At the beginning of each semester, we frequently get asked, “Does the Library have this textbook?” Generally speaking, the Library does not purchase textbooks as part of its collection development — in part, because textbooks are updated so often that having the most recent edition used in each course would be cost-prohibitive. There are enough [...]
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Library Hack – Ditch the pencil, take your smartphone to the stacks!
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
With these simple library hacks you can ditch the pencil and find Pepperdine Library items using your smartphone! We’ve seen students taking photos of computer screens (particularly the call numbers in library catalog records) with their phones and using those photos to find books in our Library stacks. Pepperdine’s Catalog (WorldCat Local) uses persistent links to [...]
Library Hack – Silencing your computer’s startup sounds
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
If you’ve ever turned on your laptop in a quiet area of the Library (unleashing this noise or that noise) and been the recipient of nearby studiers’ ire, Lifehacker has some tips for how to silence your computer’s startup sounds and boot like a ninja.
Library Hack – Help for your New Year’s Resolution to Read More
Monday, January 30th, 2012
In writing to a university community which undoubtedly reads a lot in the normal course of business, a New Year’s resolution to “read more” is less about a quantity of material consumed and more about the mental list we all have of the books or articles we would like to read. WorldCat Lists is a [...]
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