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:
Starting Your Paper: No Time Like the Present to Write that History Paper
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
All Boom, No Bust: Highlighted Titles From Credo's Core Collections
Collection Spotlight, Content Connection, Core Collections, Credo Collections
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
The new semester is almost underway, and you’d love to find a way to get students more engaged with your library. Why not have a social media contest? Open up new avenues through which they can communicate with you, which you can also use to promote library events and resources throughout the year. Social Media contests are an easy way to reach a huge number of students, even on a limited (or nonexistent) budget.
Idioms, Elixers and Investigations: Here's What's New in Our Core Collections
Collection Spotlight, Content Connection, Core Collections, Credo Collections
Starting Your Paper: Procrastination Is Not a Research Strategy
It's safe to assume that if procrastination could be converted into energy, we'd never need oil again. Or wind power, solar, and whatever Elon Musk is cooking up combined. Writing a paper isn't that big a deal for your average college student, but starting a paper comes with a veritable potpourri of anxiety, doubt, frustration and dread. We came up with this weekly blog post to give you the tips, inspiration and encouragement you need to embark upon whichever paper looms next on your horizon.