Author Archives: Sue Homant

Happy New Year and Welcome Back Students and Faculty

Students: Welcome to the 2015 Winter Semester!

Some interesting information about the Library:Library Front

Need Help?

Come in and see the Librarian at the Research Desk.  Or make an appointment for more in-depth assistance with a Librarian Consultant knowledgeable of your topic (See the Library directory for librarians names and subject areas: http://research.udmercy.edu/about/directory).

Off campus? Use the 24/7 Ask a Librarian chat box at http://research.udmercy.edu, or call us at 313-993-1071 (McNichols Campus Library) or 313-494-6900 (Dental Library).

Watching TVNeed relaxation?

The McNichols Campus Library has approximately:

  • 2300    Motion Picture DVDs and Videos
  • 141      TV Series and shows on DVDs
  • 300      Books on CD
  • 1000    Music CDs (Classical, Jazz, Pop, etc.)
  • 450      Kids Music CDs

General Information:

MOST books may be checked out for 28 days. Exceptions are reference books, books from the Michigan Core Collection, books on Reserve, etc. Renew your books for another 28 days using the 14 digit number on your UDM ID card — http://catalog.dalnet.lib.mi.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=udm&menu=account&submenu=itemsout

Printing paperFree Printing: 

The McNichols Campus Library provides 400 free prints in an academic year.

The Dental Library provides 500 free prints in an academic year.

 

 

Databases:

The Libraries subscribe to approximately 200 databases with over 55,000 ejournals covering all UDM disciplines, as well as over 145,000 ebooks and growing.

Interlibrary Loan:

Still can’t find what you need?  Order books or articles through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service — http://research.udmercy.edu/find/ill/

StudyingExtended Hours for Finals

For McNichols Campus Library: http://research.udmercy.edu/about/hours/mcn.php

 

 

RefWorks LogoRefWorks:

Later this semester, watch for “drop-in” classes at McNichols on using RefWorks, a research management software product that allows researchers to gather, manage, and store articles and papers as well as generate Reference or Work Cited pages.

SelfieEnjoy Taking Selfies?

Watch for Tommy Titan to hit the library.

 

 

By Sandra Wilson and Sue Homant

Librarian Consultants

 

Library Services Updated: January 7, 2015

Finding MLA and APA Templates in MS Word

You’ve done all the research, you’ve read all the articles.  Now you can begin writing your paper.  But wait, first you must figure out how to format your paper in the MLA or APA style.  OWL at Purdue provides  guidelines but wouldn’t it be nice if there was a template where you could just type in your paper?

Well there is! And here’s how you do it:

First open MS Word and click NEW.

Word New

Type either MLA or APA and click the magnifying glass.  Then click the template needed:

Word Templates

For example, this template appears for APA:Word running head

Now, just start typing your paper using the guidelines provided by the template.  It’s as easy as that!

Sue Homant

Librarian Consultant

Uncategorized Updated: November 20, 2014

Finding Copyright Free Images

Creating a PowerPoint presentation for a classroom project?  Adding pictures can make a slide POP!  Because it can be so easy to find images on the internet, are you thinking of grabbing one and putting it onto a slide?  Be careful.  Most pictures or images are copyrighted.  There are several websites where the images may be freely copied without seeking permission to use. However, you should still cite the original creator according to the style preferred, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.

Detroit Sculptures by LadyDragonflyCC ->;< is licensed under CC by 2.0

Detroit Sculptures by LadyDragonflyCC ->;< is licensed under CC by 2.0

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online – all images are in the public domain

Creative Commons – nonprofit organization “that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.”

Flickr – offers images under Creative Commons or the images will be labeled “all rights reserved.” Make sure the images you select are licensed in CC.

Google Copyright Free Images — In Google, type the image you need, click Images, click Search Tools, click Usage rights.  Now click Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification.

Internet Archive Book Images – Find copyright free images.  The images range from 1500 through 1922 and include journalistic photographs, charts, portraits, headlines, maps, decorative images, drawings and editorial cartoons.

Wikimedia Commons –It is a database of  freely usable media files to which anyone may contribute. Includes sounds and video.

Again, be sure to always cite images that someone else has created.

By Sue Homant, Librarian Consultant

 

 

Citing, Internet Resources Updated: November 18, 2014

outside libraryW E L C O M E  B AC K Students and Faculty!

What you need to know about the Library:

Need Help?

Stop in and see the Librarian at the Research Desk or make an appointment for more in-depth assistance.  Off campus? Use the 24/7 Ask a Librarian chat box at http://research.udmercy.edu, or call us at 313-993-1071 (McNichols Campus Library) or 313-494-6900 (Dental Library).

Need relaxation?

The McNichols Campus Library has approximately:

  • 2300 Motion Picture DVDs and Videos
  • 141 TV Series and shows on DVDs
  • 300 Books on CD
  • 1000 Music CDs (Classical, Jazz, Pop, etc.)
  • 450 Kids Music CDs

General Information:

MOST books may be check out for 28 days. Exceptions are reference books, books from the Michigan Core Collection, books on Reserve, etc. Renew your books for another 28 days using the 14 digit number on your UDM ID card — http://catalog.dalnet.lib.mi.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=udm&menu=account&submenu=itemsout

Free Printing: 

The McNichols Campus Library provides 400 free prints in an academic year.

The Dental Library provides 500 free prints in an academic year.

Databases:

The Libraries subscribe to approximately 200 databases with over 55,000 ejournals covering all UDM disciplines, as well as over 140,000 ebooks and growing.

Interlibrary Loan:

Still can’t find what you need?  Order books or articles through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service — http://research.udmercy.edu/find/ill/

Extended Hours for Finals

For McNichols Campus Library: http://research.udmercy.edu/about/hours/mcn.php

RefWorks:

Later this semester, look for “drop-in” classes at McNichols on using RefWorks, a research management software product that allows researchers to gather, manage, and store articles and papers as well as generate Reference or Work Cited pages.

By Sue Homant and Sandra Wilson

Librarian Consultants

 

Uncategorized Updated: September 2, 2014

MathVids: For College Math

Mathvids

Does math make sense to you? Is math that one class where you struggle? Need a little extra help?

Get math help free. Learn at your own pace. Find the same lesson taught by multiple teachers giving you different explanations. You can even brush up on your high school math. Certified math teachers screen and approve all videos.

MathVids is organized like a math textbook, allowing you to browse by topic and course. College math topics include calculus I, II, III, statistics, linear algebra, discrete math, and more. It even has graphing calculator help videos.

Go to: http://mathvids.com/

Sue Homant
Librarian Consultant

Internet Resources Updated: June 16, 2014

Exporting an Article From Google Scholar to RefWorks

Exporting from a Google Scholar article is very easy.

Find the article you wish to cite, click Import into RefWorks (appears below the article reference).

RefWorks will automatically open to the login page.RefWorks2

Login to RefWorks

Once you have logged in, RefWorks will put the citation in a last imported folder.

Import References

Click View Last Imported Folder to see the citation in RefWorks.

View Last ImportedViola! Your citation is now in RefWorks.  You may now add it to any folder with your other research references.

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Research Assistance Updated: February 10, 2014

Attaching Your Research Paper in RefWorks

Tired of the dog eating your papers, or losing your jump drive? Want to save a draft of your paper in the cloud? You can do it in RefWorks.

First, save your paper either on your computer or on a jump drive. Now, open RefWorks and create a citation.

To create a citation in RefWorks go to References, click Add New. Type your own name as author, and if you wish, give it a title–the same as your paper or the name of the class.

Using the citation you created above, click the Edit symbol: a pencil resting on a pad of paper. The Edit Reference screen appears. Scroll down to the word Attachments, click Browse. Locate your saved paper, click Open. Click Save & Add New.

You should now see a paperclip next to the other icons in the Ref ID line. Also an MS Word icon, a large W positioned over a sheet of paper, will appear under Attachments.

Viola! Your draft is now in the cloud.

To open the paper, click on the paperclip or the Word icon.

Sue Homant, Librarian Consultant

Research Assistance Updated: October 14, 2013

Attaching Full Text Articles to a RefWorks Reference

Have you ever printed out articles full text from a database only to discover days later that you are missing the last page or two? Or saved the article to your jump drive and can’t find it? Worry no more.

You can attach the full text of any article to its reference in RefWorks. Here’s how:

  1. Login to RefWorks in Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Export the reference to RefWorks.
  3. Save the article full text to either your computer or a jump drive.
  4. Go to RefWorks.
  5. Click the Edit symbol (paper and pencil)
  6. The reference box will pop up. Scroll down to Attachments. Click Browse.
  7. Find the saved article. Click Open.
  8. Click Save and Add New in the lower right.
  9. When you want to read the article, click the paper clip.

Congratulations! You now have an article full text in the cloud.

Librarian, Sue Homant

 

Research Assistance Updated: February 10, 2014
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