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.

Classical Music Library

The problems with other databases have evidently been resolved, but there is still an issue with the Classical Music Library. It works on campus, but not off. We hope to fix this soon.

Some databases are out...

Due to techincal difficulties, many of our databases aren't working on or off campus. Some alternate emergency links have been put up on the Database page, but they are still slow, and they won't work off-campus at all.

http://www.ulm.edu/library/dbname.html

Also, 2 more of our resources that don't use that same network, and are working on-campus today, are not working off-campus. This has been an issue for a while and is taking more time to resolve.

Classical Music Library
Mergent Online

New reference and ILL offices

The offices for the reference dept and Interlibrary Loan have moved to the second floor, within serials. To get there...

Go to the second floor, and then in here...



Then turn left, and go to this door.


Hope to see you around!

New Special Collections Newsletter

The ULM Special Collections Newsletter for Fall 2010 is out now. Get it here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library/archives/newsletter/lsc-fall10.pdf

LexisNexis Academic Outage

LexisNexis Academic is finally switching to its new interface permanently. It will be down this weekend:

Saturday, August 7: There will be a *service interruption* lasting between 1 and 3 hours, beginning around noon, Eastern Time.

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