Every month we showcase some of the new and updated titles in our Academic, Public, and Student Core Collections. August features the highly topical Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence, among other titles. Click here for a full list of August titles!
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Below you will find daily posts, all under Twitter’s 140 character limit (good for Facebook too), that you can copy/paste at your leisure, each linking to a Topic Page, which, for Credo Online Reference Services subscribers can be a gateway to all kinds of e-resources.
Every month we showcase some of the new and updated titles in our Academic, Public, and Student Core Collections. Click here for a full list of July titles!
Early last year we relaunched our Mind Map visual search tool, and the feedback we’ve received from subscribers has been great. We’re hearing more stories of how librarians use the Mind Map feature in their instruction and reference help. Mary Timmons of Monroe Community College says, “I love the Mind Map - it gives students who just have an idea for a topic a way to focus and narrow the search to give better, and easier, research material that concentrates on what they want to do.” Here are some other stories from librarians about where and how they use this popular feature:
Energized and Inspired: My Takeaways from the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago
By Sol M. Lopez, MLIS
ALA annual is so large and broad in scope, and yet manages to offer a handful of specialized workshops for every possible area of the profession. Learning about issues that impact minority academic librarians, what different types of libraries are doing on diversity, inclusion, and equity were among the highlights of my experience.
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One of the most common concerns we hear from librarians regards how difficult it can be to engage with faculty. This was a distinct takeaway from our booth survey at ACRL, and is something we explored in one of our most popular webinars of last year.
Customer Success, Information Literacy, Credo in Action, Trends in Reference
We recently asked librarians to send us their stories of how they put Credo to use helping students. Sol Lopez of Regis University won our contest, and a trip to ALA Chicago, for her submission on how Credo supports her school's first year experience (FYE) program by encouraging students to initiate choosing topics for their research.
Customer Success, Events, First Year Experience, Credo in Action, Trends in Reference
Every month we showcase some of the new and updated titles in our Academic, Public, and Student Core Collections. Click here for a full list of June titles!
We understand your library wants to post fun content to social media but that you might not have the time to dedicate to writing it, so we’d like to help!