On March 20, 2009, Michelle Obama dug up a patch of the South lawn – the first step in making a White House vegetable garden.  The image is reminiscent of victory gardens during World War II, and the message is quite clear: eat healthy, eat local, grow your own to help sustain the health of our environment and the health of our children.

There are now and there have been wonderful community garden projects all over the world.  For all those interested in following Mrs. Obama’s lead  here are some valuable resources:

1.The Edible Schoolyard, “in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.” Berkeley, CA.

http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/

2. Urban Agricultural Notes, published by City Farmer, Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture  http://www.cityfarmer.info/.

3. Library of Congress, Horticulture and Gardening Guide
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/gardenpages.html

4.Victory Gardens Handbook of the Victory Garden Committee War Services, Pennsylvania State Council of Defense, April, 1944

http://www.earthlypursuits.com/VictoryGardHandbook/VGHv.htm

5. Kitchen Gardeners International

http://www.kitchengardeners.org/?gclid=CMjog8jz15gCFRwDagod-3wrcw

The  University Library can supply very handy gardening information resources.  Please call the reference desk at 312-996-2726 or email us at http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/digital/ for assistance with any and all gardening research questions.

1. LibX

LibX is a widget that allows you to search UICCAT from anywhere on the web. You just place it into your browser toolbar and voila!
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsc/libx.shtml

2. Goolge Scholar (scholar.google.com)

Set your Google Scholar preferences to link to UIC journal article holdings. There is an option to choose the library holdings you wish to find with your scholar search. In order to link any article or book results from your Google Scholar search to our holdings, select University of Illinois at Chicago.

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A del.icio.us page of helpful research bookmarks is currently under development. As of April 4th, there are 34 bookmarks, and it is growing everyday. http://del.icio.us/uiclibrarian .

4. Add the UIC Library search application to your Facebook page:
http://apps.facebook.com/uiccatalog/

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The UIC Library lists 45 titles of the 54 titles authored by Buckley, the first being God and man at Yale: the superstitions of academic freedom, published in 1951, and the most recent being Rake: a novel, published in 2007. In the UIC University Library “The National Review” is available in print format from1955 and electronically from 1975. The CNN article referenced below gathered some of its information from the electronic resource Contemporary Authors Online, an electronic resource accessible through the library Website.

View the “Debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, October 26, 1965. Sponsored by the Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge University.” The topic of the debate was “The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro”. [Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac ]

Excerpted from the MRC blog:

On February 27, 2008, William F. Buckley, conservative author, journalist, TV commentator, and all-around pundit died at 82 (SEE CNN article for details ). For those of us who came of political age in the 60s and 70s in the embrace of the New Left, Buckley was something of a right-wing anti-Christ. We loathed his patrician accent and showy erudition; his quirky mannerisms and his maddening condescension. But mostly, we hate him for his infuriating habit of glibly bashing everything we held sacred.

Now, forty years later and from the perspective of political developments in the last few decades, Buckley is looking better and better. Even if one still disagrees with his politics and social viewpoints, Buckley’s wit and intelligence, his commitment to civil and informed discourse must be acknowledged and at least grudgingly appreciated.

When do you think that kind of artificially intelligent search will happen?

CS: I think that understanding language is kind of the last frontier in artificial intelligence, and then talking to a computer will be just like talking to a reference librarian, because they will both be equally knowledgeable about the world and about you. The big difference and this is where the search pets come in, is that the reference librarian will understand emotions and other non-factual information that even a fully intelligent computer may have trouble with. In terms of timing, I typically say about 200 to 300 years. I think it is probably closer to the 300th year end of it. But if it ends up being closer to the 200^th year, I would not be around in any case, and I will not be able to have anyone gainsay me.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=641

http://www.assoreca.it/docs/Assoreca/Offerta_Assoreca.pdf

Atkinson, John, and Inc. ebrary. The Oscars [Electronic Resource]. Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2001.

Brown, Peter H. The Real Oscar : The Story Behind the Academy Awards. Westport, Conn: Arlington House, 1981.

Mapp, Edward. African Americans and the Oscar : Seven Decades of Struggle and Achievement /. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Osborne, Robert A., and Osborne,Robert A.65 years of the Oscar. 70 Years of the Oscar : The Official History of the Academy Awards. 1st ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 1999.

Osborne, Robert A. 50 Golden Years of Oscar : The Official History of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences /. La Habra, Calif; Beverly Hills, CA: ESE California; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1979.

—. 75 Years of the Oscar : The Official History of the Academy Awards. 1st ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 2003.

Pickard, Roy. Hollywood Gold : The Award Winning Movies. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1979.

Shale, Richard. Academy Awards : An Ungar Reference Index : With the 50th Anniversary Winners and Nominees. New York: Ungar, 1978.

—. The Academy Awards Index : The Complete Categorical and Chronological Record. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1993.

It features:

Toolbar & right-click context menu: Search the UIC catalog (UICCAT) directly from the LibX toolbar or using the right-click context menu.

Support for off-campus access: Using the UIC University Library’s proxy, you may reload a page through the proxy, or follow a link via the proxy, making it appear as though you are coming from an on-campus computer.

Quick full text access to journal articles: LibX uses Google Scholar to search for articles and directs the user to the electronic copy subscribed to by the UIC University Library. Select a citation, then drag-and-drop it onto the Scholar button on the toolbar. You can use this feature even from inside a PDF file, which makes retrieving papers referenced in a PDF file a snap. [View a demo]

Support for embedded cues: LibX places cues in web pages you visit if your library has resources related to that page. Whenever you see the cue, click on the link to look at what the Library has to offer. For instance, book pages at Amazon or Barnes & Noble will contain cues that link to the book’s entry in UICCAT. Cues are displayed at Google, Yahoo! Search, the NY Times Book Review, and other pages. [View a demo]

Support for xISBN: A book title can have different ISBNs for the paperback, the hardcover, even for different editions. LibX supports OCLC’s xISBN service: you can find a book, given an ISBN, even if the library holds this book under a different ISBN.
Installation instructions are here.