Healey Keynotes

Accessibility Resources

The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at UMass/Boston has produced a brochure entitled: ACCESSIBILITY RESOURCES AT UMB 2007-2008. This brochure was created as part of a grant-supported committee at ICI called "Equity and Excellence in Higher Education", you can visit the website here: http://www.eeonline.org. Marilyn Day, Supervisor of the Curriculum Resource Center at the Healey Library and Shannon McCue, Gopen Fellow at the Institute for Community Inclusion (both members of the E&E committee), compiled the information for the brochure. Graphics and layout were done by Dave Temolini at ICI. If you would like more information, please contact Marilyn at 617-287-5945; Marilyn.Day@umb.edu. 

Change your life with RefWorks!

Come  to one of the six RefWorks workshops with Frances Schlesinger, Reference Librarian.  Learn how to create a bibliography in seconds and add footnotes with ease. After learning how to use RefWorks, a student said that it changed her life.

"RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies." RefWorks allows users to export citations from many of the Healey Library databases and provides hundreds of citation styles, including  APA, Chicago, and MLA. For more information about RefWorks and how to use it, see http://healeylibrary.wikispaces.com/RefWorks.

Workshop Dates:

· Monday, October 29: 1:30-2:20

· Wednesday, October 31: 2:30-3:45

· Friday, November 2: 11:30-12:20

· Tuesday, November 6: 5:30-6:45

· Thursday, November 8: 10-11:15

· Wednesday, November 14: 4-5:15

Location:

· Center for Library Instruction, Healey Library 4^th floor

Please RSVP to Frances Schlesinger, 617 287.5943

 

How are we doing?

Here your opportunity to tell the library how you feel about our services. The Healey Library has begun using LibQUAL+™, a web based survey on library service quality. This survey was first used at UMass Boston in 2003 and we are asking all Healey Library users to participate again. The survey will run from Monday, October 22^nd to Friday, November 16^th.

Participants who give their email address will to eligible for prizes. The library will award one grand prize of a $500 gift certificate from Amazon.com to a randomly drawn email address from all of the email addresses submitted. There will also be 2 second prizes of a $200 gift certificate from Amazon.com. The prizes will be awarded in December.

Click here to take the survey.

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year and the Healey Library has over 40 of her books, including:

African Laughter : four visits to Zimbabwe

The Golden Notebook

The Grass is Singing

For a complete list of her books available through the library, look at the Healey catalog.

Read more about Doris Lessing at http://www.dorislessing.org/
Read more about the other Nobel Prize winners at  http://nobelprize.org

Book Launch Celebration

The Friends of the Healey Library and the Joiner Center for the Study of War & Social Consequences are sponsoring a celebration of the publication of the Hanoi Journal, 1967 by Carol McEldowney.  The original journal is in the collection of the Archives and Special Collections Department. Historian Suzanne McCormack and Archivist Elizabeth Mock co-edited the book which is published by the UMass Press.  The book launch celebration will be on October 24^th from 4:00-6:00 on the 5th floor of the library. Copies of the book will be available for sale.

Additionally, the Archives has also created a display on the Hanoi Journal in the lobby of the department with numerous photographs of Carol McEldowney's trip to Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War.

Truth and Reconciliation

On October 23, 24, & 25, John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies will sponsor a conference entitled, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Do They Do Justice to Justice?. Representatives from Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, and South Africa will share their lessons for Northern Ireland and Serbia. For more information on the conference see the listing of events at the McCormack School and UMass News.

The library currently has a display on the 2nd floor of books about the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the countries who are participating in the conference.  A selection of these books is listed to the right of this post and on the Healey Library wikispace. A complete list is available on LibraryThing and a reading list of articles is available here.   

Library Field Trips

Outreach Center: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies
17 Sumner Road; Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4078; cmes@fas.harvard.edu

Recently, Marilyn Day (supervisor of the Curriculum Resource Center, Healey Library) and Wijdan Rahman (student working with Marilyn in the CRC) visited the Outreach Center at the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

The Outreach Center is rich with K-12 Middle Eastern educational materials  for teachers such as: fiction and non-fiction books; Curriculum units; Kits; & Videos. The center is open to the public (M-F,  9:00 – 5:00 and Sat. hours by appointment). Educators can borrow the resources.

Paul Beran, Outreach Director and Jaclyn Michael, Curriculum Assistant, gave us a tour of the wonderful resources on Middle Eastern culture, religion, and tradition. Paul and Jaclyn welcome the opportunity to serve UMass/Boston faculty and students by assisting with the planning of Middle East-related courses or units or by gathering materials for class projects.

We will return to the Outreach Center many times in the future, to use the resources and to call upon the expertise of the Paul Beran and Jaclyn Michael.

Note: Paul and Jaclyn mentioned that Harvard has another outreach center, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, as well.

Educator Resource Center and Lyman Library: Museum of Science
Science Park, Boston 617-589-0170; lymanlibrary@mos.org

In August, Wijdan and Marilyn visited the Educator’s Resource Center, an attractive space on the third floor of the Museum of Science/Boston.

Jeffrey Mehigan and Henry Robinson cordially showed us the resources: a treasure trove of K-12 books, curricula and kits focused on Science, Engineering, Technology and Math. The standards-based classroom resources were chosen with educators and curriculum administrators in mind. All educators are welcome to borrow materials from the library. Jeff and Henry mentioned that the center can be reserved for groups. Jeff and Henry welcome the opportunity to assist teachers and pre-service teachers with their curriculum projects.

The Center is open 7 days a week (9:00 to 5:00) and offers free passes and parking to educator visitors. By registering with the Educator Resource Center, educators are notified of Museum of Science workshops and events for teachers.

We were inspired by the visit, and left with many new ideas for enhancing our own Curriculum Resource Center.

Note: Jeff and Henry mentioned another science center, Regional Science Resource Center: K-12 Science, Mathematics & Technology  Education, at UMass Medical School.