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Purpose of the FLL
The purpose of the Faculty Loan Library is to provide UMUC Europe faculty with background materials for use in preparing and conducting classes for University of Maryland University College Europe.
Materials are lent ONLY to UMUC faculty and staff.
Nature of the Collection
There are more than 14,000 books as well as thousands of videos (including a number of DVDs) and hundreds of slides, audio cassettes, maps, and science specimens in the current collection.
Finding Aids
The most up-to-date listing of the book collection of the Faculty Loan Library is now available in an easily searchable form on the Web. You can search by any partial or complete word in titles, by first three letters of authors' last names, or by subject using the books' call numbers, which include their Library of Congress classification numbers. Just click on the Search Our Book Collection link at the top of this page.
You may request lists by subject of non-book materials (videos/DVDs, slides, audio cassettes, maps, and science specimens) by sending an e-mail to edlibrary@ed.umuc.edu or by contacting the library by phone, fax, or in person. Each list will be sent to you as a Word file attachment to an e-mail message. You can download the lists to a disk or to your computer and use the Word find feature to search the files. To see the list of subjects available and the titles of all the videos in the FLL collection, just click on the Request a Video List link at the top of this page.
YES! Materials can be mailed to you!
Although we prefer to mail to APO addresses,
we are able to mail to local addresses in some cases.
Loan Periods
Books are lent until the end of the current term. Loan periods for non-book materials vary, depending on faculty needs. If you cannot get equipment to show a video on the date you planned or if you are considering changing the show date on your syllabus, please do not do so without first contacting the library. Videos often circulate several times a term and the video you have borrowed may have already been reserved by another instructor.
Please return books promptly by the date due or make arrangements for renewal.
Please return non-book items the day immediately after your show date.
Non-Book Materials
Please remember—you must specify show dates when ordering non-book materials (videos, slides, audio cassettes, and science specimens) and return the materials promptly, since many of these materials circulate several times a term.
For your information, the following paragraphs are from the article, Reminder Regarding the UMUC Video Policy, from the Term 2, 2001/2002 Faculty Newsletter:
Instructional aids such as videos are important additions to our courses—particularly for weekend seminars where the various strategies of teaching need to be employed to maintain interest. UMUC encourages the use of videos as well as of audio cassettes.
It is important to remember that our face-to-face classes are indeed classes where the faculty person's input to the class is of utmost importance. The UMUC policy regarding number of videos to be shown is to show no more than 3 hours of video/film for a 1-semester-hour seminar and no more than 9 hours of video/film for a 3-semester-hour class.
Library Databases and E-Journals
University of Maryland University College subscribes to nearly 140 individual library databases which include journal articles, newspaper stories, company financial information, association directories, encyclopedia entries, and electronic books (“e-books”). Current UMUC students, faculty, and staff can access these online databases via the Web.
The online library databases can be very confusing to first-time users. Encourage your students to read Find Articles: Using Library Databases before they begin their research for assistance in logging in, choosing the best database for their research, learning the search features of the library databases, managing the results of their searches, and evaluating the materials they find.
You can access the library databases from the UMUC Information and Library Services page. When you click on Articles & More, you will come to a page where you can choose resources by title or by subject or you can click on the link to see the A-Z List of All Databases. Once you choose a database title, you will be taken to a secure form where you will be asked to enter your last name and Social Security Number/payroll number. (Note: Please be sure to enter the number with no hyphens or spaces.) Once you are recognized as an authorized user, you will be connected to the database you have chosen.
If you are a faculty member teaching in the current term or scheduled to teach in the upcoming term and you have received a message indicating that you have been denied access, send your full name, your discipline, and your e-mail address in an e-mail message with faculty online database access in the subject line to the library. You will receive an e-mail when you have been added as an authorized user.
As student registrations are received in Heidelberg, current students will automatically be entered as authorized users of these databases. However, if an Education Center's registration packet has not yet been processed, students may receive a message indicating they have been denied access. They should first try re-entering their name and number, as the problem might be nothing more than a typo. If they are still not able to log in and have only recently registered for classes at UMUC, they should click on the Login Help link and then fill out and submit the UMUC Europe Library Database Access Request.
Once they submit this form, their enrollments will be confirmed and their authorization information will be entered manually, usually within two business days of their request. Since e-mail is not secure, please do not send Social Security Numbers in an e-mail message.
Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism
If you have any questions about UMUC’s policy on academic dishonesty and plagiarism, please contact the Director, Student Affairs, Jan Keller.
Academic dishonesty is failure to maintain academic integrity. It includes, but is not limited to, obtaining or giving aid on an examination, having unauthorized prior knowledge of an examination, doing work for another student, and plagiarism. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional presentation of another person’s idea or product as one’s own. Examples of plagiarism are copying verbatim and without attribution all or part of another’s written work; using phrases, charts, figures, illustrations, computer programs, or mathematical or scientific solutions without citing the source; paraphrasing ideas, conclusions, or research without citing the source; and using all or part of a literary plot, poem, film, musical score, computer program, or other artistic product without attributing the work to its creator.
Would you like to help your students learn how easy it is to avoid plagiarism? There are detailed guidelines available online for documenting sources, checking out examples of different documentation styles, and testing mastery of techniques. Chapter 5, “Academic Integrity and Documentation,” of the UMUC Guide to Writing and Research provides information on quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing source material. At the Effective Writing Center, click on the Use self-study modules link to get to How to Avoid Plagiarism. This self-study module describes three ways to use source material: quote it, paraphrase it, or summarize it; three essential techniques to manage source materials: introduce it, cite it, and list a reference to it; and eight important guidelines to help avoid plagiarism mistakes. At the end of the module, you can take a short quiz to test what you have learned. Students can print out the certificate to submit to you, if you wish.
The librarians in the UMUC Office of Information and Library Services in Adelphi have negotiated a subscription for worldwide access for UMUC faculty members for Turnitin.com. Turnitin.com only works either when you upload the paper electronically (the students must submit their papers to you as word processing files) or if you yourself type in enough of the paper for plagiarized passages to be found. For more information, including requesting a Turnitin.com account and information on students’ rights to privacy, see the Plagiarism and TurnItIn.com FAQ.
You might also try a Google search for a Web page which would include a phrase from a student’s paper. Be sure to enclose your search words in quotation marks to force them to be understood as a phrase and not as separate words. (See the Google “search help” for details.)
Unfortunately, these online tools only work for papers possibly plagiarized from the Internet. If words or ideas are from a print source, if someone else might have written the paper for your student, or if the work is a computer program your student was assigned to write but you suspect may not be original work, it will be necessary to try to determine the paper’s original source in another way.
Links to Army and Air Force Libraries in Europe
- IMA-E Library Program (Army libraries in Europe)
- USAFE Libraries Online (Air Force libraries in Europe)
How to Contact the FLL:
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DSN Telephone: Heidelberg DSN 370-6762, ext. 244 Civilian Telephone: International Telephone: DSN Fax: 370-8908 Civilian Fax: |
APO Mail: Faculty Loan Library University of Maryland (UMUC) Unit 29216 APO AE 09102 Civilian Mail: E-mail: In person: UMUC Europe offices in Heidelberg |
Last updated: 30 April 2008