New Gale Virtual Reference Online Titles Available Via HOMER

Online access to the following tiles is now available via Homer and the GVRL website. You will note that these are all older editions. Search HOMER, the library catalog by title and view the book online at your desktop. Just click on the voyager icon image next to the record and then click on the Linked resource: UCONN ACCESS. (for off-campus access remember to login to VPN using your NetiD.)

Search HOMER, the library catalog

-American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, 2nd Ed., 4v, 2000

-Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, 3v, 2004

-Encyclopedia of European Social History, 6v, 2001

-Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd Ed., 6v, 2000

-Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History , 2v, 1999

-Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia , 2nd Ed., 17v, 2004

-International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers , 4th Ed., 4v, 2001

-Modern American Literature , 5th Ed., 3v, 1999

-New Catholic Encyclopedia Jubilee Volume , 2nd Ed., 2000

-Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature , 2002

-Reference Guide to Short Fiction , 2nd Ed., 1999

-Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures , 2v, 2002

-Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s , 2v, 2003

Stamford Campus and Related Scholarships Available

Eligibility:

All Stamford Campus Undergraduate/Graduate Degree Students who plan to continue their undergraduate/graduate studies Fall 2007 at UCONN/Stamford or Storrs. Applicants should have completed One (1) full semester of coursework at the University of Connecticut to be eligible for a scholarship. An unofficial transcript must be attached to the completed application.

Pick up an application outside of Room 2.01.

Urgent! New UConn ID Card/Photo Times & Locations

In order for the successful re-carding of all University employees, the One Card Office must have everyone’s picture in their system by March 9, 2007. If you received your ID before September 2003 we will need to retake your picture.

To have your picture taken, please go to one of the locations below and bring with you another form of picture ID (driver’s license, passport, etc).

A regional campus ID center. For times & locations please see: www.onecard.uconn.edu/regional_campuses.html

Stamford Campus ID Hours:
Monday, 10am-11:30am, 2-3:30pm
Tuesday, 10-12:30pm, 4-6pm
Wednesday, 10-11:30am, 2-3:30pm, 5-6pm
Thursday, 10am-12:30pm, 4-6pm
Friday, 11am-2pm

For the latest updates on the re-carding process, check the One Card Office website at www.onecard.uconn.edu

Microsoft Office Product Alternatives

The JRL library’s SuperHOMER workstations are NOT equipped with the Microsoft Office products (word, excel, powerpoint, access). You can however save or email a word document so you can download and view the document for quick edits. Please remember to save (using a USB portable drive) or email (to another email account like Huskymail) a back up copy to your work.

The campus microlab has the Microsoft Office products. Howerver, there are some free alternatives out there. Google offer’s “Docs and Spreadsheets” (formerly called Writely).

For non-Office users who need a rough equivalent to Office should examine the Zoho Virtual Office (www.zoho.com) It doesn’t have the polish or the features of Microsoft’s offerings, but it does have similar core functionality and it’s free.

As with Google-created documents, the documents created by Zoho’s applications are stored on the web, so you can get to them from any Internet-connected computer.

February 2007 Grapevine

Please be sure to check out the latest issue of Stamford Campus Newsletter “The Grapevine” –located around campus and on the web at:
http://stamfordstudentlife.uconn.edu/grapevine.pdf

In this issue you will find information about:
Art Gallery Opening: Art from the Heart
UConn-Stamford Shuttle Announcement
SPECTRUM Movie Night
Career Center UBS Open House
Iraq: A Discussion
Fitness Center News
Campus Change Information
Scholarship Applications
Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies Spring Programs
Women’s Studies Spring Programs and Announcements
The Vagina Monologues! Open Casting Call and Volunteer Information
SGA Fall 2006 Review and Preview of Spring 2007
Black History Month Community Expo
Capoeira Club Announcement

February 2007 Calendar:
2/2/07 Friday, 6-8 PM, Art Gallery: Art Gallery Opening – Art
from the Heart
2/2/07 Friday, 6-11 PM, Concourse: Party with the Stars – Winter Formal
2/6/07 Tuesday: Deadline for Campus Change Forms!
2/6/07 Tuesday, 12:40 PM, A-2: Iraq: A Discussion
2/7/07 Wednesday, 12:35 PM, Concourse: Westhill Drill team
2/8/07 Thursday, 4-6 PM, Schreiber Reading Room: UBS Open House
2/14/07 Wednesday, 12:35 PM, Concourse: Music sponsored by SGA
2/19/07 Monday, 6:30 PM, Room 108: Lebanon: A Geopolitical Analysis
2/21/07 Wednesday, 10:30 AM-3:30 PM, Concourse: Black History
Month Community Expo
2/21/07 Wednesday, 7 PM, Room 108: Feminist Debate about Pornography
2/22/07 Thursday, 12 PM, Room 108: Tales from Exile and
Redemption in Judaic Texts
2/26/07 Monday, 4 PM, Room 311: SPECTRUM Movie Night
2/28/07 Wednesday 7 PM, A-1: Black History Month Celebration

Copyright Information available on Libraries’ website

Is copying material for an educational purpose considered fair use and acceptable under copyright law?

Can a faculty member copy chapters from a textbook and distribute them to students?

Can videos be shown in class without permission from the copyright owner?

The answers to these questions and many more can now be found at the University Libraries’ new copyright web site.

Read full story in the UConn Advance
1/22/07

JRL Spring Semester Hours

The Jeremy Richard Library Spring Semester Hours 2007
January 16-May 5, 2007

Monday-Thursday 8:00Am – 9:00PM
Friday 9:00Am – 4:30:00PM
Saturday 11:00Am – 4:00PM
Sunday CLOSED

Exceptions:
Saturday, March 3 CLOSED
Monday March 5 -Thursday, March 8 9:00AM-5:00PM
Friday, March 9 9:00-4:30PM
Saturday, March 10 CLOSED