Dr. Sharon Weiner, Dean of Library Services at the UMassD Claire T. Carney Library, co-chaired the third annual Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute at Vanderbilt University from July 6-10, 2008.  Twenty-five Institute Fellows represented colleges and universities in 17 states.  Several from under-represented groups and minority-serving institutions were awarded Laura Bush Scholarships from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to attend.  The Institute speakers were nationally-recognized figures in higher education leadership.  They focused on understanding the higher education environment so that library leaders can position their libraries to support institutional missions.

To All Faculty,

Library Services, Information Resources and Technology(LSIRT)is pleased
to announce Turnitin, a plagiarism detection service, is now available
to all UMass Dartmouth faculty.

Turnitin evaluates the originality of students’ work by comparing their
electronic documents to online sources and the Turnitin databases.
Turnitin searches for textual matches from current copy and archived
copies of publicly accessible Internet pages, subscription databases,
and a UMass Dartmouth database of previously submitted work. Once a
paper has been submitted to the database, an originality report is
generated that highlights text matches to other documents. Faculty will
then need to review and evaluate the report to determine if plagiarism
is present.

Click here to get started using Turnitin,
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/get/turnitin/turnitin_services.html

Look for Turnitin drop-in training/question and answer sessions to be
announced in September.

Library Services, Information Resources and Technology

Further information about Turnitin:
http://turnitin.com/static/index.html

Additional questions should be directed to:
Instructional Development
idteam@umassd.edu
508 999-8501
or
Library Reference Department
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/libraryinfo/contact.cfm?subdept=4
(508) 999-8678