Montevallo Ghost Stories

February 6, 1908 Birmingham Age-Herald

For most, Halloween is a time for ghost stories and folklore. The University of Montevallo is no different. Our campus has many stories, sightings, and unsettling accounts of massacres, deadly accidents, and other macabre events. Each year, during fall semester, Carmichael Library is inundated with curious, adventure-seeking students interested in these spooky tales. Eager paranormal enthusiasts may be happy to know that Condie's door is on display near the Ask Here desk. Additional displays offer information on this tale, other campus ghost stories, and the history behind the folklore.     

Main Hall

Packets of UM Ghost Stories are available for check out at the circulation desk. 

For more information on the history behind some of these stories, please visit the Milner Archives page on Facebook. Please "like" the page and receive updates on this and other bits of Montevallo history.

  

Introducing the Virtual Reference Shelf

Carmichael Library's new Virtual Reference Shelf organizes online reference titles by academic subject to make it easy for you to start research.  The resources are reputable titles from Oxford Reference, but their online format makes them easily searchable. 

Need to brush up on your Foucault?  Try A Dictionary of Critical Theory.  Need quick facts about Brazil?  Look at A Guide to Countries of the World.  Having trouble picking a topic for your U.S. History paper?  Browse The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Find the Virtual Reference Shelf under "Resources" on the Carmichael Library Homepage.  Happy searching!

There's an App for That! EBSCOhost on Android & iPhone

Hey!  Did you know that EBSCOhost has an app for iPhone and Android? Here are the steps to set it up:

1. Go to any of Carmichael Library’s EBSCOhost databases (i.e., Business  Source Complete) and scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link “New: EBSCOhost iPhone and Android Applications”
2. Enter your email address and submit, you will then receive an email from EBSCOhost with further instructions
3. Make sure your mobile device is connected to the University’s wireless and then open the email on your device
4. Download the app and then click on the “authentication key” link in the email. The app should open and you can begin searching and saving articles!

Carmichael Adds Films on Demand

Adding to a growing collection of online streaming audio and video resources, your campus library has acquired Films on Demand, a multi-disciplinary collection of some 6,000 titles. The Films on Demand collection includes quality video content from over 30 publishers including PBS, Meridian, Cambridge Educational, the BBC, National Geographic and more. In addition to the material already available in this database, about 600 titles are added annually. Most of the videos in the Films on Demand collection are closed-captioned.

To gain access to Films on Demand, students, staff, and faculty may go to the A-Z Databases and Resources List on our website. We'll be posting more details on how to use this new collection in the weeks ahead. In the meantime you find the answers to some questions at the On Demand Help Center. Also, feel free to direct technical questions about this database to me, Jason Cooper.

Happy viewing!

Instruction Workshop Series: Managing Research with Zotero

Citation is easily the least-loved step in the research process.  It can feel mechanical and tedious after the creative, enriching experience of developing a research question and reading and writing about it.  Luckily, there is Zotero: a free tool to help you collect and organize citations, choose the correct citation style (APA, MLA, etc), generate different types of citations (footnotes, bibliographies, etc), and even collaborate with classmates and colleagues. 

Carmichael Library is presenting a Zotero workshop on Tuesday, October 16 at 5 pm in the EBSCO Classroom.  Come learn how to install and use Zotero for your research projects.  No RSVP is needed.  Contact Lauren Wallis or Andrew Battista with questions.  We hope to see you there!