SAMFORD SECRET PROJECT

Remember the "Samford Secret" project? Well there is now a website. Flash must be working in order to view the site.

It's really excellent. Kudos to Jonathan Haas and the Samford Secret team: http://www.samfordsecret.com/

SUPPORT THE LIBRARY WITH AMAZON

Did you know that you can support the University Library every time you shop at online retailers such as Amazon?

You can! And we know you want to! Please visit http://library.samford.edu/about/support.html.

ROMEO AND JULIET ON TWITTER

Here's a novel use for Twitter. The Royal Shakespeare Company is using it to perform scenes from Romeo and Juliet. Check it out here: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23823525-rsc-uses-twitter-to-perform-romeo-and-juliet-scenes.do You can also view it here: http://www.suchtweetsorrow.com/

Thanks to Jennifer Taylor for submitting this post.

Relevancy ranking . . . like Google does

When you search your favorite search engine, you are accustomed to having the search results sorted by relevancy. In relevancy ranking, the results are sorted so that those near the top of the list will likely be more relevant to your search.
EBSCO has recently improved its relevancy ranking, and has offered the library the option to make this type of ranking the default in all EBSCO databases. We thought we would give it a try. Once you've performed a search, you'll have the option of sorting the results in date descending order, the former default, if you wish.
Here's a short video of how this process might work. You'll notice on the right side of your results list in these databases a box that you can use to ask us librarians any questions you might have, or to lodge a complaint if you don't like this new ranking. You can also let us know what you think by contacting the reference desk at reference@samford.edu

Alabama Energy Efficient Appliance Program

Learn more about the Alabama Energy Efficient Appliance Program from the Government Documents blog.

Library of Congress & Twitter Archive

From the Government Documents blog, the Library of Congress will digitally archive tweets from Twitter.