Spotlight on Delivery

You can get library materials delivered to your office. So if you're in the weeds and don't have time to visit McIntyre, you can request items via library search.

1.  Make sure you are signed into Library Search.
2.  Find the item you would like to have delivered.
3.  Click "Get It" for the item you are requesting.
4.  Under "Pickup Location" select "Work Address"
   
   

Please try to limit your requests to 5 at a time.  Materials are delivered in the mornings, M-F.  You can expect to receive items within 48 hours of requesting them.  This delivery program excludes Interlibrary Loan and bulk materials.

And when you are done with them, you can use this form to schedule pickup.  

Voter registration at McIntyre

Encourage your students to register to vote. In keeping with the university’s mission to foster active citizenship, McIntyre Library will again be registering voters this year. Several library faculty/staff members are certified Special Registration Deputies (SRDs), and can register voters who reside in the city of Eau Claire. Students (and others) can stop by the McIntyre Library Research Center (Library 1001) to register during the following dates:

·         Feb. 17-Mar. 9

·         April 6-July 13

·         August 10-Oct. 12

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

The UW System was able to renegotiate our contract with Elsevier, making the complete ScienceDirect Freedom Collection available on our campus for the first time.  The Freedom Collection, with over 1,850 active journal titles from 1995 to the current year, offers extensive coverage in science, engineering and medicine. It also contains many core journals in business, social sciences and humanities.  Articles and journals in the Freedom Collection will be accessible through Library Search and the Journal Titles list.

Library Search Tutorial

We now offer a standalone tutorial for Library Search. Using the Guide on the Side platform, this tutorial allows users to use Library Search in the main window while they proceed through the guide on the left hand side.  The guide covers identifying keywords, formulating a search, and narrowing and revising a search, as well as requesting items and emailing results.

There are two versions of the Library Search tutorial.

• A version with a quiz that can be printed or emailed is available using this URL: http://lib02.uwec.edu/Guide/tutorial/library-search The version is accessible from the Search box on the library home page.
• A version without the quiz is available in the Library Search box on the home page.

Mini-conferences: April 11-15; 18-22

Our mini-conferences during the Fall Semester were such a success, we've decided to expand our offerings to two weeks. Just like last semester, students will be able to pick a time-slot, sign-up and receive a reminder of their appointment. But students certainly don't have to wait until the mini-conference period to get individualized help from a librarian:

• Students can drop by the Research Center to work with a librarian or Peer Research Consultant
• Or they can make an appointment with a librarian at any time.  

And faculty encouragement is the most effective way to get to students to seek research help, so refer them to us, early and often.

Films on Demand in your D2L course

Many faculty assign content from Films on Demand for viewing outside of class. Thanks to LTS, there is now a handy guide on how to give students access to specific titles within your Course Content section in D2L.

Research Center replaces "Reference Desk"

The library reference desk is evolving into a Research Center – a name and collaborative space that better reflects and accommodates the changing nature of the research services we offer. 

Located on the 1^st floor of the library, in close proximity to librarian offices, the Research Center is primarily staffed by student Peer Research Consultants (PRCs) who work closely with librarians to provide high quality service and refer students as necessary.

We are adding tables and spaces more conducive to collaborative work, though some plans are currently on hold due to the budget situation. Eventually we plan to open up the Research & Instruction office space on the first floor, making access to librarians easier and sharing the beautiful view overlooking the campus mall with library patrons.

Please tell your students about Research Center. Your referrals are the most effective way to get students to use the library.

Research Center hours (during the semester): Sunday 5-9pm, Mon-Thurs 9am – 9pm, Fri 9am-4:30pm.

·         Phone: 715-836-3858

·         library.reference@uwec.edu

·         Online chat (www.uwec.edu/library) 

Online Sign-up: Student Conferences with a Librarian

Have you assigned a research paper in a course this semester? Encourage your students to sign up
for a short consultation with a Research & Instruction Librarian in order to ensure they are finding the best sources for their research.

We will piloting the online sign up for the week of Nov 16-20th.


Students can sign up for a short appointment here:

https://mcintyrelibrary.youcanbook.me


All appointments will be with a librarian in the Library's new first floor Research Center.

Google Smarter

We in the library tend to focus on strategies for searching library databases, but Google is such a

widely used resource we would be remiss to ignore its potential.

And there can be a lot more to Google searching than slapping in a few keywords and hitting enter. There are search tools and search words that can help narrow and refine your search.  Most of them also work to make Google Scholar a more manageable search experience.  For more guidance we have a two page cheat sheet on Advanced Googling (pdf).

Spotlight on student research: POLS 328

Students in POLS 328: Islam and Politics with Assistant Professor Eunsook Jung, recently visited the library to work with Research & Instruction Librarian Robin Miller. For a group research project and presentation about a contemporary political issue in the Islamic world, students were gathering peer reviewed articles, news sources, and books to integrate into their research.  Student topics included the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Iran

Dr. Jung says she schedules a library instruction session with a librarian because, “The library instruction class helps students to locate reliable, relevant, and high quality sources for their projects. It definitely improves the quality of student projects.” Students spent their time in the library learning how to navigate library resources, to distinguish between scholarly sources and newspaper articles, and to find books from both UW-Eau Claire and other libraries in the UW System.

Would you like to schedule a library research session for your class? Follow this link [http://www.uwec.edu/Library/reference/index.htm] to make a request and a library faculty member will follow up with you.