This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
““Nobody ever graduated from a library.Nobody ever graduated from a library. Nobody ever graduated without one.”Nobody ever graduated without one.”
Weekly Announcements Weekly Announcements
1/8/12-1/14/121/8/12-1/14/12
Have you written an amazing paper? You could be the winner in this year’s
Undergraduate Research AwardYour paper or project could be worth $1,000!
Deadline Friday, February 24, 2012For submission criteria or to apply:
bit.ly/contest_award
Prizes are made possible thanks to generous donations from Friends of the Libraries.
Do you have a cool book collection?Enter to win the 3nd AnnualBook Collecting Contest
You could win $750 and a gift certificate for $250 to Brattle Book Shop in Boston!
Deadline Friday, February 24, 2012For submission criteria or to apply:
bit.ly/contest_award
The Library celebrates the halfway mark of the Du Bois digitization project and launches Credo, an online repository containing the digital collections held by the Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Credo includes the Du Bois Papers and many other collections, which can be viewed anywhere at any time.
credo.library.umass.edu
The name for the repository was selected to honor W.E.B. Du Bois, who published Credo in 1904; a powerful statement of his philosophy for achieving racial equality.credo.library.umass.edu
Check out the new and expanded Circulation/Reserves Service Desk!
• Check books in/out• Find Materials on Reserve• Borrow a Laptop• Pickup Inter-Library Loan Materials• Library Account Services• Study Carrel Questions
THIS WAY TO CIRC/RESERVES
Study Abroad Advising at
The LinkMonday – Thursday
4:00-8:00 p.m.
Brought to you by the International Programs Office, 545-2710, www.ipo.umass.edu, [email protected]
is a walk-in advising service providing declared and undeclared undergraduates with answers to quick
advising questions.
Experienced Peer Advisors are on hand to assist you with:
Finding General Education courses
Interpreting your Degree Progress Report
Navigating Spire
and much more!
The Academic Advising Link
Learning Resource CenterLearning Resource CenterServices: Learning Resource Center
• Tutoring and supplemental instruction for many difficult first and second year courses.
• Drop-in help and weekly sessions
• Students helping students!
(10th floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library)
Check umass.edu/LRC for details…
Looking for quiet?
•Quiet study areas on 2nd and 3rd floors provide comfortable seating, electrical outlets, and wireless Internet access
•Drop-in carrels on 7th and 10th floors offer individual study space; day-use lockers also located on these floors.
•To report noise in quiet areas in the Library, call 1-2272 from a phone in any elevator lobby, or go to the Building Operations Desk on the entrance level.
Sample question from OIT Copyright Quiz
What is the minimum the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) can make you pay for infringing copyright on just one song?(Choose one)
• a. $0.99 per song
• b. $75.00 per song
• c. $100.00 per song
• d. $500.00 per song
• e. $750.00 per song
• A federal jury today ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay four record labels $675,000 in damages for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online. Boston.com 7/31/09
•That is the equivalent of 115 years of in-state tuition at UMass
Visit oit.umass.edu/copyright/index.html for information.
Sample question from OIT Copyright Quiz
What is the minimum the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) can make you pay for infringing copyright on just one song?(Choose one)