What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Langsdale’s privacy policy is now available online. From the introduction: Librarians have a long history as defenders of the right of users to pursue open inquiry free of scrutiny. The American Library Association’s Code of Ethics (1995) states, “We protect Continue reading [langsdale] New Privacy Policy
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives is a new database providng a centralized access point to numerous historical collections. The database is free to use and many of the materials to which Continue reading [resources] Database of Letters, Diaries and Personal Histories
The National Center for Educational Statistics has an easy to use tool for creating graphs. The resulting graph image can be saved and then used in paprers, presentations websites, etc. —Posted by Michael to resources at 9/30/2005 01:29:00 PM
Annual Report: Federal Funds to Maryland State AgenciesThis inaugural report contains a description of each Federal grant received by Maryland State government, broken out by fund totals received for State Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004.HJ485 .A3 2004 The Black Washingtonians: Continue reading [langsdale] New Reference Books
A new study from Kingsborough Community College provides evidence that Learning Communities can help students succeed in college —Posted by Michael to ub at 9/30/2005 12:32:00 PM
There are a number of pilot projects underway to make articles normally locked away behind subscription databases more accessible. When you use a search engine like Google or Yahoo!, you get results from a variety of websites. However, many public Continue reading [resources] Library Databases in your Search Engine
A recent article from the Online Journal of Distance Learning Education provides a case study comparing the time it takes to run a class online to that of a face to face class. For the courses studied, the online class Continue reading [ub] Teaching online can take longer
Our Chat reference service started on September 19. We are officially staffing the service from noon – 5:00 M-F, however we will probably be able to monitor it until 7:00 most days. We do not want the librarian on the Continue reading [reference] Chat Reference