POSTED: 8:26 AM, May 4, 2012

Be sure to click on the Hours link located in the upper central section of the Auburn University Libraries homepage to find out library hours of operation during the Intersession schedule, May 5 - 16.

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POSTED: 8:21 AM, May 4, 2012

Have you ever had difficulty in locating contact information for an Auburn University Libraries employee?  If so, there is now a quick, convenient solution:  the People Finder link located in the top right side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage .

 You can look up a person by name or you can browse by library department.

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POSTED: 8:11 AM, May 4, 2012

BuildingGreen Suite is intended to help building-industry professionals and students design and build construction projects that minimize ecological impact and maximize economic performance. Includes access to Environmental Building News articles, lists for GreenSpec products and specification guidelines, and detailed project case studies of high-performance buildings.

 

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POSTED: 8:08 AM, May 4, 2012

Edited by George C. Edwards III and William G. Howell, and published by Oxford University Press in 2011, this large volume is located in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number JK 516 .O94 2011.

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POSTED: 7:45 AM, April 20, 2012

Up All Night?  Occupy the Library 24 Hours during finals!  April 30 - May 4

In addition, check out the Extended Study Hours in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library April 20, 21, 27, and 28 (click on the Hours link located near the top center of the Auburn University Libraries homepage for details).

Up All Night features SGA (Study Government Association) sponsored study breaks at midnight on select nights.

Caribou Coffee will maintain extended hours.

Brought to you by the Auburn University Libraries and Student Government Association (SGA).

Take a break from the books:  Anxiety Awareness and Stress Management Day, Monday, April 30, 1 - 5 p.m. near Caribou Coffee (Second Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library) offering stress tests, free massage, stress balls, creative art activities, and free refreshments.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Health Promotion and Wellness Services, and Student Counseling Services.

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POSTED: 7:33 AM, April 20, 2012

Conveniently located in the center of the Auburn University Libraries homepage are links that allow one to check ahead of time from any Internet connection on the availability of Study Rooms , Laptop Computers, Textbooks that are available for core courses through the Textbook Reserve Program, and the availability of computers and other equipment located in the MDRL (Media and Digital Resource Lab located on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library).

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POSTED: 7:24 AM, April 20, 2012

 UNComtrade is the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database. Over 170 reporter countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries. Data goes back to the early 1960s. Note that data may not be available for all commodities for all countries for all years.

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POSTED: 7:21 AM, April 20, 2012

Census of Manufactures, Motor Vehicle and Textile Industry Plants, 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935 [United States]

  • This data collection consists of individual-plant data from the Census of Manufactures, conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census, for 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935. The purpose of this research was to analyze the economic behavior of the American industrial economy during the period 1929-1935, which spans the largest decline in demand ever to strike the manufacturing sector of the economy. This project created establishment panel data sets for the automotive, automotive parts, and textile industries.

This document is part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and is distributed exactly as it arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the principal investigator if further information is desired.

This dataset is available through the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) database which provides search and browsing access to abstracts and data sets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Search or browse title of study, principal investigator, words in abstract, or study number. Browse major research categories..  Auburn University students, faculty, and staff only may create an account that will allow access to the membership-only data.

Please contact Barbara Bishop at bishoba@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1690 if you need more information concerning ICPSR .

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POSTED: 1:37 PM, April 16, 2012

Art Threshold WorldMap*

Lecture and Demonstration by Dr. Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African African American Studies, Harvard University

DATE AND TIME:  Wednesday, April 18 at 12 noon

LOCATION:  Special Collections and Archives Department, GROUND FLOOR, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

*The WorldMap platform is being developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard to lower barriers for scholars who wish to explore, visualize, edit, collaborate with, and publish geospatial information  Visit http://worldmap.harvard,edu/  for more information.

This lecture is part of Art at the Threshold, a program of Auburn Connects common reading program.  Sponsored by Auburn University College of Liberal Arts' Department of Art and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, Department of Geology and Geography in the College of Science and Mathematics, and the Auburn University Libraries.

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POSTED: 7:25 AM, April 6, 2012

RIA Checkpoint: Accounting & Auditing  (Registered Investment Advisor) provides access to accounting and auditing standards and regulations from the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board), GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board), IASB (International Accounting Standards Board), PCAOB  (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) and the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission).

Please NOTE:  this database provides only single-user access (i.e., only one person may log in at one time).

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