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U.S. News and World Report: Ag Engineering Department One of Best in Nation

britton.4 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:20:55 +0000

OSU’s Dept. of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering has been ranked in the top 10 as one of the best undergraduate agricultural engineering programs in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. Read entire news release.

2008 Farm Bill: Side-by-Side Comparison

britton.4 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:18:00 +0000

The USDA Economics Research Service has issued a side-by-side comparison of the new farm bill with the previous legislation. “Summarized but substantive, it offers a time-saving reference to farm bill provisions. In addition to key provisions and details by Title, the side-by-side includes links to related ERS publications and to analyses of previous farm acts.”

CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources

britton.4 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:47:10 +0000

CAB Reviews is a full-text electronic resource that contains analyses and and information on the current research in the fields of animal science, veterinary medicine, applied plant sciences, agriculture, nutrition and food science, natural resources and environmental sciences. Here are some recent reviews:

Boosting beneficial phytochemicals in vegetable crop plants.
Schijlen, E. G. W. M., Beekwilder, J., Hall, R. D., Meer, I. M. van der
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, 025, 21 pp.
The role of landscape in insect ecology and its implications for agriculture.
Hunter, M. D.
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, 029, 12 pp.
Carbon sequestration in soil
R.Lal
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, No. 030, 20 pp.

View the table of contents for other 2008 reviews.

Getting Ready for a Big Test? Practice Online.

britton.4 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:40:36 +0000

News from OhioLINK…

Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.

LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.

To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.

LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.

Ohio eyes corn, other crops to boost polymer industry

Eboni — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:11:18 +0000

An excerpt from examiner.com (Cleveland Edition):

Jun 3, 2008 6:22 PM By STEPHEN MAJORS, AP

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Map, News) - A potential casualty of the skyrocketing price of oil is something that doesn’t first come to mind: polymers, the materials that go into making everyday items like grocery bags, yogurt containers and baby bottles.

Ohio, the leading polymer producer in the country, is trying to maintain its dominance in the field by thinking ahead to an economy less dependent on oil - the predominant source of the polymers that make up countless products.

Read the rest of the story.

Funding for National Ag Library Threatened

britton.4 — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:18 +0000

A recent article in the Washington Post highlights the budget constraints affecting the National Agricultural Library. Essential services and collections are threatened by proposed cuts to the NAL budget; these cuts would also affect agricultural libraries at the state level which depend on this national library.

OSU Wooster Hosts National Ag Librarians Conference

britton.4 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:58:16 +0000

The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and OSU Libraries are honored to host the 11th Biennial meeting of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN). The meeting, which will be held at the Shisler Conference Center in Wooster beginning Sunday, April 27 through Wednesday, April 30, carries the theme “Tradition in Transition: Information Fueling the Future of Agbiosciences.” Speakers include Dennis Keeney, senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Bruce Dale, editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining and head of the Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory at Michigan State University; Stephen Myers, Director of the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center; Ann Christy, professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU); Clive Edwards, OSU Professor of Entomology and director of the soil ecology program; Deborah Stinner, coordinator of OSU’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program; Randy James, Geauga County Extension Educator and author of Why Cows Learn Dutch; and David Kline, Amish farmer, author of several books, and editor of Farming Magazine. The closing speaker will be Tomas Lipinski, Co-Director and Associate Professor, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee. Complementing the plenary sessions will be contributed papers, panels and posters selected from proposals submitted by attendees. Numerous vendors will be exhibiting at the conference and providing generous support.

Following the conclusion of the USAIN meeting, partners participating in AgNIC will hold their annual meeting. AgNIC is a voluntary alliance and partnership of nearly 60 member institutions and organizations working to offer quick and reliable access to quality agricultural information and sources.

Make $50 for two hours’ work

Eboni — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:38:44 +0000

The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., (OCLC) is looking for people willing to demonstrate and discuss how they conduct research for a paper, project or publication.

The one to two-hour in-person interviews will be held in Room 244A of the Sullivant Library, at the corner of North High Street and 15th Avenue, or the Prior Health Sciences Library at 376 W. 10th Ave. Interviews will be scheduled the weeks of April 7 and April 14.

Each session will take 1 to 2 hours.

Participants should be:
•Undergraduate or graduate students, or instructors
•Non-professionals in the library or database searching

Library employees, including student employees, are not eligible to participate.

Participants will be asked to comment while doing their own research at the library or their office. Participants will also need to bring a laptop capable of a wireless connection to the Internet. Comments will be recorded with the participant’s consent.

If you’re interested, please contact Mike Prasse, OCLC, at ulab@oclc.org.

5th Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture

Eboni — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:07:12 +0000

Speaker: Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President, The Ohio State University

“Securing the Future: Envisioning the Role of Land-Grant Universities”

Date: April 15, 2008
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Blackwell Inn & Conference Center, The Ohio State University

We are pleased to announce that President E. Gordon Gee will give the 5th Annual Patterson Lecture. President Gee was instrumental in the establishment of Ohio State’s outreach and engagement efforts during his first term in office. He will share his insights on the current and future state of the 21st century engaged land-grant university.

Register online. Deadline: April 8. For information, call 614/688-3041, e-mail outreach@osu.edu, or visit the Office of Outreach and Engagement web site.

The James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture honors former Board of Trustee member Jim Patterson and the cause to which he is most committed, a vibrant University fulfilling its land-grant mission in an ever-changing world. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions in the 21st century and beyond. Mr. Patterson served on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and served as Chair of the Board 2002-2003.

CABI helps you keep up with what’s new.

britton.4 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:06:38 +0000

Staying up with your own field, much less with the other disciplines in agricultural and related sciences, is a challenging task. Subscribing to alert services, journal tables of contents and other automated information services are useful tools. The content specialists at CABI, the organization that produces the abstracting and indexing service CAB Direct, offer a new current awareness tool called “Hand picked…and carefully sorted.” This blog is written by specialists and highlights new research areas, interesting publications and what they call “signposts”– new information that we need to pay attention to. Recent topics include “nanotechnology in food” and “organic biofuels”. You can subscribe to this blog as an RSS feed.