When exams are over and your last paper is turned in, indulge in some reading that doesn’t involve highlighting or taking notes. This year’s Winter Break Reading Guide explores information technology and its role in our everyday lives. The collection includes five books from Amazon’s Best of 2007 list and covers everything from […]

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Final exams are in full swing and the library is open 24 hours a day until it closes on Friday, December 21, at 10 pm. For tips on everything from how to increase your memory to creating online flash cards, visit this collection of Study Tips from Lifehacker. And don’t forget the importance […]

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If you can’t answer a question on one of your final exams you can always go the creative route. You may not get any points for it, but you might get a laugh!
Check out this collection of Funny Student Exam Answers for inspiration.

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Rest your weary eyes and give your ears a chance to absorb some knowledge for a change. The National Academies provides a weekly podcast series, The Sounds of Science:
This informative and entertaining weekly series of audio podcasts puts the spotlight on the high-impact work of the National Academies. Focusing on a wide range […]

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Money making strategies at your fingertips. Visit our “New Book” shelf for recent arrivals on Finance and Risk Engineering.
Links below will redirect you to publishers’ webpages where you will find more information.
Analysis of Financial Time Series by Ruey S. Tsay
Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return edited by Rohan Douglas
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Sometimes it’s easy to think our electronic devices have minds of their own. No doubt we’ve all wanted to yell at our computers at some point for behaving badly, and some of us probably have. But has it ever yelled back?
It’s not as far fetched as it may sound. Kelly Dobson of […]

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Save time researching your favorite topics by having new information come to you. Depending on the database, you can have the latest table of contents from a particular journal or the latest article citations on a certain topic sent directly to your email.
Click the image to the right to view a three-minute demonstration on […]

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