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  • Enhance Your Chances: How to Shine Brightly in a Tough Job Market 

    Shores, Mark; Ritchie, April
    Cover letters and interviews are two of the most important, yet neglected, components to landing a job. Both of them require a lot of preparation and study to have the desired effect – landing your dream job. Your cover ...
  • Fast, Free, and Functional: An Overview of Freely Available Online Citation Tools 

    Shores, Mark
    Freely-available citation tools are popular with students because of their speed and convenience. Some offer the ability to copy and paste a URL and some only allow for manual entry of citation elements. This article offers ...
  • Free Range Databases 

    Shores, Mark
    Overview of some of the freely-available subject-specific bibliographic databases, their features and drawbacks.
  • Free Range Databases 

    Shores, Mark
    An overview of freely-available bibliographic databases including: when to use them, their drawbacks, and how to find them. Includes short reviews of a handful of these resources and whether or not their content is indexed ...
  • Garbage In, Garbage Out: Citation Generator Tools 

    Shores, Mark
    Students may not always know how to do thorough research but they sure do find out quickly that EasyBib, BibMe and other free citation tools can supposedly make their lives easier. The citation tools in subscription ...
  • Hard Times and Opportunities: Lessons Learned from the Pack Horse Librarians 

    Shores, Mark
    Libraries everywhere are feeling the pinch from the nationwide economic slowdown. Whether it is cuts in journal subscriptions or cuts in staff, the changes wrought by these extenuating circumstances will have longstanding ...
  • I Saw it on YouTube: Representations of Libraries and What We Can Learn From Them 

    Shores, Mark
    Free video hosting services like YouTube are a popular platform for libraries to post their online tutorials and promotional videos, but are also venues for fictionalized satirical depictions of situations at public service ...
  • Issues and Advantages of Free Citation Generator Tools 

    Shores, Mark
    The ubiquitous free citation creation tools (BibMe, EasyBib and Citation Machine) are a panacea to the confused and harried student looking to breeze through the hard work of making a Works Cited page or Reference List. ...
  • Keeping up with Free-Range Internet Tools 

    Shores, Mark
    An overview of some of the lesser-known freely available reference and research tools.
  • The Laptop has Left the Building: Serving Your Students with 24-hour Laptop Checkouts 

    Shores, Mark
    Even though computer ownership in the United States has steadily increased over the last 10 years, many college students still do not have access to a computer at home. And because a lot of coursework requires using ...
  • Lean and Mean: Re-envisioning an Outdated Area of the Collection. 

    Shores, Mark
    Description of a large-scale deselection process for the BTE collection at Miami University Hamilton. Changes in the subjects taught and demographic/logistical changes necessitated a different approach to collection building.
  • Library Service to Urban Appalachians: Opportunities and Rewards 

    Shores, Mark
    The article presents the opportunities of incorporating the U.S. urban Appalachians literature and library service to the service itself and the librarians. It notes that by exploring the history of urban Appalachians, ...
  • Mind the Sharks: Guiding Faculty Through the Sometimes Perilous Waters of Open Access Publishing 

    Shores, Mark
    Open access, predatory journals and conferences can ensnare unwary tenure-track faculty trying to complete their scholarship responsibilities. Articles and proposals accepted by these entities can hinder instructors from ...
  • Our Role in Retention: 

    Pickens-French, Kathleen; McDonald, Krista; Whitaker, Polly; Shores, Mark
    Description of how libraries best reach out to students who are at-risk of dropping out.
  • Phrases for the Front Line: What to Say When the Going Gets Tough 

    Ritchie, April; Shores, Mark
    Whether you work the front lines of customer service, or manage those who do, knowing what to say during difficult times is critical. This session will explore the idea of keeping a mental toolbox from which we can quickly ...
  • The Promise and Peril of Free Citation Tools 

    Shores, Mark
    The article provides an overview of free citation tools. Topics include one-off bibliographies and smaller research projects; importance of avoiding too-numerous citation generator tools that are part of a suite of services ...
  • The Rise of Content Farms 

    Shores, Mark
    The article offers information on search engine content farms which gather and analyze web traffic to conceive topics that people are searching for over the Internet. It states that content farm articles offer little ...