Healey Keynotes

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.

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.