Fogler Library: What's New

Darwin Exhibit

11/5/2009

In connection with the UMaine Darwin commemoration (recognizing the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth) and this fall's semester-long Celebration of Darwin course, INT 289, Fogler librarians have created an exhibit on the second floor of the Library.

The exhibit has two parts. One part represents recent acquisitions by Fogler of works by and about Darwin and works by modern scholars that develop, extend, and react to his ideas. The second part graphically represents the influence of On the Origin of Species by tracing the wide breadth of journals, organized by discipline, where the book has been cited.

The Fogler exhibit remains up throughout the fall semester and is on the second floor, outside the President's Room and near the Science and Engineering Center. The UMaine Celebration of Darwin page is at http://www2.umaine.edu/anthropology/Darwin1.html

Article Linker Available in PubMed

11/5/2009

Fogler Library has implemented the Article Linker button in the PubMed database, providing easy access to online articles, information about printed journal holdings, and interlibrary loan services. The button appears in "Abstract" and "AbstractPlus" displays if one connects to PubMed via the link on the library Indexes and Databases page http://library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp For more information, please contact Nancy R. Curtis, 581-1679 nancy.curtis@umit.maine.edu.

Databases From H.W. Wilson

10/29/2009

Three retrospective databases from H.W. Wilson, covering literature from the late 19th to late 20th century, are now accessible through the library's web site at http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp Book Review Digest Retrospective indexes reviews from 1905-1982; Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective covers journals and magazines from 1913-1983; and Readers' Guide Retrospective covers periodicals from 1890 to 1982. For assistance, please contact Reference at 581-1673 or Science & Engineering at 581-1691.

Engineering Village

10/29/2009

Engineering Village (EV) is the most comprehensive bibliographic database for engineering, applied physics and computer science research. Combing the Compendex and Inspec indexes, EV includes bibliographic data and abstracts on articles from over 5,000 journals, technical reports and conference proceedings from 1970 to the present. Our EV subscription provides free individual user accounts, allowing a researcher to have a personal login to the database and to tag article records, save searches, set up search alerts, and store article citations in folders. The database is updated weekly with new research articles. Call or e-mail your department's library liaison for more information and for detailed instructions. Fogler Library subject specialist page: http://www.library.umaine.edu/colldev/contacts.htm

Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program

10/29/2009

Patents are often an overlooked source of scientific, engineering, historical and genealogical information. Fogler Library has been designated as the Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) for the State of Maine since 1993, with the responsibility of assisting Maine residents to research U.S. patents and trademarks. We make available many electronic and print resources to accomplish this mission.

Online patent searching is available for 1976 to present http://www.uspto.gov, searchable by keyword, inventor, assignee, classification code, etc. Pre-1976 patent searches also available online using patent number or the Patent Classification System. Additionally, the 2nd floor Science and Engineering Center has a workstation provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for searching feature-rich, proprietary patent and trademark databases such as QPat, CASSIS and PubWEST. In-house databases offer additional benefits such as increased availability of full-text (keyword) searchable documents, foreign patent collections, customizable interfaces allowing for a more efficient, user-centered search environment, and the ability to save and export bibliographic data to other software such as MS Excel.

Also available are a full range of current reference books on patent law, examination procedures, inventor guidelines, the application process and marketing methods. These are located in the Science and Engineering Center near the patent and trademark workstation. Please contact Martin Wallace e-mail: martin.wallace@umit.maine.edu for assistance with using the databases, devising a search strategy, and obtaining patent and trademark information. Consult the Fogler Library web site for additional information: http://www.library.umaine.edu/patents/

British Periodicals

10/15/2009

The British Periodicals database is accessible through the library's web site at www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Among the periodicals included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures - Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frances Power Cobbe, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Oliver Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson, Sir Roger L'Estrange, G. H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Edward Moore, John Morley, John Henry Newman, Margaret Oliphant, W. M. Rossetti, Sir Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett to name but a few. In addition to providing access to the original periodical versions of landmark texts like De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Cobbett's Rural Rides, Bagehot's The English Constitution, Gaskell's North and South and Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, the collection offers new ways of exploring the inaccessible, neglected or forgotten writings that formed their original contexts. A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.

For assistance, please contact Mel Johnson: mel.johnson@umit.maine.edu or 207-581-3614, or Reference at 207-581-1673.

Maine's Elections 2009

10/7/2009

The Maine Secretary of State provides information on the upcoming election.

Video Tutorial for E-Reserves

10/1/2009

For help on accessing course E-Reserves through Fogler Library, view this new E-Reserves tutorial screencast. This short, 2 1/2 minute tutorial takes you step-by-step through the e-reserve process, starting from the library's homepage and ending with displaying online e-reserve material. http://library.umaine.edu/social/screencasts/ereserves/ereserves.htm

Video Tutorial for Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

9/18/2009

Now available to faculty, research assistants, and graduate students, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) offers access to a range of specialized business databases. Resources available include Compustat North America (last 20 years), CRSP (The Center for Research in Security Prices), and a dozen other business databases. A tutorial on access and help options is available here: http://www.library.umaine.edu/social/screencasts/wrds/wrds.htm. For further help, contact the Business Reference Librarian Stephen Fadel at 581-3610 or email stephen.fadel@umit.maine.edu.

LGBT Resource Guide

9/14/2009

The LGBT Resource Guide lists print Reference sources, databases, and Web sites related to research in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

H1N1 Influenza ("Swine Flu") Guide

9/10/2009

This new guide links to journal article and library catalog searches for materials about H1N1 influenza, as well as information from the University of Maine, state of Maine, the U.S. government, the Canadian government, and other organizations.

Government Info Server in DC Back Up

9/3/2009

UPDATE: The PURL application is currently running from the backup server and all PURLs are fully operational. We will continue to use the backup server until the primary server is fixed. GPO apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused and we thank you for your patience.

The Library is deeply committed to offering its patrons 24/7 access to hundreds of thousands of publications online. A highlight of this effort is provision of electronic versions of federal government documents. Over a quarter million are already online via GPO Access through links in URSUS.

The good news is GPO offers reliability by assigning permanent links (PURLS). Now the bad news: a computer in Washington dedicated to maintaining PURL access crashed August 24. Back-ups ensured no loss of data. GPO staff continues to give restoration of the PURL server the highest priority. At present the resolution database is populated with more than 114,000 PURLs. GPO has apologized for the inconvenience the PURL server outage.

Workarounds:

Look for an alternate URL in the "Note" (just below the call numbers)
See if a second link is offered to "Fdsys" which is working
Google the title to see if a copy is available at another site
Use hard copy in Fogler Library

For assistance contact Reference 207-581-1673 or Ref_questions@umit.maine.edu.

MaineCat is Back!

8/31/2009

Thanks again for your patience during the interruption of the MaineCat request function this summer. We're pleased to let you know that as of August 31, 2009, library patrons can once again place requests for items held by MaineCat libraries. The URSUS request function has continued through the summer but we expect that, with the new delivery service in place, we will return to more timely deliveries for both URSUS and MaineCat requests.

If you have any questions about an URSUS or MaineCat request, please contact Circulation at 581-1641.

NEW Women's Studies Bibliography

8/24/2009

The Women's Studies Bibliography for Spring 2009 is now available.

The Patent Mindset

8/12/2009

In this one-day seminar, meet with the experts who can help you answer these and other questions about patents, prior art, and technology transfer and their importance to your business or other innovative enterprise. In this seminar you will learn about:

Searching for Patents and Prior Art, and why a prior art search is important
Services in Maine that will help you move your idea from conception to the marketplace
Technology Transfer and partnerships between academic and commercial enterprises

This is a free event open to all. Please see RSVP information inside brochure: http://www.library.umaine.edu/staff/wallace/trifold-brochure.pdf.

Fogler on the move…

7/2/2009

Fogler Library is on the move! We are reorganizing and making improvements that will benefit our users. Take a look at some of the changes that are underway.
http://www.library.umaine.edu/about/onthemove.htm

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

5/8/2009

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for April

UMaine Statement Regarding H1N1 Virus

5/6/2009

Wednesday, May 6, 8:00a.m.

History of Maine Fisheries Database

4/7/2009

A new search portal for searching digitized documents relating to the history of Maine fisheries is now available. The documents in this database, which was developed by Fogler Library, include a variety of archival materials , such as logs of fishing vessels; sales, catch and landing records; and customs records. There are also some publications. The documents date primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, and were scanned from the holdings of the following institutions: Bangor Public Library, Boothbay Harbor Historical Society, Castine Historical Society, Fogler Library, Machias Historical Society, Maine Maritime Museum, Maine State Archives, Monhegan Island Museum, Old Berwick Historical Society, Penobscot Marine Museum. Materials will be continue to be added to this database on an ongoing basis.

We Are Listening…

4/6/2009

Thanks again for all your suggestions. Here's what we are working on now:

We are looking at ways to rearrange the seating in some locations to provide more comfortable areas for studying and relaxing.
We are considering ways to feature our popular reading books and to include more recreational reading selections for students.
We are planning to add divider shelving to the musical scores section and then add tabs identifying the call number divisions to help keep this section organized. We hope that this, along with regular shelf-reading assignments and additional "do not reshelve" notes on the shelves themselves will minimize problems with this collection.

Some of these changes will be ongoing, so you may not see them before you leave in May. We want you to know that we will continue to make improvements over the summer.

We Are Listening…

4/6/2009

Heat

The Library does not have direct control over the heat and temperature settings for the building. We have contacted Facilities and hope to see some improvement shortly.

AnthroSource

4/1/2009

AnthroSource is now available via the library's Indexes page at http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. An online service of the Americal Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource offers access to more than 100 years of anthropological knowledge. It offers a searchable database with current content from AAA’s diverse portfolio of anthropological publications, including American Anthropologist, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Archeological Papers of the AAA and Visual Anthropology Review. It also provides a complete archive of AAA’s 32 publications from 1888 forward, and seamless access to AAA legacy content in JSTOR. For assistance with or questions about AnthroSource, please contact Joe Fernandez (581-3611 or joe.fernandez@umit.maine.edu) or Reference (581-1673).

The Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976

3/30/2009

The Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976 is now available via the library's Indexes page at http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. It indexes public documents published by the United States federal government from 1895-1976. Most of the material indexed in the Monthly Catalog is available at the Raymond H. Fogler Library in Orono, which has been a United States Government Documents Depository since 1907, and a Regional (complete) Depository since 1963. The library has also acquired numerous pre-1907 government documents. Government documents identified in the Monthly Catalog may be requested at the Reference Desk on the first floor of the library. For assistance please contact Reference at 581-1673 or ref.questions@umit.maine.edu.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

3/27/2009

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for March

We're Listening…

3/26/2009

We continue to make changes and improvements in response to student suggestions.

As of 18 March:
Two drinking fountains (1st and 3rd floors) have been fixed.

One of the stalls in the first floor ladies room was repaired and we expect all the latches will be worked on or replaced as there are still issues. They will be working on this in the next few weeks.

Keep the suggestions coming.
There is one Flipchart easel located on level 3 and one on the first floor.

We Are Listening…

3/13/2009

In response to students' suggestions, 50 powerstrips have been added to the library.
   Level 1: Information Commons (4), Reserve Reading Room (8), Oakes Room (2)
   Level 2: Jones Room (4), Presidents Room (7), Science & Engineering (3)
   Level 3: Book Stacks (21), Special Collections (1)
More tables and seating have been added to the third floor: 6x3' Tables (4), Seats (20)

Welcome to the Maine InfoNet Download Library

3/10/2009

Explore the growing collection of downloadable Audiobooks and use your library card barcode to download Audiobooks to your personal computer, transfer them to an MP3 player, or burn selected titles onto a CD for listening on the go.
The Maine InfoNet Download Library is supported by Orono and other member libraries.

ScienceDirect Unavailable March 7-8

3/5/2009

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12.5 hours from 6:00pm Saturday March 7 to 7:30am Sunday, March 8. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Spring Break Hours (February 27 - March 15, 2009)

2/26/2009

Spring break starts at 5 pm this Friday, February 27, so the Library will close at 5:00 pm. Library Hours during Spring Break are as follows:

Friday, February 27 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday – Sunday, February 28 – March 1 10:00am – 5:00pm
Monday – Friday, March 2 – 6 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday – Sunday, March 7 – 8 10:00am – 5:00pm
Monday – Friday, March 9 – 13 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday, March 14 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, March 15 Regular hours resume

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

2/24/2009

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for January and February

Fogler E-Book Trials Available

1/27/2009

Fogler Library has several e-books trials available at http://www.library.umaine.edu/colldev/trials.htm for the next month. They include:

ACLS Humanities E-Books: more than 2,200 monographs on history and other topics from over 100 publishers
CRCnet BASE: science and technical references
CHEMnetBASE: chemistry references
SPRINGER e-books: more than 20,000 science and technical monographs, series books, encyclopedias and textbooks published by Springer from 2005 to present

For assistance please contact the Science and Engineering Center (581-1691) or Reference (581-1673).

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

1/13/2009

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for December

Library open until 2:30 am during final exams week

12/5/2008

On Sunday night, December 14, the Library will be open until 2:30am the following morning. The late closure will be continued through Thursday, December 18. Please apprise your students of the extended hours during Final Exams Week. For detailed Library building and department hours please go to library.umaine.edu/about/hours.htm.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

11/25/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for November

Fogler Library Releases Music Video

11/17/2008

Fogler Library, in collaboration with the Maine Channel, has produced its first music video. Featuring The Renewals, Fogler Library’s band, singing My Library, the video is a student - staff collaboration. Band members from the Library staff wrote the lyrics and musical arrangement for the song, students Cassie Alley and Erin Keim provided vocals, and production was handled by students from the Maine Channel. My Library is now playing on the Maine Channel; it is also available for download from the Library web site.

The Renewals band includes students Cassie Alley and Erin Keim as lead vocalists accompanied by library staff musicians and singers, Thomas Jones, Larry Corbett, Kjerste Christensen, Albie Dunn, and Gretchen Gfeller. The production team at the Maine Channel includes: David Nickerson, producer and editor, Jacob Davis, sound recording, Thomas Haraden, camera and filming. The Renewals will be back in the spring with a new song.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

10/27/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for October

Search Guides to Manuscript Collections

10/16/2008

This searchable database pilot indexes the full text of 250 finding aids in Maine. A finding aid is a descriptive guide for an archival or manuscript collection. Typically, it includes information about the origin, history, content, date and format of the records, as well as the physical and intellectual arrangement of them.

Two repositories currently contribute to the database: Special Collections of Fogler Library, University of Maine, and the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College. This is a collaborative, pilot project to test an enhanced search engine for resource discovery in special and archival collections throughout Maine.

Financial Crisis Study Guide: Key Resources on the Current Economic Crisis

10/9/2008

For students and others, a list of key information resources about the current economic crisis. Resources include Congressional Research Service Reports, top news special report websites, books, articles, as well as a link to the recently passed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

9/30/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for September

New Database Trials

9/29/2008

The library has trials available for two online literature resources at http://www.library.umaine.edu/colldev/trials.htm:

Literature Online

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory covers literary theory and discourse in a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

Contact Mel Johnson (mel.johnson@umit.maine.edu or 581-3614) to provide feedback or for assistance in using these resources.

NEW Women's Studies Bibliography

9/29/2008

The Women's Studies Bibliography for Summer 2008 is now available.

Screencast Tutorial for Finding Journal Articles

9/26/2008

A screencast (short narrated computer screen recording) for maximizing the use of Article Linker is now available. Article Linker is a convenient linking tool for students, faculty and researchers to use when searching for specific full-text items in databases and journals. Close-captioned. Playing time: 4:27

Maine Streets: exhibit and presentation

9/15/2008

Presentation: 7 October at 3 p.m.
Special Collections
Exhibit: October 2008
Fogler Library

During the month of October, Fogler Library will host an exhibit from the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport. Maine Streets: selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company, features selected prints from an extensive glass plate collection acquired by the museum in March 2007. Penobscot Marine Museum archivist Kevin Johnson and Kent Ryden, director of the American and New England Studies program at USM, will give a presentation about the collection in Fogler's Special Collections department on October 7th at 3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibit and presentation are sponsored by the Penobscot Marine Museum, the Maine Studies Program and Fogler Library. To learn more about the collection visit: www.glassplateimages.com.

Fogler Library Toolbar

9/2/2008

Fogler Library has developed a plug-in for your web browser called LibX that allows you to search for items in the Library collections from any page, no matter where on the web you may be browsing. With the toolbar in place, keep an eye out for this icon when out visiting sites like Google Scholar, Amazon.com or the New York Times Book Review. Clicking on the University mini icon will link you back to the Fogler Library web site to see if we have the book or article you are looking for which may be available in full text online.

Another great feature for article searching allows you to reload or follow a link via the library proxy, making it appear as though you are coming from an on-campus computer which facilitates seamless access to licensed articles that require authorization.

For more features and super quick instructions for downloading the plugin visit: http://library.umaine.edu/staff/libx_guide.htm.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

9/2/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for July and August

Chronicle of Higher Education

8/25/2008

The Chronicle of Higher Education is updated daily and provides news, information, and job listings for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the text from the current print edition, posted every Monday morning; commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; a searchable archive of every issue published since September 1989; slide shows, podcasts, and video; discussion forums; data from the annual Almanac of Higher Education and other reports; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. Users may want to go to http://chronicle.com/services to create a free personal account, in order to sign up for various e-mail updates, participate in online forums, and utilize career services. Available e-mail updates are listed at http://chronicle.com/help/emails/, including job alerts, Academe Today, Academe This Week, The Wired Campus, The Community College Newsletter, and more. A variety of news feeds in RSS format are also available via http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm.

Contact a Librarian for assistance.

Birds of North America

8/8/2008

18,000 pages of continually updated information on North America's breeding birds, now online. The Birds of North America Online is produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It contains image and video galleries showing bird behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Online species accounts contain recordings of songs and calls. For assistance in using Birds of North America Online please contact Jim Bird in the Science & Engineering Center, 581-1697 of Jim.Bird@umit.maine.edu.

IEEE Xplore & IEEE/IET Electronic Library

7/15/2008

The IEEE Xplore site (authenticated access available from http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp) now provides access to over two million documents. Included are the 160+ journals published by the IEEE and IET along with transactions, conference proceedings and active IEEE standards. These publications are relevant to many disciplines including: electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, spatial information science, and sensors technology. Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and conference proceedings and further back to 1913 for selected publications. The IEEE Xplore search platform allows simple keyword and phrase searching or complex search queries employing a variety of operators. It also offers an alerting service, saved searches, and other valuable Web 2.0 capabilities for users who register for free personal accounts. For assistance in using IEEE Xplore please contact Martin Wallace in the Science & Engineering Center, 581-1678 or martin.wallace@umit.maine.edu.

New Women's Studies Bibliography

6/24/2008

Women's Studies Bibliography for Spring 2008 is now available

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

6/20/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for May and June

New Database: GreenFILE from EBSCOhost

5/12/2008

GreenFILE provides information on all aspects of human impact to the environment, including such subjects as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. GreenFILE coverage is 74% unique when compared to Environment Complete, which is a more scholarly database. GreenFILE is for the concerned person looking for information on individual response to environmental issues, such as solar or wind power options; on corporate response such as alternative energies used in the business sector; or on local or government impact such as environmental laws and studies.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

4/16/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for April

Fogler Library Celebrates the University of Maine Yearbooks Online, April 17

4/14/2008

For the past eighteen months, Fogler Library staff members have been engaged in digitizing the full run of the Prism yearbook and completed the final of 107 volumes in early March. The Yearbooks Online, which run from 1895 through 1997, are available to browse page by page from the Library’s web site. The online address is: library.umaine.edu/yearbooks.

To celebrate the completion of the project, we would like to invite members of the University Community to an afternoon event to be held April 17 from 3-4 pm at the University Club. A brief presentation of the project and the resulting resource will lead off the occasion followed by an opportunity for attendees to explore the site on individual wireless laptops with assistance from project team staff. Selected physical copies housed in our Special Collections will also be on display.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. We encourage you to stop by and take the premier tour with us.

ScienceDirect and SCOPUS System Brief Downtime April 11

4/10/2008

Science Direct advised that their system will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the period 22:00 to 23:00 EDT on Friday, April 11, due to scheduled maintenance work.

URSUS User Interface Upgrade April10

4/10/2008

The software vendor for our online catalog URSUS will install their latest update to the user interface "WebPac Pro" on Thursday, April 10. There should be no downtime for URSUS users.

The look and feel of the existing URSUS interface will still be present after the upgrade, but WebPac pro will give us some new features, including improved relevance ranking for search results. The most significant difference that users will notice after the upgrade is the use of the brief citation display in search results lists. This feature shows more information about items in the results list than the current view. We will also have the option of increasing the number of results that display on the results page.

New Database: International Tables for Crystallography

4/4/2008

The online version of the International Tables for Crystallography is now available from the Fogler Library Indexes and Databases page library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. This reference work emphasizes physical and chemical properties of crystals, symmetry, and techniques for crystal structure determination. The "advanced search" option on the opening screen permits searching in selected parts of the collection (or the entire work) using Boolean operators and wildcard characters, as well as searches by symmetry group. For more information about this database, contact Nancy R. Curtis (nancy.curtis@umit.maine.edu) or call (207) 581-1679.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

3/19/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for February and March

Maine Humanities Council

3/19/2008

The Maine Humanities Council podcast includes readings, lectures, interviews, and other programs sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and partners like the Portland Public Library. This project is supported by a special Digital Humanities Start-Up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

LibQUAL Results Available

3/10/2008

This past spring the University of Maine community was asked to participate in in LibQUAL, an online survey measuring user perceptions of library services and resources. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. The results of the survey are now available online at http://library.umaine.edu/libqual/default.htm.

Science Direct Unavailable March 9th for 7 Hours.

3/3/2008

ScienceDirect will be unavailable in support of the change from Winter Time to Daylight Savings Time on Sunday, March 9, 2008 for approximately 7 hours starting at 00:00 AM EST (midnight; 05:00 AM GMT). We apologize for the inconvenience.

Computer Mapping/GIS Clinics Free to Faculty and Students

2/15/2008

Announcing "GIS/Computer Mapping Clinics", offering consultation on any stage of a faculty or student computer mapping project, and introducing the GeoStats facilities to carry out all or some of it here in the Library. Clinic hours are Monday - Thursday, 9 am - 2 pm from now until May 2. To make an appointment please contact Karen Stewart (email karen.stewart@umit.maine.edu, phone 581-4607) or Frank Wihbey (email frankw@umit.maine.edu, phone 581-1680). Walk-in clients are welcome.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

2/15/2008

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for January

Fogler Library Closed: January 8th

1/4/2008

Fogler Library will be closed on Tuesday, January 8th for a staff in-service day. The library will re-open at 8:00am on Wednesday, January 9th.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

12/21/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for December

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

12/20/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for November

Fogler Library Finals Week - Extended Hours

12/14/2007

Sat, 15 Dec: 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
Sun, 16 Dec: 10:00 am - 2:30 am
Mon-Thurs (17-20 Dec): 8:00 am - 2:30 am
Fri, 21 Dec: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

RefWorks Free Trial

12/12/2007

Fogler has a free trial to RefWorks running from December 6th to January 5th. RefWorks is an online bibliographic management program that allows researchers to create a personal database of references. RefWorks can then be used to help write your paper by inserting in-text citations and creating a bibliography. Existing Libraries from other bibliographic management programs, such as EndNote, can be imported directly into RefWorks. To try out this software:

Go to https://www.refworks.com/RWSingle/login.asp?WNCLang=false
Enter RWUnivMaine (this is the group code for UMaine)
Click on the link for Sign up for an individual account.

Note: You will always need to enter the group code for remote access. This is true even for users on campus.
Please send your feedback to Cynthia Crosser (cynthia.crosser@umit.maine.edu).

Computer Mapping/GIS Clinics Through Oct.15 Free to Faculty and Students

10/1/2007

Announcing "GIS/Computer Mapping Clinics", offering consultation on any stage of a faculty or student computer mapping project, and introducing the GeoStats facilities to carry out all or some of it here in the Library. Clinic hours are Monday-Thursday 9 am - 2 pm from now until October 15 when our GIS workshops begin library.umaine.edu/newmedia/#Computer_Mapping. To make an appointment please email karen.stewart@umit.maine.edu or frankw@umit.maine.edu or call 581-1680. Walk-in clients are welcome.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

9/18/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for August and September.

Two New Fogler Podcasts

9/10/2007

Two new videos are available at Fogler Library's podcasts page. Take virtual tours of the Media Resource Center and the Science & Engineering Center.

Fogler Library's Media Resource Center (MRC) provides students, faculty and staff a range of media collections including music, video, CDROMs, and more. Laptops, digital camcorders, digital cameras, digital audio recording equipment can be checked out. Computer video/audio workstations, basic recording equipment, and scanners are available for in-house use.

Fogler Library's Science and Engineering Center covers all areas of the sciences and technology. The Center's collection contains a wide range of resources in the natural and physical sciences, engineering, and patent and trademark information.

1,800 ScienceDirect Full-text Online Journals Now Available

9/10/2007

The University of Maine System Libraries are pleased to announce that more than 1,800 ScienceDirect full-text online journals are now available, thanks to annual funding from the University of Maine System, the University of Maine, and the University of Southern Maine. The new ScienceDirect license will provide access to faculty, staff and students at all campuses through the end of 2011. ScienceDirect is a critical research tool, with highly-cited journals that cover topics in the life, health, physical, and social sciences. For assistance, please contact Reference (581-1673) or Science (581-1697).

To access ScienceDirect, go to the database listings on the Fogler Library website at http://library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp.

Learning Materials Center Podcast

8/22/2007

Fogler's second video is ready for viewing either at our podcast page or by subscribing to our podcast feed. This episode is a tour of the Learning Materials Center.

Fogler Library's Learning Materials Center (LMC) supports the University's education curriculum with a collection of high quality educational materials for use with children from preschool through grade twelve. To find out more about the LMC, take a virtual tour.

Human Relations Area Files Records Added to URSUS

8/14/2007

Fogler Library is pleased to announce that records for more than 5,000 books, book selections, field notes, manuscripts, and articles published as part of the Human Relations Area Files microfiche collection have been added to URSUS. The Human Relations Area Files collate and code research in cultural anthropology in order to facilitate comparative studies of society and culture. Many unique titles not owned by the library in print may now be more readily identified and used. Fogler Library also provides access to the database Electronic HRAF at www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. Electronic HRAF picks up where the fiche left off in 1991, and at this time there is very little duplication between the two formats, so a more comprehensive culture search will use both resources. For assistance with HRAF, please contact Joe Fernandez (joe.fernandez@umit.maine.edu or 581-3611) or the Reference Desk (581-1673).

Fogler Video Podcast

8/8/2007

This fall, Fogler Library will be introducing its first podcasts. Staff members have been filming tours of several areas of the library, including Reference, the Science and Engineering Center, the Media Resource Center, and the Learning Materials Center. Library staff will guide you through each of these areas of the library, detailing services and collections available for your use. Patrons who are new to the library, or who would like updates on library services will find these tours helpful. They will be available by viewing the library webpage from any computer, and can be downloaded to your ipod. The first podcast is a video history of Fogler Library, and is available now.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

7/9/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for May and April.

New Student Art Exhibit

7/6/2007

A selection of works by UMaine student Amy Gagnon is currently on display in the first floor hallway at Fogler Library. The exhibit was organized by the Art department and features 10 works from Gagnon’s portfolio.

A Maine native, Gagnon graduated in May with a degree in Studio Art and Landscape Horticulture. Her many awards include: Abraham & Doris Lewis Art Award for Excellence in Drawing or Painting the Human Figure (2007), Ruth Stebbins and Edmund G. Schildknecht Art Fund Award (2007), and Haystack School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship Recipient (2006). Her artwork was chosen for the Dean’s Exhibition in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Gagnon’s personal website is at http://www.portfolio.umaine.edu/~amy_gagnon/homepage.html

Women's Studies International

7/6/2007

The University of Maine now has access to Women’s Studies International. The University of Maine System has purchased a subscription to this important Humanities and Social Sciences resource.

Women’s Studies International is an online index to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies. This database covers material in the fields of arts and humanities, business, economics, education, history, international relations, political science, public policy, and sociology. Covers from 1972 forward, and includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.

Women’s Studies International can be accessed from on or off campus. Off-campus user will need a valid Maine Card. Connect at: http://library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/dbdetails.asp?field=Name&search=Women’s+Studies+International

Fogler Library Blog

7/2/2007

Fogler Library is launching a blog on an open source server provided by IT. The blog will bring together information that is currently being distributed through numerous channels and will include: new resources, library events, service information such as hour changes. During the trial phase, Fogler's "What's New" page will continue to carry much of the same information as the blog but we expect to merge the two media at some future point. An advantage of the blog environment is the ability to participate via commenting on blog entries. These comments will be moderated. Subject-specific blogs (eg. Engineering) are being developed as well and will be available after the pilot phase has ended. You can subscribe to the RSS feed or view the blog at https://www2.umaine.edu/blogs/fogler/index.php.

Student Art Work in Fogler

6/12/2007

The selection of fourteen hand pulled prints behind the glass panels in the periodical section of the library were done by students taking Print 240 and Print 340 in the UM Art Department in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters. The classes are taught by Kris Sader and Susan Camp. The UM print shop is unique in that it teaches students "Non-Toxic" print making methods that are friendlier to the print maker and to the environment. Students learn a variety of printmaking techniques as they explore a new art medium and learn to see and appreciate the history of printmaking and prints. Please stop by and enjoy the variety of high quality work these students have created.

NEW Women's Studies Bibliography

5/23/2007

The Women's Studies Bibliography for Spring 2007 is now available.

LibQual: Prize Winners Announced

5/9/2007

LibQual is a web-based survey to give users an opportunity to tell us what they think about the quality of our services. The survey ran from March 26 - April 15. Library users who took the survey were able enter an optional drawing for a prize.

The names have been drawn and the prizes awarded. Top winners were:

$250 gift certificate
Charles Folsom, Undergraduate

iPod Shuffle
Dan Sandweiss, Faculty
Toby Paradis, Undergraduate

$50 Gift Certificate to Bookstore
Heather Nurmi, Undergraduate
Roger Blanchette, Graduate
Juan Vanegas, Undergraduate
Abigail Hamel, Undergraduate

Sweatshirt from Bookstore
Jessica B. Gilbert, Undergraduate

A total of 50 people received thank you prizes and gift certificates. Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate.

Book Index with Reviews

5/3/2007

The University of Maine System Libraries announce that Book Index with Reviews will be replacing Books in Print starting July 2007. Book Index with Reviews has information on over 4 million book titles (including audiobooks), around 700,000 music and DVD/video titles, citations to millions of reviews in peer-reviewed journals and popular magazines, and links to 800,000 full-text reviews. It also includes full-text first chapters of many books, an all-editions grouping function, Lexile scores, a rating guide based on retail and library sales, and the opportunity to save searches or create alerts. One-click URSUS and EBSCO database searches are available from records for individual titles. Book Index with Reviews is already available on Fogler Library's Indexes and Databases page at www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. For assistance please contact Reference at 581-1673.

Education Full Text Database

5/2/2007

Fogler Library now has access to Education Full Text published by H.W. Wilson. Education Full Text provides high-quality indexing and abstracts for an international range of English-language education journals, books, and yearbooks. More than 725 Journals are indexed "cover to cover" going back to 1983. Full text articles are provided for over 350 journals going back to 1996. ArticleLinker connects to additional full-text articles and points to library holdings in print and microform. Education Full Text is available from the Indexes and Databases page at http://library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp of Fogler Library’s website. For more information contact Cynthia Crossr at cynthia.crosser@umit.maine.edu.

Fogler Students Recognized

4/23/2007

Gabriel Belanger, a student supervisor in the Circulation Department at Fogler Library, is the recipient of this year’s UMaine Campus Student Employee of the Year award. Belanger, a Moscow, Maine native has worked at the library for 4 years. After graduation in May, he is headed to Dartmouth Medical School.

Kimberly Almeida, a student employee in the Library’s Science and Engineering Center was also recognized with a nomination for the award. Kimberly is originally from Massachusetts and has worked at Fogler for 1 ½ years. She hopes to work in publishing after a 2008 graduation

Congratulations to Gabriel and Kimberly and a special thank you to all the student workers who help us here at Foger Library.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

3/30/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for March.

More Electronic Journals from Springer

3/9/2007

Fogler Library now provides online access to more than 1,000 additional journals from the publisher Springer, thanks to our affiliation with the Northeast Research Libraries consortium. Springer publications cover a wide array of disciplines. Most titles offer full text from 1997 to present. Available journals are listed in both URSUS (130.111.64.3/) and ejournals@maine (library.umaine.edu/ejournals/), and ArticleLinker points to the full-text articles from numerous citation databases (e.g. Web of Science). Sample titles include Ecosystems, Trees, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Neuropsychology Review, and Minerva:
A Review of Science, Learning and Policy.

Reminder: Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which covers information technology research, development, and education, is also available online from our Indexes and Databases page at www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp.

For assistance please contact Reference (581-1673) or Science & Engineering (581-1691).

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

2/20/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for February.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

2/19/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for January.

Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate

2/16/2007

As a member of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Commission), Fogler Library supports the petition for the proposed European Commission's Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate. An advocacy update and opportunity to sign the petition is available from the SPARC web site.

Database Trial: Women's Studies International

2/12/2007

Fogler Library has trial access to the Women's Studies International database at http://www.library.umaine.edu/colldev/trials.htm. It covers the core disciplines in women’s studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 548,220 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. Send feedback to Nancy Lewis (nancy.lewis@umit.maine.edu).

William S. Cohen Papers Traveling Exhibit Makes Stops On Campus

1/30/2007

"Cohen, Congress and Controversy: Rediscovering civics in the archives" is on display in the lobby at Fogler Library’s mall entrance until the end of March. The six-panel exhibit uses facsimiles of photographs, handwritten notes, speeches and campaign memorabilia from the former congressman’s political papers to bring the legislative branch into focus. The freestanding display includes interactive panels designed to appeal to young children. To learn more about the Cohen Papers visit the website at www.library.umaine.edu/cohen or contact the archivist at paige.lilly@umit.maine.edu or (207) 581-2665.

news @ nature.com

1/11/2007

news@nature.com is an online current-awareness resource from the Nature Publishing Group, now available to UMaine students, staff, and faculty through Fogler Library's affiliation with the Northeast Research Libraries consortium. Breaking news from Nature journals, as well as job listings, are posted before publication in print. Site features include personal registration and customized e-alerts, blogs, columns, live newsfeeds, and compilations of articles and news channels by topic (e.g. Islam and science, climate change, GM crops, x chromosome, biotechnology). Access via www.library.umaine.edu/ejournals/ (search for title news@nature.com). For assistance, please contact Jim Bird in the Science & Engineering Center at 581-1697 or jim.bird@umit.maine.edu.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

1/11/2007

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for December.

Penobscot Reads

12/29/2006

For the past five years the Bangor Public Library invited everyone to survive January by reading and discussing the same book at the same time. It’s worked. This year the program expands as the public libraries in Old Town, Orono and Hampden and Fogler Library at the University of Maine join Bangor in inviting everyone in our area to read Papa Martel by Gerard Robichaud. During the month of January these libraries will offer programs, displays and discussions as Penobscot Reads.

NEW Women's Studies Bibliography

12/29/2006

The Women's Studies Bibliography for Fall 2006 is now available.

ERIC Database Now Available Online in Two Versions

12/11/2006

Fogler Library is now offering links to both the EBSCO and the CSA versions of ERIC from its "Indexes and Databases" menu (http://library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp). The newly offered CSA version has the added value of pulling out peer-reviewed journals in the results. This was achieved by using Ulrich's Periodic Directory, a CSA product.

Sorting by peer-review status is not a feature available in EBSCO at the present time. However the search interface of the EBSCO version is very user-friendly and that version of the database is part of the repertory of Maine state supported databases.

Iraq Study Group Report

12/11/2006

The landmark final report of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) is now available to the Federal Depository Library Program. GPO has harvested and cataloged the electronic version of this report, available via the web through GPO's Catalog of Government Publications at http://catalog.gpo.gov (search system ID "000595612"), through the front page of GPO Access at , or by direct PURL at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS76748.

Physical Education Index Now Available

12/5/2006

Thanks to funding from the University of Maine System Libraries, Fogler Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Physical Education Index as a database. The Phys Ed Index covers literature on curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education, and physical therapy. To access, go to http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. For assistance with the database, please contact Reference at 581-1673.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

11/29/2006

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for November.

Journal Citation Reports

11/27/2006

Foger Library now subscribes to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Thomson ISI. JCR allows the user to evaluate and compare the impact of journals. Journals can be displayed by subject area and organized by impact factor, total citations to the journal, immediacy index, total number of articles, and cited-half life. Individual journal titles can be searched. A journal’s impact factor is defined by JCR as the number of citations to articles published in a 2-year period divided by the number of articles published during those same 2 years. JCR indexes over 5,900 journals from the sciences and over 1,700 journals from the social sciences. Please read “Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely” in the Information for New Users window. JCR is available from the Indexes and Databases page of Fogler Library’s website.

ACM Digital Library

11/21/2006

Fogler library is pleased to announce the addition of this new scholarly research database for the subjects of Computer Science and Information Technology, from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). There are two parts to the ACM Digital Library: The Digital Library Core Package includes the full-text of over 40 ACM computing and information technology journals, magazines and transactions in an online archive ranging from the 1950s to current publications. The Digital Library Master Special Interest Group (SIG) Package includes the full text of all ACM conference proceedings and newsletters in full text, dating back to the early 1950s. Together, these packages provide a complete backfile of all ACM publications in a fully searchable full-text database.

Access the ACM Digital Library from from the Fogler Library gateway here:
http://www.library.umaine.edu/auth/auth.asp?db=ACM+Digital+Library

View a detailed listing of publications availabe through the Digital Library Core Package here:
http://www.acm.org/membership/library/dlcore.htm

View a detailed listing of publications availabe through the Digital Library Master Special Interest Group Package here:
http://www.acm.org/membership/library/dlsig.htm

For help contact Martin Wallace, 207-581-1678 or martin.wallace@umit.maine.edu

Search Manuscript Collections Online

10/17/2006

Researchers may now search a selection of finding aids for manuscripts using Fogler Library’s search engine at http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/portaldb/search.htm. Access to finding aids is essential for understanding the true content of manuscript collections, such as personal papers, business records, and photographs, because the finding aid is a detailed narrative description and inventory of the material. This new tool allows keyword searching across finding aids for 115 collections with more being added continually. The bulk of these collections were part of a project, funded by a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, to process nearly 100 collections related to Maine's environmental history. Information about manuscript collections is also available through records in URSUS, a browsable list at http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/manulist.htm, and onsite finding aids in Special Collections on the third floor of Fogler Library. Contact Special Collections staff at (207) 581-1686 or spc@umit.maine.edu for further information.

A Proliferation of Puckerbrush: Celebrating 28 Years of the Puckerbrush Review

10/9/2006

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
3.00 p.m.
Special Collections
Program includes:

The Achievement of Puckerbrush Review: Sandra Hutchison
Puckerbrush and Maine Literature: Sandy Phippen
Puckerbrush and Contemporary American Poetry: Burt Hatlen
Puckerbrush and the World: Tony Brinkley
Arts Presentation: Kathleen Ellis and students
The Future of Puckerbrush Review: Sam Hunting
Presentation of Memorial Issue of Puckerbrush Review by Sandy Phippen

Small Books, Big Ideas

10/4/2006

The Small Books, Big Ideas website accompanies a display in the main hallway, first floor, of Fogler Library, University of Maine, for the month of October, 2006. It's an attempt to expand the display beyond the physical confines of the space and point toward other resources, both print and electronic. We'll be adding items to the display throughout the month; as we add to the display, we'll be adding to the site: http://www.smallbooksbigideas.blogspot.com/

Historian Nicholas Smith

10/4/2006

Thursday, 12 October 2006
3.00 p.m.
Special Collections
For more than 50 years Smith has done field work among all the Wabanaki groups. His many tapes of Wabanaki music, folk history, and traditions are an important research collection. Smith’s research has taken him to many fine libraries and museums in the U.S., Canada. England, Austria and Germany. He has published numerous papers in major anthropological journals. He has compiled a massive computerized bibliography, that has helped many Wabanaki people, students, and researchers learn more about Wabanaki history.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

10/3/2006

During October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Fogler Library is participating in a Statewide Library Outreach Campaign sponsored by the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence (http://www.mcedv.org/) and Spruce Run (http://www.sprucerun.net/) by offering books and resource information to patrons to raise community awareness and support. Spruce Run's 24-hour hotline is 1-800-863-9909. For more information and a list of books see http://www.library.umaine.edu/colldev/domesticviolence.htm.

New Additions to Scifinder Scholar

9/26/2006

The SciFinder Scholar database now includes 3 sets of experimental spectral data:

More than 142,000 Carbon-13 NMR spectra (provided by Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.)
More than 38,000 mass spectra (also from Wiley)
Roughly 28,000 IR absorption spectra (from the Integrated Spectral Database System of Organic Compounds, provided by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan)

To find this data, search for a compound in the REGISTRY section of the database. (Click on the CAS Registry Number within a bibliographic reference, or use Locate > Locate substances and then click on the microscope icon.) Click "Experimental Properties" and click on a link for an individual spectrum. Spectra display as images in a separate browser window. For more information about the SciFinder Scholar 2006 software, contact Nancy Curtis, Science & Engineering Librarian, on FirstClass email (nancy.curtis@umit.maine.edu>) or at 207-581-1679.

NEW Media Resource Center Materials

9/22/2006

The Media Resource Center has new music materials listed for July and August.

Information Commons

8/31/2006

A collaboration between Fogler Library and Information Technologies, the University of Maine’s Information Commons is a state of the art education and technology facility. It offers a single information and service access point for students and researchers. Library users can get help using both print and electronic resources to do research, they can get advice on how to write a paper or report, and they can get assistance using the technology they need to produce a report, presentation, or web site.

Located on the first floor of the Library, the Commons includes open space, workstations, and study tables. Students can interact and work together in groups or individually. There is a central information desk staffed by both reference librarians from Fogler and technology experts from Information Technology. There are also new area studies sections for easier access to print resources. The areas include: Fine Arts, Business and Economics, Atlases, Middle East&47;Asia, and Southern Hemisphere. A floor plan and more detailed information is available at&58; http://www.library.umaine.edu/about/info_commons.htm

Oxford English Dictionary Online

8/25/2006

The Oxford English Dictionary Online is now available. The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
To access, go to www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. For assistance with the database, please contact Reference at 581-1673.

WorldCat.org

8/11/2006

A free version of WorldCat that can be easily searched by title, subject, or person. Search results can be refined to limit to author name, content or subject area, format (e.g. article, book, visual material, sound recording, serial), language, and year. After selecting a title and entering one's location, WorldCat.org identifies the closest libraries that own it, and links to the item's record in those libraries' catalogs.

Traveling Exhibit Highlights Cohen in Congress

7/25/2006

A new exhibit from the William S. Cohen Papers at the Raymond H. Fogler Library seeks to shed light on how Congress is designed to work and what politicians actually do on a day to day basis in Washington.
Titled "Cohen, Congress and Controversy: Rediscovering civics in the archives," the six-panel exhibit uses facsimiles of photographs, handwritten notes, speeches and campaign memorabilia from the former congressman’s political papers to bring the legislative branch into focus. Topics include Bill Cohen's successful 1972 bid for Maine’s second congressional district seat; the powers of Congress granted by the Constitution; the busy life of a senator, using Cohen's book about his first year there; and the oversight role of Congress, illustrated with documents from the Watergate and Iran-Contra investigations. More information about the exhibit and its schedule can be obtained by calling Paige Lilly at (207) 581-2665, or emailing to paige.lilly@umit.maine.edu.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online database

7/13/2006

CIAO, the Columbia International Affairs Online database includes:

full-text of selected international affairs journals, books, working papers, conference proceedings, and policy briefs
includes teaching materials such as case studies and course packs, and monthly focus topics such as "the immigration debate"

To access, go to www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. For assistance with the database, please contact Reference at 581-1673.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

6/29/2006

New database Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes citations to more than 15 million biographical sketches in over 1,000 current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Check URSUS to find the location and call number of most of the works indexed in BGMI. To access, go to www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. For assistance with the database, please contact Reference at 581-1673.

Historical Statistics of the United States

6/28/2006

Thanks to funding from the University of Maine System Libraries, Fogler Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) database. This Cambridge University Press publication updates and expands the Census Bureau's 1975 work of the same name. It contains quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Also covers topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. HSUS allows one to graph and combine data from different tables into custom tables, and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. HSUS is also available as a five-volume print set in Reference (Ref HA202 .H57 2006). To access, go to www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. For assistance with the database, please contact Reference at 581-1673.

Information Commons

6/15/2006

Work is currently underway at Fogler Library to create an information commons, a space where information can be accessed, absorbed, and actively used for reports and projects.
Working with Information Technologies, Fogler Library staff are rearranging computer workstations and furniture on the first floor of the Library to provide a space conducive to student interaction, technology support and research assistance whether working together in groups or individually on course assignments.
A floorplan for the Information Commons project is now available both on an informational easel behind the charge out desk on level 1 and on the web at: http://library.umaine.edu/about/ic_mainfloorplan.htm.

Stack Shift Underway

6/9/2006

Library staff and student workers are busy adding 150 new sections to our book stacks. This project will involve shifting materials on both the 2nd and 3rd floors. Work on the 3rd floor is already underway and should be complete by the end of July. When all the new shelves are in place, Fogler will have 12 ½ miles of book stacks. If you have questions or need help locating a book, please stop by the Circulation desk on level 1 or call 581-1666.

Fogler Library has added The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) to Indexes and Databases.

4/11/2006

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents “supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research.”

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of homeland security policy, strategy and organizational documents.

Key Features

Thousands of key, selected HS documents
Full-text advanced search, hundreds of subject categories
Direct links to important U.S. policy documents
Online databases and journals
Cutting edge NPS thesis and research reports
Breaking news stories and newly released reports

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Grants & Training isproviding the HSDL to homeland security officials, researchers, scholars and students in an effort to further advance national research and policy development.

Access to the site for the University of Maine System is granted via proxy and IP authentication.

Van Reid Cancelled

4/10/2006

Van Reid's appearance at Fogler Library on Tuesday, 11 April has been cancelled. Tentative plans are to reschedule for the fall.

Library Hours Extended During Finals Week

4/10/2006

Fogler Library will be open late during spring finals week this year. Please see the Spring Finals section of Fogler Library's hours page for details.

NEW Learning Materials Center Materials

4/4/2006

The Learning Materials Center has new titles listed for March.

The University Club is now on the web

4/4/2006

The University Club, located in the Thomas Lynch Room, Second Floor of Fogler Library, now has a web home. Upcoming events and the current week's lunch menu is on the home page. Other pages have information about the Club, membership, room rentals, directions to Fogler Library and the Lynch Room, and how to contact the Club manager. University Club memberships are open to all university employees, alumni, and retirees, as well to those who work for other institutions/agencies located on campus. Please bookmark this page for your news about the Club.

Earth Day Dinner In Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Edith Marion Patch

3/27/2006

Sunday, April 23, 2006, 5 - 7 p.m.
The Thomas Lynch University Club, Fogler Library
The University of Maine

Please join us for a buffet dinner featuring recipes from the Friends of Dr. Edith Marion Patch Cookbook.

Appetizers
Artichoke Turnovers, Onion Soufflé, Homos Bi Tahini with Vegetables
Main Course
Chicken Mushroom Bake, Vegetable Pie
Soups, Side Dishes and Salads
Zucchini Soup, Wild Rice Pilaf, Crunchy Romaine Toss, Winter Salad, Stephen King's Basic Bread
Desserts
A scrumptious selection of Brownie Schrumpf's Best Dessert Recipes

$20.00 per person
R.s.v.p. by April 12, 2006 (prepaid registration required)
For more information, contact Gretchen Gfeller. Voice: 581-1696. E-mail: gretchen.gfeller @umit.maine.edu

USA Trade Online -- U.S. Foreign Trade Data

3/23/2006

Provides specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide. Includes 2- through 10- digit HS detail for both import and export commodities including: monthly data dating back to January 2002, cumulative "year to date" data dating back to 2002, annual data dating back to 1992, and district-level data.

STAT-USA -- Federal Business, Trade, and Economic Information

3/23/2006

Provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, STAT-USA provides access to business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government. "State of the Nation" includes current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. "GLOBUS & NTBD" provides current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the trade library: the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).

Spring Break -- Library Hours

2/28/2006

Fogler Library's building hours will be as follows during spring break:

Spring Break -- March 3 – 19, 2006

Friday, March 3 -- 8:00am- 5:00pm
Saturday-Sunday, March 4 - 5 -- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Monday – Friday, March 6 – 10 -- 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday – Sunday, March 11 - 12 -- 10:00am-5:00pm
Monday – Friday, March 13 - 17 -- 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday, March 18 -- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, March 19 -- Regular hours resume- 10 am to midnight

SCIFINDER SCHOLAR UPDATES SEARCH SOFTWARE

2/16/2006

2006 versions of the SciFinder Scholar chemical literature search software are available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. SciFinder Scholar is the expanded electronic version of Chemical Abstracts. It includes citations and abstracts for journal articles and other materials on chemistry and related areas, covering the literature from 1907 to present Older versions of the software will not be supported after March 31.

Updating instructions are posted on the library guide at library.umaine.edu/science/scifinder.htm. The new Macintosh version is an interim release for OS X, with another update scheduled for release later this year, and supports the Safari browser. Macintosh users upgrading their software will need a new copy of the UMaine site preferences file. This file is available on the SciFinder Scholar installation CD-ROM, which can be checked out from the Media Resource Center.

For more information about SciFinder Scholar contact Nancy Curtis at nancy.curtis@umit.maine.edu or 581-1679.

Spring 2006 Fogler Library Workshop Series

2/15/2006

All workshops will be held in the Fogler Library Computer Classroom, located on the first floor of the library. Among the workshop topics offered are: Web Authoring; FrontPage; Dreamweaver MX; PhotoShop; Desktop Publishing; PageMaker; Code/Style Sheets; Basic HTML; EndNote; and Computer Mapping. For a complete listing please see: http://www.library.umaine.edu/newmedia.

Workshop series organized by Gretchen Gfeller, Web and Public Relations Specialist at Fogler Library. To register or for more information, call 207-581-1696 or email: gretchen.gfeller@umit.maine.edu.

Please join us for an International Buffet

2/15/2006

Sunday, February 26, 2006, 5 - 7 p.m.
The Thomas Lynch University Club, Fogler Library

Please join us for an international buffet prepared by members of the Student Heritage Alliance Center. Proceeds will be shared by Fogler Library and SHAC’s Agent Orange Awareness Project.

Appetizers:

Olivie Russian Salad (bologna, cucumbers, carrots, green peas, potato, onion, mayonnaise)
Nem cuon - Vietnamese Spring Rolls (vegetarian version available)

Main Course

Banh chung (Vietnamese square cakes with sticky rice, green beans, pork, and fish sauce; vegetarian version will be available)
Fried Rice (Philippines)
Chicken Curry (India)
Bun thang (vermicelli soup from Vietnam)
Mang xao nam (Vietnamese vegetable stir fry)
Mapo Tofu (China)
Tushoniy Perec (Korean dish with fried pepper and beef or pork)

Desserts

Suong sa (Vietnamese Jello)
Rice Pudding (Thailand)

Beverages

fresh lime juice
green tea

$20.00 per person
R.s.v.p. by February 17, 2006 (prepaid registration required*) For more information, contact Gretchen Gfeller. Voice: 581-1696. E-mail: gretchen.gfeller@umit.maine.edu

New User Interface for LexisNexis Congressional Database

2/14/2006

LexisNexis has redesigned their interface for Congressional document records. The new design allows users to search using many information points. The default Basic Search checks abstracts, titles, indexing information and other bibliographic data. Advanced Search allows users to expand to a search of the full-text. Search by Number is for expert users who can search by publication or bibliographic number.

TRANSCRIPTS OF ENERGY SPEECHES NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

2/6/2006

Seven audio files of speeches from "The Promise of Energy Independence" forum last fall have been transcribed, thanks to assistance from the Maine Folklife Center. Speakers included Susan Tierney who is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy and a partner in The Analysis Group in Boston, Helena Chum of the National Bioenergy Center at the U.S. Department of Energy, Governor John Baldacci, Denis Bergeron of Efficiency Maine, Dave Wilby of Independent Energy Producers of Maine, Beth Nagusky of the Governor's Office of Energy Independence, and Rob Gardiner of the Conservation Law Foundation. The PDF files are linked through the following web page: http://www.library.umaine.edu/cohen/forum/energy.htm

Tapas Bar

1/17/2006

A Tapas Bar in Orono? Yes, indeed, thanks to the efforts of Kathleen March (Modern Languages and Classics) and Gretchen Gfeller (Fogler Library).
Fogler Library will host a Tapas Bar on Thursday, 26 January from 4-6 p.m. in the University Club. There will be a cash bar. And, just to make things interesting, all the food will be prepared by faculty volunteers. The cost is $12 per person. All the proceeds go to support Fogler Library. Participating faculty include: Ali Abedi, Liz Depoy, Scott Johnson, Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, Kathleen March, John Mahon, Bob Rice, Maria Sandweiss, Touradj Solouki, and Maria Tijan-Weick.
Please stop by for a quick snack and a chance to visit with friends and colleagues. This event is open to the entire University community and the general public.

We have a new look on the Fogler Library top level page!

1/3/2006

Here are some of the highlights that we encourage you to explore:

Quick Link options - We've moved some key links to the top level page with a "Quick Search" box which you will find top and center. Use the tabs to quickly explore access to essential Library services including: Reserves, Renewals, Subject Portals and Indexes and Databases.

URSUS Quick Search - we've also added a quick search box link for URSUS, your best option for one stop searching of all Fogler Library resources. Our user statistics led us to title as your default search option but you can use the pulldown window to switch to keyword, author or subject searching.

Library as Place - We've added a photo of the library and direct links to hours, contacts and maps of the building.

Thanks go to our Fogler Library Focus Group participants for their evaluation of the prototype as we prepared for the new year launch of the page. We want to continue to be as responsive as we can to our diverse user community! If you have a question, concern or constructive comment we want to hear from you! Please contact foglerweb@library.umaine.edu

Finding Full Text Faster

12/19/2005

We are pleased to announce ArticleLinker, a new service that makes finding full-text articles even easier. ArticleLinker links have been set up in most of the major databases subscribed by the library, such as those from EBSCO (e.g. Academic Search Premier, PsycINFO), CSA (e.g. Sociological Abstracts, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts), and Gale (MLA Bibliography).

Click on the ArticleLinker icon next to journal article citations in many of our online indexes and databases
Select your campus
Click one of the "Go to: Article" links, if available, OR
Click to search URSUS for the print journal at the library, OR
Submit a completed Interlibrary Loan request form.

If there are no ArticleLinker icons next to citations in a database, the publisher may not support the technology used, and URSUS should be consulted for online and print journal holdings. Questions? Please contact Reference at 207-581-1673 or Science at 207-581-1691.

NEW ADDITIONS TO CSA SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS

12/15/2005

More than 15,000 backfile records from 1952-1962 have been added to the Sociological Abstracts database, offering electronic access to some of the early literature of sociology. Also, abstracts have been added to records from 1963 to 1972, and Cited References have been added to thousands of records from 2002 to present. This database may be accessed from .

PSYCINFO RELOADED - NEW SEARCH FEATURES

12/9/2005

PsycINFO has completed the 2005 reload from the American Psychology Association. The reload includes an updated thesaurus and new features designed to make searching easier. Users will now find that all results are categorized by publication type. Links along the top enable users to click on results for All Journals, Peer Reviewed Journals, Books, Encyclopedias, Dissertation Abstracts, or Electronic Collections. A methodology field has been added that allows users using Advanced Search to limit searches to Literature Review, Meta Analysis, Field Study, Longitudinal Study, etc. This database may be accessed from .

ORONO BICENTENNIAL COOKBOOK CELEBRATION

11/4/2005

Fogler Library and the Fogler Library Friends would like to invite you to a celebration of Orono’s Bicentennial Cookbook Sunday, November 13, 2005, 5 - 7 p.m. in the Thomas Lynch University Club, Fogler Library, The University of Maine. Celebrate the publication of Orono Cooks!, the cookbook developed by the Friends of the Orono Public Library in honor of Orono's Bicentennial in 2006. All recipes on the menu are taken from the cookbook, which will be on sale at the dinner. Menu will include: Grace Soup, Cheese Dip with Crudités and Crackers, Hummus Dip with Crudités and Crackers, Baked Zucchini Squash (vegetarian), Chicken Curry, Seafood Casserole, Rolled Oat Dinner Rolls, Broccoli-Raisin Salad, Mandarin Orange Salad, a selection of baked goods and fresh fruit. $20.00 per person. For more information, contact Gretchen Gfeller: E-mail: gretchen.gfeller @umit.maine.edu Voice: 581-1696.

Library Support for WebCT and Blackboard

10/14/2005

You can now add links to library resources from your WebCT and Blackboard classes. Our Library Support for WebCt and Blackboard page offers suggestions for some of our most useful library resources including Subject Portals, Library Databases, and Course Reserves. You can also get help from your subject specialist (http://library.umaine.edu/colldev/contacts.htm) to select specific database links for your students.

Access to William P. Palmer III Collection

10/13/2005

Hudson Museum’s Palmer Collection is now available through the Library’s URSUS catalog and Gateway to Digital Collections. Both Fogler Library and Hudson Museum staff worked on the project, which was also supported by a retrospective conversion grant from the Maine State Library. The William P. Palmer III Collection consists of of archaeological material from Mexico and Central America and ethnographic holdings from the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. As the Hudson Museum’s pre-eminent collection, it features an internationally significant assemblage of 2,828 Precolumbian ceramics, lithics and gold work dating from 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest. In addition to its Precolumbian component, the collection includes over 200 objects from the Northwest Coast that date to the heyday of Northwest Coast collecting, 1875-1930. Access to the digital database in its entirety is available through: Hudson Museum Web http://www.library.umaine.edu/hudson/palmer/ and the Library’s Gateway to Digital Collections http://libraries.maine.edu/gateway/

Special Collections Roadshow: secrets of the archives

9/15/2005

Sunday, 25 September, 2005 3:00 p.m. Main Dining Room, Dirigo Pines, Orono, ME Featuring a presentation by Richard Hollinger, Head of Fogler's Special Collections and a chance to see items from the collections. Don't miss this unique opportunity to find out what makes Special Collections special. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information about Friends events, contact Gretchen Gfeller. Voice: 581-1696. E-mail: gretchen.gfeller@umit.maine.edu

New York Times Historical

9/14/2005

The New York Times Historical database covers the years from 1851 to 4 years ago, and offers searchable full text, with full page and article images in PDF. This resource includes articles, reviews, advertisements, comics, photos, maps and graphics, editorials, letters, and obituaries. Access at http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp.

Web of Science

9/14/2005

Provides access to the Science Citation Index® (1900 to present), Social Sciences Citation Index® (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™ (1975-present). Covers current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines to uncover information relevant to their research. Access at http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp.

The Promise of Energy Independence -- Examining national policy and regional action

9/1/2005

William S. Cohen Papers Forum, Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Buchanan Alumni House, The University of Maine. Energy policy continues to confound us as it did in the 1970s when Representative Bill Cohen began promoting energy conservation and alternative fuels research in order to reduce dependence on foreign oil. Now, thirty years later, what compromises are needed to fuel the future and gain energy security for Maine and the nation? Our distinguished speakers will share their knowledge and lead a discussion of issues such as reliable energy, biomass conversion, and LNG terminal siting. Please plan to join us for the second in a series of provocative discussions based on topics in the Cohen Papers. Registration information will be mailed in early September. See the following website for further information: http://www.library.umaine.edu/cohen/forum.htm

Fogler Library at New Student Orientation

6/17/2005

Fogler Library Web and Public Relations Specialist Gretchen Gfeller will be representing the library at this summer's New Student Orientation and Information Fair. The Info Fair is held in the Maine Center for the Arts from 1.30 - 3.30 p.m. on Friday Saturday and Sunday, June 17, 18, 19 and Friday, Saturday, Sunday - June 24, 25, 26. New students and their parents will have the opportunity to learn more about Fogler's resources and services.

Reunion Weekend is June 3-5 (Friday – Sunday).

6/2/2005

There are a variety of events going on throughout the weekend. Fogler Library is “in the spotlight” from 2- 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Tours will be offered at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Library staff will be prepared to assist Alumni and their guests with questions about the library. There will also be an afternoon tea in the University Club from 2 -4 p.m.

Fogler Library at the State House

6/2/2005

On Monday, June 6, Fogler Library Staff members will be setting up a Fogler Library exhibit in the Hall of Flags in the Statehouse in Augusta. They will be displaying an array of current Fogler projects including enhancements to the digital library. Mary Cathcart, former state senator now with the Margaret Chase Smith Center, will be joining the group for the day. The display will be from 8 am to 2 pm.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION FORM

4/16/2005

The University of Maine System library directors encourage you to submit recommendations for electronic resources to http://libraries.maine.edu/margateway/acquire/. New subscriptions or purchases of electronic resources represent ongoing fiscal commitments that are not covered by the UMS Libraries' core budget, unless additional funding is provided. (April 2005)

Hard Work, the latest film from award-winning filmmaker, Jim Sharkey

4/7/2005

Thursday, 7 April, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. in the University Club Featuring the 19th century writings of working women, Sharkey’s hour-long film combines the “voices” of these working women together with period music, photographs, and interviews with Maine historian Carol Toner. The film explores the working and living conditions for women in Maine’s shops and factories. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Co-Sponsored by the Fogler Library Friends, Women in the Curriculum and the Women's Studies Program.

WINDOWS ON MAINE

3/9/2005

The University of Maine's Fogler Library, Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the Maine State Museum have created a new Web-based archive that makes available programs and video clips from two MPBN programs with relevance for Maine teachers and students. The Web site offers K-12 teachers, and teacher education programs, online professional development programming through the Annenberg/CPB educational distribution network. Windows on Maine is designed to support the integration of technologies into classroom instruction and curricula.

FOGLER LIBRARY SUBJECT PORTALS

3/8/2005

What's YOUR Topic? Step through the subject portals at Fogler Library… From Anthropology to Zoology and from Dance to Women's Studies, we have brought together books, journals, online resources and contact with your Fogler Library subject specialist under a single web page we call a portal. A subject portal serves as a doorway for your research needs that leads to many resources available both locally and globally via the Internet. A wide array of subject portals, 83 in all, is available to support your research and studies here at UMaine.

INTRODUCING ILLiad : OUR NEW INTERLIBRARY LOAN SYSTEM

3/7/2005

Fogler Library now has a new Interlibrary loan system. Go to the ILL website and you'll be directed to create an ILLiad account. You will be able to place all your requests through ILLiad.Once you've created an account you will not have to enter your personal information again. You'll be able to view and track all your requests from the time you place them until you receive them. We'll also deliver most articles electronically through your ILLiad page.