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Showing posts with label Research Strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research Strategy. Show all posts
Thursday, June 25, 2020

How to Dig Up Family History Online

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J.D. Biersdorfer. "How to Dig Up Family History Online." New York Times. June 25, 2020, p. B7. While not all government records m...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

An Excavated Voice Never Leaves Her

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Alexandra Alter, "An Excavated Voice Never Leaves Her," New York Times , March 8, 2020, p. AR18.      Hilary Mantel has a recur...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Zara Steiner, 91, Historian Who Plumbed World War I

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Neil Genzlinger, "Zara Steiner, 91, Historian Who Plumbed World War I," New York Times,  March 6, 2020, p. B16.      She went ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Lessons from 4,800 Pages of History

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Dana Goldstein, "Lessons from 4,800 Pages of History," New York Times , January 13, 2020, p. A2.      About midway through my ...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Robert Caro's Papers Find a Home

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Jennifer Schuessler, “Robert Caro’s Papers Find a Home,” N ew York Times , January 9, 2020, p. C1.       The books are already monumental...
Friday, January 3, 2020

Educated

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Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir , 2018. Sometimes, when she was delivering herbs, if we’d finished our chores, Mother would...

American Gods

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Neil Gaiman, American Gods . Tenth Anniversary Edition. Author's preferred text. 2011.      "Hinzelmann, have you heard of e...
Friday, December 13, 2019

How To Do Nothing

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Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy , 2019      I feel the same way about libraries, another place where...
Monday, November 25, 2019

The Library Book

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Susan Orlean, The Library Book , 2018. The story of the Los Angeles Public Library and the 1986 fire required years of researc...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

University Contributions to the Circular Economy

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Nunes, Ben, et al. "University Contributions to the Circular Economy: Professing the Hidden Curriculum."  Sustainability 10.8 (201...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Woman of the River

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Richard E. Westwood, Woman of the River: Georgie White Clark, White-Water Pioneer , Utah State University Press, 1997. I have had t...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Student of the Game Aced Final

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Julia Jacobs, "Student of the Game Aced Final: Emma Boettche, a Librarian from Chicago, wrote a mater's paper on 'Jeopardy!...
Monday, May 20, 2019

The Presentation on Egypt

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Camille Bordas, "The Presentation on Egypt," New Yorker , May 20, 2019, 69-75.      Punishment, at Peters Elementary, meant goi...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Prescribed Reading

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Abigail Zuger, "Prescribed Reading: A Doctor's Guide to Books," New York Times Book Review , May 12, 2019, p. 11.       Exp...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Math, Taught Like Football

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John Urschel, "Math, Taught Like Football," New York Times , May 12 2019 p. SR10.      In elementary school, my mind wandered s...
Friday, April 5, 2019

A Haven Like No Other

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Sean P. Means, "A Haven Like No Other, Salt Lake Tribune , April 5, 2019, p. D1.      Estevez--whose onscreen history with librarie...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

All Over the Map

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Betsy Mason and Greg Miller, All Over the Map: A Catrographic Odyssey ," National Geographic, 2018. Some of these maps come from ...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

It's a Dog's World in the Lab

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James Gorman. “It’s a Dog’s World in the Lab: When it Comes to Research, Scientists Favor Canines Over Cats by a Large Margin.” New York Ti...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

The Overstory

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Richard Powers, The Overstory,  WW Norton & Company, 2018. NEELAY MEHTA      He works for months on a role-playing space opera...
Friday, February 8, 2019

An Effort to Save the Masterpieces of Modern Dance

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Walter Terry, “An Effort to Save the Masterpieces of Modern Dance.” Smithsonian , Oct. 1980, p. 61-69.      The procedure for mounting ...