Library Audio to Go: Podcast Archive

2008-2009 Podcast Series

2007-2008 Podcast Series

Date	Title & Description	Listen
June 12, 2008	George Gladwin Exhibit at the Gordon Library	View online 5:33
May 21, 2008	New Books at Gordon Library Search & Browse our New Books, DVDs, and Library Materials	View online 3:22
February 15, 2008	CoExist Day 2008: Cultural Awareness at the Gordon Library	View online \| .m4v 1:24
December 11, 2007	Wise Giving: Best Web Sites for Information about Charities and Nonprofits Charity Watch \| Wise Giving Alliance \| Charity Navigator \| Foundation Center 990 Finder \| Guidestar	Listen 2:44
November 21, 2007	Design It, Build It: From Parking Lots to Green Buildings Architectural Graphic Standards \| Planning and Urban Design Standards \| Library Catalog	Listen 2:34
October 23, 2007	LC Road Map: Library of Congress Classification System Library of Congress Classification Outline \| Library Catalog	Watch .m4v Listen 1:55
September 14, 2007	Google Goes to College Scholar.google.com \| Advanced Search Tips	View online \| .m4v Listen 3:27
September 2007	Dr. Laddie Berka reflects on old chemistry library in Goddard Hall, before the Gordon Library opened LINK: Transcript (PDF)	Listen 1:22
September 6, 2007	Friday Night Fight: Yahoo! News vs. the Real Thing (or using the library journal search) EU's Rare Bird Conservation Policy Works \| Journal Search	View online \| .m4v Listen 1:32
August 15, 2007	QuickFIND multi-database search is a new tool which allows you to search many library databases as once. Try QuickFIND	Watch 4:17

2006-2007 Podcast Series

Date	Title & Description	Listen
August 7, 2007	Gordon Library @ 40 - Dedication Address given by Dr. Mark van Doren, October 28, 1967 (Read by Associate Provost Lance E. Schacterle) LINKS: Transcript of address (PDF)	Listen 19:03
April 26, 2007	Student Art Competition: Interviews with Student Artists, Faculty, Staff, and Judges LINKS: Student Art Competition 2007	Listen 12:47
April 20, 2007	Library Haiku by Greg Roberts LINKS: WPI Library Haiku Entries	Listen 1:11
April 7, 2007	Two Space Cadets in a Carriage Return to the Bar: Resources to Assist with Unruly Rules of Grammar & Punctuation LINKS: Chicago Manual of Style Q&A \| Strunk's 1918 Elements of Style \| The Language Log \| William Safire \| Jan Freeman \| WPI Writing Center for Communication Across the Curriculum	Listen 2:22
March 19, 2007	Snooze & Lose: Online News Archives LINKS: Newspaper Databases \| Top Online News Sites	Listen 4:35
February 23, 2007	Transactions of the Yada Yada: The Mysterious, Elusive Conference Proceeding LINKS: Conferences, Meetings, Proceedings, & Symposia \| Directory of Published Proceedings \| Scholarly Societies Project	Listen 5:11
February 12, 2007	Grey Literature, Grey Water LINKS: Technical Reports \| GrayLIT Network \| TechXtra \| Science.gov	Listen 3:35
January 30, 2007	Stones of Ireland: Interview with Artist Lora Brueck LINKS: Exhibit information	Listen 6:04
January 22, 2007	43 Things in 43 Seconds LINKS: 43 Things \| Sites Featured	Listen 0:59
Dec 7, 2006	eBook Snippets & Digital Collections LINKS: Amazon's A9 \| Google Books \| Other Digital Collections \| WPI Electronic Books \| Machinery’s Handbook via Knovel	Listen 3:00
Dec 4, 2006	Code Talkers Interview & Exhibit in Library LINKS: Code Talkers Information Resources	Listen 5:30
Nov 22, 2006	Author Stalking 101: Online Biographical Information LINKS: eAudio FAQ \| Biography Resource Center \| LEXIS NEXIS Academic choose Reference > Biographical Information \| Biography.com \| Who2.com	Listen 2:38
Nov 17, 2006	Meta Analysis by Cell Phone? Life Saving Tips LINKS: Metacritic \| Rotten Tomatoes \| PsycINFO - research database which you can limit to studies that are meta analyses \| Wikipedia Critique of Metacritic	Listen 2:02
Nov 10, 2006	Mix and Mash - Google Earth, Virtual Earth & Beyond LINKS: Mashup \| MapQuest \| Google Maps \| Google Earth \| Local Live \| TerraServer \| Chicago Crime Map \| HEALTHmap Global disease alert mapping system \| Mashup Feed \| Google Moon \| Google Mars	Listen 3:26
Nov 02, 2006	Ode to WorldCat - The Ultimate Catalog of Library Catalogs LINKS: Worldcat \| Open Worldcat	Listen 1:48
Oct 25, 2006	Messy notes, citations & bookmarks galore? Cool Tool to Organize Your Research LINK: Library RefWorks Information	Listen 1:28
Oct 19, 2006	InfoWarlords: Video Games, Information Publishing and the Economic Census LINKS: Economic Census \| Hoovers.com \| LexisNexisAcademic	Listen 4:58
Oct 09, 2006	Anatomy of a Reference Book LINKS: Gray's Anatomy 39th edition Reference \| Bartleby.com Grays \| CA Academy of Sciences Skull Animal Match \| Animal Skull Collection	Listen 2:31
Sept 22, 2006	eJournals Revolution - the Library is not run by Robots LINKS: Instant Answers @ WPI \| Library Journals Search	Listen 2:31
Sept 19, 2006	Pirate Day @ the Gordon Library LINKS: Treasure Hunt for all who dare \| Library Journals Search	Listen 1:24
Sept 11, 2006	Fire Codes are Dynamite LINKS: NFPA Codes Online \| Massachusetts State Building Code \| Upcoming library workshops	Listen 2:46
Aug 29, 2006	From the Magic 8 Ball to the Etch-A-Sketch to Your Cell Phone The Inner workings... a peek inside how things work LINKS: HowStuffWorks \| ehow \| madehow & how products are made (Reference) \| company museums, industry museums, and industrial tours : a guidebook of sites in the United States that are open to the public (Reference) \| factorytoursusa	Listen 2:26

2005-2006 Podcast Series

Date	Title & Description	Listen
Summer, 2006	Two Towers WPI faculty, staff, alumni, and students are reading this story by Mildred McClary Tymeson during the summer months of 2006 for the podcast, which you can also subscribe to or listen while online. More...	Listen
April 28, 2006	National Poetry Month - Children Selecting Books in a Library For National Poetry Month, we are featuring Randall Jarrell's poem Children Selecting Books in a Library, from his Complete Poems, available in the General Collection PS3519 A86 A17 1969.	Listen
April 7, 2006	Liquid Propelled Research: Patent Searching Using the USPTO Learn about Robert H. Goddard and his rocketry patents and searching the USPTO for U.S. patents. More info on patents...	Listen
March 31, 2006	Change Your World @ Your Library - Celebrating WPI Student Authors Learn about award winning undergraduate student projects and how to search for them within the library catalog by chosing the Project Reports drop down limit. Check out National Library Week events...	Listen
March 9, 2006	Digging into the Deep or Invisible Web: The Molten Core Check out University of California at Berkeley researcher's How Much Information? project. Also, compare the first five results on a search on deep ocean drilling in these three research tools: Google LexisNexis Academic - WPI only (subscription database) Engineering Village (Compendex & INSPEC) - WPI only (subscription database) What's the difference? Who do you think the target audience is for each? Check out the screen shots with results.	Listen
February 24, 2006	TESS, Findlaw and Victor's Little Secret You may want to choose a name for your product or company that won’t get you in hot water later on. Learn about Victor and Victoria, searching USPTO TESS - Trademark Electronic Search System, and FindLaw.	Listen
February 17, 2006	Celebrate National Engineering Week! Bridging the Gap Discover Engineering with Experiments Using Library Materials Resources to explore: Builders: Marvels of Engineering by National Geographic Society Bridges. You don't want to build a galloping gertie! If you have never seen this video, stop by the library and check it out. In 22 minutes learn the history of bridges, the various uses of bridges, and the four basic bridge designs--beam, arch, suspension, and pontoon. It includes famous bridges and features actual footage of the spectacular collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. Building Bridges: NOVA Superbridge online game Source for Bridging the Gap experiment: eweek.org	Listen
September 22, 2005	Secret Ingredients of the 10K - Beyond the Financials Corporations that trade on public stock exchanges in the U. S. (NYSE, NASDAQ) are required to file an annual report (10-K or 20-F for foreign firms) with the Securities Exchange Commission. Glean important information about companies by searching these reports. Links: SEC, Hoovers, Thomson One Banker, Coca Cola Investor Relations	Listen
October 7, 2005	MESHing with Medical Professionals Getting the most of out searching Pubmed databases for health and life sciences research.	Listen
September 22, 2005	Secret Ingredients of the 10K - Beyond the Financials Corporations that trade on public stock exchanges in the U. S. (NYSE, NASDAQ) are required to file an annual report (10-K or 20-F for foreign firms) with the Securities Exchange Commission. Glean important information about companies by searching these reports. Links: SEC, Hoovers, Thomson One Banker, Coca Cola Investor Relations	Listen
September 22, 2005	Are You a Numbers Freak? MathWorld Mathworld highlighted by a WPI senior math major as one of his favorite web sites.	Listen
September 12, 2005	Are You a Word Freak? The wonders of the OED WPI Gordon Library subscription Oxford English Dictionary, and their daily word.	Listen
September 12, 2005	Ever Heard of Polycola? How do Yahoo! and Google stack up? Polycola and SmartDevil's Thumbshot Rankings are highlighted.	Listen
August 15, 2005	Interactive Audio Tour of the Library User's Guide (PDF file) Take an audio tour of Gordon Library. We recommend that you borrow or bring your own mp3 player with the downloaded audio tour to Gordon Library.	Listen

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