From the monthly archives: March 2011

Between recently receiving some excellent news (I will soon be the Instruction Services Librarian at a small college in the Midwest!), as well as making final preparations for the ACRL Conference next week, I have had library instruction on the brain! I am very much looking forward to attending my first ACRL and to [...]

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Notice anything new about the Articles finder on the Duke University Libraries homepage? For those of you who use this tool, you may have noticed something different about your searches this week.  For one, your results most likely displayed significantly faster (in under two seconds, to be exact).  You may have also noticed that [...]

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We’re librarians: We like information. For the next month, the Duke University Libraries Instruction & Outreach blog will be gathering information from you, our reader, in our first-ever feedback poll!

This is your chance to tell us a little bit about your blog-reading habits and what you’d like to see when you visit [...]

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A wonderful part of working at the Duke Libraries is the opportunity to interact with visiting librarians from across the US and around the world.  We are once again privileged to host a visiting Librarian from South Africa.  Linda Cartwright, Principal Librarian for Faculty Liaison Services in the Humanities at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, [...]

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One of the great things about my working for Instruction and Outreach this semester has been getting the chance to lead some library instruction sessions for Duke’s introductory composition courses. I came to library school with a fair amount of teaching and tutoring experience, much of it language teaching, and I was hopeful that my [...]

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