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Our library will be hosting a 2-hour seminar and demonstration on advanced searching with Google and other search engines on November 7, at 10:00am. This is the first of many such seminars on topics ranging from database usage to research methods, but we thought we would start with something that [...]

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Pierre Bayard, a well-known professor of French Literature at the University of Paris, has written a new book advocating the art of skimming in place of actually reading a book “the scientific way.” Move over, Mortimer, you’re old school now.
His book, Comment Parler des Livres que l’on n’a pas Lus (How to Talk about [...]

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I’ve seen a lot of fences in the last few days. Those pretty fences one only sees in Kentucky’s horse country: flat stones stacked waist-high, with perpendicular ones laid along the top. Something about that is attractive to me: permanence, boundaries, strength.
One of my favorite poems by Robert Frost is his “Mending Wall,” [...]

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