Archive for the 'Reference' Category

Reference Books to Go: The Liberation of Our Reference Books

March 10th, 2010

Rick Librarian – “One thing that you could always count on was that the reference books were here on the shelves. As good as that was in the past, the problem now is that the reference books are here on the shelves, but no one is here using them. They are just sitting. So we [...]

Free People Searches

July 2nd, 2009

These usually don’t work well, but when I looked myself up on Free People Searches, the results were dead on.

You Gotta Fight For your Right to Refgrunt

November 16th, 2008

Refgrunting is alive and well.

Wheel of Fortune

November 28th, 2007

Crazy questions at “The Wheel” – “One woman used to call in and ask, “If I was hit by a tractor-trailer truck and dragged 20 miles, would I survive?”

Twitter For Research

May 2nd, 2007

Stephen Francoeur on using Twitter for reference work. Lots to think about…