Free access to additional Gale Resources during National Library Week

Free access during April and May 2009:
See all available resources at our site: www.gale.com/libraryweek

Celebrate National Library Week from April 12 – May 15 with free access to some of Gale’s most highly praised online resources, including:

• Global Issues in Context
• Testing & Education Reference Center
• Gale Directory Library
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Small Business Resource Center
• Health & Wellness Resource Center

Library Website Problem Today ~3/3/09

The Library website is not loading right now. You’ll notice that when loading the website in your browser, you can see a “waiting for alert.uconn.edu” message in the browser status bar.

We’ve notified UITS and multiple departments on campus are having the same problem. There is no resolution time yet for this issue.

We apologize for the inconvienence.

eBook of the Month

Check out the NetLibrary ebook selection of the Month for March.

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

In Two Billion Cars, transportation experts Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon provide a concise history of America’s love affair with cars and an overview of the global oil and auto industries. America is still the leading emissions culprit, and what is especially worrying is that developing nations are becoming car-centric cultures as well. The authors explain how we arrived in this dangerous state, and also what we can do about it. Sperling and Gordon expose the roots of the problem–the resistant auto-industry, dysfunctional oil markets, short-sighted government policies, and unmotivated consumers. They zero in on reforming our gas-guzzling culture, expanding the search for low-carbon fuels, environment-friendly innovations in transportation planning, and more. Promising advances in both transportation technology and fuel efficiency together with shifts in travel behavior, they suggest, offer us a realistic way out of our predicament.