Mardigian Library News

In order to continue to provide some level of no-charge printing, the Mardigian Library will implement print quotas beginning January 9, 2012. Students, faculty, and staff will be allotted 300 pages per semester to use for printing library resources. Should a user reach the 300 page quota, additional pages can be purchased at the Circulation Desk for five cents per page. Library users also have the “green” alternative of saving materials via e-mail or to a USB drive. Guest printing will continue at ten cents per page.

24-hour finals study ends at 11:45 p.m. Monday, December 19. Building hours until the start of the Winter semester will be:

Tuesday, December 20: 8:00 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
Wednesday, December 21: 8:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 22: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Friday, December 23: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
December 24 through January 2: CLOSED
January 3 – January 6: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
January 7 & 8: CLOSED
Regular Winter hours resume Monday, January 9

Enjoy the break!

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University gathered a group of journalists, academics, and Census Bureau staff to video-record 45-minute lectures and demos about a variety of datasets produced by the Census Bureau and other federal agencies. The result is at http://cronkite.asu.edu/census2010.

This looks like a very good resource if you want to learn more about:
- Census data
- American Community Survey
- Census geography
- American FactFinder and Data Ferrett
- The Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
- Survey of jails, prisons, and employees
- Small area income, poverty, and health insurance estimates
- iPums.org
- Economic census
- Employment and unemployment estimates
- Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Local employment dynamics data
- Housing and construction data
- Survey of governments
- Current surveys of wholesale and retail trade as well as manufacturing and services
- Foreign trade Statistics

Are you going to The Winter Sky - Public Observing Event at the SLRC Observatory on Friday, December 9? How about checking out one of our astronomy handbooks to take along as a reference? We have many available to check out.

Dr. Jerome Nriagu from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health will be the guest speaker at the Natural Sciences Colloquium on Friday, December 9. Dr. Nriagu’s presentation will be “Environmental Justice”. See more of Dr. Nriagu's work in the Scopus database. To read papers, click on "View at publisher" or "Article Linker.” Note that full text of all papers may not be available.

The list of new books and other materials added to the library's collection in October has been posted. Click on "...more New Arrivals" on the library's home page. Or, go directly to http://library.umd.umich.edu/newbooks/.