Middlebury Libraries is happy to unveil our newest video tutorial for 2019: Citation For People Who Hate Citation. This is a big-picture look at citation: why we do it, what it’s for, and how to make it an easier, stress-free process. Big thanks to Middlebury students Emma Román ’22 and Kayla Moore ’22 for their participation! You can watch the video here, or find it at go/CitationForPeople/.
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Ready to Learn about Technology? Your lynda.com tutor never sleeps!
Did you know that Middlebury College offers self-paced learning 24/7? Our fabulous online learning resource, lynda.com, uses short videos to help you acquire new business and technology skills and is available to all academic year faculty, staff, and students, both here and at Monterey.
Interested? Drop by the Open House at Davis Family Library on Thursday, Oct. 4 from 3-5:00 pm and check it out first-hand. Too excited to wait that long? Visit http://go/lyndainfo/ and get started right now!
For more details about other learning opportunities, visit http://go/itslearn/.
We Have Your New York Times
Alarmed by the prospect of a paywall at the New York Times (“The Times Announces Digital Subscription Plan”)? We’ve got you covered! Paper copies of recent issues are in Current Periodicals (Davis Family Library, lower level). Of course what you really want is online, and you can find that here in ProQuest National Newspapers.
ProQuest National Newspapers doesn’t include images, but ProQuest Historical Newspapers does (1857-1922 is here, and 1923-2007 is here).
How did I know all of that? I’m a librarian! But even if I didn’t have super powers, I could have just typed New York Times into the “Journals A-Z” tab on the library home page. For a few more tips about the library page, watch Go/lib (now what?) or consult our Quick-Start Guide to Library Research [pdf].
Video tutorial quick start
Joy and I created some short video tutorials on finding music CDs in MIDCAT, and since we posted them here we’ve been asked by various people within LIS to share what tools we used to create them. We were looking for a quick way to create screen capture videos with audio (aka screencasts). Here’s what we used: Continue reading
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