In This Issue:
- How to search using the LibrarySearch Catalog
- JSTOR Path to Open
- Artstor’s move to JSTOR: Everything you need to know before August 1, 2024
- Merrill Library Director to Retire
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Featured Resource: Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
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The University of Maine System Libraries has a new catalog. Check out this video created by Fogler Librarian Amber Gray to learn how to search for items in the UMS Libraries. | |
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JSTOR Path to Open
The University of Maine's Fogler and Merrill libraries now participate in JSTOR's Path to Open, a groundbreaking pilot collaboration between university presses, libraries, and JSTOR, to promote sustainable open access publishing of high-quality scholarly ebooks and increasing meaningful engagement with them.
Access to the first set of Path to Open books is available to UMaine students, staff, and faculty; it is fully integrated with other scholarly content on the JSTOR platform, including thousands of books, journals, and primary source collections. These books align with our efforts to increase cultural diversity and support important scholarship in focused fields in the humanities and social sciences, including those related to under-represented communities. New titles will be added each year across a range of topics, increasing the number of high-quality titles available for use in research and the classroom. All Path to Open books become open access three years after publication.
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The Artstor Experience on JSTOR
Artstor is moving to JSTOR. Here is everything you need to know before August 1, 2024. Artstor is now available in its new home on JSTOR! When you search JSTOR, you will find Artstor’s 2+ million licensed images and more than 1,700 additional primary source collections alongside JSTOR’s vast collection of books, journal articles, and research reports. And, with JSTOR’s unique Workspace tool, you can easily save, organize, and teach with Arstor images alongside other JSTOR content in one convenient workflow. If you have saved images or folders in Artstor for personal or course use, check out how to handle these by reviewing Your Artstor Image Groups on JSTOR.
On August 1, 2024, the legacy Artstor website will be retired. If you use Artstor, you’re invited to get started on JSTOR now — check out The Artstor Experience on JSTOR for everything you need to make your move. If you’ve never used Artstor before, now is a great time to try it out. Visit the Artstor on JSTOR LibGuide, or jump right in with an image search.
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Merrill Library Director to Retire
Marianne Thibodeau, Director at UMM's Merrill Library, will retire at the end of the month. Marianne has served as Merrill Library Associate Librarian, and Library Director for a span of twenty years. She also served as Interim Dean of Libraries at UMaine's Fogler Library from June through mid-October 2022. Prior to this position, Thibodeau served as Assistant Library Director and Head of Instruction and Research at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston and as a teacher in Maine public schools.
She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Maine at Machias, a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of South Carolina – Columbia, and a Master of Educational Leadership from the University of Maine.
Marianne served on the board of the Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC), and is a member of the University of Maine System URSUS Library Directors Council. Thibodeau serves the University of Maine at Machias as a member of the Leadership Team, and on the editorial board of the Library of Early Maine Literature, a scholarly imprint of the University of Maine at Machias Press.
Thibodeau has instituted the ever popular "Dog Night" in which therapy dogs visit the library during final exams. She has overseen the conversion of the collection from the Dewey Classification System to the Library of Congress Classification to reflect the other University of Maine System Libraries. According to Thibodeau, working with students and faculty have been the most rewarding aspect of of her years in library service.
When asked what is next she says, "I look forward to exploring this new stage. Most of all the unhurried time to travel, take a course, read, garden, and to visit with parents, children, and grandchildren."
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Featured Resource: Extra! Extra! Read all about it.
Did you know that through Fogler Library, Merrill Library has access to several current and historic news sources available for UMaine and UMaine-Machias students and employees? For instance, the Global Newsstream database provides access to popular local and national publications such as the Bangor Daily News and the Washington Post. Additionally, it features content from more than 2,000 news sources stretching back to the 1980s and represents one of the largest collections of news from around the world.
Because the Global Newsstream is funded by the State of Maine through the Digital Maine Library, it is available to all Maine residents.
To learn more about the news resources you can explore Fogler's News Research Guide which is maintained by Fogler librarian, Nancy Lewis (lewis@maine.edu), subject specialist librarian for Communication & Journalism.
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