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Hi Everyone,I will no longer be posting to this blog. It has become difficult to post items during my work day and my after work hours are devoted to my daughter.But do not become discouraged I offer an alternative! I am now chatting. I will be on my Google Chat account, sumerian2@gmail.com during my normal work day (Mon-Fri 8:30a-4p). So please consider adding me to your buddy list and looking

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, animals already threatened by hunting, a new study reports.Outbreaks in Congo and Gabon in 2002 and 2003 killed as many as 5,500 gorillas and an uncounted number of chimpanzees, a research team led by Magdalena Bermejo of the University of Barcelona in Spain reports in Friday's issue of the

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Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an

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The International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology (ITRT) is designed to facilitate information retrieval and exchange. In print since 1988, the Thesaurus has proven an essential resource for librarians and information workers. However, the specialized nature of and ongoing evolution in refugee terminology meant that the print editions were soon outdated. In 2002, the UN High Commissioner for

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The Darwin Archive housed at Cambridge University has created a portal to much of Darwin's written work, including "Journal of Researches" (1839) (or "Voyage of the Beagle"), "The Descent of Man" (1871), "The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle" (1838-43) and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the "On the Origin of Species." Approximately 50% of his work is now available online at

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If you would like to know what books have recently arrived at any of the UB libraries check out "Books and More" at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/newacq/newtitles.html. As you will see you can specify which topic and which library.Enjoy!

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I'm back from maternity leave. As some of you may know last month I travelled to Siberia get my adopted daughter, Mara. We've been home for about 5 weeks now and she's doing great! Every day she learns a new word and is just the happiest toddler you've ever met. If you'd like to see some pictures go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/mara_and_me/. I've been uploading from home via a dial up so

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Below are just some of the new titles recently ordered for the Lockwood collection. If you have a suggested title please email me at cat2@buffalo.edu.Enjoy!Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD600-800: a poetics of line by Adam Herring Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600–800 examines an important aspect of the visual cultures of the ancient Maya in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and

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Thomas Burton has the honor of producing the first electronic only UB dissertation. "The social organization of labor : iron production and settlement at the Low Birker Site (England)" was submitted under the new Graduate School's electronic dissertation system. After the dissertation was loaded into UMI's Digital Dissertations database a record was created here at UB that provides the basic

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Just a heads up. I won't be holding office hours in the anthropology library on Thursday the 27th. Remember you can always come by my office in Lockwood, 221D. Just send me an email first to make sure I'll be in when you want to stop by.

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What type of aid is effective? How effective has past aid been? What effect(s) has money laundering had on developing countries? What is legaling being done about the practice? How are indigenous populations being mainstreamed into an information society? Has biotechnology improved food production and food security? What is are the monthly and annual summaries for precipitation, temperature,

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Looking for a job. I belong to an anthropology librarians listserv and the following job posting came up. Good luck to those who may apply.ANNOUNCEMENTTenure-Track Position in Industrial ArchaeologyMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY’S Program in Industrial Archaeology and History anticipates filling a tenure-track position for an industrial archeologist to begin academic year 2006-07. The ideal

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That's right, watching PBS can help you in your research. Over the weekend I watched a very interesting program on primates. Two of the "hosts", David Watts and Chloe Cipolletta, were featured doing their fieldwork. I started to wonder, had they written anything on their findings? If I was doing a reseach project on violence in primates or building relationships between man and gorilla I

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Lockwood library will be starting an electronic subscription to the Sage journal, "European Journal of Archaeology" beginning with the December 2005 issue. When the subscription is activated I will post the URL.Remember that to get to electronic versions of journals you must go through the library's homepage to get to our subscription links. You can do this by clicking "Electronic Journals" and

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The National Human Genome Research Project, http://www.genome.gov, has put out a research call for social scientists interested in working on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the genomic research. There are a number of research questions the group would like answered within the next two years. The Small Grant Research Program is $50,000 for up to two years. The Regular Research

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CNN VideoResearchers have unraveled some of the secrets surrounding a 2,000-year-old mummy from the collection of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Using CT scans and over 40,000 images researchers are able to "peel away" the layers of wood, cloth, and skin to reveal a 4 1/2 year old female mummy.

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I ran across an interesting organization, Students for Academic Freedom, at http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/. They work to promote conservative viewpoints on college campuses, arguing that pervasive liberalism has undermined the diverse academic experience. I don't know about all of that but I do know that as an undergraduate I wrote a paper for a contemporary philosophy class on the

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The Encyclopedia of Anthropology, a five-volume set from Sage Publications, is due to come out in January 2006. The reference set promises to provide comprehensive, current overviews on all aspects of anthropology including biological anthropology, paleontology, biogeography & apes, cyberculture, genetic engineering, HIV/AIDS, organic evolution, and sorcery. The encyclopedia, with over 250

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The Meskwaki Tribal Council is attempting to prohibit a mother from placing her child with a white family from Indiana [more]. Tribal lawyers say that under the Indian Child Welfare Act they have the authority "to prevent state and private adoption agencies from wrongfully taking away descendants of tribal members, as well as ensuring the option of keeping those children within the tribal

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Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be taking a hiatus for the next 2 weeks. The American Library Association is holding their annual conference this week and next week I'm putting the finishing touches on an article about concept mapping in library instruction. So check back for new posts starting July 4th.

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The Development Gateway (DG) was started by the World Bank in 2001 and is a repository of qualitative and quantitative data on all major issues surrounding core developing countries. All developing countries are analyzed and have a profile that includes data sets and links to full-text articles from news agencies and reports from NGOs. Some of the topics covered include AIDS, Business climate,

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The Canadian government's Department of Canadian Heritage has posted a set of discussion papers on the Relationship between Indigenous Knowledge and Artistic Expression, Intellectual and Cultural Properties, and Languages and Culture, at http://www.traditions.gc.ca/docs/docs_disc_e.cfm

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Ok the google scholar rant continues. Don't get me wrong I like google, I use google all the time but I use it in conjunction with other "traditional" library resources. So here is my advice on using google scholar to see who has cited someone-use Citation Indexes as well. Citation indexes have been a staple in academic libraries for over fifty years. Google did not invent it, they haven't even

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Google scholar "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web

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Paleopathology is the field of science that deals with the study of malformations in the bones that may have been caused by disease or injury, and these malformations are often referred to as paleopathologies. There are basically two causes of malformations: trauma (injury) and disease. More information...Paleopathology societies:Paleoanthropology Society (they have links to various excavations,

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While it might sometimes feel like chasing your own tail, blogging can be a useful way to stay abreast of current research in your chosen field. Bloggers often highlight articles they've read, field work or research they've conducted, new books they've reviewed, or discussions on current theories. All of this exposes you to the wealth of information available both online and in print. You can

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Those researching or teaching physical anthropology may want to check out the following websites.PrimateLit is a free database that provides an interface searchable by keywords, title, author, journal name, year, taxonomic category, common name, and geographic region. They also include separate links to recent books & journal articles in primate science.Animal Diversity Web is an astounding

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Those of teaching introductory courses or taking introductory courses on cultural or social anthropology may want to check out the following websites.Peoples of the World Foundation offers encyclopedic like intros to populations from around the world. Under the "Peoples" section one can search by language, country, or name.Experience Rich Anthropology. From 1996-1999 a consortium of UK

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I received some emails about the idea of RSS feeds and AnthroSource yesterday. One gave me a link to a great piece by Alex Golub (aka Rex) and an article on the information needs of anthropologists at First Monday. It got me to thinking that although innovators and early adopters have been blogging and grabbing anthropology citations, articles, and news for a long time, with a host of emerging

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I recently spoke with a colleague who is/was on the AAA Anthrosource advisory committee about the possibility of getting RSS feeds for Anthrosource journals. I pointed out that it would be a great marketing tool and a service to the anthropology/archaeology community. He's going to pass the suggestion along, I'll keep everyone posted.

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Here are a couple of fellowships and grants that may not be on your funding radar.Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC)http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)http://www.acls.org/fel-comp.htmWenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Researchhttp://www.wennergren.org/NSF: Cultural Anthropology granthttp://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=BCS&

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BookTV has a number of interviews from a host of authors available for download on their website BookTV.org. Take a look at a January 2005 interview with international correspondent Robert Kaplan.Interested in seeing if the University Libraries have any of his books? Search our catalog by author using Kaplan, Robert D.

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If you're looking for a video to show in class or a clip to add to a presentation try searching the Internet. The number of sites with streaming video grows daily and is difficult to track but here are a couple of websites that Google may not pick up.The Archaeology ChannelVisual Anthropology.netFolkStreams (American folklore films)Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies lecture seriesFor more

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Bartholomew Gosnold might have been the founding father of what we now know as the United States, though his name and place in history have been buried in the passage of time and the importance that the swaggering adventurer John Smith attached to himself.Two years after stumbling across a grave site holding the bones of a middle-aged man of high rank, archaeologists at the Jamestown settlement

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Lockwood library recently received approximately 2600 volumes from retired anthropologist/archaeologist Maria Kucserik. It is a diverse collection covering gender, religion, the Near East, Egypt, and Northern Europe. Over the next few weeks we'll be going through the collection and adding what items we don't already own. The remainder will be donated to Brandon Lundy's project with the

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Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Tedlock on the release of her latest book, The Woman in the Shaman's Body, available through RandomHouse Books.

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The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence,

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How will AnthroSource Transform Anthropological Scholarship?For the first time in its 103 year history, the AAA’s complete legacy of periodical publications is becoming available in a single digital resource, accessible to anthropological researchers around the world. Electronic publishing is revolutionizing scholarly practices and communication, the results of which we are only just beginning to

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