Archive for 'Library Services' Category
Missoula College as seen by a student
9 May 2013Greetings from your friendly Missoula College librarian (why yes, we do have a library over here!). One of Missoula College’s students has made a great video about some of the challenges and opportunities about learning on this campus, and briefly features the library. We’ve luckily just been approved funding for a new building, so hopefully [...]
New Library Scanning Service
12 March 2013The Mansfield Library recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony to introduce the latest in scanning technology – the Zeta scanner. The Zeta’s intuitive face-up scanning and 3-D correction allows you to blaze through pages on this extra-large scanner. It’s easy to use, has a multilingual user menu and is on an adjustable table to accommodate [...]
Latest Issue of Mansfield Library Newsletter Now Available!
10 October 2012The Fall 2012 issue of Snmipnuntn, the Mansfield Library newsletter, is now available online! In it you will meet new library faculty and the new Library Dean, Dr. Shali Zhang, learn more about our Government Documents Librarian, discover how teaching faculty use the library in their classes, learn about new and updated databases, see a [...]
Baby Changing Tables Now Available!
18 May 2012We are pleased to announce that baby changing tables have been installed in the men’s and women’s restrooms on Levels 2 and 4. They will accommodate babies up to the weight of 50 pounds.
Poetry-for-Lunch Reading
13 April 2012University of Montana students will read their original works during “Poetry-For-Lunch” from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Lobby. The event is free and open to the public. Students whose creative works were accepted for publication in The Oval, UM’s undergraduate literary magazine, or who are enrolled [...]
The Spring Issue of Snmipnuntn is Available Online
8 February 2012The Spring Semester issue of Snmipnuntn, the library newsletter, is now online. Click here to access the latest issue, which is full of news and information about library services. In this issue you’ll find information about the library’s mobile website, our new teaching space, our upcoming research workshops and much more. You’ll also find our [...]
Spring Workshops
7 February 2012The Library is offering a series of workshops this semester. Learn about library research and databases in a small group environment. Topics to be covered include Business resources, Copyright, Foundation Center resources, the Literature Review process, and Managing Research with RefWorks. All workshops are open to the entire UM community.
Friday Featured Database – ARTstor
6 January 2012“The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates. The Digital Library [...]
Friday Featured Database – Access World News
16 December 2011“This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, [...]
Friday Featured Database – North American Indian Thought and Culture
9 December 2011“This fifth release of North American Indian Thought and Culture contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. The database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America.” For more information visit http://alexanderstreet.com/products/ibio.htm. [...]