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Make the goodreads connection @ your library

The Devereaux Library is using goodreads to host our Acquisitions List and our new Reader's Advisory Service. What is Reader's Advisory? Quite simply, it is the act of putting people together with the books they love. Librarians, booksellers, literature teachers—anyone in the business of helping readers find the books they love—are readers' advisers . In other words, when you recommend a book to someone, you are participating in readers' advisory. From: http://www.genreflecting.com/Readers%20Advisory.html Several Devereaux Library staff members have ranked lists of books they have enjoyed and added them to goodreads along with the "new_books_2007" shelf. We invite you to look around http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/198920 . If you'd like to join us reading, ranking and reviewing, click http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY5MDI4MTg6MzE3%0A and become a friend. Once you are a friend you can choose to receive updates (by email or rss feed) of n

Homestake Strikes Gold Again: National Science Foundation Selects Former South Dakota Gold Mine as Deep Underground Science Site

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20070710.093732&time=10%2014%20PDT&year=2007&public=0 BERKELEY, Calif., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Homestake, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, near Lead, South Dakota, as the site for a multipurpose deep underground science and engineering laboratory. The proposal, chosen from a field of four finalists, was prepared by a multi-institutional collaboration of researchers and submitted to an NSF site selection panel through the University of California (UC) at Berkeley. Leading the "Homestake Collaboration" was Kevin Lesko, a physicist who holds a joint appointment with UC Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Homestake picked for underground lab

South Dakota site is first among four finalists The National Science Foundation has chosen Homestake gold mine in Lead as the site for a proposed national underground science laboratory, state officials announced today. (For a timeline of the Homestake mine's journey from gold discovery to the NSF announcement as the site for a national deep underground science lab, click here. For a review of the four sites that were vying for the distinction, visit our Final Four of Physics section.) For more of this story, click on or type the URL below: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/07/10/news/top/doc4693a5141fbf9361583968.txt