Annual Report 2011-2012

The new library Annual Report is now available. (PDF)

New database! Counseling and Therapy in Video

 Good news-- We have a new video database!  Counseling and Therapy in Video (CTIV) from Alexander Street Press was bought with money from a Board of Regents Traditional Enhancement grant awarded this year. The publisher describes it as:

Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume I provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives in these collections allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.

Off campus access may or may not be available. If we can provide it, we'll let you all know.

Datamonitor 360 --> MarketLine Advantage

Good news, The Datamonitor 360 database we subscribe to will be improved in about 2 weeks or less; It will be replaced by a new platform called "MarketLine Advantage" by Sept. 1st. or earlier. It has the same information, but with a new interface and name.

If you'd like a look at it now, you can see MarketLine Advantage here:
http://advantage.marketline.com/
(no off-campus access yet; we're working on it)

Hours extended to 2 am!

The library schedule has been changed again to include new extended hours to 2am Sunday-Thursday!

You can see the full schedule here:
http://www.ulm.edu/library/hours.pdf

Classical Music Library down

It appears that one of our databases, Classical Music Library, is not working on campus or off campus. We are investiagating the problem, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Happy New Semester!

Students and Faculty and starting to come back! Great to see you!

Our Fall 2012 Schedule is available here.

In general, but not all the time, our hours will be:

Mon–Thurs 7:30am – 12am
Friday 7:30am –4:30pm
Saturday 10 am – 4 pm
Sunday 12pm – 12am

ERIC Documents Error

We have heard from OCLC, a library company, that unfortunately ERIC documents are experiencing errors at this time:

We have received notice from the ERIC database producer that the full text through ERIC is unavailable until further notice.  Users will get a page saying the PDF files are currently unavailable.  The producer has indicated that they will keep us informed as they work through the problems. We’ll update up as soon as we receive additional information.  Thank you.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and hopefully this matter can be solved soon.

Sanborn Maps no longer available

As of July 1st, the Sanborn® Maps of Louisiana (ProQuest) database is no longer available as its subscription was not renewed by our library consortium, LOUIS. It has been removed from the library website, and if you have any bookmarks they will no longer work.

ULM Library to host ATC workshop "Basics of Archives"

NOTE: This event has already been completed, and it was successful. Thanks to all who participated!

Special Collections will be hosting The Archival Training Collaborative (ATC) workshop Basics of Archives on June 25th. It will cover basic topics in managing historic documents and costs $30. More details here.

Basics of Archives Monday, June 25, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ULM Library Special Collections Passman Room ULM Library, 5th floor 700 University Avenue Monroe, LA 71209 Phone: (318) 342-1054, Fax: (318) 342-1232

Free books!

Great news! Discarded books are now available to take home and keep. Look behind the stairs on the first floor.

Spring Holiday Hours 2012

The library will be open at limited hours during the spring holiday.

Thurs,  Apr 5: 7:30am – 12am
Fri-Mon, Apr 6-9: CLOSED
Tues-Thurs, Apr 10-12: 7:30am – 5:30pm
Fri, Apr 13: 7:30am – 4:30pm
Sat-Sun, Apr 14-15: CLOSED
Mon, Apr 16: 7:30am – 12am (normal)

ARTSTOR update

Users of ARTSTOR might notice that some things are different lately. If you've never used ARTSTOR before, it's a good time to try it out, especially if you use Chrome. Here's their email explaining the changes:

Updates to the ARTstor Digital Library

Dear ARTstor User Support and Technical Contacts, There was an update to the ARTstor Digital Library this week. New changes include: Full support for Chrome browsers. In your image search results, you may now see icons on the lower right-hand corner of the image thumbnail: "P" denotes Personal Collection (for images uploaded by a campus instructor), and "H" Hosted images (for images visible only at your institution). Folders are now nested in two upper level folders: "Private Folders" and "Institutional Folders." "Private Folders" contains folders viewable only by you. "Institutional Folders" contains folders that are viewable by other users at your institution either as "Public" folders or as "Password-protected" folders. After this update, some users may find that they cannot see their folders or image groups; clearing the browser cache should resolve the issue. Read detailed instructions on how to do this on our help wiki. And of course, you can contact User Services for more help at userservices@artstor.org. Kind regards, ARTstor User Services Team

Special Collections Newsletter Spring 2012

There is a new Special Collections Newsletter for Spring 2012, and you can get it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/archives/newsletter/lsc-spring12.pdf

Extended Finals Hours

The finish line is almost there-- but you're not there yet! The closing time of the library has been extended to 1:00 AM Dec. 4-8.

Fall Finals Week

Sun, Dec 4: 12pm – 1am
Mon-Thurs, Dec 5-8: 7:30am – 1am
Fri, Dec 9: 7:30am –4:30pm
Sat, Dec 10: CLOSED

New Credo Reference, Literati

Some weeks ago we introduced a new database, Credo Reference. Now it's new again-- ULM is part of a group of institutions to use the new interface.

Credo Literati

Please report any problems you encounter.

Credo can search other databases we have (such as JSTOR and EBSCOhost); this mostly works on campus but there's an off-campus access issue with it which we're looking to solve. But Credo Literati itself should work from off-campus.

RIA Tax Services Security Problem

Do you have and use a user account for RIA Tax Services Checkpoint? The publisher has reported a security problem with it, and you might want to change your password. Here is the Thomson Reuters's original message:

Important Security Information from Thomson Reuters

October 24, 2011

Thank you for being a valued customer of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting. We would like to advise you that an external Internet hacking attempt affected our http://ria.thomsonreuters.com website. As a result, we would like to inform you that certain account information may have been compromised. The account information that might have been compromised includes email address, credit card type and credit card information. However, after a thorough investigation, we have concluded that no sensitive personal information, such as credit card numbers or government-issued identification numbers, was compromised. We have no reason to believe that any personal information of yours may have been misused. Furthermore, this incident impacted no subscription-based product sites or logins such as Checkpoint, etc. As a precaution, we have disabled all passwords of existing accounts on this website and are asking that you reset your password by following the steps below. Click the Change Password link and follow the prompts. Note: If you prefer to copy and paste the URL into your browser, the URL is http://ria.thomsonreuters.com/UserRegistration/ForgotIDPassword.aspx You will be sent an e-mail that contains your temporary password. Click the Click here to go to the login area link in the e-mail to enter your User ID and temporary password. Once logged in, click the Change ID and/or Password link. Follow the instructions on the screen to enter the temporary password and your new password. Note: Make sure you create a unique password that is different from any previous password used on this site. In addition, please be aware of any e-mail "phishing" attempts from additional parties as they may be fraudulent attempts to glean additional personal information. Otherwise, we are appropriately taking steps to enhance the security of the site and to prevent reoccurrence. We regret any inconvenience that this incident may cause you. Please contact your account representative or our Customer Help Center at 800.431.9025 with any questions or concerns you may have. Once again, thank you for being a valued customer of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting. Sincerely, David Hoyt Vice President Customer Operations, Tax & Accounting Thomson Reuters Support.rg.thomsonreuters.com

New Database, Credo Reference

We are pleased to say that we have acquired a new reference resource, Credo Reference.

This is an encyclopedic database that finds quick information on a variety of topics. Think of it as an acceptable replacement for Wikipedia. It does much more, however. You can try it out here:

http://ezproxy.louislibraries.org:2048/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com

Off-campus access is likely possible, but has not yet been confirmed.

Access to this resource has been made possible through our library consortium, LOUIS.

EBSCO Scheduled Maintenance 21 October 2011

Here's a message from EBSCO regarding maintenance later this month:

EBSCO Scheduled System Maintenance on 21 October 2011

EBSCO will be performing system updates beginning on 21 October 2011 at 11:00 PM until 22 October 2011 at 3:00 AM Eastern Time (22 October, 03:00 – 07:00 GMT). Customers using the EBSCO A-to-Z Administrator Site and/or LinkSource during this time may experience intermittent interruptions.

Questions? Contact EBSCO Customer Satisfaction. Phone: (800) 758-5995, option 2 (U.S.A. and Canada), 00-800-3272-6000 (International Toll-Free), +1-978-356-6500, option 6 (International Toll). Support is available 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Email: support@ebsco.com.

New database, MRI+

This resource isn't exactly new because the College of Business Administration has had access to this for a while, but now it's on the library website so everyone can use it.

MRI+ is a research tool providing data on advertising rates in magazines and other materials, and market research data. Its "Mediamark Reporter" can show information about the people who consume given products in a given area.

You can get the access URL and instructions here:
http://www.ulm.edu/library/mri.html

JSTOR maintenance Sept. 9-10

Next weekend, JSTOR will be up and readable, but you will not be able to save changes to your JSTOR account if you have one.

On Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10, JSTOR will be
performing site maintenance that requires a "read-only" period for these
two days. During this scheduled maintenance, users will be able to
search, browse, and access and download PDF files for content in JSTOR.
They will not be able to save citations, reset passwords, create or
update MyJSTOR accounts, or purchase articles.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your
patience as we work to improve JSTOR.

Please feel free to contact support@jstor.org with any questions.