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Survey Drawing Winners - Summer 2008
Did you take our survey about social software and libraries in May?  Six lucky students were drawn at random to win iTunes gift cards as our way of saying “Thanks for your help with the survey!”  The winners were:

Jessica Kisner
Kari Knepshield
Amanda Belles
Kimberly Pena
Jennifer Marshall
Ashly Quibodeaux

Again, many thanks for helping us learn what you think of Facebook, MySpace, SecondLife, IM technologies, and libraries.

Contact Annie Epperson (970-351-1535) or Jennifer Leffler (970-351-1543) with any questions.

Database Changes - Summer 2008
Watch for changes in our online databases. Access to several FirstSearch and Gale/InfoTrac article indexes has ceased, but we've added a number of ProQuest titles.

Copyright Web Pages - Summer 2008
Information about copyright is now available on the Libraries web site. The pages were developed by the University Libraries Scholarly Communication Committee. Click on Copyright Assistance under Research Assistance.

First Floor Renovation - Summer 2008
The Access Services area on the first floor of Michener Library will be renovated during the summer. Circulation and Interlibrary Loan will be temporarily located on the lower level of Michener.

Student Survey - Spring 2008
If you are a college or university student and you use the Internet, we want to hear from you!  We want to know how best we can serve you, the contemporary college student. Click for details.

LibGuides - Fall 2007
Our librarians have been busy creating "LibGuides" - our research guides in a new format - for a wide variety of subject areas. Click for a list, and see if there's one that will help you get started with your library research.

Celebration of Intellectual Freedom - Fall 2007
Please join us on Monday October 1 at 7 PM in Michener Library for readings by UNC professors and a discussion of intellectual freedom from Jamie LaRue, author of the book The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges.

Banned Books Week - Fall 2007
Read aloud from a banned or challenged book for us! As part of our observance of Banned Books Week, we're holding readings October 1-5 from 9:30 to 3:00 in the Michener Library Reference Area. Click for more information.

New Technology-Equipped Small Group Study Rooms - Fall 2007
Meeting with a group to study? Check out one of our technology-equipped group study rooms in Michener Library. For more information, see our Computing and Studying in the Libraries web page.

IM Reference - Fall 2007
Did you know that you can contact the Michener Reference Desk by Instant Messaging, Monday-Friday 10 AM-2PM? Click on "Ask a Librarian".

The Source Search Tool - Fall 2007
Add The Source to your IE or Firefox toolbar. See how by clicking here!

Library Quicky - Fall 2007
Learn about the library on your lunch hour! Join us for a "Library Quicky" and find out how to search the library catalog and an article index. Sign up at the Michener Library Reference Desk.

Weld County Reads - Fall 2007
The UNC Libraries will participate in the Weld County Reads program during September and October. Free copies of the book (Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima), reader's guides, and a list of follow-up activities are available in the Michener Library Reference Area.

Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Fall 2007
The Libraries will once again sponsor the Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature discussion series. Click for more information.

Book Sale - Fall 2007
The Friends of the UNC Libraries will resume their monthly used book sales on Wednesday, September 5, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, on the first floor of Michener Library.

JSTOR - Fall 2007
We are pleased to announce that beginning September 1, 2007, you will have access to additional JSTOR collections through the UNC Libraries' web site. We are adding the Arts & Sciences II, III, and IV Collections to our existing Arts & Sciences I and Mathematics & Statistics Collections (aquired in September 2006). For a list of titles in the various collections, see http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Survey about Michener Library Closure in June - Summer 2007
Were you affected by the Michener Library closure in June? If so, we'd like to hear from you through a brief survey. (survey closed on 8/3)

New Databases - Summer 2007
We have several new online products available. See the Article Finder page for access to AccessScience, Art Museum Image Gallery, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Latin American Women Writers, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, and Psychiatry Online (including DSM IV-TR).

Finals Week Hours - Spring 2007
Studying for finals? Michener Library will be open until 9 PM on Fridays and Saturdays, and until midnight on Sundays through Thursdays during the last two weeks of classes and Finals Week.

Library Survey - Spring 2007
The University Libraries Assessment Committee would like to say Thank You to the more than 1,100 people who responded to the LibQual+TM survey over the past three weeks. We’re having a quick event in the Michener Gallery from 12:15 to 12:45 on Tuesday, 24 April to announce the prize winners. We’ll analyze the survey results over the coming months, so that Libraries Administration can use participant feedback in the planning process later this year. Thanks again for telling us what you think!

Diversity Visiting Scholar - Spring 2007
We are pleased to present Sandra Rios Balderrama, our spring Diversity Visiting Scholar, speaking on Tuesday April 17, from 1:30 to 3:00 in Lindou Auditorium.

Women's History Month Display - Spring 2007
Stop by Michener Library throughout March to see the Women's History Month display in the Reference Area.

Photography Exhibit Reception - Spring 2007
A reception for the photography exhibit Robert Vavra Presents James Albert Michener
will be held in Michener Library's Mari Michener Gallery on Friday, February 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m. This event is part of the 2007 Michener Celebration.

2006

• Join us on Friday December 1 at 12:30 on Michener Library's first floor for a holiday concert presented by the UNC Concert Choir, directed by Dr. Galen Darrough and sponsored by the Friends of the UNC Libraries.
• "Interlibrary Loan", "WebZap" - do you know what they mean? They aren't new, but we want to make sure that you know about these important library services. If these words are new to you, click to learn more!
• Learn about Banned Books Week in Michener Library, September 25 - 29. An exhibit will feature many books that have been banned or challenged, including selections from the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently banned or challenged books of 1990-2000. Listen to members of the UNC community reading selections from banned or challenged books.
• Join us for our reading and discussion series, "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination". Click for dates, titles, and participation information.
• JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I Collection has been added to the Libraries' collection of online journals. For more information, see JSTOR in the UNC Libraries.
• Work took place over the summer to completely redesign the Libraries web site and The Source library catalog. Please send any comments to library.reference@unco.edu.
• The Pharos Print System from UNC's Information Technology department is now in effect campus-wide. Students are given $8 of free prints to begin the year and may charge more prints to their student accounts or a credit card. Non-UNC patrons must purchase a Print Card.
• Authentication, or login, will be required to use most computers in Michener and the Skinner Music Libraries, as well as other campus computer labs, by fall semester. This will help to ensure priority access for UNC affiliated patrons as well as security for the campus network.
• The first issue of a new newsletter from the UNC Libraries is now available. Read Library Letters here.
• The UNC Libraries will celebrate National Library Week April 3-8 with a display in the Michener Library Reference Area.
• Michener Library will host a University Authors and Artists Reception during Academic Excellence Week. Please join us for the reception, which will be held on Tuesday April 4 at 4 p.m. in the Mari Michener Gallery.
• New databases: North American Theatre Online, Cabell's Directories for Business, Education, and Psychology, Corbis Images for Education, Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts, Xreferplus

2005

• New Databases for Fall 2005 include AnthroSource (from the American Anthropological Association), General Science Abstracts, GoENC.com (materials for math and science educators), Humanities International Complete.
• Banned Books Week is September 24 through October 1. Stop by the Michener Library Reference area to see our display featuring many of the 100 most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2000. Learn more about Banned Books Week from the American Library Association web site. The University Libraries supports principles outlined by the Library Bill of Rights (American Library Association), the Freedom to Read Statement (American Library Association and Association of American Publishers), and the Freedom to View Statement (American Film and Video Association).
• You'll see some changes in Michener Library. All reference and circulation services will be offered at the first floor Reference desk and Circulation desk. Newly reconfigured service points on the lower level and 2nd floor will offer directional assistance for finding materials in the collections.
• We are pleased to announce that the videotape and DVD collections, located on the 2nd floor, are now open for browsing. You are invited to stop in, browse the shelves, and check out one of the many items in this collection.
• Full-text access to over 1600 titles on Science Direct is now available! Members of the university community have full-text access to all of the Elsevier and Cell Press journal titles in the database back to 1995 and titles previously published by Academic Press IDEAL back to 1993. These titles represent more than a tenfold increase over the Elsevier titles that the Libraries' subscribed to in print. This increase is made possible through a consortial license agreement negotiated with other members of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Access to individual journal titles on Science Direct is available from the Periodical Title search option on The Source. Full text in Science Direct is also accessible via links from citations in other UNC databases.
• The University Libraries is conducting an assessment survey using LibQUAL+, an assessment tool that will allow comparison with peer institutions. The online survey will be open for responses from Monday, March 28 through Friday, April 15. Faculty, students, and staff will receive an email message with a link to the survey. There is also a link on the Libraries web site. Your participation will help the Libraries better serve the UNC campus.
• An exhibit called Tip & Mitten: The Making of a Successful Reading Series is currently on display on the lower level of Michener Library at the entrance to the Archival Services Department. Occupying one display case, the exhibit was curated by Bette Rathe, Education Librarian. Tip & Mitten was one of the titles in the enormously successful elementary reading book series created in the 1950s by UNC faculty members Paul McKee, Annie McCowen, M. Lucile Harrison, and Elizabeth Lehr and published by Houghton-Mifflin. The exhibit can be seen whenever the Michener Library is open.
• Check out the newly redesigned web site for Archival Services, including the James A. Michener Special Collection.

2004

• New resources include RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals), Kinesiology Publications, a new interface for SPORTDiscus, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, and Social Sciences Citation Index through the Web of Science.
• More new online products include reference databases such as the Gale Virtual Reference Library, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, and CQ Researcher. We also have some new article indexes, including Communication and Mass Media Complete and Online Geographical Bibliography.
• The University Libraries did not conduct a serials review project this year. Nevertheless, some departments did identify print subscriptions to cancel or change to electronic format.
• Stop in and join us for coffee near the main entrance to Michener Library. Our new coffee cart serves coffee, hot chocolate, and even chai tea, as well as muffins and other snacks. (The coffee cart is closed during the summer.)
• Have you checked out our Current Reading Collection? We have an easily browsable collection of approximately 400 new fiction and general interest non-fiction books on the first floor of Michener Library. During Spring 2004, we conducted a survey about the use of this collection.
• Faculty can now place course materials on Electronic Reserve, with access through The Source, our online catalog.

2003

• Several new article indexes and improved access to online journals will enhance your research activities this year. New collections of online journals include Project Muse and PsycArticles, and new article indexes include Iter: Gateway to Middle Ages and Renaissance, NBER Working Papers, Social Sciences Abstracts, Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide, Women's Resources International, RILM Music Abstracts, MathSciNet, and SciFinder Scholar. We also now subscribe to the online version of ERIC documents since 1997, ERIC E*Subscribe.
• During Spring 2003, the UNC Libraries conducted a survey of faculty, staff, and students using LibQUAL+, an online questionnaire developed by the Association of Research Libraries.
• Online Virtual Reference - AskColorado is an online "virtual reference" service provided by librarians from over 40 Colorado libraries. The service is available 24 hours a day. UNC librarians provide 7 hours each week of reference assistance through the service, but it is available at all hours to the UNC community.
• Look for the new furniture in Michener Library. This summer, new chairs were added on the first floor, and tables and chairs were added in the alcoves and other areas on the third floor.
• Check out our collection of current and popular fiction and nonfiction books located in the Current Reading Area, a comfortable area on Michener Library's first floor next to the Mari Michener Art Gallery. Books circulate for 3 weeks.