GVRL eBooks

The following eBooks have been added to our Gale Virtual Reference Library subscription. This means you have 24/7 access to these reference books from any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.

Business Plans Handbook, Volume 11
Business Plans Handbook, Volume 12
Business Plans Handbook, Volume 13
Business Plans Handbook, Volume 14
Cities of the United States, 6th ed.
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
Environmental Science in Context
Everyday Finance: Economics, Personal Money Management, and Entrepreneurship
The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 5th ed.
Real-Life Math
Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans, 25th ed.
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Mythology
UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes, 2nd ed.

Coming Soon: Meltons Encyclopedia of American Religion

Britannica Updates

December 1st is World AIDS Day, an annual observance aimed at raising awareness of the global epidemic of AIDS. Today, bringing attention to this epidemic is more important than ever. Some 33 million people are living with HIV, compared to roughly 100,000 people in 1988, when World AIDS Day was established. Go Inside Britannica to see new and updated articles on AIDS and other diseases of current epidemic concern and to learn about historical epidemics and the ways in which infectious diseases are prevented and treated.

Free Web Training for Britannica Online Subscribers!See what's new with Britannica Online! Research, Reference, Instruction, and Electronic Resource Librarians are invited to participate in a complimentary online Britannica training session. You do not even have to leave the library for this 1-hour live presentation where you will learn new ways to get students started on their projects using special Britannica Online features. Presentations will be conducted at 11 a.m. Central Time on these upcoming dates:
Tuesday, January 13th
Thursday, February 19th
Tuesday, March 17th Sign up now! Space is limited, and only current Britannica Online subscribers can attend.You can invite others to join you for this presentation, especially if you can project the presentation onto a screen for them to see. Please submit only one registration per location for each date. You will be surprised at how much there is to discover!

Check Out Britannica's New Widget Feature!Britannica Widgets are here, and with them you can instantly post an entire cluster of related Encyclopædia Britannica articles on your blog or Web site. Just follow the instructions and copy and paste the several lines of code associated with each widget as html into the appropriate place on your site. Any readers who click on a link will get the entire Britannica article on the subject, even if access to the article normally requires a subscription.

Watch Videos on EpidemicsBritannica's coverage of science comes to life in this rich collection of relevant videos. View footage of the production of penicillin, watch children receive some of the first polio vaccinations, learn more about the structure of viruses, and more.

Vault Career Library Update

UPDATED! Vault has recently updated the following guides to your Online Career Library (click for excerpts): Vault Guide to Education Careers Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consumer Products Employers Please direct your questions, comments, and suggestions to clientservices@vault.com Please let us know if you have any questions. Have a happy and healthy holiday season!-The Vault Team

About Vault:Celebrating its 12th anniversary, Vault.com Inc. is the leading media company focused on careers. Through its career guides, websites and resources, Vault provides elite job seekers with insider information on specific employers, education programs, and industries, as well as general job hunting and admissions advice.This is what your Online Career Library features now:- 4,000+ Company Profiles- 50 GOLD Company Profiles- NEW! 50+ Vault Insider Videos- Internship Database- Access to the Vault Message Boards- 3,000 Career Advice Articles- Sample resumes and cover letters, and interview tips- Industry and occupational research

Natural Medicines Update

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database eUPDATE and eCE Here are just a few of the hundreds of updates we've made to Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database this month. You can learn more about these and thousands of other natural medicines by accessing the Database. Plus you can get fully accredited continuing education credits.• Vitamin D supplements will now be needed for most children to meet the new higher recommendations. The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends 400 IU/day starting just days after birth and continuing through adolescence. This is twice the previous recommendation of 200 IU/day. This lower amount is usually not enough to maintain adequate levels.There are not many dietary sources of vitamin D. Milk and infant formula are the best sources, but they only contain about 100 IU of vitamin D per cup. This means that only babies and children who drink at least one quart a day of formula or milk get enough vitamin D. Just about everyone else will need a supplement, including breastfed babies. For infants, recommend drops such as Tri-Vi-Sol or Poly-Vi-Sol. For older kids, recommend an appropriate multivitamin. Advise parents not to overdo it. Tell them not to exceed 1000 IU/day for infants under 12 months or 2000 IU/day for older children and adults.• PartySmart is a new supplement used to protect the liver and decrease hangover symptoms after heavy drinking. It contains multiple ingredients including andrographis, grape, amalaki, wild chicory, dates, and bhumy amalaki. Research in animals suggests that PartySmart reduces hepatic enzymes and increases metabolism of alcohol byproducts that contribute to hangover symptoms. Preliminary clinical research suggests that it might reduce some symptoms of hangover; however, poor study quality limits the reliability of these findings. The manufacturer recommends taking PartySmart a half-hour before the first drink or sometime during drinking. Until there is better evidence, advise patients not to rely on this product for preventing liver damage or hangover symptoms.• Coffee can now be added to the list of interactions with levothyroxine (Synthroid, Levothroid, etc). Drinking coffee when levothyroxine is taken delays the time to peak concentration and decreases levels by 27% to 36%. Coffee is thought to bind levothyroxine in the gut and prevent absorption. This interaction can be avoided by separating coffee consumption and administration of levothyroxine. Advise patients to take levothyroxine at least an hour before drinking coffee.Get the latest information and evidence about kava, valerian, St. John's wort, and many other natural medicines use for anxiety in our latest course, Natural Medicines in the Clinical Management of Anxiety.Tell a colleague about this service by forwarding this Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database eUPDATE.Tell the editors if you ever can't find a product that you are looking for. We add new products and new scientific information to the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database every business day.If you are not already a subscriber, find out more about a personal subscription or getting access for your group or institution.Happy Holidays! Phil Gregory, PharmDEditor, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database*CE is at NO CHARGE for individual subscribers and all members of group subscriptions. You may forward this to members of your group.

New Addition - Mango Languages

Name of Product: Mango Languages
Vendor: Mango Languages
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category: Languages (New Category)
Annotation: Mango Languages is an online language learning resource. Languages include Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and English for Spanish Speakers. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.

African American Newspapers: 19th Century

African American Newspapers: 19th Century has been removed from MultiSearch. This database was available at Merriweather only.

Morningstar December Newsletter

Click on link for Morningstar's latest Library Notes newsletter.

http://library.morningstar.com/tracking/NotesArchive.aspx

Gale Technical Update

Dear Gale Customer,

A software maintenance release will take place on Saturday, December 20, 2008.
The work will begin at 5:00am ET and last until approximately 6:30am ET.

The release will focus on platform improvements to content load workflow.
Customers accessing products during this time may experience a brief interruption in service.


Thank you for continuing to support Gale and the products we provide.

Gale Technical Support

Morningstar Update

Dear Client, Morningstar is in the process of moving our headquarters to a new building. All phone numbers and e-mail addresses will stay the same, but please note our new address: Morningstar22 W. Washington StreetChicago, IL 60602 I also want to inform you that due to this move, unfortunately, there may be interruptions in service over the weekend. I apologize in advance for any outages. We will have a technical team on hand to monitor the situation; however, our servers will be relocating so it’s possible we may experience intermittent technical issues. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of assistance. Sincerely,-Lars________________________________ Lars J. Wasvick Associate Product Manager Individual Investor Business Morningstar, Inc. +1 312 384-3776 voice +1 866 215-2509 toll free +1 312 384-4090 fax lars.wasvick@morningstar.com We will be moving to our new corporate headquarters, effective Jan. 1, 2009. Please update your records with our new address and note that our phone numbers remain the same. Morningstar, Inc., 22 W. Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602

Salem Press

The reference source, Salem Health: Cancer, has been added to the Salem Health database.

Demographics Now

Demographics Now has been removed from MultiSearch. Our subscription expired today, 12/4.

History Resource Center Training

Dear History Resource Center Customer,
We at Gale know that having access to impeccable resources is essential to researchers in your library. To ensure your continued success with History Resource Center, Gale is offering you free Web training - available from your desktop. This training will provide you with an in-depth overview of History Resource Center.
Participants in this course will learn how to:
- Review the general content available in History Resource Center
- Construct and employ efficient search strategies for information retrieval
- Examine navigational and search features of the interface
- Differentiate between basic, person, subject, chronological and advanced search options
- Recognize how to use e-mail, InfoMarks and marked lists as a way to manage and organize information found within the database
Thank you for your continued support of History Resource Center. We look forward to your attendance. To register, or for more information simply click the link below:
December 8, 2008 3pm - 4pm Eastern Time

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Enjoy your session!
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