The Archives and Special Collections recently purchased 21 historic city directories from Fall River, Somerset, Taunton and Lakeville. The directories date from 1918 through 1961. Like their modern cousins, old city directories list residents, businesses, municipal offices, churches and other institutions. What is unique is that they also list each resident’s profession, their place of business, and other adults living in the same household. Many directories contain an additional list by street name, referred to as the “house” directory and some list fraternal and other societies with officers and meeting times and places. They are invaluable ready reference sources for genealogical, demographic and historical research on the local community and are especially useful for more focused studies of the local Portuguese, Jewish or other ethnic communities. The Archives and Special Collections several years ago purchased a large lot of New Bedford city directories at auction. This recent purchase rounds the collection out to include its sister city of Fall River and some surrounding communities.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Turnitin, a plagiarism detection service, is now available to all UMass Dartmouth Faculty
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,
https://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:
https://turnitin.com/static/index.html
Additional questions should be directed to:
Instructional Development
idteam@umassd.edu
508 999-8501
or
Library Reference Department
https://www.lib.umassd.edu/libraryinfo/contact.cfm?subdept=4
(508) 999-8678