The UMUC Library recently made available an enhanced version of Nursing Reference Center (called Nursing Reference Center Plus), which provides core measures, nursing management & leadership topics with CEUs, nursing care plans, nursing informatics, risk management, and videos.
LexisNexis, the vendor for the current LexisNexis Academic (LNA) database, will discontinue LNA in 2017 and replace with Nexis Uni. The UMUC Library will make the switch to Nexis Uni in December 2017. For more information, please see the Lexis Uni site.
Various members of the UMUC Library staff have published and presented in a variety of venues over the past year.
Renee Brown has been promoted to University Archivist. She’s worked tirelessly to organize, process, and promote the collections in the Archives and really deserves this honor. We are happy she is able to focus fully on the Archives now, and expect to see great things coming from it in the near future.
What’s new in the Archives? Well, the University Archives is getting a chance to share some of its treasures with the wider UMUC community via The MAX. The MAX (aka: The Mobile Archives Experience) is a pop up display that features some items from the Archives (including photos of the Honey Bucket, and the Pope) on one side, and a timeline of UMUC’s development and various historical photos on the other. It was unveiled on June 8th, 2017 at the Alumni Reception and Awards Dinner and included a table featuring some of the treasures. Currently, the MAX is in Largo I, and after that it will be moving to various UMUC locations over the next year. Keep your eye out for it!
In early September we'll see the digitization of the Marylander. The Marylander was the school newspaper prior to UMUC leaving College Park. It continued after UMUC became a standalone school and focused mostly on overseas news and events.
We are also in the process of uploading our collection of European yearbooks to make them available online to alumni. If you have any old yearbooks you’d like to donate, please let us know! We would love to have them.
The staff is also busy unpacking boxes from Europe that have been in storage for over ten years. These boxes were packed by Denise Sokolowski (the European Librarian) and we cannot thank her enough for taking the time to make sure this irreplaceable collection was sent to us. As we sort these boxes we are moving them into relevant collections. Some of them might even be digitized and made available online.
Archives Interesting Fact: Did you know that UMUC was the first school to award a graduate degree in Bermuda? We were!
If you’d like to keep up with the Archives (or donate items), look for us on Engage.
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