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Naxos Music Library is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

The Mardigian Library subscription to Naxos Music Library allows for up to three simultaneous users.

Open workshops designed to help you conduct better research:

• Mon Nov 27: 4-5pm
• Thur Dec 7: 11am-Noon

• what is new in the library
• how to conduct more effective research
• how to find research articles in Central Search

Contact Teague Orblych at 313-493-5562 or mtorblyc@umd.umich.edu with any questions and to confirm attendance.

Currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff can use GuideStar on campus, or from off-campus with your UMID.

What's new

• Central Search - Search multiple library resources and Google with one easy search! Try it now.

• Can't seem to get started writing that paper? Learn about the research process
• Check out Library News to learn about new resources and more.

• For no hassle, convenient access to a librarian, talk to one:
  • in person
  • by phone, 313-593-5563
  • via email
  • or via instant messaging
• If you're not sure where to find things in the library, our floor plans will lead the way.

• Try Central Search and complete a quick survey by October 15, 2006 to be entered in a drawing to win a prize!

What's new?

• Central Search - Search multiple library resources with one easy search! Try it now.
• The library's website has been revised to include the university's template. Most library webpage addresses remain the same.

• Will your students be writing a term paper? Consider scheduling a Research Education session for your class.
• Don't have time in your busy course syllabus? Encourage students to attend Research Education open sessions offered at the library several times per semester.
• Our website resources are available anytime, anywhere.
• Consider adding library information to your syllabus.

• The Mardigian library's resources are available anytime, anywhere via our website
• Want to read that hot new thriller? Request it using MeLCat, and it will be delivered to our library for your use within three to five days.
• Join our bookclub, R.E.A.D., which meets four times a year during the lunch hour.

- Central Search is now available.

- The look of the library web site has been updated to correspond with the new campus web design.

Central Search is a new tool that allows researchers to search multiple library databases at the same time.

Central Search includes articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers and also includes books, DVDs, and other items in our library, as well as encyclopedia articles and other reference information. It saves time by letting you search multiple library databases at once.

Try Central Search on the library home page.

We’d like to get your opinion! After you try Central Search, fill out a quick survey to let us know what you think.

You can also send us general comments about the library web site or other library services.

• Demonstrations of Central Search, a new tool that allows researchers to search multiple library databases simultaneously,
• Individual resources from the 150+ research databases provided by the library,
• Searching skills so students are able to use the research tools more effectively,
• Evaluating information resources to help students learn to distinguish appropriate academic resources from the flood of web pages and other sources available,
• And much more...

We look forward to working with you!

Request a class session or contact Teague Orblych, mtorblyc@umd.umich.edu or 313-593-5562

More information or view a pamphlet for our program.

• Searching: All books can be searched for keywords or for code fragments using the Search box on the home page. You can also Find a Specific Book if you know its title, author, publisher, or ISBN.
• Browsing: Interested in a topic, but don’t have a specific keyword or book? Click on one of the links under Browse by Category. Many categories are available, including Databases, E-Commerce, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Operating Systems, Security, and Software Engineering.

Some of the publishers included in Safari Tech Books are: Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Macromedia Press, Microsoft Press, O’Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Que, Sams, and Sun Microsystems Press.

Sociological Abstracts (SA) also finds book, film and software reviews, and relevant websites for your search.

Search SA using the advanced or quick search screens. You can limit searches by year, document type, author name; limit by publication type, including books, book and film reviews, and dissertations.

Other features include:

QuickBib: Create your bibliography of your citations automatically using the QuickBib feature. You can format a bibliography using APA, MLA, Turabian and other styles; email, download and print out the results.

Online Thesaurus: Can't think of a word or term to begin your search? Try SA’s online thesaurus. From the search screen, click on the "Search Tools" tab and go to the "Thesaurus" link. Use the alphabetical index for browsing a word; you will get a link to the definition, how it is used, when it was added as a sociological term (or deleted) and any related terms.

Scholar Profile: SA also links you to a profile about the author, if available. Find the authors CV, websites, research interests, etc.

Our screenname is umdlibrarian on both AIM and Yahoo!Messenger.

Check our online status and learn more on our IM information page.

Users can also contact librarians in person, by phone, and via email; read about all of the ways we can help you. We hope to hear from you!

Global Financial Data is available to all currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty members, and staff, both on-campus and off-campus.

The MLA International Bibliography is available to all currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty members, and staff, both on-campus and off-campus. It is a publication of the Modern Language Association and indexes material from journals, books, and dissertations, in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, folklore, and childrens' literature.