George C. Gordon Library

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

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5:33

May 21, 2008

New Books at Gordon Library
Search & Browse our New Books, DVDs, and Library Materials

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3:22

February 15, 2008

CoExist Day 2008: Cultural Awareness at the Gordon Library

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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

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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

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2:34

October 23, 2007

LC Road Map: Library of Congress Classification System
Library of Congress Classification Outline | Library Catalog

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1:55

September 14, 2007

Google Goes to College
Scholar.google.com | Advanced Search Tips

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3:27

September 2007

Dr. Laddie Berka reflects on old chemistry library in Goddard Hall, before the Gordon Library opened
LINK:
Transcript (PDF)

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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

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1:32

August 15, 2007

QuickFIND multi-database search is a new tool which allows you to search many library databases as once.
GO Try QuickFIND

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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)

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19:03

April 26, 2007

Student Art Competition: Interviews with Student Artists, Faculty, Staff, and Judges

LINKS: Student Art Competition 2007

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12:47

April 20, 2007

Library Haiku by Greg Roberts

LINKS: WPI Library Haiku Entries

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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

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2:22

March 19, 2007

Snooze & Lose: Online News Archives

LINKS: Newspaper Databases | Top Online News Sites

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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

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5:11

February 12, 2007

Grey Literature, Grey Water

LINKS: Technical Reports | GrayLIT Network | TechXtra | Science.gov

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3:35

January 30, 2007

Stones of Ireland: Interview with Artist Lora Brueck

LINKS: Exhibit information

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6:04

January 22, 2007

43 Things in 43 Seconds

LINKS: 43 Things | Sites Featured

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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

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3:00

Dec 4, 2006

Code Talkers Interview & Exhibit in Library

LINKS: Code Talkers Information Resources

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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

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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

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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

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3:26

Nov 02, 2006

Ode to WorldCat - The Ultimate Catalog of Library Catalogs

LINKS: Worldcat | Open Worldcat

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1:48

Oct 25, 2006

Messy notes, citations & bookmarks galore? Cool Tool to Organize Your Research

LINK: Library RefWorks Information

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1:28

Oct 19, 2006

InfoWarlords: Video Games, Information Publishing and the Economic Census

LINKS: Economic Census | Hoovers.com | LexisNexisAcademic

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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

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2:31

Sept 22, 2006

eJournals Revolution - the Library is not run by Robots

LINKS: Instant Answers @ WPI | Library Journals Search

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2:31

Sept 19, 2006

Pirate Day @ the Gordon Library

LINKS: Treasure Hunt for all who dare | Library Journals Search

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1:24

Sept 11, 2006

Fire Codes are Dynamite

LINKS: NFPA Codes Online | Massachusetts State Building Code | Upcoming library workshops

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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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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:

What's the difference? Who do you think the target audience is for each? Check out the screen shots with results.

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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.

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February 17, 2006

Celebrate National Engineering Week! Bridging the Gap
Discover Engineering with Experiments Using Library Materials

Resources to explore:

Source for Bridging the Gap experiment: eweek.org

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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

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October 7, 2005

MESHing with Medical Professionals
Getting the most of out searching Pubmed databases for health and life sciences research.

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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

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September 22, 2005

Are You a Numbers Freak? MathWorld
Mathworld highlighted by a WPI senior math major as one of his favorite web sites.

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September 12, 2005

Are You a Word Freak? The wonders of the OED
WPI Gordon Library subscription Oxford English Dictionary, and their daily word.

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September 12, 2005

Ever Heard of Polycola?
How do Yahoo! and Google stack up? Polycola and SmartDevil's Thumbshot Rankings are highlighted.

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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.

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