Tara Murray and Kiet Bang will be out of the office attending meetings Sept. 12-14. During that time, please send requests to library@pop.psu.edu. Some requests may have to wait until Sept. 17—if you have an urgent request, please let us know as soon as possible.

Registration is open for technology workshops offered by Penn State’s ITS Training Services. Library-related topics for this fall include EndNote; Advanced Google Searching; Information Trapping: RSS, Alerts, & More; Overview of the Thesis Process; Publishing a Book in an Academic Environment; and more. To view a complete list of seminars and register, go to http://its.psu.edu/training/.

Ruth will be on vacation July 16-20. Please send your requests to library@pop.psu.edu and we will continue to fill them.

The PRI Library will be closed for July 4, a University holiday. Anyone who has after-hours access to Oswald Tower and the library will still be able to access the library using their ID card.

This week we launched an improved version of the PRI Grants and Funding Opportunities database. New features include:

• Improved search, with the ability to search for student and faculty research grants, as well as postdoctoral opportunities and infrastructure, conference, and training grants
• Browse by government agency or private sponsor
• Browse opportunities for students, postdoctoral scholars, infrastructure, conferences, and training
• Browse new announcements and funding-related news

The database is updated weekly by PRI Information Core staff and includes funding opportunity announcements targeting researchers in population science and related fields.

New announcements are e-mailed to PRI faculty and students weekly. Other interested researchers may receive new announcements by subscribing to our Funding News feed (see help for using feeds).

Questions, comments, and suggestions can be sent to Tara Murray.

Tara Murray will be out of the office June 4-12 and June 15-19. PRI associates and affiliates should make requests for literature and funding searches needed before June 20 as soon as possible, and should send all requests to library@pop.psu.edu for the best service.

Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing, by PRI associates Paul Amato, Alan Booth, David Johnson, and Stacy Rogers, leades the Best Sellers in Social Science, September 2006-present, compiled by YBP Library Services and published in Library Journal.

Links: PRI Library holdings and Penn State University Libraries holdings, publisher page for this book.

Kiet Bang and Tara Murray will be away March 26-30 attending the APLIC-I and PAA meetings. PRI affiliates should send any requests to library@pop.psu.edu and be advised that some requests may take longer than usual to fill.

Diversitydata.org, a project of the Harvard School of Public Health, provides access to indicators of well-being for US metropolitan areas and racial and ethnic populations.

This resource has been added to the PRI Library Reference Links page, a list of online resources for population researchers.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the European Survey Research Association for the publication of their online journal Survey Research Methods. The journal is available free to all at www.surveymothods.org. For a complete list of journals and newsletters at the PRI Library click here.