Studying our users

I just finished reading Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Anyone who provides library services to young people needs to read this. I also recommended it to our director of the writing center since much  of the research includes how students write papers and what faculty expect in a paper. One [...]

What’s in a Name?

Since it’s October, let’s bring out the scary stuff:
Database
Say that word to a group of marketing people and watch them climb under their desks like a 1950s nuclear drill.
Around 1964 a new term appeared in the computer literature to denote a new concept. The term was ‘data base’, and it was coined by workers in [...]