online collections are managed by the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) and the Scholarly Publishing Office; examples of materials they make available include the books in the Making of America collection and contemporary journals such as Philosopher's Imprint. While PubMed and arXiv cater to highly specialized fields, U-M collections exhibit incredible breadth, ranging from the humanities to the sciences.

The U-M Library's numbers in this ranking do not include the hundreds of thousands of items that have already been digitized as part of the ongoing MBooks project, the U-M Library's partnership with Google to digitize its entire print collection. When the MBooks titles that are currently digitized are included in future rankings, the U-M Library could move up one or perhaps two spots.

As Associate University Librarian John Wilkin argues, rankings such as these provide evidence of the significant impact that the U-M Library has made in contributing to and shaping scholarly content on the Internet: "Over the years, we have worked to open our collections to the world and to create significant public goods. These rankings demonstrate the way that a university library can shape the nature of online research and access to scholarship." ]]> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:27:16 EDT Resources