Category Archives: teaching

Teaching college students about free resources

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Laura

Dorothea Salo’s recent posts about teaching closed databases (see this repost on Peter Suber’s blog) have reminded me of my desire to teach graduating students about resources that are available to them after they lose access to our databases. (I … Continue reading →

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Using Google Spreadsheets to track instruction sessions

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Laura

Back in June, I wrote about Dabble DB, and that at my place of work, we were hoping to use it to keep track of instruction statistics. Things move slowly in academia, so it probably won’t surprise you to hear … Continue reading →

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Cover letter meme

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Laura

In the Library Society of the World chat room, we’ve been discussing job searches. I’ve served on two search committees in the last year or so, and so I’ve been thinking about job searches from the other side of things. … Continue reading →

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Those Harvard Ph.D.s

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Laura

In the LSW chat room, Walt Crawford mentioned a recent kerfuffle inspired by Anna Kushnir’s post about how much she hates PubMed. Walt also thoughtfully pointed out the responses of David Rothman and the Krafty Librarian. Frankly, I agree wholeheartedly … Continue reading →

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‘Splodey articles

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Laura

I really liked Iris Jastram’s brief post about exploding an article – and I hope to use this description in my upper-level classes!