Group Study Rooms Plus Equipment
13 June 2008 by Sue Samson
Two group study rooms, 102 and 512, have been outfitted with a computer, projector, and dvd/vhs player to facilitate the ability of groups to work on joint projects and/or view videos. Reservations can be made up to two weeks in advance.
Summer @ the Mansfield Library
13 June 2008 by Sue Samson
Enjoy summer study and reading seven days a week. Librarians and library personnel are available to assist with your research questions. For details on hours and special holidays, click here.
Trial Access to Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies Database!
30 April 2008 by Julie Biando Edwards
The Mansfield Library has a trial subscription to the MECAS database through June 30th. This database can be found on the Databases A-Z page of our website.
MECAS is a bibliographical index of research, policy, and scholarship pertaining to the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. It includes over 475,000 records from 1900 to the present and covers politics, economics, culture, business, art and humanities, anthropology, religion, recent history and more. MECAS includes the following: Middle East Bibliography (1946 - 2001), Middle East Book Bibliographies, Theses & Dissertations, MECAS Citations Database and School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue (1900 - present).
For more information contact Julie Biando Edwards, Ethnic Studies Librarian at 243-4505 or julie.edwards@umontana.edu.
New Archives & Special Collections Exhibition
31 March 2008 by Jordan Goffin
Stop by the Theta Rho room outside Archives & Special Collections to see our latest exhibition: The Art of Illustrating the Book. You’ll see a selection of some interesting items from our collections that trace the development of illustration methods from the Middle Ages to the present. The exhibition also features a selection of local artist Dirk Lee’s wood engravings and some of the most visually-interesting zines from our extensive small press collection.Items on display include the 1561 Stow edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, one of the portfolio photogravure images from Edward Curtis’ North American Indian, works by Arthur Rackham and Maurice Sendak, and much more.
The Art of Illustrating the Book will be on view through June. For more information contact Archives & Special Collections at 406.243.2053 or library.archives@umontana.edu.
(This post is also available on the A&SC Blog: http://content.lib.umt.edu/spcoll/)
Digital Char-Koosta News now available
26 March 2008 by Steve McCann
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Digital Char-Koosta News.
The Digital Char-Koosta News Project is a collaborative effort of the D’Arcy McNickle Library at Salish Kootenai College, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library of the University of Montana. Funding came from the Institute of Museums and Library Services.
Digitization of the publication covers the years 1956 to 1961, and 1971 to 1988.
Published by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, started in November 1956 and continued through five decades. With the exception of a ten-year hiatus from December 1961 through May 1971, the paper continues to publish a weekly issue. Tribal Councilman Walter W. McDonald served as editor for the first five years. Clarence Woodcock resurrected the paper in 1971 as editor. Many editors took turns leading the Tribal newspaper through the years.
The Char-Koosta served as “an attempt to increase communication between the tribal members on and off the reservation as well as among other United States Indian Tribes and whites.” The name “Char-Koosta” is derived from the names of the last two recognized ancestral leaders of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Chief Koostahtah of the Kootenai and Chief Charlo of the Bitterroot Salish were Chiefs when the Indian re-organization Act established a CSKT Constitution and Tribal Council in 1935.
The project was digitized at the University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library.
Trial Access to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
13 March 2008 by Barry Brown
We have trial access through May 5th to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. This database is available via the Databases A-Z list on the Mansfield Library homepage. A description of this database, by the publisher, is provided below. If you have any comments, questions, or feedback about this database please send them to Barry Brown.
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.
CSA employs what it calls “deep indexing” to categorize data, variables and other content represented in tables, maps, photographs and other figures. Usually, indexing of research articles is done at a rather high, general level where only the key concepts of the work are represented by a dozen or so index terms, but by going deeper and specifically indexing the content associated with all the individual tables and figures, CSA Illustrata enables the researcher to find information that otherwise would not be retrievable in traditional, article-level indexing systems. Search results – the objects – can be viewed in full, in either (thumbnail or enhanced format) along with the caption, author and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper. In most instances, the parent abstract is displayed and context is further preserved by links to the full-text documents when available. Thus the researcher can find relevant data faster and, because of the visual impact of the results, can quickly determine whether or not to spend time reading the source documents. The visualization of data and the interdisciplinary nature of CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences can also lead to unexpected discoveries or connections between seemingly disparate pieces of work.
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is interdisciplinary, covering a wide variety of journals from all major areas such as: Biology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Medical Sciences, Agriculture, Fish and Fisheries, Education, Geography, Veterinary Science, Food and Food Industries, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Meteorology, Public Health and Safety, Water Resources, Conservation, Forests and Forestry.
New Materials RSS Feed now available
13 March 2008 by Samantha Hines
We are pleased to announce that we now have RSS feeds available for our new library materials, broken down by subject area. You can add them to your feed reader by visiting this page or by clicking on the “New Materials RSS Feeds” link in the library catalog.
Trial Access to American Periodical Series, 1740-1900
10 February 2008 by Donna McCrea
The Mansfield Library is providing Trial Access — through March 31, 2008 — to the database American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900. APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years - from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal. Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.
Donna McCrea, History Librarian
Trial Access to CogNet
9 February 2008 by Barry Brown
We have trial access to Cognet through April 8. It is listed under our databases alphabetically as well as in the Psychology – Onesearch subject cluster. A description of this database is provided below. If you have any comments or questions or would like to provide feedback please let me know (Barry.Brown@umontana.edu). Thanks.
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Developed by The MIT Press, MIT CogNet is an online location for the brain and cognitive science community’s scientific research and interchange. Since breaking ground in 2000, MIT CogNet has become an essential resource for those interested in cutting-edge primary research across the range of fields concerned with understanding the nature of the human mind.
Individual and institutional subscribers to MIT CogNet have access to a comprehensive platform which includes pre-eminent resources from several fields, such as artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and education. The platform provides an ever-growing electronic collection of relevant books, journals, conference proceedings, calls for papers and grey literature, and provides searchable access to ten major reference works published by the MIT Press; 450 MIT Press books in full-text PDF; the full text of six MIT Press journals; and abstracts from more than 30 journals from other publishers like Cambridge University Press, the British Psychological Society, Kingston Press, Ltd., and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Web of Knowledge has a new interface
6 February 2008 by Barry Brown
Web of Knowledge has a new interface. This affects the following databases: Web of Science; Biological Abstracts; and Zoological Record. The new design appears easier and more user friendly. There are links from the main web page, within each of the specific databases, to training and support guides and resources. For additional information see:
http://isiwebofknowledge.com/currentuser_wokhome/cu_new/newface/
http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wok/
