“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past” – T.S. Eliot (Burnt Norton) How much time does it take to think of something new – a poem, a scientific…
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Sometimes we need just a little help….
Performing research can sometimes be daunting for even the most seasoned researcher. In order to help you make make this task go smoothly the library offers many workshops throughout the semester. Whether your research skills are beginner, intermediate or advanced…
Posted in Library Science
Using Library Resources Saves You Time and Money
by Karen Kostner When that research paper is assigned do you ever wish you had better resources than those Google often retrieves? While you may get about 30,000,000 hits, seldom are they of much substance for academic research. Sure, sometimes…
Posted in Library Science
Freaks from Brooklyn
Let’s go on a little fishing trip. There’s nothing else I can call it: you’re at a website you wanted to be at, you start exploring it, and then….maybe that site’s URL is intriguing. Or maybe you see all those…
Posted in History, Library Science
A Thousand Words or So
by Paul B. Wiener All definitions of information may have only one thing in common: they assume it is recognizable. One definition I especially like says: it is a measure of how surprising something is. True, that comes from a…
Posted in Library Science
Create Change
The Create Change website is a resource which addresses issues in scholarly communication. The site is geared toward helping faculty and other researchers learn about sharing and using their research more effectively in a world where the scholarly communication model…
Posted in Library Science, Scholarly Communication
Truth without Consequences
Google has introduced one of those new search applications that’s just the kind of thing that makes many librarians distrust Googled information. It’s called Google Trends and it provides context-free information that seems to have no bearing outside the arcane…
Posted in Library Science
Reality Checks
Reality can be an interesting source of information. Or is it the other way round? I use the web all the time to find out about the real world. Don’t you? And what I find is “information.” If it isn’t,…
Posted in Library Science
