Bibliocycle

The Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting Things Done.   By Monica Ramirez Basco Are you a procrastinator?  Then this month’s free e-book is for you.  Expressly designed for people who want to make changes but don’t want an elaborate self-help program, this guide is packed with highly practical tips and suggestions. The book is full of anecdotes [...]

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As recently as a generation ago, primary source research in American history required a great deal of patience and persistence.  Some of the best resources for contemporaneous accounts of historical events–newspapers–were available, if at all, on microfilm.  Few high school collections had the budgets necessary to offer users access to  the micro forms or the [...]

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It is impossible not to have an opinion about YouTube.  Based on an unscientific survey of my colleagues, many intelligent, thoughtful educators have little regard for the enormously popular video-sharing site.  But if you haven’t looked at YouTube lately, you might want to revise your judgement.  Many top colleges and universities–including UCLA, Stanford, Dartmouth and [...]

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Librarians have known for some time that this day was coming, but still, the announcement last week by the American Chemical Society that it is ceasing the distribution of the print editions of  all but three of its academic journals, and will offer the journals only online, was sobering.  It is hard to argue with [...]

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The OWH library special collections and archives is a treasure trove of historically significant material.     The Academy was founded in 1778, and throughout its rich history the library has become the repository of rare and unique books, photographs, scrapbooks, maps, and other ephemera.  These are cataloged and organized and made available for use by [...]

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