The World Economic Forum's annual meeting was held last week in Davos, Switzerland. I happened to catch a C-Span replay of a session with Bono, Al Gore, and Thomas L. Friedman entitled " A Unified Earth Theory: Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate Crisis." Heavy stuff for a Saturday morning when my intent was to find some mindless programming, but this was incredibly interesting. Gore approached Bono several months ago about combining Bono's efforts towards poverty (One campaign) and Gore's concerns on global warming. They discussed this and how the two efforts are intertwined. You can view this and other sessions from the forum's annual meeting at:

Annual Meeting 2008 Webcasts, Podcasts, and Vodcasts
http://gaia.world-television.com/wef/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2008/

The World Economic Forum website can be found at:
http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm

One
http://action.one.org/declare/index.html?gclid=CJn85-rnnpECFRE_OAodiyeCQQ

Al Gore's website
http://www.algore.com/

Posted by Louise Feldmann at 01:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Welcome back to a rather chilly start to spring semester! Please remember that the library and librarians are here to help (and we have a coffee cart!).

A couple of updates:

Reshelving of Reference collection. The reference books are being rearranged to accomodate more computer work stations. This is a work is progress and may take a few weeks to complete. In the meantime, if you can't find something, please ask at the Information Desk.

Enhancements. Over the break, carpeting was replaced in the EIC (main computer workstation area). Additionally, last fall more group study rooms were added. (More reasons to visit the library).

Again, welcome back. I look forward to working with you all this semester. -Louise

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Faculty - please contact me if you would like me to come speak with your classes about library resources. I'm currently booking classes for the spring semester. I can either come to your class or you can bring your class to the library to one of our electronic classrooms. Of course if this doesn't work with your schedule, I'm happy to put together a resource guide handout for research projects or assignments.

Thanks! Hope you all had a fabulous winter break!

-Louise

Louise.Feldmann@Colostate.edu
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Posted by Louise Feldmann at 11:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)