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September 29, 2006

MBooks demo on searching and using UM materials digitized by Google

DATES: 4-5 p.m. Oct. 9 and 7-8p.m. Oct. 12, 2006.

EVENT: From the Lincoln Highway to historic dentistry to 19th and 20th century homeopathy and the Making of America literary project, you can satisfy your curiosity or research requirements through the University of Michigan's digitized collections. Now you can also view materials digitized by Google from the U-M libraries.

U-M's Digital Library Productions Service (DLPS) is offering free public demonstrations of Mbooks, the new access system for materials digitized by Google.

U-M's digitized collections can be accessed from anywhere, said Perry Willett, head of DLPS. "By using Mirlyn and searching books digitized by Google, you will be able to quickly determine if you really want to read the entire work", said Willett. "And access to Mirlyn is world-wide, meaning you can discover these works from your home, a neighborhood library computer or from a laptop wireless connection, and, depending on the copyright situation, be able to read many of them."

PLACE: Hatcher Graduate Library's 2nd floor Faculty Exploratory, U-M Central Campus. Map:
http://www.umich.edu/news/Maps/ccamp.html

SPONSORS. U-M Library Development and U-M Digital Library Production Service.

TO REGISTER: The demonstrations are free and open to the public, but space is limited. Registration is suggested using e-mail at LibraryDevelopment@umich.edu or by calling (734) 763-7368.

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September 20, 2006

CDC podcast on outbreak of E.coli

A new podcast from the CDC is available for download at http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/ The most recent podcast from 9/20 provides an update on the U.S. outbreak of E.coli linked to spinach.

Posted by hlook at 10:57 PM | Comments (0)

September 07, 2006

MBooks is now available!

MBooks is now available! MBooks is the University of Michigan's online access to the University Library's collections scanned through the partnership agreement with Google. You can access thousands of scanned text directly from our library catalog MIRLYN.

For more information on the MBooks project, see the FAQ: http://mdp.lib.umich.edu/m/mdp/mdp-faq.htm

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