Interesting story. Wonder if it will affect us…
http://liswire.com/node/63
“You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.” –Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Today on Better Know a Database, we take a look at the MLA International Bibliography. For all you English Majors out there (and for all you who have to take English classes to graduate–psst, that would be EVERYONE!) the MLA International Bibliography is THE resource for journal articles, book articles, books, book reviews and everything […]
1. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
2. Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescu
3. The Browser’s Ecstasy by Geoffrey O’Brien
“You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as […]
Whenever I’m in a bad mood or having a crummy day, I search out two internet sites: The Onion and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. The Onion, is the funniest fake newspaper around, and McSweeney’s is…well, it’s odd.
The brainchild of Dave Eggars’ who exploded into the literary world several years ago with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering […]
This week, I am cheating a bit. Instead of “a” database, we’re really looking at a group of online reference resources. What’s the difference, Gentle Reader? Well, I’m glad you asked…
You see, a database is, according to Merriam-Webster, “a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer).” And […]
Corner Librarian, here, welcoming you to the 2007/2008 school year! We’ve got some great things planned for this year and as a little refresher for those of you who are back with us this year, and for those of you who are brand new to SHC, I thought I’d use today’s blog to give out […]
Yeah, I’m a librarian. I love books.
First off, this wonderful, unassuming little book was donated to the collection by our own Richard Weaver, Instruction/Access Services librarian extraordiniaire! A Boy at Hogarth Press, from Levinger Press, 2006, is the enchantingly illustrated short memoir of Richard Kennedy, who began working for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1926 at […]
Yes, yes. I know I’m cheating. I haven’t done a blog every day this week so it stands to reason that I should not be allowed my bit of Friday fun. But I set up the daily schedule for a reason and follow it, I must.
So for today’s foray into internet entertainment, I give you […]
Looking for reliable journal resources for ALL of your classes? Maybe you should check out the E-Resources on the Burke Library Home Page. Starting with this one:
Academic Search™ Premier(ASP) via Ebscohost is the preeminent academic collection of full text, peer-reviewed journals. More than 4,700 journals are available in full text, and more than 3,700 of these […]
In short, here is a list of items smack dab in the middle of the mysterious cataloging process:
1. An Underground Education: The unauthorized and outrageous supplement to everything you thought you knew about art, sex, business, crime, science, medicine, and other fields of human knowledge by Richard Zacks, Doubleday, 1997.
2. Christopher Durang: Twenty-Seven Short Plays […]
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