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We got 614 finishers for the Summer Reading program this year (South Hill Branch)! We have broken records, big time. We had the kids write their names on a dog when the finished so we could hang it up… more →
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New Tools for Thomas
somcak wrote 3 weeks ago: Thomas is a great free source for statutory law and legeslative history. But linking to it? Forge … more →
New Search Tools for Case Law
somcak wrote 1 month ago: The blogosphere has been all aflutter about Google Scholar’s ability to search court cases. I … more →
Library Roots and Routes
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somcak wrote 1 month ago: I’m a day late (busy week!) with my Friday post, so the Caturday post will be up later tonight … more →
LAD: Look, Ask, Dig
somcak wrote 2 months ago: LAD is how I conduct research. I came up with the concept, or parts of it anyway, from working at t … more →
Say it with a smile
somcak wrote 2 months ago: One thing I’ve learned sitting at the reference desk is to make eye contact and smile. Even w … more →
Steel City Kings
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somcak wrote 5 months ago: Here’s the links for the Steel City Kings Book Cart Drill Team (I was a member) in the Nationa … more →
Web 2.0 in My Life
somcak wrote 5 months ago: Note: This was orginally posted in response to a class discussion about how/why use Web 2.0. I confe … more →
Iran Election and Social Media
somcak wrote 6 months ago: It’s been an amazing week. As you may know, I was at a conference earlier this week and I … more →
Library of Irony
Mysty Vander wrote 6 months ago: and the walls are plastered with posters; Literary Gods are praised through lamenated sheets of colo … more →
Reference Question
jonaslamb wrote 6 months ago: Just had a library patron ask how to tell the edition of a book by the info included on the copyrigh … more →
Warning
somcak wrote 7 months ago: Things will be busy around here tomorrow. I’m doing a reverse mentoring program with SLA Pitt … more →
How do I find...
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somcak wrote 7 months ago: Most reference questions start like this. And if I don’t know off the top of my head there ar … more →
"Shushed" Out!
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mrschu81 wrote 2 years ago: Today my students and I discussed what technologies they would like to see more of in schools and li … more →
More innovations from the AADL
tolibrarian wrote 2 years ago: Before I came out to Thousand Oaks, I lived in Ann Arbor, MI and I had the wonderful opportunity to … more →
A New Beginning for Moorpark Library
tolibrarian wrote 2 years ago: During my lunch hour today, I visited the Moorpark Library for their grand opening as a city-run lib … more →
Automated Retrieval System
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blatherskite wrote 4 years ago: I tried to get some pictures yesterday and I did a great job of getting pictures of people who were … more →
