last chance!!!

Get in some library time before skipping town. We are open normal hours (7:30am - 12:30am) today, 7:30am - 8pm Tuesday, and 8am - noon Wednesday. Take care of that research now, or come December 1st you'll wish you had....just sayin'.

don't get got

NY Times recently published an article, A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence, that you might read as a cautionary tale about the potential danger of using online sources. Some guys "created an elaborate Internet hoax complete with a fake policy institute and a phony adviser to Senator John McCain." Think you're more clever than the folks at Fox News and MSNBC that fell for it? Possibly.

What do you know about the people or organization responsbile for an article/webpage/poll? How can you check up on them? There are lots of clever little pranksters out there...watch your back.

Go "TEL" it on the mountain!

Lila is curious. How many of you know about TEL? Tennessee Electronic Library is free to every Tennessean and library serving the state. It provides a wide array of resources, including:

EBSCO’s Points of View Reference Center includes full-text articles, images, videos, primary source documents that explore multiple sides of a current issue.

Gale’s databases link to hundreds of millions of articles and entries in reference books, scholarly and popular publications, from literary criticism to health and wellness resources. Access multiple types of articles and resources from 1 search box!

LearningExpress Library offers practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests.

NewsBank’s Tennessee Newspaper Collection provides full-text coverage of The Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The Commercial Appeal, Knoxville News-Sentinel, and The Tennessean.

ProQuest's HeritageQuest Online contains over 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history resources, federal census records, Revolutionary War pension application files, and more.

ALL of this and more! Let Lila know how you're using TEL!

a friendly reminder...VOTE!

need some inspiration? here are some reasons to vote from the literary blogosphere.

need to get informed? here are some resources.

need to figure out where you vote? use the nashville polling place locator.

Please let Lila know of any other voting-related information needs!