USU LIBRARY

usu library

 

usu or utah state university library provides books,resources and materials including online databases, books for loan,research.

Also known as Merrill-cazier library

provides almost 2 million printed books and journals 7,600,000 e-books. 4,30,000 goverment publications, and over 60.000 electronic journals

-The USU Special Collections and Archives

contain rare books and manuscript collections, western and mormon historical documents..

--many rare items here been digitized and are available online in the libraries Digital History Collections and online exhibition..

The USU Library also provides its services at USU EASTERN LIBRARY.

USU ONLINE LIBRARY

library.utah.gov click here

USU LIBRARY WEBSITE

library.usu.edu

Merrill-cazier library hours

MONDAYV -  THURSDAY   ~ 7AM TO 12AM

FRIDAY ~ 7AM TO 7PM

SATURDAY ~ 9AM TO 6PM

SUNDAY~ 12PM  TO 12AM

USU LIBRARY STUDYROOM

FOR THE PURPOSE OF GROUP STUDIES,

LIBRARY HAS SET SOME RULES WHICH ARE,

1. Each person can make only 2 reservations per day for a total of 2 hours per day

2.Group study rooms are intended for course related group study.

3.Group study rooms cant be used for personal interests

4.Reservation can be deleted upto 5 minute before scheduled time.

USU DATABASE

For quick research data is given by;

1.Database by title

2.Database by subject

3.Database by special categories

USM LIBRARY CATALOG

How to search e-books from library catalog?

         From homepage click find in the upper left corner 

                                    select books and media

                            On the next page click on search only electronic books

                 This will bring you to the search page where you can enter your search terms

You can now scroll through the results and find the book that might useful

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How to find primary studies at usm libraries 

This article is about finding primary studies. Once you are on the library homepage, find the "databases & guides" location. Then choose a database that begins with a letter from a to w. Databases that are good for finding primary studies, are:- 

1. Academic search complete, 

2. education Full-text,

3. Eric

4. Psyc info and psyc articles

5. Medline or pub med. 

Choose a for academic search complete. This is one of the databases we suggest above. Academic search complete will open in the advanced search mode. This will allow for more sophisticated searches. Use the "find" boxes to display your search strategy. An efficient way to search for primary studies is to use the three find boxes to enter three important concepts:- 1. The topic you are looking for, 2. The target audience you need and finally, :-

• The method of research you are hoping to find. If you topic is technology, you might be looking for a quantitative study with a target population of middle school. This is an approach developed by professor beaudry for finding primary studies in his classes. 

• This should result in a few good articles that are on that topic. For example, note the presence of an introduction, methods, results and conclusion,  the hallmarks of a primary research study. If you need more results than this method provides, there are a few techniques you can use to expand the search you already have in front of you. Synonyms and related terms are used to increase the search results. 

• Or statements can be used to increase the number of articles captured by the keywords used. Truncation can further expand the forms of the keywords used by including plurals, singulars and other forms of the word. 

• For example, middle school can become middle school or junior high. Quantitative can become quantitative or statistics or survey. Technology can become technology or computers, or some other specific device. 

• Note how the number of hits increased from 89 to 860. We can further expand our search by using truncation. The search then becomes: middle school* or junior high quantitative or statistic* or survey* technology* or computer* note again the increase in hits. 

• Then in order to ensure the expansion hasn't taken us too far away from our primary search result, we add another search box with the search phrase: method* or study in both search strategies, you will want to define a date range, and click to make sure the results are all peer-reviewed. And as you can see, it did decrease the number of hits. 

• Upon finding your primary studies you may be asked to create a literature review with the articles. Follow your professor's directions on this process. It may help to try to find articles where the target audience and other particulars of the study are similar. 

• So that comparisons may be drawn logically in your analysis. If not stated, it might be encouraged by your professor to find similar studies with very different study approaches. Such as a study of technological teaching tools for middle school students in qualitative, quantitative, case studies and mixed method approaches. 

• If you have further questions about the research process, feel free to contact me. If you have further questions about requirements for a literature review, please contact your instructor. Thanks so much for your time and attention. 

Finding journal articles in at  usm libraries databases 

• This article is about searching the databases for journal articles. Database searching is a basic skill you need in order to find journal articles reports, and book chapters in our library collection. Begin by going to the homepage of the library. 

• If you are off-campus, please page down to the my usm portal located on many usm pages here. Once you are on the usm portal page, navigate your mouse across the top of the page until you reach the libraries and technology link clicking on this link will change the page below.  Look for the usm libraries link and click here

• This will connect you to the usm library server regardless of where you are geographically. Once you have access to our server, you will be able to use the usm libraries databases. Databases have a number of matrix's, or looks. 

• Though they often function in the same way. Here is an ebsco database. The vendor, ebsco, provides access to databases such as academic search complete, education full-text, and Eric. Here is education full-text. Databases are searched using keywords and connecting words such as and and or. And tells the database i want my search to include everything i connect with and. 

• So that each article i find will contain every keyword connected by the word and. Or tells the database, i will take either one keyword or the other in my search. This allows results to include several different groups of results. Some of my results will include one of the keywords with or, and the other results will include the other keyword i connect with or. If i use the keywords equity and education, for example, i will get results that include both keywords. These keywords will show up in either the title, abstract, descriptors, or some other part of the article record. 

• Notice the following result record, and where the keywords i searched appear. From here, i could decide to add more limits to my results. For example, a ten year publishing window,  and/or peer-reviewed articles only. If i have too many articles, i could add another keyword that would further narrow my search. If i have too few results, i might change my keywords or use fewer of them.

• I could also use some or connectors to find synonyms or related terms. For example, (equity or equality) and education once you get your results, the abstract is a excellent way to find out if the article in your results matches your topic. Note: not all results you find will be exactly on target. By reading the abstract, you can move quickly from one article to the next. This is also a good time to notice some of the features this database provides you, the researcher. One, some way to get the article. 

• Many databases have articles that appear in full-text, such as linked full-text, html full-text, or as a PDF. If the item is not available in full-text, you may request it via inter library loan. Please view the inter library loan article for more information about inter library loan. Another way to get access to the article is through the article linker button. 

• The article linker button may provide either full-text, or a way to order the article via interlibrary loan. Two, to the far right of the record, are links that provide the ability to print, save, email, cite and export the item to a citation manager like zotero, mendeley or endnote.  If you are unsure of which to use, the ris export option works well with many citation managers.

• Three, if this is a longer-term project or one that requires several research sessions, many citation managers. Three, if this is a longer-term project or one that requires several research sessions, you may want to sign-into ebsco host. This sign-in process is separate from anything you you may want to sign-into ebsco host. This sign-in process is separate from anything you  do at the university. 

• It is a sign-in between you and the ebsco databases. Begin by creating an account here. You will have to keep a new username and password for the account. But in return you will be able to save searches and articles in custom folders. Note the my ebsco yellow sash.  This tells you you are logged into the database in ebsco.

• Once you are logged in, you can send articles directly to your custom-made folders from the result screen. Your folder options and saved articles and searches are available here. These saved searches can be run on a schedule you determine as alerts. The results of these searches, will appear in your folder and will be sent to you in an email. Retrieve your saved searches by logging back into ebsco host.  

usm library hours 

Understudies can look through the online library list and have things conveyed straightforwardly to USMH from any of the other USM libraries. There is a wide scope of materials accessible through the University System of Maryland online inventory. 

Understudies can get to any of their self-teach's databases through the USMH Library's PCs. A curator is nearby to help with inquiries during library hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location and Hours

Glickman Family Library

314 Forest Ave

P.O. Box 9301

Portland, Me 04104-9301

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Glickman Library Hours

Gorham Library & Learning Commons

37 College Ave.

Gorham, Me 04038

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Gorham Library & Learning Commons Hours

Commons @ Lewiston-Auburn College

University of Southern Maine

51 Westminster St

Lewiston, ME 04240

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Commons@Lewiston-Auburn College Hours

usm library science 

• Our alumni are proficient custodians, documented, and data masters who have a beneficial outcome in their networks the nation over and globally. Our completely online projects incorporate some special highlights: 
• No out-of-state charges - online understudies pay a similar educational cost as inhabitants 
• No necessary visits to grounds (in spite of the fact that we are glad to see understudies and graduates who drop in for a little while to our excellent grounds and workplaces) 
• English Studies each mid year in London, a discretionary investigation abroad course where understudies may procure 6 elective credit hours 
• Classes meet online once every week in virtual study halls where understudies may see, hear, and cooperate with the teachers. 

Crucial/Values 

• The strategic the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is to get ready qualified people for proficient jobs in libraries, chronicles, and other data situations with fitting information and aptitudes to serve the data needs of their networks. 

Vision 

• The School of Library and Information Science tries to advance understudy achievement, improve data proficiency, and serve assorted populaces through greatness in educating, exploration, administration, and the utilization of developing innovations. 

Qualities 

The School of Library and Information Science is focused on: 

• Understudy focused learning: We are focused on developing a functioning, understudy focused learning network. 
• Decent variety and Inclusion: We perceive and esteem the assorted variety of current society and backing comprehensiveness in learning. 
• Scholarly opportunity: We grasp the beliefs of scholarly and scholastic opportunity and endeavor to sustain an open, deferential learning condition for the free trade of thoughts. 
• Administration: Because we trust it is a center of the calling, we bolster administration at all levels and support progressing proficient advancement as a methods for upgrading aptitudes and information. 
• Network: We put stock in making, encouraging, and taking an interest in learning and examination networks that range verges on state, national, and worldwide levels. 
• Examination: We accept research is a fundamental piece of grant, for production of new information as well as for help of educating and learning and sharing of new information with various networks of premium.

usm cook library 

• The University of Southern Mississippi's authentic Twitter page for Cook Library. Supporting advanced education 📚, understudies 🎓and Southern Miss since 1940 =

• Investigate our new joint effort zone, situated in the space that was already the workmanship display (simply inside the front entryway). Redesigns on the north finish of the structure are approaching consummation, and we can hardly wait for you to see them face to face.

• Chosen PCs in Cook Library are presently accessible only for remote access by University understudies, personnel, and staff. These PCs give access to a similar programming regularly introduced on open PCs in the libraries.

• Updates are being finished in the north finish of the learning center, with another work area for research/specialized inquiries and examination custodian workplaces situated behind the work area, in a recently made space, making them a lot simpler to discover

usm Maine library 

Portland Campus 

• The primary piece of the grounds comprises completely of non-private structures. Numerous division workplaces are situated around the border of the grounds community in changed over multi-story homes just as in the significant structures.

• The essential scholastic regions at the Portland grounds are business, nursing, history, political theory, financial aspects, human science, science, material science, science, math, English, brain science, media studies, present day and traditional dialects and written works, American and New England studies.[33] The Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library is the fundamental library on the Portland Campus. 

Gorham Campus 

• Luther Bonney, Masterton Hall, and the Science working at USM's Portland Campus 
• Robie Andrews Hall is one of the first Gorham State College structures. It is presently basically a living arrangement corridor with some blended scholastic use on the primary floor. Taken from a 1907 postcard.
• Gorham is home to the vast majority of the college's quarters and serious athletic offices. The essential scholarly zones living in Gorham are mechanical advancements, designing, craftsmanship, music, theater, guiding and training, human studies, topography, ecological sciences, and geosciences.[33] McLellan House, worked in 1773, was gained by Gorham State College in 1966. It was changed over into residences and later into office space.[34] The Academy Building was worked in 1803 and bought by the college in 1878. 
• Living arrangement Halls situated on the Gorham grounds include: 

Woodward Hall 

• Dickey and Wood Towers: Dickey and Wood Towers were opened in 1970 and once initiated in 1973. They are named after Edna Dickey, who showed history at the college from 1945–1972 just as filling in as Dean of Women from 1945–69 and Esther Wood, who showed sociologies from 1930–1973.[34] USM has proposed retiring the two towers, which as of now have a few empty floors, to spare $400,000 in 2014.

• Upton Hall and Hastings Hall: Upton Hall and the neighboring Hastings Hall are named after Ethelyn Upton and Mary Hastings, both of whom were noticeable staff. Upton Hall, home of the college healthcenter and Residential Life Office, was opened in 1960. Hastings Hall opened in 1968. Together, the complex can house up to 300 students. 

Anderson Hall 

• Robie Andrews Hall: Robie Hall is named after previous Maine Governor Frederick Robie, who served from 1883 to 1887. It was worked in 1897 to supplant a female-just quarters which had torched in 1894.
• Phillipi Hall: Opened in 2001. Philippi corridor additionally houses USM's new Pioneer Program.
• Upperclass Hall (finished fall of 2007)

usm library study room

here are various gathering study rooms at USM Libraries. Each room is a secretly encased space, taking into account gatherings to cooperate without upsetting other library benefactors. Library supporters can utilize any of these rooms to concentrate in gatherings or to work cooperatively on ventures. 

Gathering Study Room Policies 

• Gathering Study Rooms can be held online for up to a limit of 3 hours. 
• Try not to move furniture all through the rooms. 
• Gatherings are restricted to one reservation for every day. Different people in a gathering are not allowed to reserve various spot in a day. 
• Reservations can be made as long as three weeks ahead of time. 
• A Group is characterized as at least three people. 
• Gathering Study Rooms are for use by current USM understudies, personnel and staff. 
• People, two individuals and little gatherings are free to cooperate in the Learning Commons and all through the Glickman Library. The Glickman Library Seventh Floor Reading Room and Second Floor of Gorham Library Learning Commons are assigned Quiet Study spaces. 
• A gathering that is over 15 minutes late relinquishes their booking. In like manner if under 3 people of the gathering are absent the booking perhaps relinquished. 
• People who abuse the Group Study Room reservation framework might be for all time obstructed from reserving a spot.