From the monthly archives: August 2007
It’s back to school, you have a digital or cellphone camera – come take pictures in the Duke Libraries and join our Flickr-based photo scavenger hunt.
Here’s how:
1. If you don’t have one already, get a free account at www.flickr.com (all you need to sign up is an [...]
Library staff often learn as much from our patrons – i.e. you – as they teach. My husband, who is a PhD student in engineering at another local institution of higher learning, said to me, “Why don’t you do a post on your blog about DOIs?” I had never heard of a DOI. So I [...]
Kristin Butler, in her Duke Chronicle column “Duke: A freshman’s guide” has a very good piece of advice for library users:
Oh, and one aside on having sex in the stacks: As a former library employee, I promise that Perkins Level D is not a “sneaky” place to go for it, even at [...]
It’s back to school time, and that means faculty and instructors all over campus (and sometimes all over the world) are putting books on reserve, setting up e-reserves through the library, and linking from their Blackboard sites to online articles that we have access to through our subscription databases. Perkins Reference and CIT [...]
A very funny video about Harlan Hatcher Graduate “Labyrinth” at the University of Michigan. At least we don’t have an “East Section of Level 1 A North.”
Written by Phoebe Acheson
I was reading the Thingology Blog (by Tim Spaulding, creator of Librarything) and ran across this aside
***I particularly recall how one of my professors tended never to know the *titles* of books she’d recommended to me. She’d say “that new book on Athenian demes by so-and-so.” The authors were all [...]
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