Fogler Library Celebrates the University of Maine Yearbooks Online, April 17
For the past eighteen months, Fogler Library staff members have been engaged in digitizing the full run of the Prism yearbook and completed the final of 107 volumes in early March. The Yearbooks Online, which run from 1895 through 1997, are available to browse page by page from the Library’s web site. The online address is: library.umaine.edu/yearbooks.
To celebrate the completion of the project, we would like to invite members of the University Community to an afternoon event to be held April 17 from 3-4 pm at the University Club. A brief presentation of the project and the resulting resource will lead off the occasion followed by an opportunity for attendees to explore the site on individual wireless laptops with assistance from project team staff. Selected physical copies housed in our Special Collections will also be on display.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. We encourage you to stop by and take the premier tour with us. -- Added:4/14/2008
URSUS User Interface Upgrade April10
The software vendor for our online catalog URSUS will install their latest update to the user interface "WebPac Pro" on Thursday, April 10. There should be no downtime for URSUS users.
The look and feel of the existing URSUS interface will still be present after the upgrade, but WebPac pro will give us some new features, including improved relevance ranking for search results. The most significant difference that users will notice after the upgrade is the use of the brief citation display in search results lists. This feature shows more information about items in the results list than the current view. We will also have the option of increasing the number of results that display on the results page. -- Added:4/10/2008
New Database: International Tables for Crystallography
The online version of the International Tables for Crystallography is now available from the Fogler Library Indexes and Databases page library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. This reference work emphasizes physical and chemical properties of crystals, symmetry, and techniques for crystal structure determination. The "advanced search" option on the opening screen permits searching in selected parts of the collection (or the entire work) using Boolean operators and wildcard characters, as well as searches by symmetry group. For more information about this database, contact Nancy R. Curtis (nancy.curtis@umit.maine.edu) or call (207) 581-1679. -- Added:4/4/2008
Maine Humanities Council
The Maine Humanities Council podcast includes readings, lectures, interviews, and other programs sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and partners like the Portland Public Library. This project is supported by a special Digital Humanities Start-Up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. -- Added:3/19/2008
LibQUAL Results Available
This past spring the University of Maine community was asked to participate in in LibQUAL, an online survey measuring user perceptions of library services and resources. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. The results of the survey are now available online at http://library.umaine.edu/libqual/default.htm. -- Added:3/10/2008
Computer Mapping/GIS Clinics Free to Faculty and Students
Announcing "GIS/Computer Mapping Clinics", offering consultation on any stage of a faculty or student computer mapping project, and introducing the GeoStats facilities to carry out all or some of it here in the Library. Clinic hours are Monday - Thursday, 9 am - 2 pm from now until May 2. To make an appointment please contact Karen Stewart (email karen.stewart@umit.maine.edu, phone 581-4607) or Frank Wihbey (email frankw@umit.maine.edu, phone 581-1680). Walk-in clients are welcome. -- Added:2/15/2008
Two New Fogler Podcasts
Two new videos are available at Fogler Library's podcasts page. Take virtual tours of the Media Resource Center and the Science & Engineering Center.
Fogler Library's Media Resource Center (MRC) provides students, faculty and staff a range of media collections including music, video, CDROMs, and more. Laptops, digital camcorders, digital cameras, digital audio recording equipment can be checked out. Computer video/audio workstations, basic recording equipment, and scanners are available for in-house use.
Fogler Library's Science and Engineering Center covers all areas of the sciences and technology. The Center's collection contains a wide range of resources in the natural and physical sciences, engineering, and patent and trademark information. -- Added:9/10/2007
Human Relations Area Files Records Added to URSUS
Fogler Library is pleased to announce that records for more than 5,000 books, book selections, field notes, manuscripts, and articles published as part of the Human Relations Area Files microfiche collection have been added to URSUS. The Human Relations Area Files collate and code research in cultural anthropology in order to facilitate comparative studies of society and culture. Many unique titles not owned by the library in print may now be more readily identified and used. Fogler Library also provides access to the database Electronic HRAF at www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. Electronic HRAF picks up where the fiche left off in 1991, and at this time there is very little duplication between the two formats, so a more comprehensive culture search will use both resources. For assistance with HRAF, please contact Joe Fernandez (joe.fernandez@umit.maine.edu or 581-3611) or the Reference Desk (581-1673). -- Added:8/14/2007
Fogler Library Blog
Fogler Library is launching a blog on an open source server provided by IT. The blog will bring together information that is currently being distributed through numerous channels and will include: new resources, library events, service information such as hour changes. During the trial phase, Fogler's "What's New" page will continue to carry much of the same information as the blog but we expect to merge the two media at some future point. An advantage of the blog environment is the ability to participate via commenting on blog entries. These comments will be moderated. Subject-specific blogs (eg. Engineering) are being developed as well and will be available after the pilot phase has ended. You can subscribe to the RSS feed or view the blog at https://blogs.umaine.edu/fogler/index.php. -- Added:7/2/2007
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