Traditions

By |December 12th, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Traditions

Tradition. Every time I hear this word, the scene from Fiddler on the Roof pops into my head. “You may ask how did these […]

#Hashtag

By |November 28th, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, reference, search|Comments Off on #Hashtag

Think about the many ways in which we can search the web. First, there are various browsers to choose from: Chrome, FireFox, or Internet […]

Archives Provide Insight

By |November 16th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on Archives Provide Insight

Gale has launched several new digital archives that will expand their historical collections dramatically. Library Technology brought this interesting news to our attention in their […]

New Resources for Scholars

By |September 13th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on New Resources for Scholars

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has introduced a new product to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research. The collection includes five multidiscipline databases, each […]

Indexing History One Record at a Time

By |July 14th, 2016|indexing, News, reference, search|Comments Off on Indexing History One Record at a Time

Genealogy projects have long been a great example of proper indexing against a solid database that produces great findability. One such project that was […]

Unique Indexing Project Carried Out by Eagle Scout

By |June 13th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Unique Indexing Project Carried Out by Eagle Scout

Recently, one 14-year-old boy has been photographing tombstones and recording their inscriptions into a national grave-collection genealogy database as his Eagle Scout project. This interesting […]

It’s Summer Reading Time!

By |June 6th, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, Taxonomy|Comments Off on It’s Summer Reading Time!

Summer reading. These two words can instill both excitement and dread at the same time for a youth services librarian. Libraries across the country […]