Climate change, renewable energy, food shortages… unless you live in a cave, chances are you’ve heard or read about these important environmental issues in the media lately. Now you have a new resource at your disposal to help you research all things environmental: GreenFILE.
This bibliographic database from EBSCO draws on the connection between the […]

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Do you remember a website you used to frequent, and find yourself wishing you could see part of it again?
In the annals of recorded information, there have not been many things as ephemeral as web pages — few things are as literally “here today, gone tomorrow.” The Wayback Machine, part of the marvelous Internet Archive, […]

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Here’s a selection of some of the books that have been added to our collection in the past month. To browse through our new arrivals, visit the new books display shelf in the library’s reference section.
Coming attractions?: Hollywood, high tech, and the future of entertainment
Philip E. Meza
Call Number: P96.T422 U636 2007
A billion bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot […]

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Do you ever need to find quick and comprehensive statistical data on a country?  Ever interested in comparing lesser known quantitative data from two or more countries?  Have a look at the Britannica Online World Data Analyst.  “Country Snapshots” provide the basic  data on a country.  “Ranked Statistics”  lets you view the countries with the […]

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You may have heard of the Human Genome Project, but you might be surprised to learn that  there is also a Music Genome Project that uses a panel of experts to associate hundreds of variables with a particular song.  Once you choose a song or artist, similar songs and artists can be identified by matching […]

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Although the library focuses on science and technology resources, it has much more to offer eager readers: a selection of international literature, notable biographies, core classics of literature, works of genre fiction, and even contemporary international fiction. If you are in the mood to dabble in some short works of genre fiction, you may be […]

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When you are looking for books on a topics in a library catalog, your first attempt will probably be a keyword search. After all, that is the way you do it using a web search tool like Google, and it is natural to think that keywords would bring up the best results. A […]

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Spring break is almost upon us, and many students will be traveling. But for those of you too busy to travel, a brief periodic respite from your studies is recommended. To partially satisfy your longing to visit “far away places with strange sounding names,” the web provides some stunning interactive panoramas for the armchair traveler. […]

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The library has been notified that the IEEE electronic journal service will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours this Saturday, March 15. This is due to an upgrade scheduled to start at about 11:00am EDT. If you need to download articles from IEEE, we hope you can plan around this service interruption. IEEE […]

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You might be aware that there are thousands of copyright free books available online for reading. (If not, see this recent post.) There are even many open source journal sites (as mentioned in an earlier post) and open courseware pages  (mentioned in yet another another post). But did you know that there are some sites […]

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