Reading, Writing, Research

Monthly Archives: January 2012

Pike’s Pique, or, Have I peeked your interest?
writing

Pike’s Pique, or, Have I peeked your interest?

Peak. Peek. Pique. All of them can be used as a noun or verb. All of them mean something different. …Read the Rest

Libraries nourish creativity
libraries

Libraries nourish creativity

“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out” — Jeff …Read the Rest

Controlled vocabulary: the key to using a library catalog
library catalogs

Controlled vocabulary: the key to using a library catalog

Search engines and online library catalogs differ fundamentally. The catalog is a database–a very special kind of database where all …Read the Rest

Crowdsourcing at the library: editing Wikipedia
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Crowdsourcing at the library: editing Wikipedia

Recent decades have seen growing power of crowdsourcing. Wikipedia, which has been around for ten years now, is based in …Read the Rest