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Friday 2 January 2026

  • US Navy tries blogging for team communication - Yet another example of blogging making its way into organizational communication strategies... ScienceDaily News Release: Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team CommunicationsBlogging, or keeping a weblog, is often seen as a solitary effort. An individual can... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

  • 20 Google Secrets - :: From Rita Vine's Sitelines: Tara Calishain, creator of ResearchBuzz, has written a short article called 20 Great Google Secrets. Many of these tips would be of use to us when helping our students search on the web. Like most... (19:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Thursday 23 October 2025

  • October issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries - The October issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries has been released and is available to read on the Web at: http://www.ieee.org/products/whats-new/wnlib/wnlib1003.xml Stories in this issue include: 1. Sign Up for London Luncheon: "Patent Citations Prove R&D; Value" 2.... (16:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 24 September 2025

  • Librarian On-Site! - Remote Service to Engineering Students - :: I'm writing this from Computer Laboratory E2-006, in the Engineering Teaching & Learning Complex of the University of Alberta. Today we begin our Librarian On-Site! service for the Faculty of Engineering students and staff. When this blog began in... (21:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 7 July 2025

  • in-cites - :: in-cites is a useful online product from Thompson-ISI.in-cites provides a behind the scenes look at the scientists, journals, institutions, nations, and papers selected by ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product. Read interviews and first-person essays about people in a... (12:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 23 June 2025

  • We're Back - :: Greetings, everyone. Geoff and I have returned from SLA and post-SLA activities in NYC. Thank you for your patience. :: Somewhat old news, but at the conference, SLA members voted to retain the name, "Special Libraries Association". SLA also... (12:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

  • Search Engines, Blogs and Spam - :: Student: "Can you suggest a good search engine I might use to find general information on mafic dyke swarms?" Reference Librarian: "Whaaaa--?" After learning that mafic means an igneous rock containing between 45 and 52% silica, and is dark... (15:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 2 June 2025

  • Mixed-Bag Special 03.06.02 - :: Often students visit the campus library and ask for help with a job search. Two useful sites for engineering students are justengineers.net and The Engineer Jobs, from e4engineering.com. :: Nifty idea: MIT Libraries has created a Faculty FAQ. "This... (23:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

  • Teaching Resources for the Sciences - While at home this morning, doing battle with a tenacious flu bug, I was listening to the webcast of "Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications" and learned of these two learning object repositories: 1) iLumina: iLumina... (22:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)

Monday 19 May 2025

  • A Dictionary of Units of Measurement - Russ Rowlett, Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has gathered a wealth of knowledge in his online A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. If you are looking to... (11:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 11 May 2025

  • Botanique and Invasive Species - The Librarian's Index the Internet (RSS) should be a regular read in your newsreader or your browsing routine. A few new biology-related links as seen on lii.org: Botanique: Portal to Gardens, Arboreta, and Nature Sites A directory of more than... (13:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

  • The Roving Librarian (at Harvard) - The first post on this site addressed off-library, on-site reference and information services. Courtesy of Mel DeSart at U Washington comes word of a similar service being offered at Lamont Library of the Harvard College Library.... (13:01 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 23 April 2025

  • Standards Web Site - Chet Bunnell of Pius XII Library, St Louis University, recently launched a web site featuring links to web sites for standards. The site is still under construction, so please feel free to send feedback and suggestions to '); document.write('Chet'); //... (17:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Monday 14 April 2025