What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
This site is not from a government agency, but from the wonderful folks at the University of Michigan Documents Center. Get summaries of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, mayoral election results and ballot intitatives from all around the Continue reading 2005 Elections: Overview and Results
Langsdale will be closed for some holidays and all weekends during the winter break. We will be closed from Dec 22-Jan 2 and Jan 16. Except as noted above, from Dec 19 – Jan 29 Langsdale will be open Monday Continue reading Winter Break
What’s going to happen to gas prices? Just how much can you expect to spend heating your home this winter? Take a look at the Short Term Energy Outlook, which is released every month by the Energy Information Administration (a Continue reading Short-Term Energy Outlook: Dec 2005
The Atlantic hurricane season ended (finally!) on November 30. Just how many records were set this year? Take a look at this Fact Sheet from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):Noteworthy Records of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season The Continue reading NOAA: Record-Setting Hurricane Season
The Maryland Library Association (MLA) is collecting donations for the Pearlington Library in Mississippi that was devastated in Hurricane Katrina. They have received a late model bookmobile and are taking donations to fill the bookmobile with new books, audio cassettes/CDs Continue reading Maryland Library Association provides assistance to hurricane-damaged library
John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise, will conduct a reading at UB on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m in Room 003 of the William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center. —Posted by Michael to ub at 11/25/2005 Continue reading John Hodgman at UB Dec. 1
Ken Strutin has produced a good bibliography of online resources for criminal justice ethics in the latest issue of LLRX. It includes links to everything from places to find ethics codes, to current awareness sevices. —Posted by Michael to resources Continue reading Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on the Internet
Do you use Google Scholar”? Google scholar is an interesting attempt by Google to allow people to search for “Scholarly Content” including books and peer reviewed journals. While not a replacemnent for the online databases available through your library, Google Continue reading Finding Google Scholar @ UB
Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events D11 .G78 2005 The world famous reference that tells who did what when from 4500 B.C. to the present day – now updated for the 21st century. 2006 Writer's Market Continue reading New Reference Books
Langsdale Library has made its 2006-2008 Strategic Plan available on the web. You can see our latest Strategic Plan, along with our updated vision and mission statements at: http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/strategicplan.htm posted by Michael to langsdale