Science at Collins

Because Wednesday is travel day, Visiting Reference at Harned is cancelled. If you aren’t travelling and dd have a question, just stop by Collins Library or email your librarian!

I’ll see you back next week!

The third week in November is Geographic Awareness Week, and contains, smack in the middle, national GIS day, so I wanted to highlight some of the geographic information resources we have here at Collins, since geography is so much a part of many scientific investigations.

Check out some of the resources at Collins, and some of the materials that are available online, at the Geographic Information page.

I think the National Environmental Atlas is particularly exciting—you can build and browse maps in eleven categories, spanning from the biology of invasive species to Congressional Districts.

Recently, some changes were made to the campus networks that caused some difficulty in connecting with databases, especially Lexis-Nexis. Our technology team has worked hard, and we think everything is updated, but if you run into any trouble, please let us know!

This reminded me that we depend on you to tell us when access is out of order, and, of course, we want to make sure things are as easy for you as possible. So if something seems out of whack, don’t assume it’s you–let us know! We’re always happy to help.

You can always mention a problem to anyone at the library; they’ll fix the problem or refer you to the person who can. Or call or email your science liaison, leave a comment here, or email libtech(at)pugetsound.edu for tech help!