Friday, March 12, 2010

Answer: Alaskan sled dog questions

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Yesterday I posed a couple of related questions.  The first was "What's the average weight of an Alaskan husky running in the Idita...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (March 10, 2010) -

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As I mentioned, I spent last weekend in Anchorage, giving a talk at the Alaskan Librarians Association meeting.   During that same weekend, ...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

A few days in Anchorage at the Alaska Librarians conference: perceptions about search skills

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As I mentioned yesterday, I spent a few days at the Alaskan Librarians conference (AKLA 2010).  It's the annual gathering of the librari...
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Monday, March 8, 2010

A quick note about Google Books

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For the past few days I've been in Anchorage, Alaska attending the 50th annual Alaskan Librarians Association meeting.  (More on that to...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Answer: Finding an insect

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When she asked this question, I felt very much like a reference librarian who's asked to identify an insect that a young patron has brou...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (March 3, 2010) - Identifying an insect

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This is a true story. During one of my search-education classes for K12 teachers, I was asked if I could "search for this big brown b...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

What a graphic can tell you

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A while ago I used to co-post in Kathy Sierra's blog "Creating Passionate Users." I wrote a post there that I've copied o...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Answer: Only mollusk to walk on two legs?

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The answer, much to my great surprise, is the octopus! Here's how I found it. I knew that the search terms "two legs" and ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (Feb 24, 2010) - Searching for a mollusk

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Time for a relatively straight-forward question and a comment. The search challenge for today is:      What is the only mollusk known t...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Why Control-F is the single most important thing you can teach someone about search

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One of the biggest surprises of my research life was when I discovered that LOTS of people don't know about Control-F.  Here's the s...
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