Monday, November 17th, 7 PM
EBR Public Library—Bluebonnet Branch

Learn how to develop a patent search strategy and navigate the USPTO website and the classification system. Also, learn what resources the library and the community have to offer. A patent attorney will be present to answer questions at the November 17th workshop.

Please email Jan Thomas at jthomas@lsu.edu or call
578-4680 to register for the workshop.

You can also register online at:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/ptdl/workshopregistration.htm

Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact the registration shown above.

The LSU Libraries has recently started subscriptions for the following databases:

Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library, which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,257 Oxford books.

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory
Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. And, it’s easy to use!

The Food Institute
Contains access to…

• The weekly Food Institute Report
• The industry’s most comprehensive website
• Seminars and webinars on the hottest topics and the latest trends
• A wide variety of highly respected reports and studies
• The most respected Daily Update emails in the industry to over 110,000 key decision makers
• A staff of industry analysts to answer member inquiries and fulfill information requests

Modernist Journal Online
The MJP is a multi-faceted project, which is intended to become a major resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study. Read More…

E-Resources Management Handbook
The ERMH is an open access publication on e-resource management (ISBN: 0-9552448-0-3; 13-digit version: 978-0-9552448-0-3). It forms a valuable and comprehensive guide for the entire information industry, and will continue to grow as new chapters are commissioned to address hot topics as they arise.

Biographical Memoirs
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. Read More…

Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read, was observed September 27 – October 4, 2008 by libraries, bookstores, schools, and others concerned with freedom of speech. The theme for this year’s observance was “Closing Books Shuts Out Ideas … Closes Possibilities … Limits Understanding.”

Banned Books Week commemorates one of the most basic freedoms in a democratic society — freedom from censorship. Since its inception in 1982, it has reminded us that while not every book is intended for every reader, each of us has the right to decide for ourselves.

This online exhibit complements the exhibit in Education Resources, which will remain in place through October 27.  Visit the online exhibit at http://www.lib.lsu.edu/edu/bbweek/index.html

Beginning this Sunday, October 5, for one month only, Middleton Library will stay open until 2 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays (i.e., midnight Sunday until 2 a.m. Monday, and so on).  The longer hours will be provided on an experimental basis, to determine whether the library is used during these hours and whether the later hours will continue.

Only the first floor of the library will stay open, and no reference or circulation services will be available.

“This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
Anna Letitia Barbauld, English poet, 1743-1825