UVM Libraries News & Events http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.php en-us Nucleus CMS v3.31 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.php/nucleus/nucleus2.gif UVM Libraries News & Events http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.php <![CDATA[Free lunch in exchange for your opinions]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=249 selene.colburn@uvm.edu, 656-9980).]]> Obsolete http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=249 Thu, 1 May 2008 11:14:48 -0400 <![CDATA[Interlibrary Loan end of semester ordering guidelines]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=246
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]]> General http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=246 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:08:07 -0400 <![CDATA[National Public Health Week (April 7-13, 2008) Links Climate Change and Health Care Concerns]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=245

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.
]]> Obsolete http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=245 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:38:31 -0400 <![CDATA[The Taste of Maple Syrup: Past, Present and Future--A Presentation by Amy Trubek, April 10, 2008]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=243 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/

]]> Obsolete http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=243 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:54:49 -0400 <![CDATA[Looking for Bijah and Lucy: The Search for an Early African American Family--A Presentation by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, March 26, 2008]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=230 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/




]]> Obsolete http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=230 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:19:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Help the Libraries; Earn a Gift Certificate]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=240
Interested? Contact Selene Colburn to schedule an appointment at selene.colburn@uvm.edu or 656-9980. ]]> Obsolete http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=240 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:50:30 -0400 <![CDATA[New Database: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=239 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 ]]> General http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=239 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:34:17 -0400 <![CDATA[New Database -- Readers' Guide Retrospective]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=238
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 ]]> General http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=238 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:32:08 -0400 <![CDATA[Help the Libraries Over Spring Break; Earn a Gift Certificate]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=233 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.]]> Obsolete http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=233 Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:44:06 -0500 <![CDATA[New Database--McGraw-Hill AccessScience 2.0]]> http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=228 General http://library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.phpindex.php?itemid=228 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:15:24 -0500