IU East Campus Library has reached the milestone of 100 published library guides! Since September 2009 IU East has been a member of the “Libguides” Community, which includes 1,857 libraries worldwide, representing 28,000 librarians who have contributed almost 140,000 publicly searchable guides on topics ranging from Art to Zoology. At IU East, our libguides are… Read more »
Month: January 2011
E-Books are “real books” – really!
Don’t be fooled by the format – e-books are ‘real’ books in every sense that matters, and can make your course assignments easier and better! Practically everyone who has used the Internet has had some experience with e-books. You might not own a Kindle or an iPad but likely have read something interesting through GoogleBooks… Read more »
MLKJ Day
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! For many of us, it’s a day off, and easy to lose the significance of this holiday. Much like how on President’s Day and Columbus Day we don’t honor George Washington or Christopher Columbus personally so much as the main virtue their life exemplified – liberty and discovery, respectively… Read more »
Weather Resources
Has the bad weather got you down? Well, your library might not be able to make it any warmer, but we have plenty of resources to help you understand it! Among our encyclopedic databases, AccessScience has some good articles on weather and weather prediction. Science Resource Center has similar articles on weather mapping and forecasting,… Read more »
Tin Eye and Image Searching
When I was asked what my favorite recent website was for the last blog, I immediately thought of Tin Eye (http://www.tineye.com), a reverse photo lookup site, where you upload or link to a picture and it finds matches or near matches, regardless of whether they’ve been altered, cropped, or resized. If you’ll indulge me, I’d… Read more »