The current periodicals collection has been temporarily removed from the third floor to allow for the cleaning, repair, and re-labeling of shelves. Please ask at the Circulation Desk to get assistance from staff in retrieving the periodicals from storage.
Scott Peterson has left his position in the library's Interlibrary Loan department to join the UMR Development Office as a researcher. We wish him well!
Through a partnership between Wilson Library and the UMR Information Technology Department, O'Reilly Media's Safari Bookshelf is now available and accessible for distance users. Simply follow the link above from anywhere in the world to access Safari; our proxy server will ask you to authenticate if you are not within the UMR domain.
Safari Bookshelf provides electronic editions of titles for information
technology and programming professionals. Titles published in the last three years will be available through Safari. Users can browse books in the collection by category or conduct searches for specific information across all of the books in the Safari library.
Every month, new books are posted on a special list on our website. You can browse these new titles (over 300!) by clicking here.
The Spring 2005 Data Miner, the official newsletter of Wilson Library, is available here (pdf). The Data Miner provides library news and information about our services.
Wilson Library recently partnered with the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERTI) to provide UMR's administrators and faculty with resources related to professional development and the principles and methods of instruction. Among the new resources are guides for the development of academic programs, as well as materials discussing classroom techniques and strategies. These new books join the library's collection of journals related to education, including Education Digest, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, and Chronicle of Higher Education.
The latest task force minutes are now available and can be found on the task force website.