Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Random Comments for July

3 of the last 4 research consultations that I gave were to high school students in the summer programs here.  They all seemed to be very enthusiastic about learning how to use information resources.  I was concerned that high school students could not understand the technical details in a journal article.  One student was interested in finding thermodynamic properties of fluorinated compounds.  Another was researching high-temperature superconductors.

This summer we made the transition to version 2 of Libguides.  There was somewhat of a learning curve, but there is more flexibility in the new version.

We are also revising the library's website.  There is some redundancy so some pages should be removed.

Before you know it, classes will resume.