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Burke Turns the Page – Library must balance paper-and-ink traditions with the digital revolution – by Helen S. Schwartz “The library is changing its subscriptions from print journals to electronic delivery of those same periodicals wherever possible. Burkes first digital book collection joins other monographs but is stored online rather than on the shelves. Online …
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) today announced that it has established a Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) network from among its existing experimental watersheds and rangelands nationwide to address large-scale, multi-year research, environmental management testing and technology transfer related to the nation’s agricultural ecosystems. ARS is USDA’s chief intramural scientific …
“Health, retirement, and paid leave benefits made up more than three-fifths of private industry employer-provided benefit costs in June 2012.1 Although employers in most states are not required to offer these benefits, they often make some form of each major benefit type available to their employees, especially to full-time and high-wage workers. For example, paid …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced a new 401(k) fee disclosure website as a resource for consumers. The new site offers information on disclosures that, for the first time, will help workers with 401(k)-type retirement plans see what they are paying to invest their savings. It also includes …
Fisheries of the United States 2011. Current Fishery Statistics No. 2011. National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Science and Technology “Commercial landings (edible and industrial) by U.S. fishermen at ports in the 50 states were 10.1 billion pounds or 4.6 million metric tons valued at $5.3 billion in 2011an increase of 1.86 billion pounds (up …
