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Credo's Guide to Knowing Cool Stuff About Your Halloween Costume

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 10/8/14 8:15 PM

The only thing people love more than fun costumes on Halloween is trivia about said costumes' inspirations. By learning more about what you're going as you're not only enriching your mind, you're arming yourself with vital ice-breakers, chit-chat and banter-fuel that will definitely make you the life of the party.

Current Events, Timely Topics, Topic Pages

Starting Your Paper: The Clock is Ticking

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 10/7/14 9:45 PM

Tolkien once wrote, "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish," and although the character he attributes that phrase to, Sam's old Gaffer, was probably talking about landscaping, he might as well have been describing one of the key pitfalls in writing a research paper. You can't finish what you don't start, and if you haven't finished that paper, you're probably feeling moderate-to-severe anxiety, which is quite frankly a less appealing state to be in than, say, the categorical bliss one experiences after making the final edits to a well-written paper. So what's holding you back?

Starting Your Paper, Topic Pages

Work'n the Core: Highlighted Titles From Credo's Core Collections

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 10/2/14 8:34 PM

Content Connection, Core Collections, Credo Collections

October Social Media Content For Libraries

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 9/29/14 1:23 PM

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!

Customer Success, Social Media, Social Media for Libraries, Topic Pages

New and Updated Titles in Credo's Core Collections

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 9/24/14 7:44 AM

 

Content Connection, Core Collections, Credo Collections

Starting Your Paper: Loched in On Scotland

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 9/17/14 11:55 AM

 

Starting Your Paper, Topic Pages

Credo's Guide to Talking Like a Pirate

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 9/15/14 12:00 PM

Unless you've been spending too much time in Davy Jones' locker, you know that National Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th) is approaching faster than the Black Pearl with a following wind. It's one thing to acknowledge buccaneers' affinity for things like arrr-gyle socks and aye-Phones, it's another to link land-lubbers to scholarly eResources in the process. Earlier this month we gave you posts for the entire month of September, but here are a few more tweet-sized pirate jokes with links to relevant Credo Topic Pages:  

Current Events, Timely Topics

Starting Your Paper: No Time Like the Present to Write that History Paper

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 9/10/14 7:00 AM

Selecting a historical topic for a research paper means choosing from a continuously expanding pool of material, with each tick of the clock bring more of the past into

Starting Your Paper, Topic Pages

All Boom, No Bust: Highlighted Titles From Credo's Core Collections

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 9/8/14 12:54 PM


Collection Spotlight, Content Connection, Core Collections, Credo Collections

September Social Media Content for Libraries

Posted by Duncan Whitmire on 8/28/14 9:42 AM

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!

Customer Success, Social Media, Social Media for Libraries, Topic Pages

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