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The course that I team teach with Dr. Smith from the Geography Dept., China in the Post-Utopian Age, has a required annotated bibliography this semester. There are about 200 students in the class, so you may encounter a few at the desk.

A copy of the assignment has been placed in the binder at the reference desk, and is copied below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

--Mary Van Ullen

Annotated Bibliography Assignment
Select a topic from the following list to be covered in the course: economic reform; urbanization; China's ethnic minorities; environmental degradation; health care challenges; PRC-Taiwan relations. Create an annotated bibliography on your topic. Provide full documentation plus a description and critique (max 500 words) for each entry. The annotated bibliography should contain ten items, including:
• At least two books
• A reference source in book format
• An article from a popular magazine or newspaper
• Two articles from scholarly journals
• A popular Internet resource
• A scholarly Internet resource
• Two additional resources of your choosing, which may be from the above list or include other
types of materials, such as government documents, media, dissertations, electronic reference
sources, conference proceedings, etc.
The bibliography must be written in APA style, and the annotations should be in the critical style, rather than being merely descriptive. For information on annotations, see http://library.albany.edu/usered/style/ann.html. Organize the entries within the bibliography in alphabetical order. For information on how to cite websites and other sources, see the “HOW TO CITE YOUR SOURCES” section at the end of the syllabus.

The annotated bibliography exercise is assigned on the first day of class (1/18/07), and must be submitted by April 12th (4/12/07) in class.

Posted by Jane Kessler at 01:16 PM | Permalink

SL0002 = digital workshop 1

SL0003 = west seminar room (BTW, there’s no longer an east seminar room)

SL0012 = digital workshop 2

SL0020 = digital workshop 3

SL0021 = digital workshop 4

Posted by Jane Kessler at 08:44 AM | Permalink

There is a slight trick involved in getting these to print out correctly:

If you print directly from myUAlbany, it defaults to printing out the selected frame, which results in a largely blank page. To get it to print the entire schedule, you just need to select 'As laid out on screen' from the print dialog box.

Posted by GB at 09:33 AM | Permalink

New site for the Countries of the World page:

Background Notes - from the U.S. Department of State. Contains current information on 198 countries, including brief facts and longer entries on people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations, and travel and business.

Posted by Jane Kessler at 11:13 AM | Permalink

FYI - The books are also stamped "Building Only" on the inside front and back covers. - Wendy

I double checked with Deborah on this –

These are all picture books and they should have a gift plate from Carol Doll in the front.

The rest of the juvenile collection at ULIB does circulate.

Hope this helps.

Cathy

-----Original Message-----
From: University Libraries staff [mailto:LIBALL@listserv.albany.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah F Bernnard
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:05 AM
To: LIBALL@listserv.albany.edu
Subject: non circurlating Juvenile books

Hi,

Our juvenile collection now houses some books that don't circulate. In Minerva, their loan type is designated as non circulating. These books were donated to the libraries with the stipulation that they would not circulate. The donor was concerned because the shelf life of juvenile books that circulate is very short and she wanted these books to last. So now there are both circulating and non circulating books in the juvenile collection. Because they are interfiled,circulation staff may have to intercede when a patron wishes to check a non circulating book out. Thank you all for your patience. I hope that this does not become too onerous.

Deborah Bernnard

Information Science Bibliographer

Posted by Cathy Dwyer at 10:25 AM | Permalink

American Book Prices Current is no longer issued in print. These two sets are used primarily by Phil Eppard's Rare Books class. I have made arrangements with Deborah Bernnard and Elaine Bergman to have 1997+ of ABPC sent to Dewey Ref and all of Book Auction Records. Dewey has the CD of ABPC. ABPC 1986-1996 will be sent to storage. Phil Eppard is aware of the change.

Posted by Jane Kessler at 09:17 AM | Permalink