College Libraries and Student Culture: What We Now Know
How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that question. The resulting ongoing study has already yielded some eye-opening results. The findings suggest changes ranging from simple adjustments in service and resources to modifying the physical layout of the library. In this book Duke and Asher, two anthropological researchers involved with the project since the beginning,
The Smith College Classical Studies are published from time to time by the Departments of Greek and Latin of Smith College, and have for their main object the encouragement of research in classical literature, archaeology, and antiquities by providing an opportunity for the publication of studies in these fields by scholars connected with Smith College, as teachers, graduate students, or alumnae.
This cutting-edge multimedia series — now in its third edition and expanded — prepares students for the challenge of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking and note-taking strategies and skills. Targeting corpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List, this content-based series ensures that students learn the vocabulary they are most likely to encounter in an academic setting.
