More Moving

Offices have moved in the past at the library, and it's not over yet.

The reference dept. will likely move upstairs to the second floor, while the new reference desk will remain where it is. Also probable: Deanna Buczala of Academic Affairs will expand her offices on the first floor, the Computer Lab will be remodeled, and as well as other parts of the library.

JSTOR maintenance

This weekend, JSTOR will be down:

Service Alert: On Saturday, July 10, 10 AM- 5 PM EST (UTC-5 hours), JSTOR will undergo site maintenance to prepare for a platform upgrade later this month. During tomorrow's maintenance period, you will be able to search and download articles, but will not be able to reset passwords, save citations, or create/update MyJSTOR accounts. Thank you for your patience while we work to improve JSTOR!

But how would you like it if JSTOR never worked at ULM? Well, that's exactly what could happen if the Louisiana Board of Regents won't fund LOUIS, which allows us to get such resources. To learn what LOUIS is, why you need it, and how you can contact The Board of Regents, go here:
ACRLLA.ORG/SAVELOUIS

Farewell to Delta

In case you did not know, Delta Community College has been housed on ULM's campus and has shared library facilities with ULM for years. But they have thier own place now and are moving to their own campus here in Monroe.

The books went out this weekend. Here's Hugh Carter, one of the reference librarians at Delta, whom you may have met at our library, with some of the books rolling out to the moving truck.

Good luck to him and the rest of Delta!

Some databases not functioning off-campus

The normal links to some of our databases are broken due to technical difficulties. The links below will work on campus, but not off-campus.

African American Newspapers America's Historical Newspapers Biography Resource Center CQ Researcher Dissertations & Theses EBSCOhost Gale Virtual Reference Library JSTOR LearningExpress Library † LexisNexis Academic

Literature Resource Center MathSciNet Nursing & Allied Health Source™ OCLCWorldCat OxfordEnglish Dictionary Sanborn Maps Scribner Writers Series Twayne Author Series WilsonWeb World Book Advanced

New Database: HW Wilson

We now have access to 3 databases from H.W. Wilson. These products are available on the WilsonWeb interface.

Art Full Text 1984-present (replacing the Art Abstracts currently available on the EBSCOhost platform until June 30, 2010)

Art Index Retrospective

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Use this link to get there:

WilsonWeb

Reference Has Moved!... a few yards

Things may seem slow during Maymester, but The Summer semester is going to start soon, and big changes are going on at the library. The reference desk has moved! About six yards to the left! (for a reference desk, that's a lot)

That's librarian Maren Williams at the desk. If you can see them behind her, the first floor is also getting more computers.

There is also a possibility that the reference offices will move to another floor, but nothing is official until it actually happens...

JSTOR Maintenance

Well, ArtSTOR isn't the only 'STOR going down for Maintenance this weekend.

Service Alert: Today, April 30, 4 PM-12 AM EST (UTC-5 hours), the JSTOR site has scheduled maintenance. You will be able to search and download, but will not be able to reset passwords, save citations, or create/update MyJSTOR accounts. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you experience any additional difficulties using JSTOR, please contact JSTOR Support at support@jstor.org. Thanks for your patience.

ARTstor maintenance

We've heard from ARTstor that it will be down for maintenance some of this weekend:

ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance on Saturday evening, May 1, 2010 between the hours of 9:00 PM and 2:00 AM EDT. At this time, service will be temporarily suspended.
If you experience any severe delays, please notify ARTstor User Services at userservices@artstor.org.

MarketLine database

We have a new trial for a database! It is called MarketLine, and it contains valuable information on companies, industries and countries. Some of you may have already heard of it.

You can access MarketLine from this link (only accessible on campus network):
http://www.marketlineinfo.com/library/Default.aspx

It will be on the ULM Library website also and the trial ends on May 22nd.

Extended Finals Hours

The Library will be open longer for the weekend before finals!

Friday, May 7: 7:30 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, May 8: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, May 9: 10:00 am – 1:00 am

Good Luck!

First Floor Changes

Some of you may have noticed that in the past few months that the first floor of the library has been changing. Over the Spring Break, more things have been moved, and more will continue to happen later as well.

The computer lab has been expanded, and will soon be fully operational.

Library closed on Sunday

In spite of previous reports to the contrary, the library will remian closed on Sunday, April 11th.

See you on Monday!

LexisNexis has a new look

I first talked about this way back in November, so it's about time the change was made. LexisNexis Academic now has a new interface, and all links to it on our site should show it.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/

It may take some getting used to, but maybe not. The search options are different, but on the inside it's the same as it ever was.

ARTSTOR will be down Sat. & Sun.

We've just been informed that ARTstor will be down this weekend:

"Please be advised, ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance this Saturday evening, February 27^th, into Sunday morning, February 28th, between the hours of 7:00 PM and 1:00 AM EST. During this time, service will be intermittently interrupted. We anticipate full service to return by 1:00 AM.

If you experience any severe delays, please notify ARTstor User Services at userservices@artstor.org."

Newspaper Databases

2 more new databases!

African American Newspapers

America's Historical Newspapers


Actually, these databases are the same thing; one is a part of the other. However, it's not obvious by the links on the pages, so I've included the links separately.

Special Collections Newsletter Issue #2

The Spring 2010 issue of the Special Collections Newsletter is out. Read it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/archives/newsletter/lsc-spring10.pdf

New databases

There are 2 New databases in our collection:

Gale Virtual Reference Library

H.W. Wilson Art Suite (trial ends in May 2010)

As far as we know, these work off-campus.

Extended Finals Hours

Reminder:
The library closes at 1:00 am every day this week except Friday.

Database difficulties

(EDIT: These seem to be OK now)

Due to technical difficulties, a handful of our databases do not work by their normal links. Here are some alternate links that do work on-campus but do not work off-campus.

AccessPharmacy Classical Music Library College Source (catalogs) *

Mergent Online SciFinder Scholar (ask Reference Dept.)

The alternate links have been placed on the "databases by name" page here too:
http://www.ulm.edu/library/dbname.html

Extended Pre-Finals Hours

This weekend you can study hard at the Library! Our hours have been extended!

Fri, Dec 4: 7:30 am — 6:00 pm
Sat, Dec 5: 10:00 am — 6:00 pm
Sun, Dec 6: 10:00 am — 1:00 am