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Archive for October, 2012

Introverts and extroverts

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2012 1 Comment »

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Or both? Watch this cool video about how we can all get along: http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/story-videos/introverts-and-extroverts—cant-we-all-get-along.html The video is narrated by Susan Cain the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and features the artwork of Molly Crabapple and director Jim Batt to [...]

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Information wants to be free

Posted in Databases, Periodicals, Resources, Science on Oct 23rd, 2012 No Comments »

It’s International Open Access Week! Not sure if you should be celebrating or not? Have you ever been frustrated when a database article is not just a click away? Currently, scholars do research, write up articles, and give those articles to publishers. The publishers print the articles and provide online access in article databases. Publishers [...]

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Information Literacy Awareness Month

Posted in Cannell, iCommons, Information Literacy, Instruction on Oct 16th, 2012 No Comments »

NFIL isn’t about playing football, eating hotdogs or even speaking like a pirate. Sponsored by the National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL), National Information Literacy Awareness month is about promoting an essential skill, “the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that [...]

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