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.