The document provides announcements from the UMass Amherst Learning Commons in September 2012. It includes information about a live webcam of Peregrine Falcons nesting on the roof of the Du Bois Library, new Dell laptops available for borrowing in the library, and expanded services at the Circulation/Reserves desk. It also announces the launch of Credo, the library's online digital repository.

1. Learning Commons Announcements
September 2012
“Nobody ever graduated from a library.
Nobody ever graduated without one.”

2. Flights, Camera,
Action!
Click on
the link on
the library
home
page.
A pair of Peregrine Falcons, which have nested on the roof of the Du Bois Library for
the past ten years, now have a live webcam! Watch images of the falcons brooding
their eggs and caring for their hatchlings at www.library.umass.edu/falcons.
Thank you to the UMass Amherst Facilities Planning Division, the Office of Information Technology
(OIT), the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife),
the Libraries' Systems and Web Management Department, and the Friends of the Libraries.

3. Falcons 2012
In the 1930s and
1940s, there were
approximately 375
nesting pairs east of
the Mississippi River in
the United States.
Due to the effects of the pesticide
DDT, the falcons laid thin-shelled
eggs that broke under the weight
of the adult birds during
incubation, leaving no young to
replace the adults. By 1966, not a
single nesting pair remained in
the eastern United States.

4. Falcon Web Camera
“We are very happy that this project is coming to fruition after lots of hard work
and goodwill,” said Richard Nathhorst, Capital Project Manager, Facilities
Planning, at UMass Amherst.

5. Each spring, personnel from Facilities
Planning and MassWildlife band the
chicks after they hatch. Since the nest
box was installed in 2003, the federally
endangered Peregrine Falcons have
been successfully reintroduced into
Western Massachusetts.

7. Avoid the lines!!!
Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!
•Exclusively for UMass students
•Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library
•Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor
•Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

8. 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
credo.library.umass.edu for achieving racial equality.

9. 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

10. Streaming Video Collections are Here!!!
More then 6,400 Programs. Unlimited access.
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Business & Economics
• Science & Mathematics
• Health & Medicine
• Archival Films & Newsreels
Look for “Films on Demand” in the list of Databases at
www.library.umass.edu

11. @UMassLibraries

12. Avoid the lines!!!
Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!
•Exclusively for UMass students
•Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library
•Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor
•Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

13. Leave something behind in the library?
Check the Library’s Lost and Found at the
new Circulation/Reserves Desk on this level.

14. Can’t get to the Library?
You can still get help
from your friendly
UMass librarians!

15. THIS IS BIG.
POSTER PRINTING
AT THE LEARNING COMMONS

16. THIS IS BIG.
• Print posters up to 42” wide
• Premium satin-finish photo paper
• Great for presentations
• Printing by appointment only
To learn more, click the “Posters” tab
www.library.umass.edu/learningcommons

18. OIT’s Remote Printing Service is here!
• Install a small plug-in on your own computer
• Send print jobs from your dorm room or the campus
wireless network to Learning Commons printers
• You have 8 hours to come pick up your print job.
Want to learn more?
•Ask at the Learning Commons & Technical Support Desk, or
•Google “UMass Remote Printing”

19. Printing files from SPARK?
Avoid problems! Before you print,
SAVE YOUR FILE TO THE DESKTOP
THEN, open it and print.

20. Avoid the lines!!!
Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!
•Exclusively for UMass students
•Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library
•Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor
•Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

21. Remember to: :
Save to an external source such as a USB drive or UDrive
to avoid data loss if the computer is shut down!!!

22. Services: LC & Technical Support Desk
Learning Commons & Technical Support Desk
Get help with…
• Hardware & software
questions
• Accounts, passwords,
connections
• Navigating the library and
Learning Commons
• Stop by, call, or instant
Open every hour the Library is!!!! message us

23. Services: Reference & Research Assistance
Reference & Research Assistance
Find the perfect sources for your papers and other
research—work with a librarian!
•Stop by the Reference & Research
Assistance Desk anytime it is open…
•Make an appointment to work with a
subject specialist librarian…
•Or, ask a question via phone, email,
IM or text message…
http://www.library.umass.edu/services/ask-a-librarian

24. Services: Writing Center
Writing Center
Stop in or make an appointment to get 30 minutes of
assistance on your writing project from trained experts.
All levels and disciplines are welcome!
Check out umass.edu/writingcenter for details and appointments

25. Avoid the lines!!!
Dell Laptops available for use in the Library!
•Exclusively for UMass students
•Borrow for up to 4 Hours - use anywhere in the Library
•Quiet study areas available on 2nd and 3rd floor
•Available at the Circulation/Reserves Desk

26. Services: Learning Resource Center
Learning Resource Center
(10th floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library)
• Tutoring and supplemental instruction
for many difficult first and second year
courses.
• Drop-in help and weekly sessions
• Students helping students!
Check umass.edu/LRC for details…

27. 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.