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.

Just because it is the night before your paper is due and you are barely starting it does not mean that it is the end of your educational career. Just because you have never used the library search engine and it is 2AM does not mean that it is over either.

Librarians from all around are available to chat with at all times. Even though our library may be closed during the evening and our librarians and your professor will probably not respond to your email until the next day, there are librarians that can be reached. If you click on the CONTACT US tab on the main library website, you should notice a widget on the right hand side of the page that says ASK A LIBRARIAN. Just follow the instructions within and you will be on your way to speaking with a librarian to assist you.

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.

Writing 101 Course Specific
Today, I decided to look over the course specific page for Writing 101. I am currently in this course and felt that it would be good to know how to do it not only for myself (I am definitely filled with questions) but also for the other students.
PROFILE OF RESEARCH COMMUNITY
The first part of the page focuses on finding a topic. There are three links noted to help students find a topic if they are uncertain what they are looking for.
The next part is finding the appropriate resources. Links are shown for finding articles and journals, as well as books on specific areas.
Following that are links to reputable sources online.
Afterwards is a section called Major Conferences, which links to sites that have recorded conferences available.

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!