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I received this in my email today. The filename for the picture is "Rodeo Joe." The Demco web site has the contest rules and a section for entrants to submit their photos. I have a feeling I am going to get a lot of mileage out of this. This group will probably enter.

	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography

Librarian's Advice: How to Conduct an Exhaustive Literature Review in the Earth Sciences

The Earth Sciences can be a daunting field to research. Lines between disciplines often overlap or blur beyond recognition. This makes it difficult to distinguish between them. Three library faculty willing to help include: R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu (Geography) Don Richter drichter@sfasu.edu (Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology) and Bernice Wright bwright@sfasu.edu (Agriculture, Forestry).

In a guide on how to do literature reviews in the Earth Sciences, librarian Phil Stoffer, of the Western Earth Surface Processes Team, US Geological Survey provides six steps to conducting an exhaustive search in the Earth Sciences. "How to conduct an exhaustive literature review in the earth sciences" on the USGS web site.

We are here to help.

	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography
	Don Richter drichter@sfasu.edu rm. 202a 936.468.1714 Subjects - Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Mathematics/Statistics, Music, Physics/Astronomy

Bernice Wright bwright@sfasu.edu rm. 202j 936.468.1528 Subjects - Agriculture, Forestry, Human Sciences, Human Services, Speech/Communication

Ask Stupid Questions

"Ask Stupid Questions": A Collaborative and Solution-Driven Reference Service

Ask Stupid Questions (ASQTM) is a radically new reference enquiry methodology developed by the National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore.... ASQ has transformed the reference enquiry transaction ... where the librarian assumes the role of the host in a game show format which encourages with fun, spontaneity and creative expressions.

	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography

2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners

From Bowker's Patron Books in Print at Steen Library
Winner(s):
Native Guard: Poems
by Natasha Trethewey

Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

Finalists:

After This
by Alice McDermott

Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw

Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
by Pete Earley

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks

Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2004
by David Wojahn

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
by Arthur H. Cash

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
by James T. Campbell

The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers

The Republic of Poetry: Poems
by Martín Espada

	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography

One Place Where You Will Probably Never See a Legislator

Images From Google Earth
See if you can guess the Library.


38*53'19,89"N, 77*00"16.36"W

Interior Photographs by Horacio Arevalo
Panaramio

	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography

Name the librarian that wore a dress, carried a gun and was one of the most feared men in America.

"This one time Library worker enrolled in a work-study program for government employees at George Washington University in D.C. To qualify for the program, he got a job working for the Library of Congress....

By working at the Library of Congress, he had a chance to watch Herbert Putnam, a master in the art of bureaucratic empire building. In Putnam's stewardship over the library, he made it one of the most efficient parts of the federal government.

This Librarian did well at the Library of Congress. In his four years and a half years there (1913 to 1917), his pay rose steadily to $70 a month.

Later he found the skills he learned as a librarian invaluable....

Suddenly America faced the menace of Communism and our character took a leading role in fighting it. He responded to this new challenge immediately. "The former librarian set up a card index system listing every radical leader, organization, and publication in the United States...within three months he had amassed 150,000 names and by 1921 some 450,000."(Gentry)

He immersed himself in reading everything he could get his hands on about the Communist movement. To fight this enemy he had to thoroughly understand it and its objectives. He was preparing himself to become the most knowledgeable person in government on the subject. As Powers points out, these growing files on various radical movements gave him "a semi-monopoly over a sort of information so difficult to obtain, so extensive in coverage, and so commonly inaccessible as to make its independent verification almost impossible."

This ultimately provided the power and foundation of the now famous and infamous life of......... J Edgar Hoover :)

Court TV Crime Library

	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography