Cite Right
PN171 .F56 L55 2006
"Includes comprehensive coverage of the following citation styles: MLA; APA; CSE (biological sciences); AMA (medical sciences); ACS (chemistry); Bluebook and ALWD (law); AAA (anthropology and ethnography)."


Greenwood Dictionary of World History
D9 .B88 2006
"An indispensable, handy, and easy-to-use A-to-Z first-stop reference resource of essential information on over 2,000 people, events, places and ideas in world history indexed by region, period, and theme."


American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
E743 .A44 2006
"With contributions from more than two hundred leading scholars, this volume offers information and insight on over 600 major persons, schools, concepts, organizations, events, and publications that have contributed to the development of the conservative intellectual movement since World War II."


Global Health Watch 2005-2006: An Alternative World Health Report
RA441 .G575 2005
This report is a collaboration of leading popular movements and non-governmental organizations comprising civil society, activists, community groups, health workers and academics offering a comprehensive survey of current knowledge and thinking in the key areas that influence health.


Shorter Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms
HD1365 .A233 2004
"The encyclopedia defines and explains over 7,500 terms supplemented by more than 1,000 citations (cases, statutes and other authorities), 20,000 cross references and over 400 bibliographical references drawn from English and American real estate practice."

Encyclopedia of American Women in Business
HD6054.4 .U6 K753 2005
"A brilliant biographical encyclopedia tracing the accomplishments of more than 325 American business women from 'profit-making enterprises' over the past 400 years."

Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
HV6245 .N49 2006
This second edition contains comprehensive information on hundreds of serial murderers and murder cases, from early history to the present with more than 60 new and updated entries.

National Party Conventions 1831 - 2004
JK2255 .N373 2005
This new edition covers the complete history of U.S. nominating conventions, offering summaries of all major political party conventions from 1981 to 2004.


Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents
E184.A1 D283 2006
This work outlines and illustrates the broad structure and sweep of race relations in fifteen extended historical moments marking the landscape of U.S. history.


Native American Issues
E98.T77 T56 2005
In this second edition much is new in terms of policy developments and discussion, but the greatest change is in the extensive treatment of the gambling enterprise on reservation lands.

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Langsdale Library will be closed to the public from Dec 18 - Jan 10 while the first and second floors undergo renovations. If you need to talk with Langsdale staff, we will still be in the building (or somewhere on campus) on Dec 18-19, Jan 2-5 and Jan 8-10. So you can still reach us via phone or email.

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Several popular search engines have created specialized search engines to help people find scholarly information on the internet. Two of these, Google Scholar and Microsoft's Live Academic Search , have the added bonus of providng links to UB's "Find It" menu. If you are using a computer on campus and find an article through either of these search engines, the results will include a "Find It @ UB" link. Clicking on this link will tell you if the article in question is available through Langsdale's print or database collections. Many times the articles found by these search engines will only lead to abstracts or will require you to purchase an article to view the full text. What they won't normally tell you is if the full text is already available to you through Langsdale. The "Find It @ UB" link is a quick and easy way to find out.

Google Scholar will allow you to get the same results at your home computer. You just need to choose "library preferences" and add the University of Baltimore to the "library links" section.

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The Langsdale Library Interlibrary Loan Express will begin suspending its services for the semester at the close of business on Friday, December 8, 2006. Due to limited access to the library during scheduled renovations on the first and second floors, service will not resume until January 10, 2007. Any requests received after the following dates will be processed in January.

Books:
Suspension of book request processing will begin at the close of business 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 8, 2006, and will resume on Wednesday, January 10, 2007.

Copies:
Suspension of article request processing will begin at the close of business 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 8, 2006, and will resume on Wednesday January 10, 2007. EXCEPTION: We will continue to process article requests only for those items that can be obtained from a USMAI library until close of business Wednesday, December 13, 2006.

Thank you for your continued appreciation of the Interlibrary Loan Express Service! Happy Holidays!

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Zotero is a nifty little Firefox extension that combines bookmarking and page capturing capabilities with a citation manager. At its most basic level, it serves as a flexible way to manage your bookmarks, allowing multiple folders, tags and even the ability to save a "snapshot" of the page.

But Zotero also functions as a citation manager, with the ability to capture citation information about a book or article from certain webpages. For example, if you are looking at the record for a book in UB's catalog, Zotero can automatically collect the title, author, publisher and date published. It can do the same thing for several article databases available at UB, such as Academic Search Premier and ABI/Inform. Even better, once you have your citation information entered into Zotero, it can print out a bibliography in APA, MLA or Chicago format.

The one drawback is that Zotero does require Firefox 2.0, which I don't think is widely available on campus at the moment. But if you have Firefox 2.0, it is worth checking out.