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Here be dragons? Libraries and e-resourcesDr Emma CoonanResearch Skills Librarian, Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library
What’s your experience of libraries?
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Librarians ...
“ ... 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)
www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html
“That English mapmakers formerly placed the phrase ‘here be dragons’ at the edges of their known world has somehow become general knowledge ...”
(Erin C. Blake, 1999)
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Study = discovering unknown territory …
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… 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(Plus)
eresources@cambridge
Find your library
www.cam.ac.uk/libraries
See what’s in Cambridge libraries
http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk
See what’s in Cambridge libraries ... and beyond
http://searchplus.lib.cam.ac.uk
Explore specialist collections and gateways
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/eresources
3 useful tools for mapping your information landscape
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1 essential element for success
Your ability to analyse and evaluate information for its accuracy, reliability
and scholarly worth
Critical vision
www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html
“That English mapmakers formerly placed the phrase ‘here be dragons’ at the edges of their known world has somehow become general knowledge ...”
(Erin C. Blake, 1999)
www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html
“Here is the list of all known historical maps on which these words appear:
”
www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html
“Here is the list of all known historical maps on which these words appear:
“In other words, there aren’t any.”
Erin C. Blake, 1999http://www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html
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