So it’s Halloween on Sunday. I like Halloween, but I don’t like scary things. Horror books, movies? No thanks! Not for me. My favorite thing about Halloween is the smell of candle-warmed pumpkin – it brings back so many fun memories, but it sure isn’t spooky. So for that reason, I can’t recommend any particular [...]
We all search online every day. Like many routine activities, we don’t really think about how we do it, it just sort of happens. We also generally don’t seek out new and better ways to do routine things like searching online (unless you’re a librarian, and that’s part of your job). Just because we don’t [...]
This is a follow-up post to an earlier one I wrote a few weeks ago. Some of our readers suggested a post explaining how to limit the search to a certain format, so that they can see what’s available as a Playaway, for example. Hopefully after reading this post, you’ll be able to limit your [...]
A common complaint that we get at the desk on the second floor is about our catalog. People often say they aren’t able to find what they’re looking for. Library catalogs are designed to, amongst other things, support fairly complicated searches by library staff. This can mean that the average user gets stymied. So until [...]
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