Planting Hope on Worn-Out Land: The History of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Project, Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959. By R. Pasquill

The History of Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting: Interviews with US Department of Agriculture Pioneers. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Air: Our Planet's Ailing Atmosphere. By H. Tammemagi

Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Principles and Parameterizations. By J. Straka

The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather. By J. Williams

Sand: The Never-Ending Story. By M. Welland

Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed. By E. Daniel

Amphibians and Reptiles: Status and Conservation in Florida. Edited by W. Meshaka and K. Babbitt

Connect Core Concepts in Health, Eleventh Edition. By P. Insel and W. Roth

Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities. By S. Burns

Woody Biomass Utilization: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by J. Shelly, M. Puettmann, K. Skog and H. Han

Through 11/13, the library has trial access to the online resource, GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources), which

* Provides authoritative and interactive content on emerging green technologies
* Discusses sustainability issues from a multidisciplinary and global perspective
* Includes discipline-specific coursework in economics, environmental studies, law and many others
* Acts as a critical thinking tool by showing how different content types work together and improving 21st century information literacy
* Educates researchers and exposes the critical connections between human activity and it's consequences

Please try this resource and give us your feedback on its usefulness for your teaching and research.

See below for recent articles from the NCSU Libraries Digital Repository.

Forestry and Environmental Resources

Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

Wood and Paper Science

Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

The Natural Resources Library will be closed from 11:30 until 1:30 on Monday, October 5th, to accommodate an NSF site visit. Please plan accordingly. Limited service will be available at the library front desk during this time.

We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the NRL Director, Karen Ciccone, at 515-3513 or karen_ciccone@ncsu.edu.

The library is offering workshops to help graduate students build information skills needed for successful graduate work.

Two half-day workshops will be held in D.H. Hill Library on Friday, August 28 from 1 to 4 pm and repeated on Friday, September 4 from 9am to noon. Topics to be covered include:

Researching and Writing a Literature Review
Web of Science: Citation Searching, Analysis, and More
Using RefWorks to Find, Manage, and Organize Citations, Information, and Ideas

For details of these workshops, and to register, go to http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gradstudents/workshopschedule.html.

If you are interested in scheduling a separate workshop, to be held in CNR or MEAS, please contact Karen Ciccone.