Here be dragons: libraries and e-resources

Here be dragons? Libraries and e-resources Dr Emma Coonan Research Skills Librarian, Cambridge University Library Cambridge University Library

What’s your experience of libraries? Image © Adib Roy, flickr.com

“ The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books . They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public …” ( Sir William Osler, 1917 )

Study = discovering unknown territory … Image © Bruno Girin, flickr.com

Image © kaet44, flickr.com … and mapping out the landscape for yourself

Libraries link to worlds of information
“ The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries…. From any of the hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower floors … I say that the Library is unending.”
Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Library of Babel’

3 useful tools for mapping your information landscape
Cambridge Libraries Gateway LibrarySearch catalogue [email_address]

www.cam.ac.uk/libraries

http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources

3 useful tools for mapping your information landscape
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1 essential element for success

Critical vision Your ability to analyse and evaluate information for its accuracy, reliability and scholarly worth

Where exactly does “Here be dragons” appear? Erin C. Blake, 1999 http://www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html

Erin C. Blake, 1999 http://www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html

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Here be dragons: libraries and e-resources

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