Quick Search Tip: Population and Unemployment Rates by State

A quick hint for searching for population and unemployment rates by state:

In Google, type population FL to find the population of Florida.

In the results, you'll see this:

If you click on the graph, you can mouse over various points on the chart to find population numbers for past dates.

Unemployment rates work the same way.  For example, to find the unemployment rate of Georgia, simply search for unemployment rate GA:

Notice that the sources for both searches come from government agencies - US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Labor.

New Books in Reference - 12/9/09

The World Almanac, 2010 (317)

South American Handbook (918.04)

Songwriter's Market, 2010 (780.65)

2010 Catholic Almanac (202)

The Best Plays of 2007-2008 (808.2)

Hiring, Training, and Supervising Library Shelvers (023.3)

Libraries Got Game (025.2896)  From the back of the book:  "The idea of making board games available in libraries isn’t new, but the concept of aligning them with the curriculum is. According to Mayer and Harris, modern games—often called designer games—offer many more opportunities for combining fun and learning than educational games or old-fashioned board games, where the most exciting part of play is rolling the dice." 
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/publishing/editions/webextras/mayer10092/mayer10092.cfm

TheStreet.com Ratings' Guide to Banks and Thrifts (332.1)

Electrical Cost Data (621.319)

Who's Who in America, 2010 (920)

New Books in Reference - 12/4/09

Death Gods:  An Encyclopedia of the Rulers, Evil Spirits, and Geographies of the Dead (202.3)

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax, 2010 (336.24)

TheStreet.com Ratings' Guide to Health Insurers, Winter 2009-10 (368.382)

Patterson's American Education, 2010 (370.2573)

Encyclopedia of African American Artists (700.8996073)

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, 11th ed. (769)  Ironically, this book will soon be worth more than most of the world's paper money.

Abraham Lincoln on Screen, 2nd ed. (791.43651016)

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Enncyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 (940.53185)

New Books in Reference - 12/1/09

Almanac of the 50 States (317.3)

County Courthouse Book, 3rd ed. (347.7302025)

The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, 36th ed. (378.78)

Bond's Franchise Guide, 2009 (381.1302573)

Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market, 2010, 35th ed. (706)

Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, 2010, So-Z (769.56)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. (808.06615)

Digitized Life Magazine

Google Books - the project to digitize several major research libraries' collections - includes magazines as well.  Starting today you can browse all of the weekly issues of Life from 1936 to 1972 (over 1,860 issues).  You can read more about it here.

Browse issues of Life here.

One of the nice things about this is that it supplements our digitized edition of Life through InfoTrac Academic OneFile, which indexes the title from January 1, 1965 to May1, 2000, and has full-text available from January 2, 1965 to May 1, 2000.  The InfoTrac version is in html and does not include photos, whereas the weekly issues scanned for Google Books are fully digital copies of the original.  You can also search photos from Life using Google Image search.  Hint:  search specifically for Life photos in Google Images by searching for keyword source:life.

New in Books Reference - 10/23/09

AHA Guide, 2010 (362.11025)

U.S. News & World Report's Ultimate College Guide, 2009 (378.73)

Headquarters USA, 2010 (384.602573)  Placed on the Information Desk shelf.

Antiques & Collectibles 2010 Price Guide, 26th ed. (745.1075)

Dozier's Waterway Guide, Southern 2010 (797)

Shakespeare Studies, v.37 (822.33)

PDF Quick View

Google has added a Quick View link for search results that are in PDF form:

In the example above, form 1099 was searched, which is in PDF format on the IRS website.  Normally you would click on the PDF link to download and open the document in Adobe Acrobat.  By clicking on Quick View, the PDF is able to be opened directly in the browser window without changing it's format, by using technology used in Google Docs.

Because of our limited bandwidth and slow connection issues, this would be a good feature to point out to customers printing tax forms and other PDFs, as Quick View seems to load documents into the browser window more quickly than they can be downloaded.  This would also come in handy when on those rare occasions that customers are unable to open and view a PDF at all.