Facebook Campaign Week 4: Lord of the LIKES
Welcome to September! This month, we’re trying to score 250 new LIKES on our Facebook page. Each week, we’ll have Treasure! Events! and Prizes! as an incentive for you to click that thumbs-up button and spread the word! THIS WEEK’S EVENTS: Treasure Library (ongoing) We’ve hidden coins around Cudahy Library and the Information Commons! When […]
Speaker Series: Baird Harper
Featured Speaker: Baird Harper Featured Topic: “Revenge and Other Good Reasons to Write Fiction” Date & Location: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:00 p.m. Richard Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor Lake Shore Campus 1032 West Sheridan Winner of Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Short Story Award, for “My Thoughts While Cooling Down on the Hotel Veranda”, Baird […]
Did You Know?: Ask a Librarian
Did You Know? You can ask a librarian for research assistance! Now that the semester is well underway, we are all beginning to settle down and think about what we need to accomplish before finals! Do you need to do research for papers or projects? Are you looking for scholarly journals, primary sources, statistics, government […]
Commonalities: Faculty Dialogue Series / E-textbooks
Electronic Textbooks Join Dean Robert Seal of the University Libraries for a conversation about electronic textbooks. What textbook will you be using next semester? Have you considered not using a textbook or relying on electronic books and resources for your classes? How are iPads and Kindles impacting higher education? Your class? What about e-textbooks? Stop […]
Facebook Campaign Week 3: As You LIKE Us (A Photo Contest)
Welcome to September! This month, we’re trying to score 250 new LIKES on our Facebook page. Each week, we’ll have Treasure! Events! and Prizes! as an incentive for you to click that thumbs-up button and spread the word! THIS WEEK’S EVENTS: Treasure Library (ongoing) We’ve hidden coins around Cudahy Library and the Information Commons! When […]
Getting the Most Out of Google: Research Tips and Strategies
Tuesday, September 20th, 1:00-2:00pm IC 120 Google can be a good source for finding research materials. While it is not a replacement for searching in the Library’s subscription article databases, Google can be an effective tool for finding scholarly materials that will help your research. Did you know that there is a link set up […]