Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest. The annual competition, endowed in 2007 by longtime Friends of the Libraries Dr. Edgar and Betty Sweren, […]
Finding the Right Author
Names aren’t unique and that’s a problem in the biblioverse. How many different authors are named John Brown, Mary Stewart, or Yuan Wang? Library catalogers have been working on authority […]
Finding Chinese Language Sources
Finding sources in the original language is crucial for scholars working in a field of study on a particular country or region. But it can be a challenge too, for […]
Feed Your Research
All props to the graduate student in Sociology who alerted me to this wonderful time saver. I knew that researchers could set up RSS feeds and e-mail alerts for tables […]
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
People sure like to rank things: best rock guitarists, greatest moments in sports, best restaurants in Baltimore. The world of business books has its lists too, and many of the […]
Protocols: Not Just for the Polite
Protocols are generally understood as sets of rules. There are etiquette protocols, computer protocols, political protocols, and even laboratory protocols. For biologists and bench scientists protocols are lab recipes followed to […]
Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904
Are you taking the Science on Display or Exhibiting the Global class this semester? If yes, please check out the World’s Fair collection in our Special Collections. We have been actively building this […]
April is Jazz Appreciation Month
Have you always wanted to learn more about Jazz, maybe dip into some of its many sounds, but you keep putting it off? Well there’s no better time than RIGHT NOW […]
More Location Information in Catalyst!
We’ve heard your questions at the Info Desk, in the Reference Consultation Office, and via email and phone. Where is this book located? It says MSEL, but where in MSEL? […]
Spring is in the air, and so is Poetry
April is National Poetry Month, and we love to feature poetry in all its forms during this celebratory period. How many forms can poetry take, you ask? Well, there’s the […]