eBook Trials & Survey - ends 12/31/2010
The Library is currently testing several eBook platforms. Please check them out and complete our online survey to let us know what you think.
We currently have access to the following platforms:
ebrary Academic Complete
Ebrary Academic Complete is a multidisciplinary digital library with more than 47,000 titles. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Fine Arts, History, Language & Literature, Law, Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences, and Technology. Content includes handbooks, e-books, manuals, reports and other authoritative documents.
Trial runs through December 8, 2010.
MyiLibrary
MyiLibrary provides desktop access to over 235,000 eBooks. Subjects covered include: Philosophy, Psychology, & Religion; History; Geography; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Political Science; Law; Education; Music; Fine Arts; Language & Literature; Science; Medicine; Agriculture; Technology; Military Science; Naval Science.
Trial runs through December 15, 2010.
EBL Ebook Library
EBL offers content across all subject areas, with an initial focus on recent titles - most specifically in the areas of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM). EBL features more than 100,000 titles from hundreds of academic publishers.
You must create a free account from a valid UMBC IP address in order to access the EBL trial.
Trial runs through December 15, 2010.
Springer eBooks
The Springer eBooks trial provides access to over 20,000 eBook titles (2005-2010 copyright only) in twelve subject collections:
* Behavioral Science
* Biomedical and Life Sciences
* Business and Economics
* Chemistry and Materials Science
* Computer Science (including the highly regarded Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
* Earth and Environmental Science
* Engineering
* Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
* Mathematics and Statistics
* Medicine
* Physics and Astronomy
* Professional Computing and Web Design
Titles include textbooks, reference works, monographs, and book series. All titles are fully searchable and hyperlinked.
Trial runs through December 31, 2010
NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides online access to thousands of scholarly books and reference works. Subjects include: computer science, business, international relations, education, environmental science, psychology, civil rights law and history.
UMBC currently has access to a selection of books specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
For off-campus access, please login via VPN first (http://vpn.umbc.edu). Then follow the link under "News & Events" on the library homepage. For more info on remote access, see http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php
Please check out these trials and then take our online survey.
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Real People Profiles: Susan DuMont
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Susan DuMont
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: One month!
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:Coordinator of Student Life for Fraternities & Sororities.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Advise and support a healthy, visible, vibrant Greek community.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I'm in the honeymoon stage and I'm enjoying everything about my role and UMBC so far! One thing I really like is that my role includes working in The Commons. I'm really extroverted and thrive in the high energy environment of The Commons. I've mastered a five minute walking loop around the building that I walk when I need an energy boost during the day. If you see me power walking through the building one afternoon now you know why! I also really like getting into my office early in the morning and feeling the building and campus sort of 'wake up' through the morning and early afternoon. And of course I really enjoy the students and staff I've worked with so far and how receptive to new ideas people have been.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: I learned that I love greek life, I'm good at helping people make it be what it's supposed to be about, and that I could do that professionally. That's pretty cool! The second most Chemistry and very clearly remember the day that I learned the chemical reaction that happens in your eyes when you cut onions that makes you cry. Fun fact, I decided I was going to be a greek advisor on my way to organic chem lab.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Doing things. I really like to DO. I have a lot of hobbies and I'm almost always up for trying something new. I like being active, outside, and taking risks. I'm also a really big fan of Linsey Corbin. She's the best female pro-triathlete in the US and she's greek!
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: This isn't 'little-known' but the circle around campus is SUCH a great run! My favorite way to do it (so far) is to start where Commons Drive meets the circle and run towards Poplar Ave. The grade up that side of the hill is perfect and feels like SUCH an accomplishment when I reach the top. Then I get to fly down the other side! I love that there is grass next to the sidewalk for almost the entire run so I can protect my body and run in the grass. Repeat as desired, and if the weather and timing are right, I go to the pool for a few laps as a cool down swim. It might be the most perfect workout!
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NYC Bus Trip Tickets ON SALE NOW!
Get your tickets at the Commons Information Center for $30
Tickets are now on sale for our last NYC Bus Trip of the semester! You can pay in cash or campus cash at the Commons Information Center.
SAT / DEC 4 / 2010 /
Bus departs Commons Circle at 8AM /
Departs NYC at 8PM /
If you have questions, ask!
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Undergraduate Research Awards Application Workshops
Have a great research idea? Need funding?
Come and learn how to complete a successful application!
Undergraduate Research Awards provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. Students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they will continue at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.
The Workshops will be held on:
Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Both will be held in Administration 911 from 12:00-1:00 pm
For further information please contact Janet McGlynn, mcglynn@umbc.edu
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Database Trial: Morningstar Investment Research...
Full Title: Database Trial: Morningstar Investment Research Center - ends 12/10/2010UMBC now has trial access to the Morningstar Investment Research Center.
The Morningstar Investment Research Center is an all-inclusive investment research database designed specifically for libraries. It features data and analysis on over 11,000 international and domestic stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and more than 1,000 exchange traded funds.
The trial runs through December 10, 2010.
For off-campus access, please login via VPN first (http://vpn.umbc.edu). Then follow the link under "News & Events" on the library homepage. For more info on remote access, see http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php
Feedback is encouraged. Use the form below or send directly to Drew Alfgren: alfgren@umbc.edu
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"A Model for Governments at Every Level to Learn From"
Harry Boyte of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship has some strong words of praise for UMBC's SGA in a blog post today. Boyte offers reflections on last week's Civic Agency Institute in Washington, DC, a national meeting of partners working to focus American higher education on empowering citizens and building a stronger democracy. He calls UMBC's SGA "the outstanding example" of a government that serves as a meeting ground for its constituents and a catalyst for their civic contributions, and points to SGA as "a model for governments at every level to learn from."
UMBC has been an active participant in the Civic Agency Initiative and the American Democracy Project of which it is a part, and our students have played a leading role from the beginning. Seven UMBC students (and I) participated in last week's Institute.
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Current Events
Haiti cholera death toll tops 900
The number of people in Haiti who have died from cholera has reached 917, the country's health ministry says.
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Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:18:18 -0500
Mina's Legacies
I imagine the scene played out something like this: Bundled up in her winter coat, 12-year old Mina Appel longs to press through the throngs of passengers to claim a spot on the port side rail. But she has younger brothers and sisters to mind, and her mother Reise insists that they all stay away from the heart of the crowd, where little Franciska and Salli could be trampled. The breeze sweeping the deck of the Graf Waldersee stings Mina’s face and numbs her ears, but she welcomes the relief it provides from the sour smells of a damp 10-day voyage in steerage class.
Mina has a taste for adventure, but after the last two punishing weeks all she can think about is the life she has left behind in the town of Olublo, Hungary: her friends from school, the horses in their stables, the comforts of a house big enough for her family of 10. She knows she can expect a much harder life at the end of this voyage, in a foreign country whose language she does not speak, where her family does not have roots generations deep.
When Mina’s reverie is broken by cheers erupting from the rails and spreading across the deck, she stands on her toes and cranes her neck, eager to catch a glimpse of the copper-clad symbol of this new world: the Statue of Liberty. Later on this afternoon of December 29, 1905, Mina and her family will be processed on Ellis Island and, after some anxious hours, permitted to enter the United States at long last.
Mina’s father Sigmund awaits them in Milwaukee, where he has been staying with members of Reise’s extended family. In the old country, Sigmund had been a traveler by trade: a dealer in linens who carried his wares by horse and buggy from hamlet to hamlet across Eastern Europe. He is a stern and devout man, protective of Mina and his other children. One of Mina’s treasured possessions is a beautiful white kerchief embroidered with her initials, a special order Papa placed with one of his suppliers.*
In Sigmund’s mind this unwelcome, destiny-altering migration has been forced by events in Olublo. Anti-Semitism is on the rise. Sigmund believes he can no longer keep his family safe in Hungary. His inventory was looted on the night before Yom Kippur, and his oldest sons faced conscription into the army if they stayed. Sigmund sent the boys to Milwaukee two years ago, then followed them a year later, with plans for the rest of his family to join him once he had made arrangements in their new home.
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| Leo Spitz, 25, and Minnie Appel, 23, in July 1915. |
Mina will thrive in Milwaukee. An extraordinarily bright girl, she will learn English and catch up to her grade level in school within a year. Like most of the other members of her family, she will come to be known by an Americanized version of her name: “Minnie.”
Like her mother Reise (“Rose”) before her, Minnie will be married to a stern and industrious man through an arrangement by her parents. Leo Spitz, a tannery worker, will keep food on his family’s table during both the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression. Minnie will provide their four children, all girls, with a stable and comfortable home life.
Minnie and Leo’s third daughter, Ruth, an inheritor of her mother’s adventurous spark, will marry for love at age 19. Her husband Irv Krasno, a Russian immigrant, will work in his family’s Milwaukee egg business alongside his father and brothers. But the Krasno men are proud and stubborn, and their partnership will collapse into a battle of factions. Ultimately Irv and Ruth, with four daughters of their own, will seek their fortune in the west, in California, where they once spent an enjoyable vacation under sunny skies.
Irv and Ruth’s second daughter, Sandy, will meet her future husband Herb Hoffman at a college dance. They will marry in 1965, and have the first of three children in 1967. Sandy and Herb (the son of immigrants from Poland and Israel) will make steadiness and security priorities for their family. They will encourage their children to become members of stable and prestigious professions—doctor, lawyer, teacher—rather than risk-takers.
Their first child, a boy, David, will meet his great grandmother, Minnie Appel—Grandma Mimi—on two or three occasions when she visits from Milwaukee. She will pass away, at age 80, when he is five years old. He will retain only the vaguest firsthand impression of her personality: her affection, and her strength. But all his life he will navigate Mina’s legacies, and those of Sigmund and Rose, Leo, Ruth and Irv, Sandy and Herb: the yearning for adventure, and the bold, even rebellious willingness to risk everything for a better life, intertwined with the craving for stability and an end to upheavals, and the comforts of a well-worn path.
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| Minnie Appel Spitz (left), 75, and her younger sister Mary in December, 1967. The baby in Minnie's lap is me (age 2+ months); in Mary's lap, my cousin Julie. |
*More than a century later, Mina’s kerchief survives in a wooden box in my home.
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I imagine the scene played out something like this: Bundled up in her winter coat, 12-year old Mina Appel longs to press through the throngs of passengers to claim a spot on the port side rail. ...
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Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:27:00 -0500
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:27:00 -0500
What's going on: Nov. 15 - 21
This week's highlights:
WEEKLY MOVIE: Scott Pilgrim!
Monday, November 15:
Independent Film Series: Earth
//where:
Skylight Lounge, Commons, 3rd floor
//when: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
//FREE
The Disney Nature film: Earth presents the audience with three stories of different animal families through their migratory journeys across the earth. There will be snacks, including earth cupcakes, chips, popcorn, sodas and water. After the film, stick around for a short follow up discussion on the film!
Tuesday, November 16:
Spades Tournament
//where: Lower Flat Tuesdays
//when: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
//FREE
Each team plays each night and teams aim to get the most wins. Each team member of the winning team for the overall tournament will each receive a copy of the first and second season of In Living Color. Sign-up sheet is in the SEB office.
Thursday, November 18:
Weekly Movie Series: Scott Pilgrim
//where: Lh1
//when: 10:00pm
//$2 TICKETS, PLEASE BUY BEFOREHAND
Popcorn included. Scott Pilgrim is also very awesome. You should go see it.
Friday, November 19:
Weekly Movie Series: Scott Pilgrim
//where: Lh1
//when: 8:00pm
//$2 TICKETS, PLEASE BUY BEFOREHAND
Popcorn included. Scott Pilgrim is also very awesome. You should go see it.
Live Music: POP ROCK
//where: Flat Tuesdays
//when: 9:00pm - 11:00am
//FREE
This week: The Silver Liners and Spotted Atrocious!
Harry Potter Party and Midnight Premiere Movie Showing
//where: Skylight Lounge, Commons, 3rd floor
//when: 9:00pm - 3:00am
//TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT, HOWEVER THE PARTY IS FREE
Get sorted into houses and take part in awesome trivia and wand making! There will be Potter food, Butterbeer, Bertie Bott's Beans, and prizes that you DON'T want to miss! Authentic Wands and Hogwarts banners anyone? Afterwards, our carriages shall whisk you to the theatre to view the 7th Harry Potter Movie!
Saturday, November 20:
Weekly Movie Series: Scott Pilgrim
//where: Sportzone
//when: 8:00pm
//FREE
Popcorn included. Scott Pilgrim is also very awesome. You should go see it.
1950s Dance Party
//where: Flat Tuesdays
//when: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
//FREE
Come out and dance the school stress away. Free snacks and beverages and good music.
Sunday, November 21:
Football & Wings: Ravens v. Panthers
//where: Sportszone
//when: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
//FREE
Come out and enjoy free wings and the Ravens take on the Panthers.
Come out to our events! Have a Harry Potter-tastic week!
(Did I hear a rumor about UMBC becoming Hogwarts on Monday?)
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research will include a literature review of environmental art and
dance and a 10-day conference called SEEDS: Somatic Experiments in
Ecology, Dance and Science, in Plainfield, Massachusetts in July 2010.
Upon my return from the SEEDS festival I will draw from my research of
experimental dance-making, Body-Mind Centering, improvisation, ecology,
environmental sustainability, and environmental art to compose my
Interdisciplinary Studies capstone project consisting of a research
paper and site-specific performance. I will explore an environmental
issue using choreographic and improvisational methodologies learned at
the SEEDS festival, and the entire performance process will establish an
environmentally sustainable model, unlike traditional modes of dance
performance. I will document my creative research process and final
artistic product through photography, video and a dedicated public blog.
For more information about Emily's work, check out her profile!!
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Name: Susan DuMont
