Healey Library's New Website
The library has a new website! The new URL is http://www.umb.edu/library. Starting Friday, August 26 access to the library's old website will automatically redirect you to the new site. If you experience any problems or wish to provide feedback, please contact library.support@umb.edu.
The Foundation Directory Online
All faculty, staff and students now have complete access to the Foundation Directory Online, providing the most accurate details available on U.S. private funders and their grants, including over 100,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors, over 2.4 million recent grants, and over half a million key decision makers. Foundation Directory Online is the nation's leading online funding research tool, developed by the Foundation Center, a national nonprofit service organization founded over 50 years ago to help open U.S. foundations to public view. Foundation Directory Online draws from IRS Form 990s, grantmaker web sites and annual reports, and the grantmakers themselves.
New Listing of Electronic Resources
EBSCO A-to-Z is our new, state-of-the-art web-based tool for organizing and providing links to all of our library’s e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases and e-journal packages, and e-books. A-to-Z offers users a “one-stop” search of our library’s e-collection, with easy navigation to full-text content.
With this new tool we can maximize access to our e-resources, making the most of our library’s substantial investment; we can also communicate resource-specific information via notes and icons; and we can integrate e-journal table of contents (TOC) browsing as well. Give the new EBSCO AtoZ list a try.
Announcements 
The Filmakers Library Online
The Filmakers Library Online now available for trial by the UMass Boston community. It provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 941 titles, equaling approximately 746 hours.
about The Filmakers Library Online Save the Date: IDEAS Boston on 10/20/11
Provost Winston Langley reminds us to save the date: on October 20, 2011, UMass Boston will welcome creative thinkers from across the region to IDEAS Boston, the annual conference at which prominent thought leaders from across a variety of disciplines are invited to speak. Hosted at its new, permanent home at UMass Boston and moderated by NPR's Tom Ashbrook, this event is sure to inform, inspire, and challenge us as many pressing problems and important questions are addressed by 16 brilliant thinkers, including our own filmmaker and lecturer, Chico Colvard. UMass Boston nurtures intellectual discourse, and IDEAS Boston will provide a wonderful showcase for the kind of novel, rigorous, and engaged thinking that we value. You may register and/or find more information here, or by calling 617.287.5313.
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