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Books for the Beach
The count down to Spring Break has begun! For those of you not busy with papers and midterms, your minds may be turning away from your physics class and toward […]
Film Fridays
With February being the Academy Awards season, those little gold Oscars are still on my mind. And just by chance one of my favorite award winners from yesteryear arrived in […]
Night Owl: An Evening at MSEL
Some nights are slow for we few, we happy few, reference librarians at MSEL. But February is almost over and y’all are gearing up for mid- and end of semester […]
You Decide? Election 2008 Resources
While many Hopkins students and faculty have already voted in their home states by absentee ballot, those of us voting in Maryland venture to the polls tomorrow to cast our […]
Film Fridays
Warning: This promotional clip contains graphic images of surgical procedures. Did you know that nearly 11.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were performed in the United States in 2005? […]
EBSCO Databases
All EBSCO Databases are down. We called EBSCO technical support and learned that they are suffering from a power outage. At the moment we do not have a time-frame for […]
Happy Birthday Wikipedia
One of the most beloved sources for information on the web, Wikipedia, turns seven this week. According to Alexa: The Web Information Company, Wikipedia is the 9th most popular site […]
Collaborate with Freeware Wikis
New Years is a time for lists and resolutions. Go to the gym, eat more healthily, learn a foreign language, study more, more efficiently, and harder. Why not use free […]
Film Fridays
It’s arrived. Killer of Sheep (1977 / DVD 3174) has garnered a *ton* of attention in the months building up to its re-release. Set in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood in […]