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Use the tag cloud to find related items by clicking on tags that match your interest. Check out other people's tags to see what they are tagging -- find other U-M users with similar research interests. Build a list of related resources -- pulling together your books, web pages, electronic journals and images into a single spot by giving them common tags is easy.

Find it. Tag it. Share it. Use MTagger ]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:35:36 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/mbooks_becomes_hathitrust_403.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/mbooks_becomes_hathitrust_403.html MBooks - the collection of books digitized from the University Library's collections - will become part of HathiTrust on September 3, 2008.

HathiTrust, launched by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, is a shared digital repository for storing university library digital content, incorporating all the content from MBooks plus new content from other HathiTrust partners. (For background information, see Google and CIC Partnership news.)

The UM community will now have access to books, journals, and other documents previously unavailable through MBooks. MBooks links in the Mirlyn Library Catalog will now be renamed HathiTrust Digital Library. The options for viewing, printing, and creating collections will be the same as in MBooks. We hope that HathiTrust will improve access to materials for our campus teaching, research, and scholarship.

If you have questions about the collections, please Ask a Librarian. ]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:32:26 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/new_guide_to_social_work_certification_and_licensure_resources_398.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/new_guide_to_social_work_certification_and_licensure_resources_398.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/socwork/rescue/mswintro6.html

This new page features online study guides and other key resources provided by the Social Work Library, as well as other important print and web resources for those preparing for certification exams. Check out the related current exhibit in the Social Work Library! ]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:10:32 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/encyclopedia_of_social_work_now_online_392.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/encyclopedia_of_social_work_now_online_392.html http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu/V?func=native-link&resource=UMI05029

Jointly published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition includes many new topics such as: the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. Several U-M School of Social Work faculty contributed articles to the Encyclopedia. Paper copies of this encyclopedia are also available, in the reference area and the stacks of the Social Work Library. ]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:11:33 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:37:20 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/um_library_online_collections_among_largest_worldwide_241.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/um_library_online_collections_among_largest_worldwide_241.html The University of Michigan's Institutional Repository, Deep Blue, was listed as the eleventh largest repository of university content by the Registry of Open Access Repositories, an organization that tracks open access archives worldwide. No other U.S. based repository was listed higher in this category. This is especially significant given that Deep Blue has only been online for a little over a year.

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 https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/ShowSessions.asp?confid=2&spsr=5&shwd=1&sDate=todayafter&FormatEvents_Sorting=3&FormEvents_Sorted=&tpl=facexp.htm https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/ShowSessions.asp?confid=2&spsr=5&shwd=1&sDate=todayafter&FormatEvents_Sorting=3&FormEvents_Sorted=&tpl=facexp.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:37:33 EDT Workshops http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/got_questions_im_us_205.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/got_questions_im_us_205.html Need help with your library research? Send an instant message to a Librarian for assistance!

The University Library offers the Ask a Librarian reference service with instant messaging (IM) software for answering your library- and research-related questions.

Our IM software will communicate with your AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo Messenger software. If you have never used the instant messaging software, you must first register a screen name with AOL, MSN, or Yahoo, and then download the free IM software. As soon as the software is installed on your computer, you can add the University Library's screen name to your personal Buddy List or Contact List.

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