Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The Natural Science Reference Librarian blog

Welcome! You are reading a post on my new Natural Science Reference Librarian blog. Until now, I have been adding posts to this blog in order to get the feel of blogging, but have not actively told faculty and students about this blog. But, now it's time to start spreading the word about it.

I am the WMU Libraries' new science librarian, and am also the liaison to the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Geosciences departments and the Environmental Studies program. My office is behind the Science Reference Desk in Waldo Library on WMU's West Campus.

My goal for this blog is to provide another means of communication between me and WMU students, faculty, and staff in the departments and program I "liaise" with.

So, in the future, how do you access this blog? You can:

1. see the blog at the blog web site or
2. seethe blog at the parallel blog site on the WMU Libraries site or
3. subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog and have new posts sent to you.

If you're wondering what is an RSS feed and why it is useful, take a look at a brief blurb on the Science Magazine web site called "Using RSS Feeds," and another, called "What is a web feed?," on the Nature web site. You can also email me or call me at 387-5142.

I hope to post roughly once a week information about science resources available through the library. But, that is simply a goal, and this blog is an experiment. If you have any suggestions for this blog, feel free to let me know.

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