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January 18, 2007
New Workstations, New Wireless Network
The 25 ITS workstations on the second floor of the library have been a big hit ever since they were installed. Now, thanks to the technology fee, 50 additional workstations were installed over Christmas Break and are ready to use. You can now find ITS computers on all three floors of the Thompson Library.
And don't forget that the new wireless network in UCEN and the Library is operational. Wireless users in these buildings will see the new wireless network name (or SSID) of “UMF_BASIC” that is now being broadcast. Just select it and you will be automatically connected. If you don't see the broadcasted name, manually configure your wireless device to connect to “UMF_BASIC."
If you run into problems, help is available during normal business hours in the ITS helpdesk in 207 Murchie.
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January 16, 2007
New Librarian at the Thompson Library
The faculty and staff at the Thompson Library are pleased to have Mickey Doyle as our newest librarian. You may know him already - he has been working here for almost a year on a temporary basis - but he is now a full-time, permanent member of our team.
Mickey is no stranger to our library. If you've been here a few years, you may remember him from the circulation desk when he was a UM-Flint student (B.S., Biology), before he headed to Boston to get his M.S. in Library & Information Science at Simmons College.
As Reference & Outreach Librarian, he will help library users at the reference desk, work on innovating the delivery of library resources, information, and services, and collaborate with faculty in assessing the campus community's library needs, among other things.
Mickey's office is 313 Thompson Library (in the Gov Docs office). He can also be reached at (810) 424-5439 or at doylemd@umflint.edu
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January 15, 2007
Black Studies Center
The Black Studies Center is now available with "essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself." It contains citations, articles, images, film clips, and other materials from the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience; International Index to Black Periodicals; The Chicago Defender; ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies (1970-2004); Black Literature Index (1827-1940).
This new resource can be found on the History and American Culture resource pages.
More information is available on the Black Study Center's information page.
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January 10, 2007
Business Source Complete
[UPDATE: The links to these databases were not working for off-campus users. I fixed them and they should work now. --Paul Streby, Thompson Library Webmaster]
The Thompson Library is pleased to add EBSCO's Business Source Complete full text database, along with its companion, Regional Business News. They are both available on the Business & Management Online Resources page, and will replace the ABI/INFORM databases when our licesnse expires in June.
Business Source Complete boasts over 3,000 journal titles dating back as far as 1886. Regional Business News contains 75 business-related journals, newspapers and newswires across the country.
Need some scholarly articles about debt restructuring? Wonder what Pabst Brewing Co. is doing to revive its Schlitz brand? Want to find out what a Harvard Business Review author had to say about the 1929 Stock Market Crash - in 1930?
Go to Business Source Complete!
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The Reference Books Are Back!
Google has digitized most of the Thompson Library's reference collection, and sent the books back. They will be returned to the shelves as soon as possible.
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