Since deciding to give up buying books and music during Lent (I have a bit of a problem), I've started using the library system here for some of my non-application reading.
The university library system recently launched a new, more dynamic catalog searching tool called "Lens." Find it here: http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/. Yesterday while looking up a book I ended up following a search trail and discovering that the brother of a classmate of mine had written a book about the Phillipines. Cool.
The library also a "suggestions and opinions" blog: http://lib.typepad.com/suggest.
Topics range from "I couldn't find that book!" to "please put grease on the shelving carts as they are really loud." Awesome.
Every month the university also publishes a list of its new acquisitions here: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/newbooks/. So that way you can find out if your professor's book is on our shelves, or if we got that copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Stuff and Other Stuff in.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Resources at The University of Chicago Libraries
