Why Do Students Prefer Google Scholar?

It seems that students love Google Scholar.  Let me relate an incident to you about a chemical engineering student who was referred to me by his professor.  I showed the student how to do his search on a topic related to nanotechnology in Scifinder and Scopus.  After this was completed he told me he had already done the search in Google Scholar.  He said that he attended my seminar last fall when I discussed the subscription-based databases.  I looked into my records and saw that just after the seminar he opened a Scifinder account, but apparently never used it.

Go figure!

Congratulations to David McMillan on Receiving His Doctorate in History

I met David McMillan in February 2001 when he worked as a temporary librarian at NJIT for about 3 months.  Since then he has moved on and has worked at a number of public and college libraries.  In 2009 he started to pursue a doctorate of history at Drew University.  After 8 years of hard work he defended his dissertation today and received his Doctor of Letters degree.

Hearty congratulations to Dave and I wish him well in all his professional endeavors.