Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

There will be no more titles of posts as SYP.  I cannot shake the feeling that my use of “SYP” sounds like a complaint.  I will continue to share findings in my new job here, as it is rather cleansing to blog and reflect on what I accomplish or learn each day in my job.  [...]

Okay prepare yourself.  Here are 2 pictures of the books that were weeded from the library. I am lucky in that my school has the remote “Panther” scanner, and so it was a breeze to scan all 431 books pictured here.  We are only about a fourth of the way through here too.  It’s scary [...]

Database. Such an intimidating word. Most states provide a portal to a list of subscription databases, and I have colleagues who SWEAR by them (Joyce Valenza, Boris Bauer). I can remember sitting in a SCASL conference session several years ago and hearing Boris say, “If you are not offering your users databases, you are doing [...]