News from the Science Library

Service Changes at Science Library

In order to better serve all of our clients, the Science Library is changing the way that it allocates staff time for various activities. This has resulted in some changes to our service offerings, effective September 1st.

Circulation Services:
Circulation and stacks services in the Shapiro and Hatcher Libraries are consolidating into a single unit. As a result, the main circulation desk for the entire Shapiro Library building will now be the 1st floor desk. Patron holds and permanent reserve items that patrons could previously access at the Science circulation desk will now be available at the 1st floor circulation desk. The main circulation desk in the Science Library, near the 3rd floor elevators, will be closing effective September 1st; the reference desk at that location will remain open (see below for more details). The auxiliary 3rd floor circulation desk, located near the connector to West Hall, will be open during the hours that the West Hall connector is open (in general M-Th 8 AM-6 PM, F 8 AM-5 PM). Science Library materials may also be checked out at the Shapiro 1st floor circulation desk, or at the Hatcher Library circulation desks.

Reference services:
The Science Library is shifting its reference efforts toward increased personal interaction with faculty and graduate students in their office and laboratory locations. As a result, we will be decreasing the hours that the 3rd floor reference desk is staffed during Fall semester. New reference desk hours will be M-F 10 AM-5 PM. The Library also offers online reference through its Ask a Librarian service (Sun 2 PM-midnight, M-Th 10 AM-midnight, F 10 AM-5 PM).

We welcome your feedback on these changes. Click here to find contact information for your subject librarian, or email the Science Library at sciencelibrary@umich.edu.

Library Circulation Update

To serve you better, the Shapiro Science Library has revised circulation policies, resulting in longer loan periods for some borrowers.

Faculty, staff and graduate students may now borrow books for the entire term, while undergraduate students may check books out for three weeks. All borrowers may have unlimited renewals. As before, journals and print reference books do not circulate.

For more information on our policy, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/science/circulation/.

For information on library fines, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/circ/#fines.

Interlibrary Loan Adds Pickup Locations

To serve you better, Interlibrary Loan now lets you choose where you would like to pick up ILL books.

View a list of ILL pickup locations on Central Campus, North Campus and Medical Campus.

Change your preferred pickup location here.

Springer EBooks Available Through Mirlyn

The UM Libraries are pleased to offer online access to over 9500 books published by Springer from 2005-2008. You can access these titles through Mirlyn.

To see an example, look at the Mirlyn record for Shoniregun, Charles A. "Securing Biometrics Applications," published 2008.

UM Biostation Celebrates Centennial

This summer, the UM "campus in the north woods" celebrates its 100th session.

In 1908, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Bogardus donated the first acres on Douglas Lake, near Pellston. Since then, the Biostation has expanded dramatically, offering many spring and summer courses as well as opportunites for doctoral and faculty research. The Biostation Library, part of the UM Science Libraries, supports research and instruction.

Read the centennial press release here.

The Biostation website includes information on courses offered there, and on the centennial open house June 28 and Celebration Weekend this August.

MLibrary Hosts Michigan Debate Institute

We are pleased to once again host high school students from the Michigan Debate Institute. This year's debate topic is Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.

Debate students will be in the Shapiro Library from June 22 - August 9, from 1-5 PM daily.

For more information, see the library's announcement or the Michigan Debate Institute website.

Results from the Survey

We asked graduates to tell us where they were going next. The survey results are in and about 2500 responses are mapped. Read more and view a pdf version of the maps.

Survey: Graduates, Tell Us Where You are Going

The libraries are making a map showing the hometowns of the class of 2008. Now we need your help on a second map! Tell us where you are headed after you graduate.

You'll be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon.com gift certicate just by taking a quick, 3 question survey.

Take the survey now, so that we can have the map ready by graduation. You can visit the maps then in the Hatcher Library North Lobby.

Take the survey at: http://www.lib.umich.edu/sand/gradsurvey/

Shapiro Libraries open 24 hours for exams

Starting Monday, April 14, the Shapiro Science and Undergraduate Libraries will be open 24 hours a day, most weekdays through the end of exams.

For specific hours, see the library's Hours link.

Library Photo Contest Winners Revealed

The winning entries for the first annual Library Photo Contest will be revealed today, April 11, at 4PM. Join us in the Shien Ming-Wu Current Periodical Reading Room (on the 3rd floor of the Shapiro Library Building) to see the photos, enjoy light refreshments and congratulate the winners.

The winning photos will remain on display on the third floor of the Shapiro Science Library, right across from the main elevators. A booklet with all of the entries will be available at the Science Library circulation desk. So, if you can't come to the event, come later to see the photos.

Enriching Scholarship Registration Now Open

The UM Teaching and Technology Collaborative invites faculty to enhance their teaching and research by participating in a week of free seminars, workshops, demonstrations and other events drawing upon the expertise of faculty and instructional technology specialists from across campus.

Join us during the week of May 5th-9th, 2008, when we will have over 100 sessions that explore the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research. To register or find out more, please visit http://www.umich.edu/~teachtec/ES2008

Enriching Scholarship: May 5-9

The UM Libraries will once again partner with other members of the Teaching and Technology Collaborative to offer a wide variety of workshops. Enriching Scholarship sessions explore the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research.

This year, Enriching Scholarship will be held May 5-9. Registration will open in early April. Save the dates now, and check the Enriching Scholarship website later for details.

Springer E-Books Now Available

The University Library recently purchased a massive (over 10,000 titles) collection of ebooks from Springer. It includes most of their English-language books published between 2005-2008, as well as some other imprints owned by Springer. Access to this content is already live (on UM IP addresses, or after authentication to another library resource from off campus) at: http://www.springerlink.com/books

]]> Records are still being loaded into Mirlyn; however, the books are now available.

The green icons on the Springer site are a good indicator of what we have access rights to view.

This ebook collection has unlimited users--you and all your friends can read them at the same time. UM also has archival rights, so we "own" (not rent/lease) this collection. You can also read or print a chapter at a time.

Please let your subject librarian know your comments about this collection and its functionality--both what you like and dislike.

MTagger Now Available!

MTagger is a new resource discovery tool, awaiting your participation. Use MTagger to tag any UM library web page.

View tag clouds for any page at the bottom of that page, and view all tags to date at http://www.lib.umich.edu/mtagger/tags (And check back to watch this page change!)

Bert's Cafe Grand Opening Wed Feb 20

The University Library is happy to announce the grand opening of Bert's Cafe in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, on Wednesday, February 20th! Please join us and Bert Askwith for a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2:15 p.m. Mr. Askwith will pour the first cup of coffee to officially open the cafe. Following remarks, free coffee and treats will be available.

After the grand opening, the hours for the Cafe will be:

- Monday through Thursday 8 am to 1 am
- Friday 8 am to 6 pm
- Saturday closed
- Sunday 12 noon to 1 am

The University Library wants to thank Bert Askwith for his generous donation which made Bert's Cafe possible. See you at Bert's!