UMass Libraries Welcome You to Science Boot Camp!

This Science Boot Camp is a first effort to prepare librarians to be leaders and participants in E-Science initiatives.

Reference librarians will be introduced to the basics of recent emerging disciplines. Science Boot Camp will introduce participants to Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology and GIS. Speakers will provide an introduction to the science, provide insights into the types of data that
are used in the discipline and give examples of applications of the data. Participants will also be introduced to data sources, websites and resources that are used in these disciplines.

Participants will come away with a better understanding of these disciplines and will be more prepared to assist students, faculty and researchers in their quest for and use of scientific data.

Over 60 librarians from 5 states are participating in this year’s camp. More information about the boot camp …

Directions to UMass Dartmouth.

The Associates will hold an election of officers and present their annual gift to Claire T. Carney Library for the purchase of library materials.

Ms. Cummings holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French Language and Literature and a Master’s of Science Degree in Education from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has extensive experience in college and university residential education, judicial affairs, and crisis management. She has served as a consultant to higher education institutions, public school systems, and community organizations on issues of multiculturalism and diversity. The annual meeting is open to the public.

A dessert reception will follow the program.

Parking is available in Lot 13.

We are pleased to announce Spring 2009 extended hours and 24-hour computer lab and study space for student use during the last weeks of classes and final exams.

The Learning Commons, located in the lower level of the Claire T. Carney Library, is open as follows:

May 3 - May 9th
Open until 3am.

May 10 - May 20th
Open on a 24×7 hour basis until 7 p.m. on Wed, May 20th.

IT Assistants will be staffing the Learning Commons lab. Personnel from the Department of Public Safety will be present for security and safety escort purposes. Wireless access, vending machines and restrooms are available for your convenience.

Please note extended hours are only in the lower level . The main Library is not open during extended hours.

For more information, contact the Learning Commons Service Desk at
lcdesk@umassd.edu or 508-999-8884.

Extended hours are sponsored by the Student Senate and the Residents Hall
Council

More Information:

• Ferreira Mendes Portuguese-American Archives digitizing project will provide global resource for students, faculty, and genealogists (UMass Dartmouth Press Release)
• Old Portuguese-language newspaper now read all over (SouthCoastToday.com)

Local poets joining us to read their poetry are Ada Jill Schneider, Marc Widershien and Karen Klein.

There will award prizes to the three best poems written by the children, refreshments and a book of the poems available to all. Parking available in lot 13.

Please note that the fee waiver applies to the four week sessions, not the shorter three to five day statistical workshops.  If you’re interested in being nominated for a fee waiver, or if you have questions, please contact Prof. Heidi Berggren (x8272).

The admission price of $25.00 includes a full buffet brunch and the writers’ discussion of their books. Tickets will be available at the door. It is preferred, however, that all reservations be made in advance.  Checks, made payable to The Claire T. Carney Library Associates, can be sent to Mrs. Rita Raymond, 1032 Sterling Street, New Bedford, MA 02745. There will be ample parking in the Wamsutta Club parking lot. All proceeds benefit the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library. For more information about the UMass Dartmouth library, visit http://www.lib.umassd.edu.

For additional information about this stellar program of great British and American writers, please contact Damaris Berner at 508 999-8671 dberner@umassd.edu or, Professor Yoken at myoken@umassd.edu

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The four authors: Pat LaMarche, Nigel Hamilton, Nancy Rubin Stuart and Adam Braver, are highly acclaimed writers of historical fiction, biography and social history.  Books will be available to be autographed by the authors.

Pat LaMarche is an author, educator, journalist, and broadcaster who has successfully managed business and charitable organizations, and is well known for her innovative approach to public service. LaMarche writes a weekly syndicated column dealing with politics and current events, and has leveraged her popularity to help provide food, heating oil and medical treatment for many of her fellow Mainers, as well as support for the Maine National Guard and September 11th relief crews. In 1998 and 2006, LaMarche ran for Governor of Maine and, in 2004, she served as the Green Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate. LaMarche is the only Maine woman to establish a political party in that state.  A graduate of Bangor’s John Bapst High School and Boston College, she also pursued post-graduate studies at the University of Amsterdam.  LaMarche’s recent book, Left Out in America (UpalaPress, 2006) will be discussed at the literary brunch. She is also a contributor to Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader.

Nigel Hamilton studied history at Cambridge University and has published many acclaimed biographies of significant historical value. He was appointed The John F. Kennedy Scholar at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and wrote JFK: Reckless Youth (Random House, 1992.) In 2000 he returned to the University of Massachusetts Boston, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies to write, Bill Clinton: An American Journey (Random House, 2003.) While researching and writing the second volume of his biography of Bill Clinton, Hamilton also wrote Biography – A Brief History, which was published to great acclaim by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2007.  He has researched and written extensive biographies about Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. In Monty: The Battles of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery (Random House, 1994) Hamilton revised and compressed the battle accounts of his three-volume official biography for the general reader.  Early in his career, Hamilton broke new ground in biography by looking at the lives not of one writer, but of two, in terms of sibling rivalry in, The Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann 1871-1950 and 1875-1955 (Yale University Press, 1979.) Most recently, he has undertaken a modern version of Suetonius’ classic biographical work The Twelve Caesars. Hamilton’s new version will be called American Caesars, and cover the last twelve American presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush and will be published in 2010. He will undertake the third and final volume of his Clinton trilogy after completion of American Caesars.

Adam Braver is an American author who has published four acclaimed novels, mostly of historical fiction.  His first book was Mr. Lincoln’s Wars (Harper Perennial, 2003), is a novel told from thirteen different perspectives in order to illuminate Abraham Lincoln’s inner life. Second was Divine Sarah (William Morrow, 2004), which fictionalizes actress Sarah Barnhart’s Tour of America. Crows Over the Wheatfield (Harper Perennial, 2006) told the story of a renowned Van Gogh scholar struggling to deal with her guilt after she accidentally kills a young boy in a car accident. The most recent, Nov 22, 1963 (Tin House Books, 2008) is a fictionalization of the day of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Braver’s short stories have appeared in journals such as “Harvard Review,” “West Branch,” “Ontario Review,” and “Daedalus.” Braver teaches at Roger Williams University.  He also has been a regular writer-in-residence and faculty member at the New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography and social history. She has appeared on national television and radio shows in connection¬ with her books. These included appearances on C-Span’s Book TV, CBS Morning News, National Public Radio, Charlie Rose, Oprah, A & E Network’s “America’s Castles” and “Mansions, Monuments and Masterpieces.” Stuart was just nominated for a George Washington Book Award on behalf of her latest book, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation (Beacon Press, 2008.) In 2005, Harcourt published her biography about the co-founder of American spiritualism, The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox. Stuart’s best-selling biography American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post has been reprinted in paperback by (Universe, 2004.) Her earlier books include, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen (St. Martin’s Press, 1991,) The Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America (Putnam, 1984) and The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982.) As a journalist, she has contributed to many publications including The New York Times, American History Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, American History, The Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Business Week’s Careers, Family Circle, Savvy and Travel and Leisure.

The Library is offering sessions to help beginners and advanced users. All sessions will meet in the Library’s second floor conference room (just behind the elevator). These sessions are open to both students and faculty.

Each session can have 6 participants, so RSVP quickly to get a spot!

Sign up for one of the NEW Sessions Now!

• Sign Up Now! - Friday, March 6,  11 am,  Beginner
• Sign Up Now! - Wednesday,  March 11, 10 am, Advanced
• Sign Up Now! - Friday, March 13, 12:30-1:30 pm, Beginner
• Sign Up Now! - Tuesday, March 24, 2 pm,  Beginner
• Sign Up Now! - Friday, March 27, 2 pm, Advanced
• Sign Up Now! - Tuesday, March 31,  11 am,  Beginner

RefWorks allows you to create your own database of references. You may then use those references in a bibliography or you may cite references in your paper and RefWorks will format your paper and bibliography in any style that you choose.

Beginners will learn:

• How to open an account
• Basic citation importation
• How to create and organize folders in your account
• How to link to your paper in MSWord
• How to create a basic bibliography

Advanced sessions will focus on:

• Importing from other sources (web pages, RSS feeds, and other commercial databases)
• Editing references
• More viewing and sorting options
• Checking for duplicates
• Troubleshooting problems

These sessions are geared to transfer students, but anyone is welcome to sign up.

This is your opportunity!

Please sign up for one of the upcoming sessions:

• Monday, March 2, 10 am
• Wednesday, March 4, 3 pm
• Wednesday, March 25, 2 pm
• Tuesday, March 3, 10 am
• Thursday, March 5, 10 am
• Tuesday, March 24, 10 am
• Friday, March 6, 2 pm
• Tuesday, March 10, 3 pm
• Friday, March 13, 2 pm
• Thursday, April 2, 9-10 am
• Thursday, April 9, 1pm

The Library Services, Information Resources, and Technology (LSIRT) division’s membership to ICPSR qualifies our students and faculty to receive discounted registration. Please contact Professor Heidi Berggren (x8272) for program information.