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By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian May 5th, 2016

Way to research Hum. 4!

During the month of the Hum. 4 research paper, April, you collectively:

Retrieved 546 reference articles from the Gale digital reference library.
Visited the library’s Ebsco products 625 times (screen grab below).
Made 210 visits to the library’s Kanopy educational film database, watching 1,502 minutes of footage.
And viewed the Hum. 4 research guide – 3,334 times!

EbscoAdmin Page – April 2016 Session Usage Report. EbscoHost. Web. 03 May 2016.

By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian April 26th, 2016

The Hum. 4 paper is due in a few short days & my inbox is happily filled with citation conundrums.

Why do we do it?

Academics cite for a variety of good reasons, including:

To supply the reader with the source information, should the reader wish to locate the item.
To demonstrate use of, and credit, the work being drawn upon.
To distinguish the different voices contributing to one’s project, including distinguishing one’s own voice and contribution to the conversation.

A quick shout-out to Noodletools.com (integrates with Google docs!) for citation creation and it even helps with in-text citation format.

Citation sticky wickets? Let me know, happy to help!

Image Information:

NoodleTools: Works Cited Project Page. Noodletools. Web. 22 April 2016.

By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian April 14th, 2016

Free block between classes? Hum flex-ing? Have a research question?

New! & for the month of April,

I’ll be in 308 to answer research questions:

Monday – C and E block (including Hum. Flex)

Tuesday – B Block

Thursday – B Block

See you soon!

By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian April 12th, 2016

Research question?

Ask me in Canvas!

Look for the discussion board in your course page titled ‘Research Questions’ (or something similar).

We can learn as a collective at the digital Harkness table. 🙂

By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian April 5th, 2016

It begins!

Happy Picard. Meme Generator. Imgflip.com Web. 10 March 2016.

As always, there’s a research guide for that! The Hum. 4 Research Guide identifies library sources for finding a topic, getting background information, locating books, magazines, newsreels and even documentaries.