From the monthly archives: May 2011

We’ve all been there — we’re about to start teaching our [insert appropriate number here] research session of the semester, and we see [insert appropriate number here] familiar faces of students who have been in one of our previous library instruction classes.   These students are often quick to tell us that “they’ve heard this [...]

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Grad Student Voices

On May 18, 2011 By

This week’s post is written by Mitch Fraas, newly-minted PhD in History.  Congratulations, Mitch! Photo:  Duke Commencement, 1949.  Duke University Archives.

The end of the semester also marks the conclusion of the first year of the Duke Library’s Graduate and Professional Student Advisory Board (GPSAB). Inaugurated in October, GPSAB serves a function similar [...]

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Data: the new black

On May 11, 2011 By

Unfortunately, I didn’t make up this title (clever as it is);  I cribbed it from a blog post.  This year’s instruction retreat (my third retreat, and the department’s sixth) focused on what instruction librarians need to know about data and GIS, and it was a big success.

Forty folks from the Duke [...]

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I know that I won’t capture all of the work that our field experience students have completed this semester, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least attempt to credit them for their outstanding efforts over the last several months.

So, an attempt at an overview of our students’ work this spring:

LibGuide [...]

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