Monthly Archives: July 2013

Interlibrary Loan

This may come as a surprise, but no library has every book or every journal.  But there is a method in place for obtaining a desired item when your library doesn’t have it. It’s called Interlibrary Loan (ILL). By using ILL, you can request a book or a journal article that the UDM library doesn’t have and our staff will obtain it from another library. So how does it work? It’s simple. From the library portal page, click on the...

Using My Account to create My Lists in the catalog

Did you know that you could mark and save book and journal titles for future reference right in the catalog? This catalog function may be useful in many ways. Maybe you need to keep track of the books that you have used for a research paper. Mark them on My Lists , then consult the list when it is time to compile your bibliography. Or, perhaps you want to keep track of library copies of class recommended texts. Or, maybe...

Check out our new look!

If you’ve searched for a book, ebook, or DVD in the library during the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed the library catalog’s new, user-friendly interface. The new format makes it easy to limit your results by format (e.g. books vs. dvd’s), publication date, subject heading, and language. You can also text a book’s title and call number to your cell phone to take with you upstairs or downstairs in the stacks when you go to  retrieve the book. Or,...