New Special Collections newsletter

There's a new isssue of the ULM Library Special Collections newsletter, for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. You can read it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/archives/newsletter/lsc-fall12-spring13.pdf

Naxos Music Library

Good news!
The ULM Library has aquired a new music database resource:

Naxos Music Library

Currently this is only available on campus, but off campus access is coming soon. Now working off-campus!

ERIC Documents access issue

Many ERIC PDF documents are not available right now due to issues with the files. Here's a statement from the Education Resources Information Center website: http://www.eric.ed.gov/pdf_availability.html

Dear ERIC Community,

We have currently disabled access to many ERIC full-text PDFs due to the discovery of personally identifiable information in some documents. A team is in place to check each PDF to see if it contains personally identifiable information. Due to the quality of many of the documents, a large portion of the search has to be done by hand. This will take several weeks, but our primary concern is to protect the privacy of individuals.

To minimize the burden on our users, we will prioritize searching the PDFs that users request. If you would like to request a PDF to be returned online, please fill out this form, which requires only the document’s ERIC record number and your email address. Full-text PDFs will be returned on a rolling basis. We will be posting the list of newly released documents here.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and want to thank you for bearing with us through this unexpected delay.

The ERIC Team

If you need helping find the EBSCO citation, talk to us at Reference! http://www.ulm.edu/library/contact.html

ARTstor upgrade Jan. 23

We recently received this message from ARTstor about maintenance on their site tomorrow:

Dear ARTstor User Support and Primary Contacts,

Please be advised that ARTstor will be performing an upgrade to our systems on Wednesday, January 23 between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM EST. During this time, users will still be able to access the ARTstor Digital Library but may experience some slowness. If you do experience any difficulties, please clear the cache on your browser and restart your web browser. If you continue to experience difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact User Services at userservices@artstor.org.

Kind regards,

ARTstor User Services Team

Library open during weather closing

Today due to inclement weather classes have been canceled and most ULM offices are closed. But not all of them. The library will be open from 12pm - 5pm Tuesday.

We'll be open on Wednesday, Jan 16th from 10am - 6pm.

Here is ULM's news statement and a list of other open departments:
http://www.ulm.edu/alerts/index.html

PrivCo database trial

 Starting today and ending on Feb. 4th ULM has trial access to PrivCo, a business database that specializes in private companies.  Here is a PDF brochure.

To get access, email reference(at)ulm.edu or use Ask A Librarian to ask for the password and login.

Counseling & Therapy in Video now off campus

The Counseling and Therapy in Video database is now available off-campus! It was added to our collections some weeks ago for on-campus use, and now it can be used anywhere.

Overview
Award-winning Counseling and Therapy in Video Volume I contains more than 400 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. This classic collection of videos filmed from 1985‒2010 provides an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.

Content
The collection features prominent therapists such as Jon Carlson, Sue Johnson, Allen Ivey, Insoo Kim Berg, Derald Wing Sue, and many others, as they demonstrate their methods. With a true grounding in multiculturalism and dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, this collection is essential for counseling and therapy programs across the curriculum—in psychology, social work, education, nursing, divinity studies, health, and medicine.

MarketLine now available off-campus

The MarketLine Advantage business database introduced earlier in the semester is now available off-campus. You can log in using the usual library off-campus access CWIN + PIN login.

It's previous version, Datamonitor 360, has been removed from the site.

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