Do you want to display digital signage around the library?

Images and videos are accepted from:
-academic divisions
-the Division of Student Affairs
-the Office of Communication
AND
-student organizations who submit through the Office of Student Life

Click here for the specs of the files and more information.

Testing the blog.

Have you ever had trouble finding images for a power point presentation? Use our images databases to help spice up your presentation. On our homepage you can find our images databases by scrolling over the “Doing Research” tab and clicking on the “Databases” link. Once on the Databases page, select “by format” from the “find databases” section. Once you are on the “databases by format” page, select “images,” this will take you to a page listing the various databases you can use to search for the perfect image for your presentation.

Looking up Congressional Hearings is a bit tricky. Here are some tips.

You can look up Congressional Hearings using Lexis-Nexis Congressional: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp.

In Lexis-Nexis t’s is helpful to use the Advanced Search feature and to use limits.

Limits:

You can limit a search to hearings only, which will greatly reduce the number of hits.

If you are looking for testimony by a particular witness, you can limit a search to just witnesses (i.e. Oliver North).

You can limit by years, including limiting to a span of years, (i.e. 1950-1955).

If you know which Congress held a particular hearing, you can limit a search to just that Congress (i.e. the 95th Congress which met from 1977 to 1978).

When you find a citation to a particular hearing, click “Go to Full Text” to see the actual transcript of the hearing.

Here is a handy guide to Congressional Hearings: http://lawschool.lexis.com/infopro/zimmerman/disp.aspx?z=1324

If you’ve been on the library homepage recently, you may have noticed that there is a new Quick Search Bar. The new default search looks through “All UC Libraries” instead of the “UC Merced Library” (now the 2nd tab option).

Under the Articles tab and the Database, not only can you search for the information you need, there are also links for useful information on how to search for articles and which databases are recommended.

Curious about SCR? Here is what you need to know.

SCR stands for Supplemental Course Resources. This is an excellent tool for instructors to digitize their resources and make them available for students on UCMCROPS or any other network. Instructors only need to submit this form to the second floor Services Desk of the Library, with attached course syllabus and the item to be digitized, and then wait until they are posted on CROPS. The item will be mail back through the on-campus system, unless otherwise noted on the SCR request form.
You don’t have to worry about whether or not you are abiding by copyright laws; the Library will make sure copyright is followed in this process. Remember, you can’t copy large portions of books; however you can scan a few parts. For more on our textbook policy, see here.

For more information see this FAQ.

The California Digital Library negotiates on behalf of UC campuses to provide high quality resources to our library users. The “Challenges to Licensing from Some Publishers” explains why some publications may not be continued.

Ever wondered what materials you can check-out at the second floor services desk? Here is a list of things you can borrow:
-Study room keys (after receiving confirmation of your reservation- more information here)
-Loaner Laptops (for 4 hours and renewable for another 4 hours)
-USB Flash Drives
-Headphones
-VGA cables
-Dry erase markers
-iTouches for the library tour

Good luck with the rest of the semester!

Did you misplace your library materials or have overdue item payments?

On the library website, you can click on My Library Account at the top right-hand corner.

Here, you can log-in with your UCMNet ID and password. You can view your fines, and click the UC Merced ePay link.

Under the “Student” tab, hover over the “Finance and Billing” section and click on “Pay Library Fines”.

Class instruction has officially ended today, and finals are coming up.

If you are looking for a quiet place to study, the entire fourth floor is a Quiet Zone. Groups can meet on any of the other floors in the library, in the reserved rooms, or in the collaborative workrooms (first come first serve). You can check out dry erase markers and VGA cables (to connect your laptop to the monitors in the collaborative workrooms) at the second floor services desk.

KL 460 is the silent room, and there are dividers set-up to eliminate distractions.

The library’s hours are listed here.

The first floor lantern will be open 24/7 starting Friday, December 11th, until next Thursday, December 17th.