Tuesday, January 19, 2016

The Spring Semester Begins Today


Since it is the day after Martin Luther King Day, it means that it is the first day of classes for the Spring Semester.  It will be my 48th semester as a technical reference librarian at NJIT.  There are slightly less students in the spring as the school has lost more to graduation than it has to students transferring in. Since almost all students are returning, there are fewer directional questions.  I am sure there will be textbook questions as students get sticker shock when they see the prices at the bookstore.  Of course they try to save money by checking it out of the library.  My first reference question of the semester was “how do I get access to Scifinder?”  Life goes on.

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