Great College Advice

JULY 1, 2023

College libraries are important centers of the campus. In the 21st century, what is a college library for, anyway? Not too long ago, there was a major ethnographic study of how college students actually use libraries for research and learning demonstrated the degree to which students make use of libraries and librarians: not much.

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CAPD

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As a part of Open Access Week, The MIT Libraries will be hosting several events that are relevant to PhDs and postdocs. Legal Issues in Computational Research Using Text and Data Mining with Dave Hansen, the Executive Director of the Authors Alliance. The Nexus, Hayden Library (14S-130) Here is the Link to register.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

I think about that all the time, when I see people doing cool things out in the world with backgrounds totally different from mine,” says Banks. Bringing this level of energy and support to her students means that Chua is actively practicing resting — she reserves her Tuesdays for sweatpants, research, and time with her dogs.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

You can feel it in your bones – the need to get out, to put down your pencil, to print out the final draft of your ten-page research paper, close your computer, and breathe. You’ll be up all night, bitter that you’re in the library when you want to be in your warm bed at home. I feel it, too. Use your favorite study spot.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2023

An essay that builds on the ChatGPT foundation, supplemented with additional research that must be cited in a bibliography. However, if this tool is to live up to its potential, it must mine the proprietary databases in which serious scholarship resides. The text that ChatGPT “wrote” in response to the prompt.

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