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The British are Here! on DVD

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Carlson Library is currently displaying some well-known British literary works which have been adapted for film and television on DVD.   Also included are a number of British television series on DVD. The theme is “The British are Coming Here,” to demonstrate the increasing influence of British television and movies on American culture. It is located near the Information Desk and will run through the end of March. DVDs are located in the Microform & Multimedia Department on the 3rd floor of the library.

Some of the DVDs available are:

Television series:

And others:

Spring Break Building Hours

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During Spring Break, Carlson Library will be open from

  • 8 a.m. through 12 midnight, Monday – Thursday,
  • 8 a.m. through 8 p.m. on Friday
  • 9 a.m. through 8 p.m. on Saturday
  • and 12 noon through 12 midnight on Sunday.

(These are the regular hours of the upper floors, except that we open at 8 a.m. instead of 7:30 a.m.)

Not all service and information desks will be open their regular hours during spring break, however, so service levels may be reduced in some collections.

WiFi Upgrade in Carlson Library, March 8

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At the beginning of Spring Break week, the WiFi (wireless) system in Carlson Library will be upgraded throughout the day.  As wireless network points are being replaced, there will be intermittent wireless outages in different parts of the building.  All work is expected to be completed by Tuesday morning.  We apologize for any inconvenience, but you should still be able to find ‘live’ WiFi coverage elsewhere in the building while the upgrade is being done.

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Celebrate Women’s History through Rare Books

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University Libraries celebrates Women’s History Month with a look at rare books and manuscripts documenting women’s social history from the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections.   For 30 years, the Canaday Center has collected printed and manuscript materials documenting the social history of American women. The materials focus mainly on the period 1840-1920 and concern the nature of domestic life and the struggle of women for equality.   Why not take a trip back to the past to see how the social position of women has advanced, as documented in the books in our rare book collections?

Poetry Reading from UT Author

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Melanie Dusseau, an adviser in the College of Arts & Sciences and part-time instructor in the English department, will read selections from her newly published book, The Body Tries Again, later this week.   Come hear the author on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m. in the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections in Carlson Library.    Copies of the book will be available for purchase as well.

For more details, please see this recent article in the UT News.

The Body Tries Again

New Business Database: Passport GMID

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The University Libraries recently bought a subscription to a business & economics database from Euromonitor, Passport Global Market Information Database (GMID).   Passport GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.   In all, the database has:

Statistics

  • 4 million demographic, economic and marketing statistics
  • 4 million consumer lifestyle statistics
  • 200,000 market size statistics

Reports

  • 1,500 market reports
  • 8,500 sector briefings
  • 45 strategy briefings
  • 70 global reports examining consumer markets, services and sectors
  • 6,700 local company profiles
  • 500 global company profiles
  • 79 future demographic reports
  • 213 regional and country profiles
  • 176 country briefings
  • 74 consumer lifestyles reports

Comments

  • Timely insight into the factors influencing industries, countries and consumers
  • New product launches, marketing strategies and industry trends
  • Acquisitions, disposals and strategic partnerships
  • Regulatory issues and seasonal trends
  • Social, economic and political issues
  • Emerging consumer trends and attitudes
  • New consumer segments
  • World events in context

Do to the subject content, this database is available to Main Campus library users only.

Link from Library Catalog to More Resources

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When you do a search in the library catalog, you can often link out to more resources on the same topic.  Just do a search like you normally would, and then click on the ‘More Resources’ button to the right of the title.

This will bring up a menu of additional options based on the item you’re looking at, such as:

  • Searching for the same subject or title in our Research Databases to find articles.  (While the catalog can tell you what books, videos, and other items we have, it cannot find individual articles on a subject.)
  • Looking in online reference resources including encyclopedias
  • Finding e-books on the topic
  • Connecting to a Library Guide developed by our own librarians for more research ideas.

Use the ‘More Resources’ button to expand your research today!

Testing out a new database for News: Access World News Research Collection

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The Libraries are participating in a beta test of the Access World News: Research Collection through the end of Spring Semester.  This is a total news product including news from over 5,000 sources in all media types, including  116 sources from Ohio.

Access World News: Research Collection: Research current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, web-only and video content.

For comparison, we currently have access to a limited number of newspapers from the same NewBank company that is developing this database.  You may also want to compare this product with EBSCOhost’s Newspaper Source or LexisNexis Academic.

Faculty invited to submit work to Authors & Artists Exhibit

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The deadline for submitting materials for the 2010 University of Toledo Authors and Artists Exhibit is Friday, Feb. 12.  Faculty and staff members who have published books, articles and conference papers since February 2008 are encouraged to submit these materials for inclusion in the exhibit.

The exhibit will be on display in the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of Carlson Library from March 29 through April 30.

Faculty with works in the exhibit will be honored at a reception Monday, March 29, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Dr. John Murray, UT professor of economics, will present opening remarks.

Faculty authors on Main Campus should send or e-mail their publications to Suhasini Kumar, Government Documents Department, Carlson Library, mail stop 509. Faculty members on Health Science Campus should send or e-mail their publications to Jolene Miller, Mulford Library, mail stop 1061. Faculty in the Department of Art with works for the exhibit will receive notification in late January of procedures for displaying their artwork.

Those submitting works are asked to provide a complete bibliographic citation for each publication to assist with the preparation of the exhibit catalog.

For more information, contact Barbara Floyd, director of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, at 419.530.2170.