Posted in Hot Library Tips on Feb 22nd, 2012
We did a blog post for the topic “social media and citizen journalism”, next up – Social media and how it encourages teens to be promiscuous, display violent behavior because of online gaming, buy luxury goods because celebrities tout what they wear in their Facebook Again, you would need to have either looked through the EG1413 [...]
Posted in Hot Library Tips on Feb 22nd, 2012
So, it seems it ain’t over until the fat lady sings… We have been receiving emails from some Engineering students after the clinic sessions. Students were either not getting an angle on their topic or are pursuing the many diverse patterns and trends they read about. So, they’ve got either too hazy a topic or too many topics [...]
Posted in Events on Feb 20th, 2012
Nothing beats the flexibility of coming to a library session, get a head-start on your project and leave without having to worry about time or rushing for your next class. That’s what the librarians wanted 1st Year Engineering students of EG1413 (Critical Thinking and Writing module) to have when they developed the 3-hour clinic sessions. [...]
Posted in Musings on Dec 15th, 2008
Last weekend, there was an article that says researchers at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories “created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds”. <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081211/sc_afp/sciencejapanbrainoffbeat_081211052641> So if our tall, blond, blue-eyed friend had walked through some fancy machine that scans what he had in his head, TNL would [...]
Posted in Musings on Dec 11th, 2008
A tall, blond, blue-eyed student came up to me at the Information Desk a few weeks ago and asked, “Do you use a stapler?” Uhh, yes… I use a stapler… But the librarian in me kicked in and after a little probing, I discovered that the young man wanted to use our stapler. There was [...]
