More Questions
Thanks, Rain, for commenting on TNL’s last post on questions. Here is one more. TNL had a perculiar week of students at different times asking questions that allude to one…
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What is the Easiest Question?
Librarians get a lot of questions. Most of the time, students want answers. Sometimes, they just want to make a point. So when TNL was asked recently, what is the easiest…
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TNL was minding her own busy business, preparing to give an overview of statistical databases to her PhDs, when she remembered a funny story she could not resist not telling. One…
Continue readingWhat Was the Question Again? (Part 2)
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…
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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……
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Can you hear that? No? Shhh… listen…. Nothing? Nothing at all? It’s the sound that a vacation makes. No students, no lecturers and the best of all, two of my…
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