The Langsdale Library staff invites you to start off your exam week the right way. Along with all of the study resources, the library provides quiet spaces for study, small group rooms, comfortable furniture, computers, printers, and wireless internet.

PLUS starting on Monday May 12th and lasting until supplies run out, bottled water and snacks will be available to help you keep up your mental and physical strength.

Stop in, help yourself to some snacks, and start "cramming" for exams with help from the Langsdale Library staff.

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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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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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Classes may not be in session in January, but that does not mean all is quiet within the walls of Langsdale Library. During the break, the 4th floor is being renovated so that our Special Collections department can use most of the floor for its collections.




And while you may not be able to enjoy the 4th floor while the walls are being moved around, you can come into our 2nd floor and enjoy the comfy chairs (equipped with a swing table for your books or a laptop) that arrived last semester.

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Wondering what to do with all your free time while the University is closed? Langsdale Library has the answer.

All Langsdale Library DVDs and VHS Tapes checked out from now until December 20, 2007 will have an extended loan period, allowing you to enjoy your free movies until we re-open on January 2nd, 2008. Also, the normal limit of 5 media items per patron has been expanded to 10 DVDs or VHS Tapes per patron, the limit will return to 5 on January 2nd, 2008.

Langsdale has also been improving our literature collection, so readers can find numerous items of interest to keep them busy. If you don't know where to start, try looking through our collection of bildungsromane.

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The Library is excited to present 2 new, innovative services to the UB community.

Streaming Videos
As part of a pilot project we are providing streaming video access to a selection of 50 academic-oriented documentary and educational films. These streaming videos can be used in your classroom or you can have your students view the videos from any PC on or off campus.
We invite you to visit our FAQ.

Watching DVDs on Reserve Over the Internet
Another project we are piloting allows students to watch DVDs that have been placed on Reserve for a class from the comfort of their own home. We have purchased something called a SlingBox which provides the ability for someone to watch a DVD (located in a DVD player in Langsdale) over the Internet. There are some limitations: the Slingbox is not a streaming service and will not allow multiple people to view it at the same time like the educational films mentioned above. However, it will allow people to watch a DVD without having to come into Langsdale, and we can even arrange viewings when Langsdale is closed.

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Langsdale Library's Special Collections department's WMAR collection was featured in a recent Baltimore Examiner article. The collection consists mostly of reels of 16mm film shot by WMAR for use in their nightly news broadcasts and goes back yo 1948.

Because the film is old and has been spliced together, viewing the film through a projector is essentially impossible. So Langsdale Library and the University of Baltimore is pursuing funding to have a potion of the film digitized and made available for people to view. The amount of film is so extensive, that even with a grant we would only be able to digitize a small portion of our collection.

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On Sunday July 15, the University System of Maryland (USM) upgraded the software that runs the catalog for all USM libraries, including that of Langsdale.

The differences in the new version are fairly minor. So minor, that you probably did not even know there was a catalog upgrade unless you tried searching it while it was down overnight for the upgrade. The main improvement is a new login screen that looks the same as that of ResearchPort. The new login can save you a step if you want to log into the catalog from ResearchPort or vice versa. The integration of the logins is not quite seamless, but you should not have to type in your library account number more than once.

The new catalog has the potential to generate a list of new books that match the result of a search, but that piece of the catalog has not yet been implemented. We hope to be able to use this feature to generate new books lists by topic in the future. Still, you may notice at the top of the catalog screen a search option that says "new books". This will allow you to search through just our newest items.

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

• Women in Congress, 1917-2006 (Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 14903)
• Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 3: Environment, Origins and Population (SI 1.20/2:3)
• Public Papers of the Presidents: George W. Bush, 2001-2003(AE 2.114:)
• The Citizen's Almanac: Fundamental Documents, Symbols and Anthems of the United States (HS 8.2:C 49/2007)

For a list of new electronic titles in May, 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:

• 2005 White House Conference on Aging, December 11-14, 2005: Report to the President and the Congress: The Booming Dynamics of Aging: From Awareness to Action. (PR 43.2:AG 4)
• Asian Transnational Organized Crime and Its Impact on the United States, January 2007. (J 28.15/2:AS 4 )
• The Budget and Economic Outlook Fiscal Years 2008 to 2017. (Y 10.13:2008-2017)
• Budget Options. (Y 10.2:B 85/3/2007)
• The Economic Report of the President: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, February 16, 2006. (Y 4.EC 7:EC 7/2/2006)
• FDA Consumer, March-April 2007 (Vol. 41, No. 2 - FINAL ISSUE) (HE 20.4010: 41/2)
  Cover story: "How the FDA Works to Keep Produce Safe"
• Federal Records Relating to Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era. Reference Information Paper 113, 2006. (AE 1.124:113)
  From the preface: "This reference information paper provides descriptions of the records of Federal agencies, commissions, and courts that formulated civil rights guidelines, programs, and judicial decisions." Coverage spans from the Truman administration (1945-52) through the Carter administration (1977-1981).
• Health, United States, 2006. (HE 20.7042/7-2:2006)
• Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared. (Y 1.1/5:109-322)
  Subtitle: Special Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Together with Additional Views
• Lessons Learned From 9/11: DNA Identification in Mass Fatality Incidents, September 2006. (J 28.2:D 44/4)
  The report contains the recommendations of the Kinship and Data Analysis Panel (KADAP) on how to incorporate DNA identification into a mass fatality disaster plan. This report is designed to augment the 2005 NIJ Report, Mass Fatality Incidents: A Guide for Human Forensic Identification (J 28.15/2: F 76/2).
• NIJ Report: Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors. (J 28.15/2:EV 3)
• NIJ Report: Investigations Involving the Internet and Computer Networks.
  (J 28.15/2:IN 8)
• Report on Enforcement of Laws Protecting Religious Freedom: Fiscal Years 2001-2006. (J 1.2:R 27/12)

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The April 4 edition of the Baltimore Sun has an article by Gadi Dechter entitled "Baltimore's Riots Remembered" that details UB's examination of events in Baltimore following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. You can read about some of the work done by Langsdale's special collections department, along with several UB faculty members and students, to create a Baltimore 168 Riots and Rebirth Collection.

The article from the Baltimore Sun will only be available online for 2 weeks, but members of the UB community can continue to access the article through Langsdale's subscription to the Baltimore Sun archives going back to 1990.

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Langsdale may not be the name of a beach in Florida. Nor does MTV appear to have plans to film in the library. However, if you want a place to catch up on your class work, find some interesting reading material or do library research, Langsdale will be open regular hours during spring break, including Saturday and Sunday.

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In celebration of Black History Month, Langsdale Library is highlighting works that touch on this year's theme: “From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in the Americas." We have also highlighted some other works by or about African-Americans that may be of interest.

Here's a link to the page: http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/bhm_guide.htm

You can also get to this guide and others by looking under the gray Use It menu on the library's homepage; click on Research Help by Discipline.

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The Spring 2007 edition of the Langsdale Link is now available. In it, you can read even more stuff out Langsdale's renovation as well as find out about our connection to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, our new staff, and get some tips for Valentine's Day DVDs.

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Here are a few more new titles that you can find in the Langsdale Government Documents Collection:

• Eyewitness to War, Volume I & Volume II. (D 110.2: W 19/v. 1 & v. 2)
  Subtitled: “The U.S. Army in Operation Al Fajr: An Oral History.”
• Learn About the United States: Quick Civics Lessons. (HS 8.2: L47)
  Comes with an audio CD of the lessons, so you can read along.
• Operations and Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq. (Y4. AR 5/2a: 2003-2004/28)
  Transcript of hearings held by the House of Representatives Committee of Armed Services between January and July of 2004.
• Oversight of Gulf Hurricane Recovery: A Semiannual Report to Congress. (PREX 2.36: H 94/2006)
  This report covers the second half of FY06 (April 1 – September 30, 2006).
• Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007. (C 3.134: 2007)
  Find statistical data on all sorts of topics in this annual compilation from the U.S. Census Bureau.
  

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As you may know, UB's online courseware system, WebTycho has been having some problems recently. Some students have asked whether or not they could still get to their course reserve pages, since they may typically access their reserves through a link in Web Tycho.

It turns out that you can. If a professor has put items on reserves through Langsdale's E-RES system, you can access them anytime by using one of the "Course Reserves" links on Langsdale's website. Or you can bookmark the following link: http://webreserves.ubalt.edu/eres/courseindex.aspx?page=search

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

• Developing a Stigma Reduction Initiative. (HE 20.427: ST 5)
  This resource kit from the Department of Health and Human Services gives tips on planning, marketing, and outreach. The kit includes a CD-ROM with a sample marketing plan, drop-in articles, PSA print ads and TV scripts, and photo/clip art resources.
• The Iraq study group report. (Y3. P31: 2 IR 1/3)
  Official copy of the December 2006 report.
• Lisotkin, David. Best practices for effecting the rehabilitation of affordable housing. (HH 14.2:AF 2/V.1-2)
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Fall 2006 (Vol. 50, No. 3) (L2.70/4:50/3)
  Cover story: “Working Abroad: Finding International Internships and Entry-Level Jobs.”
• A performance review of FEMA's disaster management activities in response to Hurricane Katrina. (HS 1.2:K 15)
  A report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General. Published in March 2006.
• Recruiting, retention, and future levels of military personnel. (Y 10.2:R 24/6)
  A study by the Congressional Budget Office.
• State and metropolitan area data book: 2006. (C 3.134/5-2: 2006)
• Transformation through partnerships: systems change to end chronic homelessness. (HE 20.427:H 75/PACK)
  Package includes a documentary (DVD) and three pamphlets.

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Welcome to Langsdale! Here is what you would have seen if you had entered the library this afternoon


Yes, we still have some construction to do, but if you turned your head to the left, you may have noticed a brand new reference desk, complete with a reference librarian...


...and some chairs waiting around for new furniture.


Meanwhile, we are trying to set up the 2nd floor for group study along with some (relatively) comfortable seating.

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On Jan 11, Langsdale Library will reopen to the public. The renovation is not quite complete as some additional work needs to be done on the 1st floor. In fact, the furniture for the 1st floor won't arrive until Friday, so it looks quite empty at the moment.

However, access to the stacks has been restored, so you can come to check out books and videos. In addition, the computer lab on the 2nd floor has been almost completely restored, and is available if you need a computer on campus.

So please come and check out our new paint job and carpet, but be sure to come back in the next few weeks to see what the final result looks like.

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As we return to work after the Winter Break, we come to find that some people have been busy over the break. All the carpet has been removed from the 1st and 2nd floors, and some painting has been done as well. You can track the progress of the renovation on the Renovation Blog and on Langsdale's Flickr page.

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Langsdale Library is now closed to the public so that renovations on the first and second floors can be completed.

Even though the library is closed to the public, we will be busy working behind the scenes from January 2 - 10, and beyond, getting the library ready for the new semester. You can keep up with our progress on the renovation blog.

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

• Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat (Y 4.IN 8/18: AL 7/2)
  This a copy of the Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Published in June 2006.
• Bicycle Safety Tips for Adults (TD 8.64: B 47/3/DVD)
  A short video produced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Running time: 7:35
• Civil Rights Division Activities and Programs (J1.2:C49/11/2006)
  This is annual report comes from The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Digest of Education Statistics, 2005 (ED 1.140: 2005)
  Yearbook of tables and figures for all levels of education, plus statistics on libraries and educational technology.
• Individual Income Tax Returns 2004 (T 22.35/8: 2004)
  Annual data from the Statistics of Income (SOI) Division of the IRS. Many of these tables can be found in MS Excel format online at http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/.
• Interviewing Child Witnesses and Victims of Sexual Abuse (Not available online) (J 32.8: AB 9/5/2006)
  This is a reprint of a guide created by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program.
  
• Monthly Labor Review, August 2006 (Vol. 129, Issue 8) (L2.6: 129/8)
  This is a special issue focusing on the U.S. labor market impact of Hurricane Katrina.
• Photodocumentation in the Investigation of Child Abuse (HTML | PDF) (J 32.8: AB 9/3/2006)
  This is a reprint of a guide created by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program.
• The Role of Law Enforcement in Public Health Emergencies: Special Considerations for an All-Hazards Approach (J 26.2:H 34)
  This document was prepared by the Bureau of Justice Assistance in partnership with the Police Executive Research Forum.

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Friday, Nov. 3: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 15: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Going home for Thanksgiving? Taking a day trip? Getting a jump on your summer plans? Come find out about the free travel resources available from Uncle Sam! For example, you can learn how to:

• Find airline information
• Get live traffic conditions for any state
• Create your own tour of historic places
• Reserve a federal campsite online.

To register, contact the Reference department at 410-837-4274, langref@ubalt.edu, or in person at the Reference desk on the second floor of the library. All workshops will take place in room 200 of Langsdale Library.

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Almanac of American Education
LB2846 .A45 2006
"This latest edition gives the facts, figures, and observations of the
state of education in America at the national, state, regional, and
county levels."



American Attitudes: What Americans Think about the Issues that Shape Their Lives
HN90 .P8 A527 2005
"The fourth edition of this unique reference book chronicles the changes
and consistencies in the attitudes of the public over the past thirty
years."


Encyclopedia of the City
HT108.5 .E63 2005
"The Encyclopedia of the City is an essential resource examining the
idea of the city from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
perspective including fields such as politics, sociology, history, urban
design, cultural studies, and psychology."


Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
KF8742 .A35 O93 2005
"The indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the workings
and significance of the nation's highest court---the cases, the issues,
the justices, the details, the broad sweep of the history of the
Supreme Court."


Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
HD8066 .U57 2005
"Thoroughly cross-referenced and illustrated, the Encyclopedia offers
almost 400 entries covering unions, union leaders, labor-related events,
important statutes and court cases, and labor terminology."

Atlas of Poverty in America
HC110 .P6 G543 2006
"This reference volume, intended for students and researchers trying to
understand on of the most pressing and longstanding social problems in
America, provides a comprehensive portrait of poverty in the United
States from the beginnings of the Great Society to the present."


Oceans
GC11.2 .S76 2006
"This fascinating, fully cross-referenced and indexed volume covers all
areas of oceanographic knowledge and research in hundreds of
photographs, diagrams, maps and charts."


Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
PN6081.A623 2006
"In this new revised edition, with nearly 6,000 quotations and
annotated extensively, you’ll learn not just who said what, but get the full
story behind the quote."


American Scientists
Q141.C214 2006
"This book offers a glimpse into the professional careers and
accomplishments of almost 300 individuals such as Paul Berg, Wernher von Braun,
Annie Jump Cannon, Linus Pauling and many equally extraordinary women
and men."

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The annual Langsdale Book Sale has expanded this year to include music, videos and computer software.

Stop by the Langsdale Auditorium Gallery on Wednesday, November 15th from noon to 8 pm to get your pick of over 4,000 books priced at $2 for hardbacks, 75 cents for larger paperbacks, and 25 cents for pocket size paperbacks. There also will be some individually-priced items and large format books. The sale will continue on Thursday, November 16th from 9 am to 1 pm, when you can take home lots of books for $1 a box.

If you need to make room for all the books you may find at the sale, we can help with that too. Donations of books, CDs, DVDs, cassettes and LPs (no eight track tapes - hey, we have to draw a line somewhere) that are in good condition can be brought to the library anytime before November 10th. For further information, contact Ted Kruse at (410) 837-4204.

See you at the sale!

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FirstGov.gov: Your Doorway to Government Resources

Saturday , October 28: 1:00 - 2:00 PM (rescheduled from October 7)
Langsdale Library, Room 200

Missed out on our last FirstGov workshop? Come join us on Saturday, October 7 and learn about some of the free online resources available from Uncle Sam!

Whether you're working on a research paper, starting a business or buying a house, you can find lots of resources on FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the U.S. Government. In this workshop, learn how to find information on a variety of topics, including education, business and consumer information.

To register, contact the Reference department at 410-837-4274, langref@ubalt.edu, or in person at the Reference desk on the second floor of the library. All workshops will take place in room 200 of Langsdale Library.

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

• FDA Consumer Magazine, September/October 2006 (HE20.4010: 40/5)
  The cover story is about the importance of getting a flu vaccination.
  
• Social Security Bulletin, 66 (3) 2005/2006 (SSA1.22: 66/3)
  This issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Social Security Disability Insurance Program.
• Know Before You Go: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulations for U.S. Residents (HS4.102: C96/2006)
  Includes a traveler's checklist, and provides links to online information. This guide is also available online.
• Recognizing When a Child's Injury or Illness Is Caused by Abuse (HTML | PDF) (J32.8:AB9/2006)
  Criminal Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse (Not available online) (J32.8: AB9/9/2006)
  These are reprints of guides created by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program.

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The fall 2006 issue of Langsdale Library's electronic newsletter, The Langsdale Link , is now available. We truly have a lot of "news" in this issue: a new web page, new staff, new DVDs and information on the Langsdale renovation that is so new, someone is probably working on it as you read this.

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Langsdale offers a variety of FREE workshops every semester, and this Fall is no exception. We have workshops on HTML, CSS, thesis research, government information and blogs. For a complete list of classes, class descriptions and information on signing up, see our workshops website, or go to the Langsdale calendar. Oh, and did I mention they are free?

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Greetings, voters (and voters-to-be)!

The Maryland Gubernatorial Primary Election is on Tuesday, Sept 12. If you need information about the candidates and the issues, take a look at our new Langsdale Library How-To Guide: Election Resources.

The guide includes an election calendar, links to free websites, plus recommendations for library databases you can use to find out more about each candidate and the issues that affect you.

Not registered to vote? There's still time to register before the general election on November 7; find out how by going to the Maryland State Board of Elections Web site: http://www.elections.state.md.us/

For a complete list of Langsdale How-To Guides, go to http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/index.htm

If you need more help finding election resources, please contact Langsdale Library.

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As you can tell, Langsdale has changed the look of its website, adopting the look and colors of the new UB site. We have changed some of our site's navigational structure based on several usability studies, but there is always room for improvement.

New to the page are several "Quick Search" options on the right that will allow you to see whether Langsdale has a particular book or journal and do some other types of searching.

If you have any suggestions or comments on the new design, please let us know.

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The Langsdale Library building is undergoing a renovation as well. As you enter the building, you may notice that some things have been shifted around in anticipation of the forthcoming improvements. Most of the major changes will not happen until after the Fall semester to avoid disruption during classes. However, work has started on a new instruction room on the 4th floor.

You can keep track of our renovation's progress on the Langsdale renovation blog:
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/news/renovation/

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Langsdale is undergoing a redesign of its website that should go live before the Fall semester starts.

For a sneak preview of the new design visit http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/testing/

If you have any comments or suggestions, please send an email to mshochet@ubalt.edu, or use the comment link below. If you would really like to have inpu