Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Elsevier)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15874

A comprehensive resource on the essence, complexity, diversity and importance of the inland waters (lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and wetlands) of the Earth. This major reference work summarizes current knowledge and captures the excitement of the subject, from the distribution of water on Earth to properties of water, from the hydrologic cycle to the physics of water movement in lakes and rivers, from the aesthetic values to the problems of water-borne disease, from metabolism of aquatic ecosystems to behavior of aquatic organisms, from pollution to conservation, from diversity of organisms to diversity and cycling of chemicals, and so forth.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Time: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 3:00 PM -- 4:15 PM
Location: Walter Library 310

Find out more about funding opportunities available to graduate students. Learn how to use IRIS, SPIN, and Community of Science and the Foundation Directory to search for grant opportunities. Setting up e-mail updates on specific subjects will also be covered, as well as how to find internal U of M funding sources. Resources for the course are listed on the Web site of the Office of the VP for Research, http://www.collaborate.umn.edu/explore/searching.html.

Register for this workshop: http://www.lib.umn.edu/registration/#eventidXX242

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 8:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Time: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 10:00 AM -- 11:00 AM
Location: Walter Library 310

Learn the basics of using RefWorks, the Web-based citation manager that is available to all U of M Faculty, students and staff. Adding references to RefWorks will be covered, as well as exporting them to Word, and selecting a style (MLA, APA, etc) for your bibliography. See http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks for more details about RefWorks.

Register for this workshop: http://www.lib.umn.edu/registration/#eventidXX75

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Jazz Music Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15849

Jazz Music Library includes such major labels as Verve, Impulse, Jazzology, Black Swan, Circle Records, Paramount, Concord, Fantasy, Milestone, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, Peak, Prestige, Riverside, Stretch Records, and Original Jazz Classics.* The list of artists ranges from Buddy Guy, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione, Dinah Washington, Diana Krall, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Grover Washington, Jr., Les Paul, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Peggy Lee, to Quincy Jones, Ramsey Lewis, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Billie Holliday, Thelonius Monk, Tony Bennett, and many others.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

U.S. University Science Indicators
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15853

Summary publication and citation statistics during the years 1981-2004 that reflect research performance by 112 Institutions or 295 institutions. Includes 24 broad fields in the sciences and social sciences and 96 narrower fields in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities corresponding to ISI Current Contents categories. Individual papers were divided into fields on the basis of the journal in which the paper appeared. Papers appearing in the multidisciplinary science journals Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) were reassigned to specific categories.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

College Source Online
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15867

College catalogs and course descriptions. Full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)