News & Notes

The 100th Anniversary of Miami Libraries' Federal Depository is approaching, and to help decorate the Government Information and Law (GIL) area in advance of the Federal Depository Centennial Celebration on Friday, November 13th, we're having a coloring contest!

Materials to color are selected from, of course, coloring books that the libraries have received as part of the Federal Depository Library Program:

"Biosecurity for Birds," "Winter Survival," "Crack Down on Drugs," "Getting to Know Your Mailman," or even "Mining and Reclamation" -- it's strange but true: If you can think of a topic, the Government may have created a coloring book for it.

Crayons are available at the IMC/GIL main desk, and everyone is encouraged to participate. Entries for the contest must include your contact information to be eligible. More details -- along with lots of different coloring sheets to choose from -- are available at IMC/GIL.

For a better look at the kinds of Government-published coloring books available in GIL, you can search for "coloring book" in the Libraries' catalog. Many are available as PDFs or interactive Web sites online.

Give it a try! http://tinyurl.com/yl38oxv

If you teach literature classes (or other Humanities-related classes), you might be interested in a new book called Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment, edited by Kathleen Johnson and Steven Harris. It's available at King Library PN73 .T43 2009. This book has essays written by various professors and librarians examining different aspects of teaching literary research. Topics covered include: information literacy, teaching English majors, teaching non-English majors, research as inquiry, curriculum changes, literary methodology, genre study, use of technology in literature, collaborations between faculty and librarians, etc. There's a particular emphasis on new technologies and the effect it's having on literary research. For instance there's a chapter called "The Changing Nature of the Book: Literary Research, Cultural Studies, and the Digital Age." Teaching research skills will continue to be an important topic as students continue to need to learn how to navigate the ever-increasing amount of information available to them. As explained in the introduction of the book, "The students engaged in the literary research process have, likewise, changed with each generation, becoming greater consumers of technology, if, perhaps, remaining somewhat ignorant of effective research methods. Our contributors discuss the challenges instruction librarians and literature faculty face in this ever-changing environment" (2). This book would be helpful for both college-level instructors and high school teachers. If you're interested in this topic, you might also want to check out the Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English.

IT Services is working to bring up printing from laptops via Miami's wireless connection. These instructions are currently available from http://www.muohio.edu/uprint/.

Using uPrint

Attention Wireless Users: please read the Note to Wireless Users below before attempting to use uPrint.

Miami uPrint is a service that allows you to print to the pay-for-print printers from your own desktop or laptop. Windows and MacOS setup instructions are available. To go to the printer list, click the following link:

Miami uPrint Printer List

Important
You only need to install the printer once. Once the printer is installed on your computer, you no longer need to visit this page or the printer list. Simply use your computer's printer selection functionality when you print. Your print jobs will stay in the print queue for two hours.

Caution
Do not update the printer properties in any way, or unpredictable results may occur when printing. You may change the paper, orientation, number of copies, etc. but do not adjust printer properties. If changed from the default, refunds for undesirable prints will not be made.

Note to Wireless Users

To be able to use the uPrint service over the wireless network, you will need to set your computer for MU-WIRELESS using 802.1x

802.1x encrypts (scrambles) your data so that eavesdroppers cannot read your network traffic. Miami requires that you use this service when using uPrint over wireless so that your print jobs cannot be intercepted and read by others.

Related Items:

• Configuring Miami uPrint for Windows
• Configuring Miami uPrint for MacOS