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

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that Sharon Weiner will be joining UMass Dartmouth as the new Dean of Library Services, effective July 16, 2007.

Ms Weiner is currently Director of the Peabody Library at Vanderbilt University. Prior to that she was Head, Reference and Education Services, at the Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. She is currently Co-Chair of the Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute, Co-Chair of the National Forum on Information Literacy, and Chair of the Special Libraries Association’s Education Division. Ms. Weiner is completing her EdD in Higher Education Leadership at Vanderbilt this summer. Her dissertation explores the contribution of the library to the reputation of doctoral universities, and will help inform the larger question of the role of the academic library in the changing higher education institution. She received her Master of Library Science from SUNY Buffalo. Ms. Weiner has published a book and seventeen peer-reviewed articles, as well as book chapters, successful grant proposals, and numerous conference papers.

Please join me in welcoming her to our community. Ms. Weiner comes to UMass Dartmouth with invaluable leadership experience and a strong record of accomplishment, and we are indeed fortunate to have her join us.

Regards,

Bob Green
Vice Chancellor Library Services, Information Resources and Technology (LSIRT)

iPod Winners!
LibQual+ Library Quality Survey Participants

To encourage participation in the LibQUAL+(TM) survey, students, faculty and staff were offered incentives. The winners of the incentives were:

• 80 GB iPod (compliments of Apple, Inc.) - Ally Case - Nursing
• 4 GB iPod Nano - Danielle Tinkham - Physics
• 1 GB iPod Shuffle - Kelly Roy - Softball Coach

… and 50 other winners of $10 campus food certificates!

The LibQUAL+(TM) survey provides a means for the library to measure library users’ perceptions of service quality and help it identify areas for improvement.

You are cordially invited to the ..

UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney
Library Associates
~ Annual Meeting ~

With speaker,
Chancellor Jean MacCormack

Thursday, May 17, 2007
7 p.m. Library Browsing Area

Dessert reception to follow the program.

The 7 p.m. Annual Meeting is free and open to the public
Parking is available in Lot 13
for more information, please call 508 999-8671

Five students who work part-time in the library were recipients of the Student Library Employee Academic Achievement Award at the Honors Convocation on May 2.

Gift certificates from Baker Bookswere given to:

from the Access Services Division

Rachel Fish
Rochelle Fontaine
Stephen Hickey
Rosannette Rivera

from Inter-Library Loan

Gabrielle Streeter

The library has been giving this award for over 10 years to encourage, recognize and reward student academic achievement.

Study Here! - Sunday, May 6th to Wednesday, May 23rd (details)

The lower level of the library study space and computer lab will be open from Sunday, May 6th to Wednesday, May 23rd at 5 p.m. for your studying and all day and night working pleasure.

~ Sponsored by the LSIRT Division, the Library, CITS and the Department of Public Safety. ~

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, UMass Dartmouth Chapter
13th Annual UMass Dartmouth Research Exhibition
April 24th and 25th, 2007
1st Floor - Carney Library

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Chapter of Sigma Xi’s annual two-day research exhibit will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday April 24th and 25th. Graduate and undergraduate students and faculty will present posters in a manner similar to professional meeting poster sessions. Presenters will be at their posters from 2-4 pm on Tuesday and from 12 noon to 2 pm on Wednesday. For a list of exhibitors and abstracts describing their research see the UMass Dartmouth Chapter of Sigma Xi information pages.

Questions?
Contact:
Elizabeth Winiarz
ewiniarz@umassd.edu
508-999-8696

Community Health and Sustainability Lecture
April 24th 2007 - 4-5:30pm
Carney Library Browsing Area

Professor John Warner, Director of the Center for Green Chemistry will speak about “Community Health and Sustainability”.

Sponsored by Sigma Xi, UMass Dartmouth Chapter, the Honor Society for Researchers

Contact:
Elizabeth Winiarz
ewiniarz@umassd.edu
508-999-8696

“Today We Are All Hokies”
Virginia Tech Memorial Service
Friday, April 20 at 11:30 a.m.
Library Browsing Area

We invite all members of the UMD community to join us for a memorial service to pay respects to the students and faculty at Virginia Tech whose lives were tragically taken. The Memorial Service will take place in the Library Browsing Area on Friday, April 20 at 11:30 a.m. and will last approximately 30 minutes. Chancellor MacCormack and members of the UMD community will offer words of solace.

In honor of a nation-wide “Today We Are All Hokies” tribute, maroon and orange ribbons will be available and a condolences banner will be located in the Campus Center for signing throughout the day and will be mailed to our Virginia Tech friends and colleagues.

Questions can be directed to Student Affairs.

Ann Valentino
Phone: 508.999.8640
E-mail: Avalentino@umassd.edu

P R E S S R E L E A S E
City Names Official Poet Laureate
John P. Landry to Serve as City’s Poet Laureate

New Bedford, Massachusetts- New Bedford, Massachusetts- Mayor Scott W. Lang today named John P. Landry as the city’s official Poet Laureate. New Bedford-born Landry, who is well known in the region as a poet and teacher at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Bristol Community College, has many years of writing experience and enthusiasm for poetry. The Poet Laureate’s official duties for the city will be to compose and read poetry at various venues and special events within New Bedford.

“John Landry is respected by his fellow writers in poetry circles both in New Bedford and around the country. I look forward to his poems inspiring and uplifting the youth in our city,” said Mayor Lang of the new poet laureate.

Landry’s works have been published in newspapers, magazines, chapbooks, anthologies and more. Recently he has contributed poems to the New College Review, and the 50th anniversary issue of Beatitude. He has read poetry in places like City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and the United States Library of Congress at the invitation of U.S. Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. His poetry often reflects the character and environment of daily life in the city of New Bedford. Influenced by Massachusetts poets Charles Olson, John Wieners, Robert Creeley and others, Landry’s knowledge of the history as well as his relationships with other recognized poets make him qualified for the poet laureate designation.

Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco, California and mentor to Landry praised New Bedford’s new official poet and called him “a tireless activist for the community where poetry and the people together construct the tomorrow.”

Landry, eager to begin working in his new capacity said, “I will continue to showcase local literary talent and will work to draw poets from around the country to the city of New Bedford. I hope to strengthen New Bedford’s participation in the wider poetry community. I look forward, via writing, readings, and education, to continue to offer our city a look at itself through the eyes of local literary talent.”

A poet laureate is an individual who composes poems, and has the ability to express poetic ideas in beautiful language. The laurel, in ancient Greece, was sacred to Apollo, and was used to form a crown or wreath of honor for poets and heroes. Landry follows Everett Hoagland who served as City of New Bedford Poet Laureate from 1994 through 1998.