UMass Dartmouth Library Services

10/21/2026

It's time for the Halloween Costume Contest! Visit the library in costume between October 26th and October 31st to enter. The Access Services staff will take your photo to add it to the wall for voting.

10/19/2026

Here's your chance to get started managing your citations in Zotero! RSVP for this workshop today: https://schedule.lib.umassd.edu/event/17533087?hs=a

10/15/2026

International Open Access Week is October 19 – 25, 2026. It is a time to bring attention to the importance of freely available research and information. Check out the library blog for more about OA Week:

Open Access (OA) is a publishing model that makes books, articles, reports, and papers available to all researchers at no cost to them. International Open Access Week (October 19 – 25, 2026) is a time to recognize the importance of freely available research and information. Publishing OA helps to ...

10/13/2026

Attention, graduate students! Do you have questions about the process and requirements of writing your thesis or dissertation? Register today for this info session: https://schedule.lib.umassd.edu/event/17529297?hs=a

10/13/2026

Another puzzle complete in the library lobby. This one is called The World of Shakespeare and has 1000 pieces :)

10/09/2026

Publishers with questionable business practices are out there! UMassD has a new tool that will help to keep authors and researchers aware of which publishing entities might have predatory practices:

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides one-click, full-text access to resources from websites such as PubMed, Wikipedia, and publisher pages. It is an efficient way to gain immediate access to articles when you are searching online outside of the library’s databases and online catalog P...

10/05/2026

It's Banned Books Week! Exercise your freedom to read by checking out a book from our display.

10/01/2026

Research & Information Literacy Services will assist you in finding information and evaluating resources on a topic for your paper, presentations, and projects. We will help make even better use of information resource you already know about… including library databases, the Primo library catalog and reliable digital resources in your research area.

Get in touch today! https://lib.umassd.edu/research-instruction/rils/contact/

09/30/2026

An overview of important concepts in copyright and fair use in just 30 minutes! https://schedule.lib.umassd.edu/event/17530628?hs=a

09/29/2026

Join write With Community, a literary nonprofit dedicated to building a c***ected and diverse writing community across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, for several events at the Claire T. Carney Library this October.

Join Write With Community, a literary nonprofit dedicated to building a c***ected and diverse writing community across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, for several events at the Claire T. Carney Library this October. October 7: Writing Drop-In Write to prompts or work on your own projects while c***e...