Serials Solutions

What's "Serials Solutions?" It's a software designed by a couple of librarians a few years ago that helps answer the question faculty and students often would like answered, namely, "Is ____magazine, or Journal of ____ online full text?" We have this software at Drake, it's the "What Journals are Full Text" line on our home page. It's not just for journals though, it covers magazines and newspapers too!
Use it to look for a specific title, or browse, look for all journals with the word "anthropology" or "economics" in them for example to get a sense of what online resources we have for your area of interest.

Why, you, @#$#*^%$#!!! ;-)

Even wonder where those words we sometimes euphemistically represent by symbols like "@#%$!!!" come from? Are they really "Anglo-Saxon?" Does the word "crap" actually come from some guy named Crapper? Find out the answers to these and much more in our new "Encyclopedia of Swearing: the social history of oaths, profanity, foul language..." It's in the reference collection, REF PE3724 .O3 H84.

More library construction fun!

Some very interesting work going on here lately at Drake Library; we had a technician in to use ground penetrating radar to "see" through the concrete floor. By doing that he could identify where the "rebar" is, the steel reinforcing rods in the concrete, and thus mark where there is only concrete, through which our campus workers could safely drill. The holes now being drilled will allow much neater and more expansive addition of electric and internet lines that running them above the floor. At left is the sort of image the radar tech saw when looking through the concrete - it reveals rebar about 3" below the surface (imagine a line drawn along the peaks of the dark line running left to right in the upper 1/3 of the image.)