Archive for September, 2006
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Online Dictionary
Here’s a cool online dictionary that I’ve been using lately. It’s called The Free Dictionary and it has “English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!” It’s based on the Fourth Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary (2003).
What I like about […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Reference Dept. Remodeling Completed!
The Reference Department in Irwin Library at Butler University has been undergoing renovations for a while now. As of this week, those changes are completed. Below is a list of most of the changes that we’ve undergone during the last few months:
About 20% of the books have been weeded out. Many have gone to the […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Librarians
I just read a couple of quotes about librarians from Erica Olsen over at Librarian Avengers:
“Librarians: more powerful than a Google search, friendlier than AskJeeves, and the best natural language processor on the market.”
and
“Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about what librarians are and what they do. Many people think of them […]
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