2005 Faculty Honors Conference Registration

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED for “Undergraduate Research and Scholarship: Fostering Engagement and Creativity,” the 2005 Faculty Honors Conference.

The conference will occur on Thursday, January 13, 2005
8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
Rome Ballroom

This exciting event – sponsored by the Honors Program, in collaboration with the Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School and the University Libraries – will be free and open to all UConn faculty and staff members on a first-come, first-served basis. To learn more and to register on-line, please go to:
http://honors.uconn.edu/honorsconf.htm

White Boards in Group Study Rooms

White boards have been added to all of the group study rooms at the Jeremy Richard Library. So all you creative types can sketch clever illustrations or get your ideas across to your study group by showing them what something should look like.

Markers and brushes can be borrowed from the Library’s Circulation Desk with a UConn Student ID card.

Latin American News in LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Academic has added feeds of the UPI Chile and UPI Latin America wires in Spanish. Go to the Guided News Search Tab Step one select:>Non-English Language News> Step two:>Spanish Language News.

There is also a new “Latin America News Digest” source in step one: select>World News>North> step two: select> South America News. The product summarizes local business and economic news in English.

LexisNexis Academic

State of the Library 2004-2005

To the UConn Library Staff:


A conference call will be set up on Monday November 15, 2005 at 2:30 PM with our Director of University Libraries Brinley Franklin discussing the Libraries Academic Year 2005.

An email with the conference call phone number and login instructions will be sent soon.

Remember, this is your one (and only) opportunity this year to ask Brinley any
question you want and get an honest answer! Or forever hold your peace 🙂

Library Workshop Series Begins Today

The libraries “Connect to the World Series” begins this week and will be held in the library’s Thomson eClassroom from 2:30-3:30pm.

These workshops are designed to introduce students to library research methods and concepts so they can become literate information users and develop lifelong learning skills. Everyone is welcome and no registration is required. For more information call the library at 251-9599.

Monday, 10/25
Academic Writing: Citing Sources

Tuesday, 10/26

Remote Access: Proxy

Wednesday, 10/27

Catalog: Homer Basics

Thursday, 10/28
Business Database:Thomson Research (Worldscope/Disclosure)

ICONN down at 11:00 Am Today

We were just informed that, due to the need to perform emergency maintenance, iCONN will be unavailable for one hour (or less) today beginning at 11:00 AM. This outage will also affect:

Web Pages:
greatkidsct.org
ctlibrarians.org
electronic discussion lists:
ctlibrarians
conntech
speak
csugpo

email for:
ctlibrarians

Library Workshops Week of October 25th

Connect to the World Series Fall 2004: These workshops are designed to introduce students to library research methods and concepts so they can become literate information users and develop lifelong learning skills. To register, please stop by the circulation desk. Everyone is welcome. Forr more information call 251-9599.

All Workshops Held in the Library Thomson eClassroom and Begin at 2:30PM

· Monday, 10/25
Citing Sources

· Tuesday, 10/26
Remote Access: Proxy

· Wednesday, 10/27
Catalog: Homer Basics

· Thursday, 10/28
Business Database:Thomson Research (Worldscope/Disclosure)