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Negotiating Intersecting Worlds

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
The librarians here at Carleton (and I’m sure at many other institutions) live right on the border between the world of faculty and students and the world of the other staff on campus. Especially here, where librarians are not faculty but tag along to many faculty functions, and where class schedules are not paced to [...]
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New Research Guides Went Live!

By Iris | Published: Monday, September 14th, 2009
This is probably only really exciting for me, but I’m SO EXCITED, so I thought I’d share. Those libguides we were working on over the last few months? Well, they went live today with the start of classes. I give you … [insert drum roll here] … Gould Guides! Now, as with any transition, some [...]
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EndNote Style for MLA 7th Edition

By Iris | Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2009
I waited through the summer hoping that an EndNote output style for the new MLA style would become available for download from EndNote. I waited a couple of weeks past the date when I actually wanted to install it on campus. And then I waited a couple more weeks. And then I set to work [...]
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Trying Something New

By Iris | Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I spent a few moments today adding a new section to each of my subject research guides. Our CMS doesn’t allow for things like Meebo widgets, or any other embedded stuff like that, so I added the next best thing: a bunch of ways to reach me from within each page. Here’s what it looks [...]
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Maintaining Research Guides, the Never Ending Struggle

By Iris | Published: Monday, February 11th, 2008
I spent a good part of today trying to wrap my brain around a new subject area so that I could a) figure out which resources might be important for the assignment, b) figure out if we had access to those resources, c) figure out what to substitute for the stuff we didn’t have, d) [...]
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