Reading and Book Signing

Reluctant Rebels:  The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861

Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University Department of History

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Date and Time:  Thursday, December 1 at 3 p.m.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, AU Bookstore.

The Interlibrary Loan/AUBIExpress Office will close November 17 and remain closed until construction is completed.  During the closing all questions should be directed to (334) 844-1728; 844-1735; or illhelp@auburn.edu .

REQUEST DEADLINES:  1)  To obtain materials before Fall Finals begin:  November 15 for all items and 2)  before the December 16 Holiday Closing:  December 6 for books and December 9 all others.

Southern Agricultural Households in the United States, 1880

This data collection describes the organization of agriculture and the operation of the Southern economy following the Civil War, with emphasis on the relationship between race and tenure status of farm operators. Economic and agricultural data were compiled from the 1880 Census of Agriculture. Information provided includes the location of the farm (region, state, county, and enumeration district), tenure of the farm operator, number of acres in tillage, meadows, woodland, and other uses, type of crops being farmed and production figures, and the number of various livestock (horses, mules, oxen, cows, sheep, and swine). Additionally, data are presented on the value of the farm, farm implements, livestock, and farm products, and costs associated with fences, fertilizer, and wages. Demographic information drawn from the 1880 Census of Population includes the race, literacy, age, and birthplace of the farm operator, number of people living in the house, and number of people working on the farm.

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 .

BIM Handbook:  A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors

By Chuck Eastman et al, this volume is the Second Edition and it was published by Wiley in 2011 and is located in the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction (LADC) in Dudley Hall under call number TH 437 .B53 2011.

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How Information Matters: Networks and Public Policy Innovation

Kathleen Hale, Department of Political Science, Auburn University

Date and Time:  Monday, November 7 at 3 p.m.

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Co-sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, University Bookstore, and Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities

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The Bottomless Pit of Hell:  The Confederate Home Front in Bartow County, Georgia, 1864-1865

Keith Hebert, University of West Georgia

Date and Time:  Thursday, November 3 at 3 p.m.

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Co-sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, University Bookstore, and Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities

Transatlantic Trends:  Immigration, 2009 examined attitudes and policy preferences related to immigration in Europe, Canada, and the United States.  The survey concentrated on issues such as:  general perceptions of immigration and immigrants, perceptions of legal and illegal immigrants, the impact of immigration on society, admittance of immigrants, immigration policies, immigration and integration, decision-making level, socio-political rights, welfare, government evaluation and number of immigrants, interaction with immigrants, and economic crisis.

In addition, a list experiment was implemented in this survey.  Several questions were also asked pertaining to voting and politics including vote intention, political party attachment, whether candidate parties' agendas on immigration will influence their vote, and left-right political self-placement.  Demographic and other background information includes age, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, origin of birth (personal and parental), religious affiliation, age when stopped full-time education and stage at which full-time education was completed, occupation, type of locality, region of residence, and language of interview.

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 .

A Concise Handbook of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Sciences

Edited by Andrei D. Polyanin and Alexei I. Chernoutsan and published by Chapman & Hall/CRC in 2011, this massive volume (1097 pages) is located in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number QA 40 .C65 2011.

Edited by Spencer C. Tucker and others, and published by ABC-CLIO in 2011, this two-volume set is located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number E 591 .C53 2011.

General Social Survey, 1972-2010 [Cumulative File]

The General Social Surveys (GSS) were designed as part of a data diffusion project in 1972. The GSS replicated questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. The latest survey, GSS 2010, includes a cumulative file that merges all 28 General Social Surveys into a single file containing data from 1972 to 2010. The items appearing in the surveys are one of three types: Permanent questions that occur on each survey, rotating questions that appear on two out of every three surveys (1973, 1974, and 1976, or 1973, 1975, and 1976), and a few occasional questions such as split ballot experiments that occur in a single survey. The 2010 surveys included four topic modules: quality of working life, science, shared capitalism, and CDC high risk behaviors. The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) module included in the 2010 survey was environment. The data also contain several variables describing the demographic characteristics of the respondents.

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 .