What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
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 House Rules and Manual for the 109th Congress is now available from the Government Printing Office on GPO Access: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/hrm/browse_109.html From the press release: “The House Rules and Manual is published by the the House Parliamentarian’s Office. This document Continue reading House Rules and Manual for 109th Congress Now Available
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 of the University of Baltimore is hosting the 2005-2006 teleconference series from the College of DuPage: Soaring to Excellence 2006: Libraries, the Universe & Everything. November 18, 2005.12:00 – 1:30 pm Google and Your PatronsSpeaker: Steven BellThe myths Continue reading Free Teleconference Series about Libraries
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