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A research tip from a friendly neighborhood librarian! 

I want to introduce you to the wonderful world of subject librarians and Libguides. 

I’m sure it’s common knowledge that scholars and writers have academic specialties. The same is true for subject librarians! Most libraries use a tool called Libguides to amass and describe resources on a given topic, course, work, person, etc. (I use them for everything. All hail Libguides.) These resources can include: print and ebooks, databases, journals, full-text collections, films/video, leading scholars, data visualizations, recommended search terms, archival collections, digital collections, reliable web resources, oral histories, and professional organizations. 

So, consider that somewhere out there in the world, there may be a librarian with a subject specialty on the topic you’re writing on, and this librarian may have made a libguide for it. 

Are you writing about vampires? 

Duquesne University has a guide on Dracula

University of Northern Iowa: Monsters and Religion

Fontbonne University has a particularly good one on Monsters, Ghosts, and Mysteries

Washington University in St. Louis: a course guide on Monsters and Strangeness 

How about poverty? 

Michigan State: Poverty and Inequality with great recommended terms and links to datasets 

Notre Dame: a multimedia guide on Poverty Studies.

Do you need particular details about how medicine or hygiene was practiced in early 20th century America?

UNC Chapel Hill: Food and Nutrition through the 20th Century (with a whole section on race, gender, and class)

Brown University: Primary Sources for History of Health in the Americas

Duke University: Ad*Access, a digital collection of advertisements from the early 20th century, with a section on beauty and hygiene  

You can learn about Japanese Imperial maps, the American West, controlled vocabularies, Crimes against art and art forgeries, anti-Catholicism, East European and Eurasian vernacular languages, geology, vaudeville, home improvement and repairs, big data, death and dying, and conspiracy theories.

Because you’re searching library collections, you won’t have access to all the content in the guides, and there will probably be some link rot (dead links), but you can still request resources through your own library with interlibrary loan, or even request that your library purchase the resources! Even without the possibility of full-text access, libguides can give you the words, works, people, sites, and collections to improve your research.

Search [your topic] + libguide and see what you get!

#truly a unifying experience

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Yes.

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This finally popped up again, reblogging for it gets better every time!!!!

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

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likes to charge, reblogs to cast

So.... We'll never be able to give him up????

One day Rick Astley will die and noone will click on the article link

This is exactly why I follow you.

Why do I follow you?!

I thought this was a master joke first and then the blog name came up

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“dust motes dancing like tiny burning stars in the morning light, stray strands of hair tumbling past their place behind ears, smudges of dark ink of fingertips pressing prints on stark paper, patches of spilled tea over an ending pile of homework, the smell of rotted books in a timeless library, the flash off light reflecting off the gold decorating your fingers, the flicker of candles with no shadow, the endless search for liminal places.”

[Knocking on doors for personality donations] Post #1 - To draw your Kind Attention please

[Knocking on doors for personality donations] Post #1 – To draw your Kind Attention please

“Can you take a few minutes to talk about our -” and the door slams. I understand, no one likes a door to door caller. That doesn’t mean that I have not received what I want. Oh wait, starting from the middle makes no sense – literally and metaphorically.

So, I am not a salesman, I am a collector of sorts – I go around taking whatever I am offered. Everyone over here does. No man is an island.…

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