Zigmas Bigelis’ Blog
An interesting list of [...]
Where to Find a Librarian 24/7 | studenthacks.org
If you ever have any research trouble, you should seriously consider contacting a librarian.
They can cut your research time in half – and help you find exactly what you need.
And you never need to visit a library to talk [...]
Academic Productivity » How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
Having recently completed a PhD, Shane shares three indispensable nuggets of advice for how to get the monster vanquished: use hard deadlines, soft deadlines, and the Martini Method. With a small amount of imagination these [...]
ORE Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web, web based training for Reference Service from Ohio Library Council
OLC provides Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web to increase access to ORE training and improve the quality of reference service in Ohio! Six self-paced modules cover the reference process, with resource links, exercises, [...]
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Monday Master Class: How to Read Hard Readings
With a complicated reading, even if you go real slow, the real meaning may still elude you. The individual words all make sense, but when strung together by a professional philosopher or comparative literature scholar, they somehow evade easy association with [...]
Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
Connexions is:
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
authors create and collaborate
instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
learners find [...]
Another one for the readers | Wise Bread
So, you’ve read my other posts on reading (and Tannaz’s ) and you’ve self-identified as a Reader. You want to read. But books are expensive. And big. And bulky. But you still want to read. In fact, you’re dying to find just a few more words to [...]
These recommendations are found in the books How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren, and The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer, both of which are high-quality books. You can read the books for complete information about their recommendations (with suggestions on how to read them), but here are the [...]
Education Goes Online: 25 Free Online Education Resources
While a course about YouTube is surprising to some, the web is actually a treasure trove of education-related resources, including lots of video lectures, educational wikis and podcasts. The key sites for modern, web-based learning are outlined on [...]
The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners | OEDb
Lifelong learning means that individuals can have access to and are willing to participate in ongoing, not recurrent, education. This “learning to learn” philosophy can begin with toddlers and it can extend throughout a person’s life with branches that can extend into various [...]
eprintweb – Home
eprintweb.org is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology, and consists of e-print records which can be browsed and searched.
The contents of eprintweb.org are provided by arXiv, which is operated and funded by Cornell University Library, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and is also partially [...]
The Open Library
The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online.
The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world.
Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free
reading online. If they’re in the public domain, the [...]
Productive Strategies: Free Academic Podcast Lectures (Spring 2007)
Universities are starting to limit podcasts to registered students and some have given up on podcasting. As a result the list is shorter than last semester. However, there are still over 60 classes publishing public RSS feeds–most people should be able to find something interesting [...]
GuruLib is a great way to organize and share your library. I have started a project to catalog my books, but with over 500 shelf-feet of books it will take a while to catalog them all. You can find my library here.
GuruLib Home Library Cataloging
GuruLib is a free web service to organize your home [...]
au·to·di·dact: n. a self-taught person
This is a great site with a huge list of self-learning resources (all free of course). If there is a topic you wish to learn about you can probably find it here!
Online [...]
ALA | MARSBestRef2006
This is an annual series initiated under the auspices of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World [...]
Ronald Azuma eloquently presents the ups and downs of the Ph.D. journey. There is lots of good information here which I wish I knew before I started on the Ph.D. trip.
Some useful references from A graduate school survival guide: “So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!”:
Tomorrow’s Professor, a collection of interesting articles for current graduate students [...]
The Virtual Reference Desk: Christopher C. Brown
The Virtual Reference Desk has grown out of Christopher Brown’s work as a reference librarian. Hundreds of Internet sites have been identified for their usefulness in research. Original abstracts are being written for each of these sites to enable users to identify the contents of the site, and [...]
Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines – DegreeTutor.com
Librarians were the ultimate search guides before search was re-invented with the web. They are trusted, credible sources for historical information, and pioneers and innovators of taxonomy of information. Librarians witness, search for, find, organize and catalog knowledge.Online research and the power of the web, have made [...]
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around eight billion web pages indexed. That’s a lot of information. But it’s nothing compared to what else is out there. Google can only index the visible web, or searchable web. But the invisible [...]
