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• General Information
• Jul-Aug 07
• Issue: 214

What’s Up on the Web?

This past June, the SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA) conference, held at SUNY Maritime, included a program on “The Data and Information Behind ‘Truth’: A Librarian’s Perspective on Al Gore’s Documentary,” presented by Frederick W. Stoss, Associate Librarian at the University of Buffalo’s Science & Engineering Library. Earlier this year, Fred was trained by former Vice President Al Gore, scientists, educators and communication specialists as part of an initiative by The Climate Project http://theclimateproject.org to spread information about global warming throughout the United States via presentations based on the documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Fred’s SUNYLA conference program included many resources on global warming and climate change including a bibliography of Web resources compiled by him that is available at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/environment/ecochange.html. Included are international and U.S. resources as well as some pertaining specifically to New York State and the Great Lakes region. One resource that Fred highlighted in his program is the Library of Congress’s “Science Tracer Bullets Online” research guide on global warming and climate change http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/globalwarmingtb.html. It includes books, journals, technical reports, Web resources, and even a Library of Congress Subject Headings list.

[Ann Gunning, Member Services Librarian, Nylink]