Friday, May 27, 2011
Searching, Advanced
If students are growing tired of your default "global warming" search examples in the library instruction classroom, switch things up and demonstrate how you can use your refined search skills to stalk hot patrons using their library accounts and open Facebook profiles.
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A bit disappointing, Maybe if you left the silly land of academia you may just be slightly more polite.
@An actual polite librarian: Your comment leads me to believe you either don't understand humour or are not an academic librarian. Either way, you're hilarious.
One of the college libraries I worked at decided to use leadership instead of global warming and the other librarians almost lost it/staged a coup.
We use the effects of television violence on children. yawn.
Right on. Librarians excel at stalking although most of us are too polite to do it.
I actually frequently show grad students how to "stalk" their professors by setting up citation alerts and running citation analysis reports and otherwise generally knowing more about said professor's scholarly output than said professor does. :P
Always use sex and drugs and rock and roll myself. Good for demonstrating phrases and truncation. Or sex and chocolate if my audience is more mature
I use "rap music"
because nothing says "cool" like a 30 year old pasty white girl talkin' bout pimps, Eminem, and misogyny!
I use "fart". It is a good way to teach controlled vocabulary (flatulence), and boy does it get the attention of undergrads as they snicker "OMG, the librarian said fart!" And you'd be amazed at the number of articles on animals passing gas.
I like to use a "broad term" like women!!!
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