Here is a Science site recommended this week by The Scout Report (one of my favorite resources for finding new things on the web). And, of course, we are lucky enough to have a set of The American Journal of Science available right down the street at the MBLWHOI Libraryas well.

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Still looking for the perfect Halloween costume?? Don’t despair! Come visit the Reference Room and you can see all kinds of costume books, including one of my favorites ... our 1892 Masquerade and Carnival: their customs and costumes. As it says in the introduction: “Among the most pleasing forms of entertainment are those festivities which require the adoption of masquerade…

Stop by the reference room, and you can see a gorgeous new reference book: The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera by Peggy Alrich and Wesley Higgins. According to their publisher, Cornell University Press:

“The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera…

The world of databases is constantly changing, and it is definitely hard to keep up. Yesterday, for example, I was helping someone on MassAnswers with a question about the Squirrel Lodge Motor Court which used to be just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. During the course of researching this question, I discovered that Ancestry Library…

Literary Database Saves the Day or My Report Is Due Tomorrow and There’s a Hurricane Outside!

My peak experience with the Literary Reference Center began when a high school student and her mother appeared in the library one afternoon. “I need stories and poems that have something to do with medicine.” “Hmm,” I thought,…

The Library of Congress has amazing photograph collections, and they have recently made them even easier to explore. They have added large photograph collections to flickr (the same site that we use to share some of our library photos). This is their description of what they are adding:

“We are offering two sets of…

“In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be.” – Allen Smith, PhD

I’ve been thinking…

So you need a quick copy of the Declaration of Independence? You want a reliable source, not one that anyone in the world can change the wording on? Try our on-line database of the World Book Encyclopedia! All twenty-two volumes right at your fingertips! There is even World Book Kids which has suggestions for activities (in case in happens to…