Learning Commons Announcements

September 2012

“Nobody ever graduated from a library. Nobody ever graduated without one.”

Welcome Back!

Welcome Transfer Students!

Monday, September 3, 2012Come either 11:15-12 or 1:45-2:30

W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Learning Commons, Calipari Room The libraries and databases at UMass Amherst may be bigger and more varied than any you have used before. This session will help you relax and get you off to a smooth start with the most important tools. Maximize your information literacy skills for the coming year and into the future. Learn the things seniors say they wish they had known early on!

You’re invited toGet your grade up: Learn library tools for doing well at UMass and beyond

A pair of Peregrine Falcons, which have nested on the roof of the Du Bois Library for the past ten years, now have a live webcam! Watch images of the falcons brooding their eggs and caring for their hatchlings at www.library.umass.edu/falcons.

Thank you to the UMass Amherst Facilities Planning Division, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife),

the Libraries' Systems and Web Management Department, and the Friends of the Libraries.

Flights, Camera, Action!

Click on the link on the library home page.

Falcons 2012

Due to the effects of the pesticide DDT, the falcons laid thin-shelled eggs that broke under the weight of the adult birds during incubation, leaving no young to replace the adults. By 1966, not a single nesting pair remained in the eastern United States.

In the 1930s and 1940s, there were approximately 375 nesting pairs east of the Mississippi River in the United States.

Falcon Web Camera

“We are very happy that this project is coming to fruition after lots of hard work and goodwill,” said Richard Nathhorst, Capital Project Manager, Facilities Planning, at UMass Amherst.

Each spring, personnel from Facilities Planning and MassWildlife band the chicks after they hatch. Since the nest box was installed in 2003, the federally endangered Peregrine Falcons have been successfully reintroduced into Western Massachusetts.

• Exclusively for UMass students• Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library• Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor• Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!Avoid the lines!!!

The Library celebrates the halfway mark of the Du Bois digitization project and launches Credo, an online repository containing the digital collections held by the Department of Special Collections and University Archives.

Credo includes the Du Bois Papers and many other collections, which can be viewed anywhere at any time.

credo.library.umass.edu

The name for the repository was selected to honor W.E.B. Du Bois, who published Credo in 1904; a powerful statement of his philosophy for achieving racial equality.credo.library.umass.edu

Check out the new and expanded Circulation/Reserves Service Desk!

• Check books in/out• Find Materials on Reserve• Borrow a Laptop• Pickup Inter-Library Loan Materials• Library Account Services• Study Carrel Questions

THIS WAY TO CIRC/RESERVES

Streaming Video Collections are Here!!!

More then 6,400 Programs. Unlimited access.

• Humanities & Social Sciences• Business & Economics• Science & Mathematics• Health & Medicine• Archival Films & Newsreels

Look for “Films on Demand” in the list of Databases atwww.library.umass.edu

@UMassLibraries

• Exclusively for UMass students• Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library• Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor• Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!Avoid the lines!!!

Leave something behind in the library?

Check the Library’s Lost and Found at the new Circulation/Reserves Desk on this level.

Can’t get to the Library? You can still get help from your friendly UMass librarians!

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THIS IS BIG.

POSTER PRINTINGAT THE LEARNING COMMONS

THIS IS BIG.• Print posters up to 42” wide• Premium satin-finish photo paper• Great for presentations• Printing by appointment only

To learn more, click the “Posters” tab www.library.umass.edu/learningcommons

OIT’s Remote Printing Service is here!• Install a small plug-in on your own computer

• Send print jobs from your dorm room or the campus wireless network to Learning Commons printers

• You have 8 hours to come pick up your print job.

Want to learn more? • Ask at the Learning Commons & Technical Support Desk, or• Google “UMass Remote Printing”

Printing files from SPARK?

Avoid problems! Before you print,

SAVE YOUR FILE TO THE DESKTOP

THEN, open it and print.

• Exclusively for UMass students• Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library• Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor• Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!Avoid the lines!!!

 

Save your Work!!!

Remember to::

Save to an external source such as a USB drive or UDrive

to avoid data loss if the computer is shut down!!!

Get help with…• Hardware & software

questions• Accounts, passwords,

connections • Navigating the library and

Learning Commons• Stop by, call, or instant

message us

Learning Commons & Technical Support DeskServices: LC & Technical Support Desk

Open every hour the Library is!!!!

Reference & Research AssistanceServices: Reference & Research Assistance

Find the perfect sources for your papers and other research—work with a librarian!

• Stop by the Reference & Research Assistance Desk anytime it is open…

• Make an appointment to work with a subject specialist librarian…

• Or, ask a question via phone, email, IM or text message…

http://www.library.umass.edu/services/ask-a-librarian

Writing CenterServices: Writing Center

Stop in or make an appointment to get 30 minutes of assistance on your writing project from trained experts. All levels and disciplines are welcome!

Check out umass.edu/writingcenter for details and appointments

• Exclusively for UMass students• Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library• Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor• Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!Avoid the lines!!!

Learning Resource CenterServices: Learning Resource Center

• Tutoring and supplemental instruction for many difficult first and second year courses.

• Drop-in help and weekly sessions

• Students helping students!

(10th floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library)

Check umass.edu/LRC for details…

Looking for quiet?• Quiet study areas on 2nd and 3rd floors provide

comfortable seating, electrical outlets, and wireless Internet access

• Drop-in carrels on 7th and 10th floors offer individual study space; day-use lockers also located on these floors.

• To report noise in quiet areas in the Library, call 1-2272 from a phone in any elevator lobby, or go to the Building Operations Desk on the entrance level.