New Annual Report

There is a new 2010-2011 Annual Report of the ULM Library availaible now. You can get it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/annualreports/ULAR-current.pdf

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory Trial

ULM has trial access to the database The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism until Oct. 15th. It only works on campus, though. You can view it here:
http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/

Library Hours Extended!

You asked for it, you got it. The Library will now be open longer on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays:

Sun: 12pm – 12am
Mon-Thurs: 7:30am – 12am
Fri: 7:30am – 4:30pm
Sat: 10am – 4pm

Happy new semester!

Special Collections Newsletter for Fall 2011

There is a new Special Collections Newsletter for Fall 2011, and you can get it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/archives/newsletter/lsc-fall11.pdf

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is back!

We're happy to say that the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED, is now available at the library again.

Here is the link to it; this should work on campus and off-campus via log-in:
http://ezproxy.louislibraries.org:2048/login?url=http://www.oed.com
(this exact URL may be subject to change)

The OED will be added to the rest of the ULM Library website next week.

NetLibrary is now EBSCOhost!

If you've been using the ULM Library for a long time, you might notice that something is different: Where is NetLibrary?

NetLibrary has passed away and become One with the EBSCOhost.

NetLibrary is not gone, but has been acquired and absorbed by EBSCOhost. So all the books that used to be in NetLibrary are now in EBSCOhost! So that's one less database to search when you're looking for books and articles.

You will also no longer need a NetLibrary account. If you had saved searches or notes in your old NetLibrary account, those are unfortunately gone. However, you can start saving new favorite books in your EBSCO "folder." You can create a new account by clicking "sign in" next to the folder icon.

Database now available off-campus

We are very pleased to report that after an upgrade to our proxy server, several of our databases have become available off-campus! These are they:

ACM
Annual Reviews
ARTSTOR (user account no longer required)
BioOne
Classical Music Library
NetLibrary (user account no longer required)
Note: NetLibrary is now a part of EBSCOhost

You can now log into them using your CWID and PIN (MMYY) like the other databases. You do not need a user account to enter NetLibrary and ARTSTOR anymore, but you may still use your account to save favorite works and user preferences.

Please report any problems you encounter.

EDIT:
Since this post was made, it's been discovered that Annual Reviews still does not work off campus.

AccessScience trial

Through our consortium LOUIS, we have a free trial to a scientific reference resource, AccessScience, until Sept. 30, 2011.

Go here to try it out: www.accessscience.com

If you are asked for a log-in to see the full text of articles, you need to log in. Please contact the reference desk and ask for the password here: https://webservices.ulm.edu/wsforms/library_ask.php

College Source is back!

Good news: After having lost access to it some weeks ago, we now have access to College Source again!

Also, we are still investigating the off-campus access problems with SciFinder.

New Databases by Datamonitor

The ULM Library has added 2 new databases for business-related research (although they could be useful for others):

Datamonitor 360
Datamonitor Product Launch Analytics

These should work off campus with your CWID and birth month and year in 4 digits (MMYY).

However, we're stilling finalizing the addition of these new databases.
If you encounter and error when you try to log in please take a screen shot of the error you see so we can see exactly what happened and attach it to an email to us at reference@ulm.edu . If you don't know how to do that, here are some instructions:
Windows XP
Windows 7 + Vista
Mac OSX

Database Changes

The ULM Library and the Computing Center have been working on improving off-campus access to the databases! So far, a few off-campus access links on the site have been changed.

AccessPharmacy
Medline with Full Text
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Mergent Online
SciFinder Scholar (ask Reference Dept. about special access)
UpToDate®

The name of the proxy server that allows access has been changed from "michael1" to "ezproxy," so if you have saved or bookmarked the old links, they will no longer work.

Also, the ULM Library no longer subscribes to College Source, which provides access to the course catalogs of other universities and colleges. If you needed this database, please contact us and we'll see if anything can be done.

College Source has been returned to the web pages and we have access once again!

We are also having problems with off-campus access for SciFinder, and we're trying to fix that.
(June 22)

Extended Hours for Finals

The Library will be open longer starting on Friday for the upcoming finals:

Fri. May 6: 7:30a - 6p
Sat. May 7: 10a - 6p
Sun. May 8: 10a - 1a
Mon. - Thurs, May 9-12: 7:30a - 1a
Friday, May 13: 7:30a - 3p

ULM needs LOUIS

The ULM Library gets many of its resources with the cooperation of a library consortium called LOUIS. This provides such things as our databases, catalog, and interlibrary loan.

LOUIS has recently lost much of its funding from the state, which will have dire consequences for the near future. Here is a new library web page describing how ULM will be affected and how to help stop it:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/louis/

You might also notice that some of our databases are now preceded by a warning page such as this:
http://www.ulm.edu/library/louis/EBSCOhost.html
Your access has not been affected yet. This is only meant to spread the word about the crisis.

The Library is now on myULM!

Do you use myULM? The ULM Library is now linked in myULM under the "Student Resources" tab, in the "University Life" list.

(Many thanks to the ULM Computing Center)

Closing due to weather! ...Again!

Due to severe cold weather, the library will be closing at 3pm today (Feb 9), and will remain closed until 11am tomorrow (Feb 10).

Closing due to weather!

Due to severe cold weather, the library will be closing at 5pm today (Feb 3), and will remain closed though Friday and Sat.. We will re-open normally on Sunday (Feb 6) at 2pm.

Special Collections Newsletter for Spring 2011

There is a new Special Collections Newsletter for Spring 2011, and you can get it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/archives/newsletter/lsc-spring11.pdf

Communication & Mass Media Complete and MEDLINE with Full Text off-campus

We have found a way to make Communication & Mass Media Complete and MEDLINE with Full Text available off-campus! Here you can find special links that enable access:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/ebsco-special.html

...but these are the only links you can use to get into these from off-campus at this time, even though it appears to be regular EBSCOhost.

ULM’s Tarbutton collection expands with donation of personal scrapbook and Hall of Fame trophy

By the end of her 33-year coaching career, Edna “Tiny" Tarbutton singlehandedly placed the tiny northeastern Louisiana town of Baskin on the women’s basketball map, having secured an incredible 218-game winning streak and setting national records that have yet to be broken.

Now officials at the University of Louisiana at Monroe Library Special Collections are pleased to announce that Joe Kramberg, Tarbutton’s nephew, will donate a personal scrapbook highlighting Tarbutton’s history-making coaching career, along with other personal items, including Tarbutton’s 2005 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Trophy, to its archives. Kramberg travelled with his aunt to receive the trophy in Knoxville, Tenn., following her selection for the award.

Kramberg will present the university with the scrapbook and other items at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 24, in the ULM Library Special Collections. Tarbutton died in 2009 in West Monroe at the age of 87.

“These items represent Tarbutton’s coaching victories spanning 1947 to 1953 that brought nine state titles wins, eight of them in a row,” said Cynthia Robertson, ULM’s special collections coordinator. “For the avid researcher these items really complete the Tarbutton collection we’ve already begun, and we are incredibly fortunate that Mr. Kramberg is traveling from Houston to make this significant contribution that will help tell an important story in the history of women’s basketball in Louisiana.”

Tarbutton, who attended then-Northeastern Louisiana University for two years before completing her degree at then-Normal College in Natchitoches, ended her coaching career in 1977 with a record of 654-263-2. All of her victories were at Baskin.

Some databases are no longer with us.

If the database list looks shorter recently, that's because it is. Some resources have been removed, and more may be later. Why is this happening? Because of budget cuts to LOUIS, the statewide consortium through which we get many of our databases. More detailed information about the decision can be found at the this link. As LOUIS has told us, these resources have been and may later be removed.

Cancelled as of August 30, 2010

OED

WorldBook

International Political Science Abstracts (from EBSCO)

SPORTDiscus (from EBSCO)

Cancelled as of September 30, 2010

WebFeat/360 Search

Cancelled as of December 31, 2010

CQ Global

And the list could get longer later. How does LOUIS affect your research? This video can explain it in less than 2 minutes:

Visit acrlla.org/savelouis to learn more and get contact info for legislators.