Buy College Textbooks (Used & Out-of-Print) at Borders Marketplace and Save

If you're looking for some deals on your fall textbooks, you might check out Borders as well as Amazon.com and the MCTC Bookstore, of course.

Buy College Textbooks (Used & Out-of-Print) at Borders Marketplace and Save

And, along those lines, if you're taking my Fall classes, INFS 1000 and LIBT 2210, here are the texts you will need:

INFS 1000:
William Badke's Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, 3rd edition, 2008. ISBN 978-0-595-47747-0
Yes, you want the 3rd edition for the course. I know that it is possible to find used copies of older editions online, but you want the more up to date edition.

LIBT 2210:
Nancy Mulvany's Indexing Books, 2nd edition, 2005. ISBN 978-0226552767
Yes, you want the 2nd edition for the course. The first edition is WAY out of date.

David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous, 2007. ISBN 978-0805088113

If you want to get electronic versions (PDF, Kindle, etc.) of any of these works, that's fine with me. Just have them. :)

Changes in course designators

Oh, the wacky machinations of higher education.

During Spring Semester 2010, the coding for MCTC Library Information Technology career program courses was changed from INFS (Information Studies) to LIBT, although they are all taught by Information Studies faculty and offered by the Information Studies department. So, as we move forward in the tagging for this blog, you'll start to see courses tagged LIBT 1200, LIBT 2210, LIBT 2200, LIBT 2900. Those are the same as the ones that had been tagged previously as INFS 1200, INFS 2210, INFS 2200, INFS 2900. But, some courses I teach (INFS 1000) stay with the INFS coding.

Is Weed Killer in Drinking Water Dangerous? Govt. Is Letting the Chemical Industry Come Up with the Answer | | AlterNet

How many industry-funded studies do you think will show that atrazine is harmful to the environment and/or humans? How many of those studies do you think will be published in peer-reviewed journals that people can obtain and read for themselves?

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MinnPost - St. Thomas Prof. John Abraham in royal smackdown with global-warming denier Christopher Monckton

This is what can happen when you take the time to research what someone says and do your own fact-checking.

MinnPost - St. Thomas Prof. John Abraham in royal smackdown with global-warming denier Christopher Monckton

Back from the missing, er, I mean, back from sabbatical!

I've been on sabbatical for Spring 2010, but now it's time to get back at it and prepare for fall.