Sometimes you come across a book that grabs you and holds you from the first page until the last. Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd, winner of the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 2009, is one of these books. One of the many wonderful books available in the IU East Campus Library’s Young Adult collection, this… Read more »
Month: October 2010
New Software in the Library
If you’re a regular to the library, you know about our study rooms — a great place to watch a video or work on a group project. And now there are even more possibilities. Room 145 has been equipped with the Dragon Naturally Speaking software, a speech-recognition tool, courtesy of our friends in Student Support… Read more »
The Un-Wikipedia
Have you ever been researching a topic for class and really needed an encyclopedia? We’ve all been there, and often we click to Wikipedia. That sometimes is okay for getting you familiar with a topic, but for academic purposes, that source just isn’t reliable enough….even according to that online encyclopedia’s founder! (http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wikipedia-Founder-Discourages/2305) Fortunately, the IU East… Read more »
The Right Cite
So, it’s a third of the way into the semester, and you have some papers coming due. Research papers. And you need to cite your sources. Well, there are many helpful aids to doing that. We have the style manuals at the library’s front desk that you can use. And we, and our colleagues in… Read more »