New @ UMC Library

The UMC Library now has access to a valuable historical collection of full text newspapers. These are a part of the Gale Digital Collections. These provide rare, formerly inaccessible historical content from the world’s most prestigious libraries to UMC faculty, researchers and students. They may be searched by keyword. The search terms are highlighted and you can retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. These collections include:

The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985 Complete digital edition of The Times (London). The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

The Economist Historical Archive is also available to UMC Library users. The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.

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MLA International Bibliography MLA indexes material that relates to all forms of human communication. Topics include literary criticism (authors, titles, themes) and literary theory, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. The items indexed date back to the 1920s. The index contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.

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KCDL Online (Kraus Curriculum Development Library) is a database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12. The database indexes materials for the print/microfiche collection and contains most recent materials as full text documents. Recent additions to the database are available as full text documents.

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Scirus is comprehensive science-specific search engine which searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages. Scirus indexes thousands of journals volumes from hundreds of publishers including the Elsiver publicaitons. To provide Access to the text of the journal articles UMC Library has worked with Scirus to enable the FindIt service in Scirus. To turn on the linkage to full text from journal go to the Scirus home page, select Search Preferences, check enable and select Search Preferences, check enable and select University of Minnesota, Crookston from the list of partners and save your preferences.

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The UMC Library has installed a 24 inch IMAC with 2 GB memory 250GB hard drive and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics card in the UMC Library Technology area. Here is a photo of the IMAC taking a picture of me taking a picture of the IMAC. We are in the process of selecting software for the machine. Instructions on how to turn it on are posted next to the machine.

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We were able to join with the Twin Cities in subscribing to Dissertation Abstracts@CIC Institutuions - This is a subset of the Dissertation Abstracts database which has links the complete text of recent thesis from the University of Minnesota and other large research universities that belong to the CIC cooperative (University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Indiana University, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa, Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University and others). The text is available for download in .pdf format.

The complete Dissertation Abstracts database is still available, It contains more than two million entries for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Most recent titles have free twenty-four page previews.

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UMC Library has acquired an Audio-Technica’s AT-PL50 stereo turntable which has a built-in switchable phono preamp that allows direct connection to your computer.

The turntable comes with a copy of Cakewalk PYRO software; an audiophile-quality phono cartridge; and an adapter cable. The system can be used to transfer your (your parents) old tunes off the vinyl recordings and into a format that can be used on a portable player. Using the system requires some set up and using the software requires some attention to detail. View the turntable.

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Emerald Journals

The Emerald journal collection contains over 170 titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering. Flagship titles such as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, The TQM Magazine and Industrial Robot. List of journals subscribed to can be found at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/subscriptions/

Emerald Management Xtra

Emerald Management Xtra is Emerald's largest, most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management journals and online support for librarians, students, faculty, researchers and deans. It features 150 full text journals and reviews from the world’s top 300 management journals.

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New Lenovo computers have replaced the Dell desktops in the UMC Library.

The basic replacements are LENOVO THINKCENTRE M55 8808 - PENTIUM D 945 3.4 GHZ with 19 inch monitors.

The computers were chosen for their small size and because the USB and headphone jacks are on the front facilitating the use of USB storage devises, (jump drives and portable harddrives, etc.). These should be sufficient to handle Microsoft's new operating system. See image of new lab computers

The UMC Library also added large form Lenovo desktop computer with a 22 inch monitor which will be loaded with advanced software.

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The UMC Library circulates a Sony Digital Video camera. This camera uses Digital 8 tapes which can not be viewed in a VCR without an adaptor. The transfer station consists of a Sony DVR/VCR with a small LCD television. The digital video camera can be connected ot the DVR/VCR and the small digital tape can be transferred to either a DVD or a standard VCR tape. This permits easy home use of the video. This unit is located on the second floor of the UMC Library in the Student Technology area. Instructions on use are posted next to the unit. The remote controls needed to operate the unit are available for check out at the Circulation Desk at the library. Image of the transfer station

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Highspeed Document Scanner

The UMC Library has purchased and installed a 20 page per minute two sided scanner for scanning long documents into .pdf format. This scanner can make short work of scanning longer documents, everything from handouts from class that you would rather have in digital format to personal documents like estate planning documents and other legal documents. The software with the scanner does a reasonable job of OCR (optical character recognition) so the scanned documents are able to be searched.

Podcasting Kit

This scanner is located on the first floor of the library. Basic instructions on operation are in a display next to the machine. Image of scanner

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The UMC Library has added additional equipment to its collection for UMC Student use. This equipment is housed at the Library. We have a web page with a list of the items and links to more information.
We added:
• Six (6) Canon PowerShot A540 digital cameras.
• Canon PowerShot S3 IS digital camera.
• Two New WebCams
• Four new 2GB Jump Drives
• Crucial Technology Multislot Card Readers
• Sony noise cancelling headphones
• Seagate 160GB Portable External Hard Drive.
• Two Wireless notebook Presenter Mice
• Two Olympus Digital Voice Recorders VS 100
• Two Canon CanoScan Lide 600F Scanners
• Canon High-speed Document Scanner DR-2050C
• IRIS pen scanner
• Station for videotape to DVD transfers
• Sony Digital Video Recorder and monitor to transfer from video the Sony Handycam to a standard VCR tape or DVD.

The new equipment was funded in part by the UMC Technology Committee and a special grant from the UMC Administration.

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BioOne (now BioOne.1) launched a second database called BioOne.2 which consists of 41 additional full text titles (List of BioOne.2 titles and publishers). These are specialized journals, many international, which have not been available online. The UMC Library has added this second database to its research collection. By default UMC users will search both databases when they access the site.

BioOne is a collection of the full text articles from bioscience research journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. These consist of journals which were available only in print. BioOne focuses on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

The UMC FindIt service can link from citation found in one of non full text databases to the full text in BioOne.

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Annual Reviews publishes analytic reviews in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. In conjunction with the other U of M Libraries, UMC Library purchased access to the backfile of this title from first publication (some back as far as the 1930's). When combined with current access provided as a part of the full text in other databases the UMC Library now provides access to the virtually the entire span of these publications. Using the FindIt link in the various databases UMC Library patrons can now access the full text of these publications. Some of the titles include: Anthropology - Nutrition - Plant Biology - Political Science - Psychology - Public Health - Sociology

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The Turfgrass Information File is a cooperative venture between Michigan State University and the United States Golf Association (USGA) Turfgrass Research Program. Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) indexes all types of works related to turfgrass culture including journals, monographs, fact sheets and pamphlets, images, and web documents. Most records in TGIF contain informative abstracts; some contain full text or are linked to web-accessible full text.

The databases had been freely available for a number of years but after upgrades and improvements the Turfgrass Information Center began charging for access. This is a focused database with many unique resources. The UMC Library is pleased to be able to provide access to this.

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