Course/Research Guides as Collection Development Tools

Recently I have created a number of  course specific research guides, e.g. Psychology 459/559: Infant Development, in which I inserted pre-formated subject searches in Portland State WorldCat to get students to relevant monographic content quickly (book links are at the bottom of the guide). Observation: pre-formatted searches can be set up so the result list […]

Does your library do anything special for students during finals week?

Does your library do anything special for students when they are in final exam week mode? Do you provide refreshments (Seattle U provided coffee and cookies)? Activites? If yes, what has worked best or been most appreciated? This semester we put out two library study break puzzles (puzzle 1, puzzle 2) as a mental break […]

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