While you were gone this summer, some new titles appeared in the Langsdale Government Documents Collection:

State of Maryland Documents (shelved in the general collection)

• State of Maryland Children’s Cabinet & Governor’s Office for Children. Maryland’s Results for Child Well-Being. 2007. (Reference HV742. M3M371 2007)

Print/CD/DVD (online version linked when available)

• Career Guide to Industries: 2008-2009 Edition. L2.3/4-3: 2008-09
• CBO Study: Effects of Gasoline Prices on Driving Behavior and Vehicle Markets. Y10.2:G 21/5
• CBO Study: Nuclear Power’s Role in Generating Electricity. Y10.2:N 88/3
• Glenn Brown’s History of the U.S. Capitol. Y1.1/2: SERIAL 14909
• Hurricane Toolkit. HH 1.2:H94/3
• Meeting the Information Needs of the American People (NCLIS). Y3.L61:2IN 3/7
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Winter 2007-2008. L2.70/4:51/4
  Special Issue: What Can I do with my liberal arts degree?
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2008. L2.70/4:52/1
  Special Issue: The 2006-16 Job Outlook in Brief
• State of Minority Business in America. C1.102:M66/4
• Using & Presenting Digital Evidence in the Courtroom. J28.31:EV 3/2/CD/DVD

Hearings from the 110^th Congress

• Applying Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina: How the Department of Defense is Preparing for the Upcoming Hurricane Season.Y4.AR5/2 A:2005-2006/128
• Balancing Work and Family: What Policies Best Support American Families? Y4.ED8/1: 110-49
• The Costs of Military Operations and Reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Y4.B85/3: 110-17
• Full Committee Hearing on Evaluating Impact of Pending Free Trade upon U.S. Small Businesses. Y4.SM1:110-57
• The Growing Budgetary Costs of the Iraq War.Y4.B85/3:110-22
• A Local Look at the National Foreclosure Crisis: Cleveland Families, Neighborhoods, Economy under Siege from the Subprime Mortgage Fallout. Y4.EC7:S.HRG. 110-237
• Sarbanes-Oxley and Small Business: Addressing Proposed Regulatory Changes and Their Impact on Capital Markets.Y4.SM1/2:S.HRG. 110-286
• Your Troops: Their Stories. Y4.AR5/2A: 2005-2006/93

For a list of new electronic titles available in the last three months, please go the Catalog of Government Publications.

It's as easy as 1-2-3!

1 - Clean out those extra books lurking in your desk, your house and your car.
2 - Bring them to Langsdale Library for the Library’s Annual Book Sale, November 5-6, 2008.
3 - Discover vast amounts of new space in your life, (and then come to the book sale and buy more books to replace all the ones you donated)!
Questions?
Contact: Ted Kruse 410-837-4204 or tkruse@ubalt.edu

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This semester, Langsdale Library is offering 8 different workshops to help you with your studies here at the University of Baltimore, and beyond.

The workshops cover a variety of topics such as:

• Designing a web page using HTML and CSS
• Using Zotero, a free firefox extension for citation management and creating bibliographies
• Using online tools that can help teaching and learning
• Looking at resources on Consumer Information and Election Information
• Guides for doing a literature review and thesis research

To view the workshop schedule, and get more information, see our workshop page at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/instruction/internet_class.htm

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Langsdale Library is pleased to announce the addition of Environment Complete and Greenfile to the list of over 70 electronic databases available to the UB community.

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. This database contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,108 active core titles), over than 100 monographs and full text for more than 650 journals.

Greenfile offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

Facts on File and the historical coverage of the Wall Street Journal (pre-1984) have been dropped. Langsdale offers coverage of news and current events through and direct links to the LexisNexis Academic, Baltimore Sun, New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

For analysis of current events and social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism, you might want to start with Opposing Viewpoints. The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.

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Today, Langsdale Library welcomes its new Director, Lucy Holman. Lucy is no stranger to UB or to Langsdale; she has taught a public administration class and is pursuing a Doctorate of Communications Design in addition to having previously worked in Langsdale as a reference librarian, head of reference and assistant director. In case you couldn't tell, Lucy always keeps herself busy, and the staff at Langsdale are very excited to have her back.

Last week, Langsdale Library bid farewell to Director Steve LaBash.


Steve wasted no time enjoying his retirement, and is already vacationing.


Next week, former assistant library director Lucy Holman-Rector will start her latest role at UB: Director of Langsdale Library


For the next week, Langsdale has no director and the staff is running wild. In my case, this means I get to post pictures of Steve and Lucy on the Internet. (Really, how wild do you think librarians get at work? We have a stereotype to maintain).

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The librarians at Langsdale Library work hard to buy the most exiting new books for the University of Baltimore's Communications Design program. Here's a selected list of new publication design books that the library purchased in May 2008. Here you'll find books on graphic design, typography, web design, book arts, design theory, and project management.

Since these are the most recently ordered titles, some of them may be in the New Books display on the first floor of the library.


Designing for the Social Web
Joshua Porter
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.9 .C66 P67 2008



Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action
Robert Hoekman, Jr.
Stacks - 3rd floor | TK5105.888 .H64 2008



Effective Publications Management: Keeping Print Communications on Time, on Budget, on Message
Cathy Connor Lips
Stacks - 3rd floor | HF5718 .L564 2007



Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design
Chen Design Associates
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC999.4.C44 A4 2006



Good: An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design
Lucienne Roberts
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC997 .R576 2006



Hand job: A Catalog of Type
Michael Perry
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z250.A2 P46 2007



Information Design Workbook: Graphic Approaches, Solutions, and Inspiration + 30 Case Studies
Kim Baer
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC997 .B24 2008



Head First C#
Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.73.C154 S73 2008



Head First Design Patterns
Elisabeth Freeman & Eric Freeman
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.76.D47 H427 2004



Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Elisabeth Freeman & Eric Freeman
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.76.H94 F74 2006



Head First JavaScript
Michael Morrison
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.73.J39 M67 2008



Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice & David West
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.9.O35 M38 2007



Head First Servlets and JSP, 2nd Ed.
Bert Bates & Bryan Basham
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.73 .J38 B37 2008



Information Visualization: Design for Interaction, 2nd Ed.
Robert Spence
Stacks - 3rd floor | TK7882.I6 S695 2007



Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3
Stephanie Sullivan & Greg Rewis
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.76 .H94 S84 2008



The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice, 3rd Ed.
Robin Williams
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z246 .W634 2008



Unique Packaging
Edited by Marta Serrats
Stacks - 3rd floor | TS195.4 .U55 2007

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The librarians at Langsdale Library work hard to buy the most exiting new books for the University of Baltimore's Communications Design program. Here's a selected list of new design books that the library purchased in March 2008. Here you'll find books on graphic design, typography, web design, book arts, design theory, and project management. Stay tuned for new literature and communication titles.


Adobe Flash CS3 Professional for Windows and Macintosh (Visual Quickstart Guide)
Bhardwaj, Pawan
Stacks - 3rd floor | QA76.3 .B4875 2007



Advertising Design and Typography
Alex W. White
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC997 .W493 2007



Book Arts: Beautiful Bindings for Handmade Books
Mary Kaye Seckler
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z271 .S444 2004



The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Krystyna Wasserman; with essays by Johanna Drucker and Audrey Niffenegger
Stacks - 3rd floor | N7433.35.U6 W37 2007



Bookbinding Techniques and Projects(Visual Quickstart Guide)
Josep Cambras & Ramon Serra ; translated by Michael Brunelle & Beatriz Cortabarria
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z271 .C26 2008



Brandjam: Humanizing Brands through Emotional Design
Marc Gobé
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC997 .G56 2007



Creating Artists’ Books
Sarah Bodman
Stacks - 3rd floor | N7433.3 .B63 2005



Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
Timothy Samara
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z246 .S225 2007



Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation
Kathryn Best
Stacks - 3rd floor | TS171.4 .B47 2006



Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design
Audrey Bennett, editor; foreword by Steven Heller
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC997 .D449 2006



Exploring Publication Design
Poppy Evans
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z246 .E933 2006



How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Debbie Millman; foreword by Steven Heller
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC1000 .M55 2007



Illustrators: The Society of Illustrators 48th Annual of American Illustration
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC960 .I45
Previous 4 years available



The Layout Look Book
Max Weber
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z246 .W43 2007



Mastering Materials, Bindings, & Finishes: The Art of Creative Production
Catharine Fishel
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC845 .F57 2007



New Typographic Design
Roger Fawcett-Tang
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z246 .F39 2007



Project Management for Design Professionals
William G. Ramroth, Jr.
Stacks - 3rd floor | NA1996 .R32 2006



Publication Design Workbook: A Real-World Design Guide
Timothy Samara
Stacks - 3rd floor | Z246 .S233 2007



Retro Graphics: A Visual Sourcebook to 100 Years of Graphic Design
Jonathan Raimes & Lakshmi Bhaskaran
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC998.4 .R356 2007



Seeing Is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication, 3rd Ed.
Arthur Asa Berger
Stacks - 3rd floor | P93.5 .B445 2008



The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
Stacks - 3rd floor | NC997 .A685 2006

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