http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu UMass Dartmouth Library News Blog Wed, 14 May 2008 05:14:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As announced previously by Anthony J. Garro, Provost and Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs: The First Annual Celebration of Scholarship and Research Reception was held on May 13th in the Browsing Area of the Claire T. Carney Library. The reception served as an opportunity for the university community to celebrate ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/05/13/the-1st-annual-celebration-of-scholarship-and-research-was-held-in-the-claire-t-carney-library-on-may-13th/ Rockland Trust has donated $50,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The donation will sponsor the creation of the Rockland Trust Cyber Café in the expanded Claire T. Carney Library on campus. The Claire T. Carney Library project, slated to open in the Fall of 2010, will contain, in addition to ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/05/08/rockland-trust-donates-50000-to-fund-cyber-cafe-at-claire-t-carney-library/ Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:00-8:30 p.m. Library Browsing Area The Claire T. Carney Library Associates 2008 Annual Meeting and election of Officers Speaker: Library Dean, Dr. Sharon Weiner "The Symbolic Value of the Library" Reception to follow the program. The annual meeting is free and open to the public. http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/04/30/the-symbolic-value-of-the-library-dean-sharon-weiner-the-claire-t-carney-library-associates-2008-annual-meeting/ Each year at the Honors Convocation the library presents Student Library Employee Academic Achievement Awards to the five student library workers with the highest cumulative grade point averages. In order to be eligible the student worker must be an undergraduate (any year) with a minimum GPA of 3.2. The winners of ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/04/29/student-library-employee-academic-achievement-awards-announced-for-2007-2008/ Heirloom Discovery Day is a UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library Associates fundraiser. Details: Heirloom Discovery Day March 30, 2 - 4:30 Library Browsing area Claire T. Carney Library Parking available in lot 13 Light refreshments will be available. The Claire T. Carney Library Associates are hosting an Heirloom Discovery Day at UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/03/27/heirloom-discovery-day-march-30th-umass-dartmouth-claire-t-carney-library-associates-fundraiser/ 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). Each session can have 6 participants, so RSVP quickly to get a spot! FILLED - April 4 2:30 – 3:30 ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/03/23/refworks-workshops-an-easier-way-to-organize-research-format-citations-rsvp-now/ The Claire T. Carney Library is currently featuring an exhibit of 15 art books created by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Participating students completed the course on bookmaking, known as the Art of the Book, taught in the fall semester by Design Professor ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/03/18/the-art-of-the-book-claire-t-carney-library-first-floor-exhibit-cases-march-7-through-may-9-2008/ In collaboration with Claire T. Carney Library, Dartmouth Public Libraries produced an informative guide to the April 1st town elections. The guide provides access to YouTube interviews with candidates for Select Board, candidate-written editorials, key ballot questions, and essential voter information on topics such as registering to vote and ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/03/10/guide-to-dartmouth%e2%80%99s-april-1st-elections-a-dartmouth-public-libraryclaire-t-carney-library-collaboration/ Update from the NIH Office of Extramural Research to the external biomedical research community. from the Nexus Special Edition on Peer Review: March 5, 2008 The NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni is mulling the final draft of the "NIH 2007-2008 Peer Review Self-Study" submitted Feb. 28, 2008, marking the end of the ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/03/06/nih-director-examining-peer-review-report-public-comment-period-closes-march-17/ Beginning March 24, LSIRT (Library Services, Information Resources and Technology) will implement a "print solution" to reduce paper waste. Anyone printing from the Carney Library's second-floor computers and those in CITS labs in the lower level and LARTS 216 will use a nearby print station to release a document for ... http://libblog.lib.umassd.edu/2008/03/05/librarycits-lab-print-solution-to-manage-paper-waste-begins-march-24/