Important, but Odd and Obscure Reasons to Use the Library Maxine Schmidt Geosciences Liaison Librarian Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 mschmidt@library.umass.edu

Mark Leckie’s Other Life Mark modeling proper dress TIE and behavior for delinquent forams. (Note pinkies.) First step is to get them to take some pride in their appearance.

Ta-da! He’s even got one in fancy dress here.

The Map N Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library 150 300 m The Obligatory Map showing the Study Area. Note north arrow and scale. 150 300 m

The Cross Section EAST FLOOR WEST 3 2 1 Basement Integrated Sciences & Engineering Library Floor Directory Horizon of Abundant Librarians EAST FLOOR WEST Periodicals A-QC 3 Periodicals QC-Z Reference Q - Z 2 Reference A - PN Current Periodicals Books A-QE 75 1 Books QE 75 - QH Books QK - Z Basement The Obligatory Cross-Section, here showing the horizon of the peak occurrence of librarians.

Outlier librarian, Wednesdays from 10am - noon In the Blue Wall Member of the Campus Center Formation 300 m 150

A Review of Last Year’s Talk: The Top 10 Geological Reasons to Use the Library Don’t blink. First, a very quick review of last year’s talk.

1. Not everything is on the Internet 2. Not everything on the Internet is free 3. The Internet is not very organized 4. There is no quality control on the Internet 5. Sources on the Internet can be hard to verify

6. The Internet is too new for some things 7. Library online resources are available 24/7 8. The Internet is a mile wide and an inch deep 9. UMass is already paying for the library

10. Real live people can help you use our library Bonus Reasons I. Interlibrary Loan II. RefWorks III. ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst

ENQUIRER RESEARCHER GETS SUPERPOWERS FROM LIBRARY! Charges date back decades “Retired” Professor Named in Livestock Scandal UMASS ENQUIRER No. QE75 Sept. 12, 2008 New student housing opens RESEARCHER GETS SUPERPOWERS FROM LIBRARY! “I had no idea I could do these things!” We’ve been getting some attention lately. I want to tell you about 3 resources you might not know about: the new Geoscience Subject Guides, Citation and Search Alerts, and the new Image Collection Library. Survivor of Campus Pond Accident Resurfaces!

New Geoscience Subject Guides Earth Systems - Climate Research and Oceanography Geography - Physical and Human Geology – Mineralogy, Sedimentary, Structural, Geophysics,, Paleontology, TUS Please let me know if I’ve missed anything, or if you encounter dead links. You can comment on individual boxes in each guide..

Citation & Search Alerts For many periodical databases, you can arrange to get an email when Articles that match your search terms appear When an article cites a specific paper or book You have to sign up or register

Normally you are asked for your name and the email that you want notices sent to

Image Collection Library Presently only Art History, but now ready to accept images from all disciplines Web-based, searchable Maps, photos, slides, SEMs, etc. 221 Bartlett Hall Brian Shelburne bps@library.umass.edu For images that you use frequently or want to make available to others

This sunset isn’t over the Library This sunset isn’t over the Library. With the Learning Commons, the sun never sets on the Library. This is over Meadowlark Lake, in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming.