The most recent UB Post has an article on Langsdale's Director, Steve LaBash, who will retire this June. In it, you can read about Steve's career and get several observations both by and about him. You can also also read Steve's farewell message to the campus in the latest issue of the Langsdale Link.

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Since 1958, the American Library Association, libraries across the U.S., and library supporters have celebrated National Library Week in April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. We hope these videos and others like it might inspire you to come into Langsdale and ask us a question.

Here are some of the new titles that you can find in the Langsdale Government Documents Collection:

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

• Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book, Fall 2007. (PrEx 28.2: L52)
  Collects important legislation and legal guidelines used by the Intelligence Community. From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
• IRS Tax Products CD & DVD. (T 22.51/4:2007/REV. 2008/FINAL)
  Current and previous year forms and instructions on CD; historical tax forms and instructions in PDF format on DVD. Includes all iterations of forms and instructions (Example: All versions of Form 1040 from 1913 - present, plus the first tax form used in 1864).
  
  All pubs are available in PDF form 1994-present; older ones are not available in PDF format, so they are not included here.
  
  For 2007, multilingual products are included, along with Title 26 (Internal Revenue Code), IRS e-File information, Tax Map, and Tax Topics.
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2005 (L2.3/11:2005)
  Includes a spiral-bound book and 2 CDs.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009. (GP 3.22/2: 270/2008-2009)
• Our Flag. (Y 1.1/3:109-18)
  This booklet includes a history of the U. S. Flag and rules on how to fly it, as well as a section on state flags and a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008. (C 3.134:2008)

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

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Here are some of the new titles that you can find in the Langsdale Government Documents Collection:

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

• Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2009. (Y1.1/7: 110-84/v.1-4)
  Includes the following volumes:
• Volume 1: Budget
• Volume 2: Appendix
• Volume 3: Analytical Perspectives (supplemental materials on enclosed CD-ROM)
• Volume 4: Historical Tables
• Economic Report of the President. (PR43.9: 2008)
• State Magazine, February 2008. (S1.118: 520)

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

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For those of you who miss being at Camden Yards on opening day, we recommend getting your baseball fix at the library.

To get you in the mood, here are several books available in Langsdale you may want to peruse:

• Beard, G. (1967). Birds on the Wing; the Story of the Baltimore Orioles. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday.


• Eisenberg, J. (2001). From 33rd Street to Camden Yards: An Oral History of the Baltimore Orioles.Lincolnwood, Ill: Contemporary Books.


• Felber, B. (2007). A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.


• Hamilton, B. W., & Johns Hopkins University. (1996). Baltimore's Camden Yards Ballparks.
  Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Economics.


• Lieb, F. (1955). The Baltimore Orioles; the History of a Colorful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis. New York: Putnam.


• Maryland. (1992). Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Baltimore Orioles' 1992 Season in Maryland. Baltimore, MD.


• Richmond, P. (1993). Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream. New York: Simon & Schuster.


• Solomon, B. (1999). Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball. New York, NY: Free Press.

If you don't feel like coming to Langsdale, you can also access several baseball related journals and magazines through ResearchPort. Here are a few:

• Baseball Digest


• The International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship


• Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports


• SportsIllustrated

Finally, while I am sure a baseball fan will know about ESPN, MLB.com and the like, here are a few websites with information about the history of baseball that you may want to check out.

• The Library of Congress' Historic Baseball Resources
  


• Sports Illustrated Vault - Sports Illustrated has put 54 years worth of its articles online. Included in the archive is a copy of every cover, and links to related videos and photographs, although the photographs from the artices themselves are largely absent. However, they make it pretty easy to do things like search for covers featuring the Baltimore Orioles.

Do you have a favorite baseball related book, journal or website not listed here? Let us know in the comments.

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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries provides reviews of materials of interest to those in higher education. Each year they publish over 7,000 reviews of books, electronic resources and Internet sites. These reviews are one tool used by many librarians across the country, including those at Langsdale, to aid in discovering new resources and deciding which ones to purchase.

Now, students and faculty can view the Choice reviews online. Whether it helps determine which book to purchase for oneself, or to recommend that Langsdale purchase a book for the library, Choice can be a valuable tool.

Currently this is available on campus only at http://www.cro2.org
Contact Susan Wheeler at x4299 or swheeler@ubalt.edu for more information.

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LexisNexis is reporting that the newest version of Safari for the Mac will crash if you conduct a search in LexisNexis Academic.

LexisNexis is trying to fix the problem, but it sounds as if the problem might be more with Safari. Suffice it to say that if you search Google for "safari crashes" you will have to go through several pages of results before you find anything about a plane crashing in the jungle.

In the meantime, Mac users who want to search LexisNexis Academic are advised to use Firefox.

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This semester's Langsdale Link features a collection of articles about issues that keep librarians awake at night plus some updates on things going on in Langsdale.

What would keep a librarian awake at night? I thought you might ask that. Well, there is the IDIS 110 Information Literacy class that had me up late grading papers on at least one occasion. More generally, librarians are among those who wonder how electronic documents that have historical significance, like government publications for example, will be preserved. The Link also tackles the question of how students and scholars might be able to access scholarly journals in the future despite a dramatic rise in the costs of subscriptions that has had the effect of limiting the amount of material that is available.

Then there are the usual updates on goings on at Langsdale, such as the latest renovation news, some new books and a toolbar that could make library research a bit easier. Most importantly, we have the last column from Library Director Steve Labash, who will be retiring this summer.

Unfortunately, the flood happened too late to make it into this issue, but we seem to be mostly dry now. In case you feel like you missed something, here is a picture of a few inches of water in the basement.