New Projects at the APA Library

To serve you better, the APA Library has embarked on several new projects.

APA Wins Grant to Create New Planners Bibliography

The APA Library has been awarded a Carnegie-Whitney grant from the American Library Association to develop the Planners' Bibliography: An Annotated Bibliography of Electronic and Print Resources for Practicing Planners, Scholars, and Students of Planning.

Taking the centennial of planning as its catalyst, the Planners' Bibliography will become the 21st century web-based resource for planners and researchers seeking a comprehensive, interdisciplinary bibliography of pertinent literature.

The Planners' Bibliography will include scholarly and practical monographs, journal and magazine articles, government documents, and websites produced during the first 100 years of planning. The resource will be a one-stop shopping list that will point planners and researchers to key texts, bringing the best of scholarly work to the attention of practitioners in the field and highlighting for scholars important practical applications of academic research.

This work-in-progress will debut next April at the 2010 National Planning Conference in New Orleans.

APA Publications Abstracts Now Available in Library Catalog

Looking for an issue of Zoning Practice on a specific topic? You can now use the APA Library catalog to search for articles in APA publications, including Planning magazine, Planning & Environmental Law, Zoning Practice, PAS Memo, PAS QuickNotes, PAS Reports, Practicing Planner, and more.

• To choose a specific title, select APA Publications in the first dropdown.
• To browse the abstracts, click on "Show Search Options," and limit the search to APA Publications Database.

For assistance, contact library@planning.org. 

More New Projects

• We have launched a library catalog that will interface smoothly with the website and allow for more refined searches by subject, publication date, ISBN, and more. All users may search the catalog from work, home, or any web-connected computer.
• The RSS feed New Books at the APA Library keeps you up to date on new acquisitions.

Please contact the librarian at library@planning.org to ask a question, schedule a tour, or plan a research appointment. Comments or suggestions about how to improve the library are welcome.