New Natural Language Search Engine

There's a new natural language search engine that claims to consider the "meaning" and "context" of queries. The search engine uses several "grammar engines" to identify the relationships between words.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

The Future Of Librarians

Degree Tutor interviewed twenty-seven librarians and "thinkers" chat about the current state of libraries and what the future may hold for all of us. You can read a summary of the interviews here or go to this page and read the individual interviews.

UNCTV Broadcast on Community College Issues

On Tuesday, August 30th, UNCTV will broadcast "Discounted Dreams: High Hopes & Harsh Realities at America's Community Colleges". This presentation is part of The Merrow Report series of documentaries on youth and learning. You can go to this page now and read pdf transcripts of podcast interviews with some of the documentary participants.

The Blended Librarian

Read their definition of a Blended Librarian to find out why you might want to examine their Resources and Tools pages.

Creative Commons

Does your faculty know about the Creative Commons? You may be surprised by the answer. The Creative Commons is an alternative to traditional copyright procedure. Here’s a video that helps explain.

Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

GTCC has a new staff member

On July 2, 2007, the Guilford Tech library staff welcomed Alisha Webb as its newest team member. Alisha's primary duties are to provide reference and library instruction to users of our main Jamestown Campus library. Alisha's MLIS is recently from UNC Greensboro.

One of Alisha's goals is to build relationships especially with faculty so they and we can help as many of our students stay On Course. Alisha hopes to improve and expand, among other things, our provision of formal information literacy instruction in a classroom setting, our online subject guides, and our one-on-one help.

Alisha's phone is 336-334-4822, x2287. Her hours are 9am-1pm Monday-Friday.

Welcome, Alisha!

Facebook Hostile To Librarians?

You can read the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education and find out.