The biology lab students in BSC 2011L should start working on their library assignment during these next 2 weeks. Tara created a libguide for them. See http://libguides.uflib.ufl.edu/BSC2011L .

Please contact Tara if you have any problems.

Have you felt busy the past month? I think I may know the reason why! This past September, we have had 2480 reference questions, 2020 directional questions and 877 IT/printing queries at the Research Assistance Desk of Library West.

Information Pointers and Circ Staff: 1288 of the 2480 reference questions came to us at the second floor desk.

If you look at the chart above, the valleys are Fridays and Saturdays and the peaks are on Wednesdays.

Recently we started recording statistics in more detail at the Research Assistance Desk, to see if we could fine tune our service hours to the demand. Thank you for taking the time to record your statistics by the hour so that we can establish a more accurate snapshot of the days and hours that our services tend to be in demand. --Jana

This great list of library conferences was just posted on DIG_REF:


http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM

On this episode of On the Evidence, April Yanyuan Wu, a researcher at Mathematica, discusses a project that used supervised machine learning to estimate prescription opioid use among applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance.

On this episode of On the Evidence, we talk about a federal experiment using home-delivered boxes packed with fruit, vegetables, and other shelf-stable foods selected by registered dieticians to address food insecurity among children in a rural part of the Chickasaw Nation territory in Oklahoma.

In this episode of On the Evidence, Shane Kanady of SourceAmerica and Noelle Denny-Brown of Mathematica discuss findings from an evaluation of the Pathways to Careers program, which provides customized employment services to job seekers with significant disabilities.

We believe the value of program monitoring is in iteration. By combining live program administrative data with vetted measures of socioeconomic status, we help clients and stakeholders understand alternative payment models and make important improvements.

At Mathematica, we work collectively with partners across the country and around the globe to create a gender-equal world where women, girls, communities, and economies can thrive.

To better understand its schools’ contributions to students’ learning in the first four grades, the Maryland State Department of Education partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to explore constructing a school-level growth measure for kindergarten to grade 3.

In this episode of On the Evidence, we interview attendees of the Second Annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Conference about the status of Black women in economics and what progress has been made to diversify the field since last year.

Although Mathematica might have limited expertise in infectious diseases like COVID-19, we have vast knowledge and experience with the policies and programs that can help our public health system and our economy recover from the unfolding impact this virus is having around the world.

Schools across the country have closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and states have cancelled their spring assessments. These cancellations mark the first interruption of the annual testing cycle since the No Child Left Behind Act passed nearly 20 years ago.

For those of us who devote our lives to improving behavioral health care, the critical health care priorities of the COVID-19 pandemic raise concerns about increased unmet mental health and substance use service needs.

In the United States, 8 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths reported have been among adults ages 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To listen to Publisher Patrick Janson-Smith reading some fine examples from Mots d'heures, log on to The Guardian website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/13/jack-and-jill

Blue Door has been getting all technical with the digital launch of Meg Gardiner's fantastic new thriller, The Liar's Lullaby. The author widget allows readers to connect with Meg through video content whilst at the same time previewing sections of the text before buying. The Liar’s Lullaby widget comprises video clips of Meg introducing some of her favourite passages from the book which can also be read on-screen and recommended to friends. A new video and passage will be released every day for five days with the all content available from the end of June.

The Liar’s Lullaby is the second Jo Beckett novel published by Blue Door and features Tasia McFarland, a washed-up pop star desperate to reach the top of the charts. When a concert stunt goes badly wrong and Tasia falls to her death above thousands of adoring fans, Jo Beckett is called in to determine whether her death was accidental, suicide or murder. The plot thickens when it is discovered that Tasia was the ex-wife of the President of the United States and was the victim of an online hate campaign. A recording of Tasia’s song, “The Liar’s Lullaby,” will also be available on the widget. Already tipped by Stephen King as “the next suspense superstar,” we are predicting a bright future for Meg and the Jo Beckett series.

The Liar’s Lullaby is out now in trade paperback.

Click on Meg Gardiner to see and share the widget!
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Publisher Northampton, England : Loggerhead Films, [2009]

Location Media Resources Collection

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London : Facet Publishing, 2019

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Chicago : ALA Editions, 2019.

New York, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

[Germany] : Deutscher Universit̃ts-Verlag : 2007

Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007

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New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., [2006]

Berlin : Springer, [2006]

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2007]

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]

This Medical News story examines the question of whether some melanomas might be better left undetected.

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