The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there’s not much arable land and the soil is contaminated. So Maundu doesn’t use soil. Instead he’s…
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Ronald Takaki recognized for contribution to multicultural society
Mo Yan, Chinese Author, Wins Nobel Prize
DATABASE TRIAL: Churchill Archive
The Churchill Archive includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. From Bloomsbury Publishing in collaboration with…
2012 Nobel Prize in Physcis
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; and David J. Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of…
Posted in Math, Physics and Astronomy Library, Physics
Free Trial to the Thieme eBook Library until December 31, 2012
The Thieme E-Book Library provides students, researchers, and clinicians with access to an online collection of lavishly illustrated, full-color textbooks from Thieme’s Flexibook and Color Atlas series. This online textbook collection of sixty-seven titles is helpful to students mastering critical subjects and a resource for clinicians…
Posted in About Us
DATABASE TRIAL: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 focuses on the two centuries of Britain’s colonial, missionary, commercial and literary relations with Africa and the Americas. The database contains 14 collections of rare primary source documents, with the total number of…
Michael Huang Presents Keynote Speech at the 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing, Beijing, China
Michael Huang, Health Sciences Librarian made a keynote speech titled “Current and future trends in academic libraries in the United States” at the 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing, October 31 to November 2, 2012, Beijing, China.…
Posted in Global Initiatives
Banned Book Week
Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety…
Posted in Books
