Electronic Information Resources Seminars
for UM Faculty and Graduate Students
in 1998

In 1998 these seminars were offered:

Spring Semester: Procite: Software to Manage your Bibliograhies Latin American Studies Dangers in Our Diets News Sources on the Web History Databases on the Web Electronic Journals for the Sciences: Reality Check Where in the World...? Maps on the Web

Fall Semester: Buildings-Cities-Gardens: Old & New! News Sources on the Web I'm Searching Those Good Citations: SSCI OCLC CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) Introducing PsychINFO Hartlib Papers on CD-ROM Electronic Journals for the Sciences: Reality Check Procite: Software to Manage Your Bibliographies Where in the World...? Maps on the Web Primary Sources and the World Wide Web

PROCITE: USING SOFTWARE TO MANAGE YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHIES

This seminar will help you to bring order to the chaos of managing large bibliographies associated with writing projects such as books, dissertations, proposals and journal articles. ProCite is a personal bibliographic software package designed to help you collect references, type your own entries or download citations directly from online databases, the World Wide Web, or library catalogs, and generate properly formatted bibliogaphies in any style. (Alternative title for this class: Taming the Wild: Using Software to Manage your Bibliographies)

• Presenters: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Manager, User Education Services, and Diane J. Patrick, Coordinator of Campus Computing Associates, Academic Information Technology Services
• Date and Time/Location:

  Spring: March 18, 1998, 3:00-5:00pm March 19, 1998, 2:00-4:00pm   Fall: November 5, 1998, 2:00-4:00pm November 11, 1998, 3:00-5:00pm

  McKeldin Library, Room 4M100E McKeldin Library, Room 4M100G     McKeldin Library, Room 4135 McKeldin Library, Room 4135

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

A multi-disciplinary examination of Web-based electronic resources in Latin American studies, including the Latin American Studies Database, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and others.

• Presenters: Lily Griner, Business Reference Librarian, McKeldin Library, and Pat Herron, Humanities Reference Librarian, McKeldin Library

• Date and Time: April 16, 1998, 9:30-noon & April 29, 1998, 1:00-3:30pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4137

DANGERS IN OUR DIETS

Covers databases, Web sites, and other sources of information for studying food safety and standards and applied human nutrition.

• Presenters: Courtney Shaw, Life Sciences Librarian, McKeldin Library; Kathryn Nepote, Director, Department of Laboratory Animal Care/Dean, Graduate Studies and Research; and Sylvia O'Brien, Acting Head, White Memorial Chemistry Library

• Date and Time: April 21, 1998, 9:30-11:30am

• Location: Hornbake Library, Room 3203

NEWS SOURCES ON THE WEB

An exploration of electronic newspapers, media metasites, newspaper and television archives, news wires, government news sources, newspaper databases and UM news sources, all available on the World Wide Web! (Alternative title: Extra! Extra! News Sources on the Web)

• Presenters:

  Spring:
  Maggie Cunningham, Librarian, User Education Services, and Judy Markowitz, Reference Librarian, MCKeldin Library

  Fall:
  Maggie Cunningham, Librarian, User Education Services, and Bob Garber, Librarian, Social Sciences Team

• Date and Time/Location:

  Spring: April 21, 1998, 10:30-noon   Fall: October 20, 1998, 10:00-11:30am

  McKeldin Library, Room 4M100E     McKeldin Library, Room 4135

HISTORY DATABASES ON THE WEB

An exploration of Archives USA, WorldCat, English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), America: History and Life, and Historical Abstracts.

• Presenters: Lauren Brown, Curator, Archives and Manuscripts; Jerri Kenny, Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team, McKeldin Library; and Eric Lindquist, Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team, Electronic Information Services

• Date and Time: April 22, 1998, 4:00-6:00pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4M100G

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS FOR THE SCIENCES: REALITY CHECK

Discussion of current trends in the development and pricing of electronic science journals. Electronic journals now available on campus will be demonstrated.

• Presenters: Karla Hahn, Collection Management Coordinator, McKeldin Library, and Neal Kaske, Head, Engineering and Physical Sciences Library

• Date and Time/Location:

  Spring: April 29, 1998, 12:00-1:00pm April 30, 1998, 12:00-1:00pm   Fall: November 4, 1998, 12:00-1:00pm November 12, 1998, 12:00-1:00pm

  A.V. Williams Building, Room 3460 Hornbake Library, Room 3203     Hornbake Library, Room 3203 Engineering and Physical Sciences Library

WHERE IN THE WORLD...? MAPS ON THE WEB

Learn how to effectively use vital demographic, geographic and environmental information available on the Web. This seminar also covers how to find aerial photographs and satellite images on the Internet. This session is geared towards individuals in business, urban studies, social planning, transportation engineering, as well as geographers, historians and geologists.

• Presenters: Linda Spitzer, Acting Head, Government Documents, McKeldin Library, and Maggie Cunningham, Librarian, User Education Services

• Date and Time: April 30, 1998, 10:00-11:30am

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4M100E

BUILDINGS-CITIES-GARDENS: OLD & NEW!

A variety of electronic resources for architecture, urban studies and planning, landscape architecture, and historic preservation.

• Presenters: Anita Carrico, Head, Architecture Library; Katherine Cowan, Graduate Assistant, Architecture Library; Jean McEvoy, Librarian, Art and Humanities Team, Architecture Library; and Sally Sims Stokes, Curator, National Trust for Historic Preservation Library

• Date and Time: October 14, 1998, 1:00-3:00pm & October 28, 1998, 1:00-3:00pm

• Location: Architecture Library, Mezzanine teaching room

I'M SEARCHING THOSE GOOD CITATIONS: SSCI

A workshop on the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), covering such fields as education, geography, library science, political science, psychology, and sociology. Includes time for hands-on exploration.

• Presenters: Bob Garber, Librarian, Social Sciences Team, McKeldin Library and Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu, Graduate Assistant, User Education

• Date and Time: October 22, 1998, 10:00-11:30am & November 19, 1998, 10:00-11:30am

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4135

OCLC CJK (CHINESE-JAPANESE-KOREAN)

Hands-on training for those who wish to search for materials in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language on OCLC. Participants will learn about general characteristics of OCLC database, as well as its CJK portion, be introduced to romanization schemes used for CJK languages in the U.S., and become familiar with searching techniques such as title browse, derived searches, and vernacular searches. Participants will receive handouts to help them with searching on their own.

• Presenters: Gordana Ruth, Chinese cataloger; Kenneth Tanaka, Japanese cataloger and bibliographer; and Edwin Yu, Chinese cataloger

• Date and Time: October 26, 1998, 1:00-2:30pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4135

INTRODUCING PSYCHINFO

This is a hands-on workshop on PsychINFO, an electronic index that provides comprehensive coverage of the professional literature of psychology.

• Presenters: Glenn Moreton, Librarian, Social Sciences Team, McKeldin Library, and Stephen H. Spohn, User Education Services

• Date and Time: October 27, 1998, 10:00-11:30am

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4133

HARTLIB PAPERS ON CD-ROM

The papers of the great polymath Samual Hartlib (ca. 1600-1662) have been published on CD-ROM. The collection includes 20,000 manuscript papers and 7,000 printed pages. Their images as well as transcripts are included on the CD-ROM. This seminar will include a discussion of the Hartlib Papers project and an introduction to using the CD-ROM.

• Presenters: Eric Lindquist, Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team, Electronic Information Services

• Date and Time: October 29, 1998, 4:00-5:30pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4135

WHERE IN THE WORLD...? MAPS ON THE WEB

Learn how to use your web browser as an online atlas. Find addresses, get driving directions, and print custom-made maps from the Internet. Learn about governmental sources for maps covering demographic and environmental themes as well as satellite photographs. Seminar covers some basic concepts about maps and spatially-referenced data and is geared towards anyone with an interest in using the Internet as a cartographic resource.

• Presenters: Travis Clark, Graduate Assistant, Government Documents and Maps; Maggie Cunningham, Librarian, User Education Services; and Bob Garber, Librarian, Social Sciences Team, McKeldin Library

• Date and Time: November 12, 1998, 3:30-5:00pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4133

PRIMARY SOURCES AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB

This seminar will explore how the Web is increasing access to primary sources of interest to historians, literary scholars, and other humanities researchers. Repositories of primary materials are making finding aids available on the Web, and, increasingly, the materials themselves are appearing on the Web. We will examine examples of finding aids and primary sources and also consider the future of the Web as a medium for research in the humanities.

• Presenters: Lauren Brown, Curator, Archives and Manuscripts; Jerri Kenny, Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team, McKeldin Library; Eric Lindquist, Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team, Electronic Information Services; and Tim Mahoney, Project Archivist, University Archives

• Date and Time: November 17, 1998, 3:00-5:00pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4133

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