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We’re looking for undergraduates to participate in focus groups about library advertising. Free lunch for 45 minutes of your time on Wednesday, May 7th, with sessions at noon and 1PM. Contact Selene Colburn to reserve a spot (selene.colburn@uvm.edu, 656-9980).

Requests for loans-- Material can take 1 to 3 weeks to arrive so please plan accordingly.

Requests for copies -- Material can take 3 to 10 business days to arrive.

If material is needed beyond the end of semester, please indicate that on the request form.

Barbara Lamonda
Interlibrary Loan Supervisor
Bailey/Howe Library
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
802-656-9419

This week (April 7-13, 2008) is National Public Health Week. The American Public Health Association (APHA) is urging individuals to honor the theme of “Climate Change: Our Health in the Balance” by adopting the Healthy Climate Pledge, noting:

There is a direct connection between climate change and the health of our nation today. Yet few Americans are aware of the very real consequences of climate change on the health of our communities, our families and our children.

The Northeastern United States is expected to experience some of the largest increases in average temperatures and ground-level soot and smog pollution, resulting in prolonged complications for allergy sufferers. It’s possible that diseases carried by insects and animals—such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus—will extend their reach.

The APHA offers multiple suggestions for small lifestyle changes to reduce impact:

• Give your car a break--An astonishing amount of climate change pollution in the world comes from cars driven in the United States. Leaving your car at home just two days a week will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 1,600 pounds per year.



• Eat meatless at least one day a week--The livestock sector is a huge contributor to climate change and water pollution. It accounts for nearly 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.



• Spread the word--Telling family and friends about the connection between health and climate change helps to raise awareness and help everyone become well prepared. By spreading the word, you can help create the link between our personal behavior, our health and the health of people around the world.

To learn more about the relationship between climate change and public health, visit the APHA’S web site at http://www.nphw.org/nphw08/default.htm. Of particular interest is the National Public Health Week blog at http://www.nphw.blogspot.com/.

Hundreds of resources on climate change are available through UVM’s Library Catalog. Good starting points include:

Safe trip to Eden: 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown by David Steinman. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, c2007.

The end of nature by Bill McKibben. New York: Random House, 1989.

Earth in the balance: ecology and the human spirit by Al Gore. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1992.

The Friends of Special Collections and the Center for Research on Vermont are happy to sponsor The Taste of Maple Syrup: Past, Present and Future, a presentation by UVM professor Amy Trubek, on Thursday, April 10, 2008 from 4:30-6:00 pm in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont.

Maple syrup makes the Green Mountains edible. When we pour this thick sweet liquid over our pancakes we are bringing the much loved Vermont landscape into our houses—we get to taste the Green Mountains. Maple syrup is a wild food, harvested first by the Abenaki, then by early colonists and now by farmers, homesteaders and others. Maple syrup links us to our landscape, but what does it taste like? At this presentation, we will explore the tastes of Vermont maple syrup and why Vermont's maple syrup could be the first of many foods that define our future tastes. The event will conclude with a tasting of syrups from different parts of Vermont.

Food anthropologist Amy Trubek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont. She previously taught at the New England Culinary Institute, served as executive director of the Vermont Fresh Network, and was a 2002-2004 Food & Society Policy Fellow.

Trubek’s latest book is The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir (University of California Press 2008). Environmentalist Bill McKibben says, “Amy Trubek is better qualified than anyone I know to offer an American take on terroir-her background as an anthropologist, a chef, an orchardist, and an activist in the local food movement let her understand the idea of taste in all its diverse and wonderful dimensions, and her skill as a writer lets her communicate with great grace what she's figured out!”

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 802-656-2138 or e-mail uvmsc@uvm.edu

Free parking and shuttle service available at the Agricultural Engineering Lot. Paid visitor parking available at the corner of College and South Prospect Streets. Map, directions and shuttle information at http://www.uvm.edu/tps/transportation/

Friends of Special Collections and the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont are very pleased to sponsor a presentation by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about her new book, Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 from 4:30-6:00 pm in
Billings Marsh Lounge, University of Vermont

In Mr. and Mrs. Prince, Gerzina tells two stories of remarkable persistence. The major story is the life of Abijah Prince and Lucy Terry Prince, free blacks who pursued the American dream of land ownership in antebellum New England by standing up to challenges from land speculators and attacks by white neighbors. In 1785, Lucy Prince asked the Vermont Governor and Council to protect her family and property in Guilford, Vermont. Eighteen years later, Lucy successfully argued her case for the family’s land rights in Sunderland before the Vermont Supreme Court.

Gerzina also chronicles seven years of exhaustive research in town offices, court houses, and archives throughout New England. Convinced that “the African American presence is long and deep, with miraculous things waiting to be discovered,” Gerzina and her husband uncovered obscure documents that allow her to tell “the most complete story ever known about an eighteenth-century African American family.” At UVM, they found significant documents in the Bradley Family Papers and the Park-McCullough House Collection.

Gerzina is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she also chairs the English department. The author and editor of several books, including Carrington, Black London, Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gerzina has been a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The presentations is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 802-656-2138 or e-mail uvmsc@uvm.edu

Free parking and shuttle service available at the Agricultural Engineering Lot.
Map, directions and shuttle information at http://www.uvm.edu/tps/transportation/

The UVM Libraries are looking for volunteer faculty, students, and staff to help us test some of our online tools for finding books and articles. If you have half an hour, you can help improve our services and earn a $10 gift certificate to the UVM Bookstore and Henderson Café in the Davis Center.

Interested? Contact Selene Colburn to schedule an appointment at selene.colburn@uvm.edu or 656-9980.

With coverage from 1907 to 1984 of over 1.3 million articles in the humanities and social
sciences from over 1200 journals this is a valuable resource for individuals in a variety
of fields.

The new Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 allows instant
searching of the equivalent of 46 printed volumes of these printed indexes:

International Index: 18 volumes, 1907 - March 1965
Social Sciences & Humanities Index: 9 volumes April 1965 – March 1974
Humanities Index: 10 volumes: April 1974 – March 1984
Social Sciences Index: 9 volumes April 1974 – March 1983

Now available here

New Database -- Readers' Guide Retrospective

The online version (covering 1890-1982) of the venerable and ever popular Readers' Guide
to Periodical Literature. This new database is sure to be helpful to almost everyone --
especially individuals interested in american history and culture. One of your best
sources if you're trying to find a contemporary article written about some important
event in the 20th century e.g. life on the homefront in World War II or reaction to Elvis
Presley and his on-stage gyrations. Voted by Library Journal as "One of the 50 Best
Reference Sources for the Millennium."

Now available here

Here for spring break? The UVM Libraries are looking for volunteer faculty, students, and staff to help us test some of our online tools for finding books and articles. If you have half an hour, you can help improve our services and earn a $10 gift certificate to the UVM Bookstore and Henderson Café in the Davis Center.

Interested? Contact Selene Colburn to schedule an appointment at selene.colburn@uvm.edu or 656-9980.

A core reference resource in the sciences for many years has been the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. We are pleased to announce the acquisition of McGraw-Hill AccessScience 2.0 -- the enhanced online version of this product. [Read More!]

The UVM Libraries is pleased to announce the addition to our online collections of North American Women's Letters and Diaries, comprising over 300 years of primary source materials representing 1,325 authors and approximately 150,000 pages of materials. [Read More!]

The Friends of Special Collections Lecture Series
Black History Month Event

Open Classroom: Major Jackson on Contemporary African American Poetry
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 from 5:30-7:00
Billings Marsh Lounge, University of Vermont

The Friends of Special Collections invite you to join us for this unique opportunity to sit in on Major Jackson’s Contemporary American Poetry class as he discusses and reads the work of contemporary African American poets, including selections from his own work and fellow members of the Dark Room Collective.

In the his course description, Jackson writes: “Contemporary American Poetry is rich in diversity and tradition; best of all, contemporary poetry is addressed to the present here and now, our lives lived today…Poets write about the war in Iraq, heartbreak in Central Park, encountering skinheads at night, and the logocentric beauty of cellphones.”

Come get a glimpse of one of the University’s most popular classes and participate in a lecture and discussion of some exciting and profound poems, without the pressure of receiving a grade for your effort.

Major Jackson is an associate professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (W. W. Norton, 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), which won the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received critical attention in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poetry, Triquarterly, and the New Yorker, among other publications.

Jackson received his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, and a commission from the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He is a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars and a former Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. Currently, he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

For more information, please call (802) 656-2138 or e-mail uvmsc@uvm.edu.

The Winter 2008 Dana Medical Library Newsletter is now available. Highlights include a notice about the new NIH Open Access Policy, information on a current grant-funded primary care project, as well as collections and staff news.

Buffalo Soldiers in the Green Mountains: Those Who Stayed

February 4 - March 7, 2008 in Bailey/Howe Library, first floor lobby

An exhibit celebrating the history of the African-American 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiment in Vermont, 1909 to 1913, and the account of those who settled in Vermont.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the 10th U. S. Cavalry—the famed Buffalo Soldiers—were stationed at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, VT. Arriving from the Philippines, they were to remain in Vermont for five years. Some stayed on in Vermont after their military service, marrying and raising families in Winooski, Burlington, and Colchester. Some who departed in 1913 with the regiment, on its way to Texas and the Mexican Revolution, returned to Vermont after service in Texas and the West. This exhibit celebrates their life in the Cavalry and tells their story and that of their descendants in Vermont.

For more information, please call (802) 656-2138, e-mail uvmsc@uvm.edu, or visit the Vermont Buffalo Soldiers web site

On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed an omnibus spending bill that included a provision requiring the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to mandate public access for NIH-funded research. The NIH Public Access Policy, Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008), states:

The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

The policy is effective for research accepted after April 7, 2008. See NIH NOT-OD-08-033 for more details on the policy.

The NIH has published instructions for researchers on how to comply with this policy. These instructions state that PubMed Central journals (e.g. American Journal of Public Health, Arthritis Research and Therapy) automatically deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in PubMed Central. What it doesn't make clear is that a few PubMed Central journals do require a separate deposit of an author manuscript. See the list of PubMed Central Journals for more information.

NIH Tutorials are available for navigating the PubMed Central Submission System.

Publishers routinely require authors to transfer the author's copyrights to the publisher. In order to deposit a manuscript in PubMed Central, and comply with the terms of an NIH grant, a researcher will need to retain the rights to do that. NIH offers this language for researchers to include as an addendum to the copyright transfer agreement with a publisher:

Journal acknowledges that Author retains the right to provide a copy of the final manuscript to the NIH upon acceptance for Journal publication, for public archiving in PubMed Central as soon as possible but no later than 12 months after publication by Journal.

For more information on author addenda see the SPARC Author Rights Initiative.

If you would like to research copyright transfer agreements before submitting a paper to a specific journal, the Sherpa Romeo database summarizes permissions for most major scientific publishers.

Please let us know if we can help you to comply with this new policy.