UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG - UMUC Europe

inFoRmAtion And libRARy
sERviCEs
UMUC’s Information and Library Services (ILS) serves to
educate students, faculty, and staff in the use of library and
information resources and services, emphasizing the critical
importance of information literacy knowledge and skills for
success in today’s information-rich world. ILS also develops
and manages extensive online library resources and usercentered
services for UMUC students, faculty, and staff
worldwide.
library Resources
Information and Library Services provides access to a
rich collection of research materials on a variety of topics
(e.g., business, social science, science, arts and humanities, and
computer and information systems). Students can access an
extensive array of subscription research databases containing
tens of thousands of full-text articles, as well as thousands
of electronic books, through the Information and Library
Services home page at www.umuc.edu/library or through
WebTycho. ILS has also created subject-specific resource
guides to serve as a beginning place for research. Each guide
includes subject-relevant research databases, books, Web sites,
and where applicable, other Web 2.0 technologies.
At most military installations where UMUC Europe offers
courses, the Army, Air Force, or Navy maintains a library,
usually staffed by professional librarians. The combined
holdings of the libraries, including several million books and
audio-visual materials, are available to all UMUC students.
Many libraries also have computers with Internet connections
as well as computers which connect to a selection of research
databases available from inside the library only.
The Faculty Loan Library is maintained in the Heidelberg
administrative offices of UMUC Europe. It is maintained
specifically to augment faculty members’ personal resources
by providing background materials for use in preparing and
conducting their classes.
library instruction and Research
Assistance
UMUC offers LIBS 150 Information Literacy and
Research Methods, a required 1-credit course, that focuses
on developing information literacy skills and emphasizes
proficiency in the research process, including selecting and
evaluating research materials, performing effective searches,
and correctly citing resources to avoid plagiarism.
Students may access the Peck Virtual Library Classroom,
known as VLIB 101 in WebTycho, as a free resource to help
them improve their research skills. Reference and research
assistance is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
through the library Web page under Ask a Librarian. For a
complete list of library services, students should visit
www.umuc.edu/library.
studEnt AdvisoRy CounCil
The Student Advisory Council provides an avenue for students
to express their concerns about UMUC or their academic
career. The council consists of 12 members, who are elected
by their fellow students and who act in an advisory capacity to
the university president, provost, deans, and other officials on
behalf of all students.
Students who would like to see certain issues addressed or
who have questions should contact their council representative
by e-mail at edstac@ed.umuc.edu.
More information on shared governance is available at
www.ed.umuc.edu/undergrad/services/stac/index.html and in
Appendix J of this Catalog.
WRiting REsouRCEs And WRiting
tutoRing
UMUC’s Effective Writing Center provides a variety of
services and resources for students, including individual
tutors, self-study modules, and reference tools.
The Writing Center may be accessed on the Web at
www.umuc.edu/ewc or through MyUMUC.
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