I am old enough to have used the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, in print.
There. I said it. As a matter of fact, I used print indices of various sorts right through my undergraduate degree and my first graduate program. (Ah, those print volumes of RILM, eventually supplanted by the CD-ROM version that ran on [...]
One of the things you do at Immersion is prepare and present a 5-minute teaching segment; this is where you work on all the “public speaking” aspects of teaching: vocal projection, filler words, hand gestures, etc.
My 5-minute segment was a quick set piece about how the “Find Text” (OpenURL resolver) links in our databases work. [...]
I posted this to FriendFeed over the weekend, but I wanted to expand a little on it here, because it relates to information literacy instruction:
My good friend Vardibidian, who works in a library but is not, generally speaking, a library blogger, has an hysterical post up about attending a “training” “webinar” for his library’s new [...]
So we’re well into the summer intersession here at MPOW, and faculty often ask me if the librarians work in the summers. The short answer is that we do, as most of us are on 12-month contracts. The building closes at 4:30, so we all get off work a little early, and we [...]
A colleague and I were chatting this morning about the freaky stuff that undergrads often request through Inter-Library Loan, often not realizing what exactly it is that they’re requesting. The most common example is Dissertation Abstracts, where if they request the item through ILL, what they get in return is…the abstract of the dissertation. Which [...]
WHY didn’t I think of this sooner?
I’ve been struggling to explain EBSCO’s “My EBSCOhost” feature to students for a year now. Most times, when I explain that it’s a way to save citations and articles (and other stuff, but I generally don’t go into that) from one session to another, or a useful way for [...]
