On July 18, the UI Libraries will present the Iowa City Book Festival.  The Festival will be held in Gibson Square, which is on the Main Library’s south entrance. The celebration will include bookseller tables, food vendors, music, book art demonstrations, readings and panel discussions. For more information visit the Iowa City Book Festival site.

The University Libraries have published a guide to Dissertations and Theses. Users can find links to many online resources, with full-text downloads or copies available via Interlibrary Loan. Foreign publications, music theses, and new University of Iowa dissertations also figure in the guide.

The Pomerantz Business Library now provides a New Books and Materials page. As each item arrives at the Library, a short description is added to the start of the list. Readers can see book-cover images, find out more about titles by accessing Amazon.com, and view a book’s record in the InfoHawk catalog. For many materials, the Libaries provide office or branch-library delivery.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has developed a Web page that compares the current recession with the previous 10 post-World War II recessions. Charts on the page allow users to track the length and the depth of the current recession in terms of employment and output versus changes in employment in output over pastContinue reading “Minneapolis Fed Offers Recession-Tracking Tool”

The University Libraries, with Central Mail Services, will now deliver books to campus offices.  Readers make their requests through the InfoHawk catalog.  Find out more about this service.

Make use of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, a comprehensive reference source: “International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries. Articles range from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching,Continue reading “Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History”

Business Week has ranked the Tippie College MBA program as one of the best in the United States.  Read about these superior rankings from Tippie College News.

Read the fall issue of the publication Transitions. “The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communication refers toContinue reading “Transitions: Scholarly Communication News”