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Here is a breakdown of how
students are expected to write a research essay, as told from an instructor’s perspective, aimed at the librarians and library staff who might help the student in the research.
The “
culture of helplessness” among students, and what it means for staff and faculty at universities.
How to use skills from an
experienced salesperson during a reference encounter.
The “
millennial side hustle,” and how universities are preparing students for a world in which stable employment is not always the norm. (Features the University of Regina’s UR Guarantee Program!)
Finally, for fun: the
library at Grey Gardens is apparently just as eccentric as one would expect:
“In a sunroom off the living room, we discovered a trove of cloth-covered adventure and romance books tucked onto low shelves: mostly from the twenties and thirties, they had in many cases swollen to twice their size, their pages thickened with sea air and salt and decades of gin-and-tonic fumes. These books we left alone: they were less for reading than beholding as disheveled, candy-colored artifacts, and somehow they pleased me more than the others.”