Fall 2011, Begin!

Welcome back!

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As you can see things are about to get very bustling here at the library.
New this semester:
1. 3 new group computer rooms on 5th Floor.
2. 3 group computer carrels on 5th Floor, overlooking the baseball diamond.
3. A great new database, S&P Net Advantage, for business research.

Be sure to check out
The new titles display in the 3rd floor lobby
The Code of Conduct posters on all floors--these may clear up questions you may have.
LibGuides, our guides to resources in your subject!
Have a great semester.

Why is Research Important

As an instruction librarian, I try to get students thinking of the character-growth issues inherent in research. I've done it by way of video, and I've adopted the moniker junderground to try it by way of comic strip:

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Sexting! Retweeting! Woot!

Mashable.com reports that the august institution The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is focusing on Millenial cyberspeak for this year's update, adding the words "retweet" "sexting" "cyberbullying" and "woot." Thus, when I write the sentence "Last week I figured I'd break my retweeting addiction by taking up sexting, but I found that this, too, took up too much time I could've been using on my doctoral dissertation on cyberbullying practices stemming from the victim's overuse of the word 'woot'" I am using only standard English words.