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A collection of digitized primary resources regarding Southern US history, literature, and culture.
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Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments | In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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Add Sticky Notethe requirement that the student must have at least one print source, library databases and ebooks do not count
- I always thought this was a ridiculous requirement - it is the content and the source of the information that matters, not the format! - on 2009-03-25
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a flat ban on anything found online not only eliminates a large number of incredibly useful sources (census data, CDC info, LOC historical documents, etc.), but it also discourages using and developing critical thinking skills.
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New Search Service Aims to Answer Tough Questions - NYTimes.com
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Mr. Wolfram’s service does not search through Web pages, and it will not help with movie times or camera shopping. Instead it computes the answers to queries using enormous collections of data the company has amassed. It can quickly spit out facts like the average body mass index of a 40-year-old male, whether the Eiffel Tower is taller than Seattle’s Space Needle, and whether it is high tide in Miami right now.
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its “knowledge base” is made up of reams and reams of data — ranging from the kinds of facts you would find in a World Almanac, to highly specialized data from physics and other sciences — that some 100 employees at Wolfram Research have gathered, verified and organized over several years.
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