From the monthly archives: September 2007
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If you’re a fan of LexisNexis, you’ve probably noticed some changes in the last few weeks. The interface is more appealing and easier to navigate; its search box is larger and allows for “natural language” searches (the types of searches you do in Google); and you no longer get those annoying error messages [...]
absent.canadian titled this picture “On the Outside Looking In.” It’s his answer to the prompt “light” from the Library Hacks Photo Scavenger Hunt in Flickr. Go have a look at his work and add your own at the group pool: DukeLibraryScavengerHunt
Written by Phoebe Acheson
The News & Observer has discovered Bostock.
This morning’s edition of the Raleigh-based newspaper describes Bostock Library as a place where research meshes successfully with technology, socializing and group learning. And yes, lots of coffee. The article begins like this:
Feel free to raise your [...]
The awesome LifeHack blog has an article today with advice for students on how to take good notes. They write
Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how [...]
Google Book Search – a project that has Google working with major US and international libraries to digitize out-of-copyright (and many still-under-copyright) books and make them freely accessible on the internet (and keyword-searchable!) has been an exciting, and controversial, development for libraries. (More about Google Book Search).
One the one hand, [...]
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