November 10, 2009
In time-honored library tradition, the UNH Library is offering a scavenger hunt in recognition of Geography Awareness Week. If you like maps and also like scavenger hunts, then you’ll love what we’re calling the UNH Library Geography Awareness Map Scavenger Hunt. There are prizes!
The list of scavenger hunt questions are available in the Map Room (Room 347 on Level 3, Dimond Library), the UNH Museum (Level 1, Dimond Library), and the Dimond Library Circulation Desk. All questions can be answered by visiting these places and using the Library Catalog and the Library’s online collection of maps.
Entries are due by Friday, November 13. Winners will be announced Tuesday, November 17.
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Tags: geography, map room, maps
December 1, 2008
There will be a reception and book signing in recognition of Professor of Geography Blake Gumprecht’s The American College Town today, Monday, December 1st, at 4pm in Milne Special Collections and Archives.
Milne Special Collections and Archives is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library.
The event is sponsored by the American Studies Minor and the Center for the Humanities. Books will be available for sale.
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Tags: blake gumprecht, book signings, geography
March 14, 2008
The library is offering a new database trial.
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
The database also contains full text for more than 600 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for more than 100 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, and more.
This trial will run until June so please take a look and send your comments to the electronic resources librarian or post them here!
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Tags: agriculture, ecology, geography
