2025: The Future of Library

Thinking of ten years from now, how the role of library will change in our daily life? As a college student, library to me is a place to get resources for academic uses as well as a place for studying. With my working experience in the library, I have a lot more encounters with…

Information As A Privilege

In the past couple of weeks, I have come to value something I took for granted for so long, and that is…

Research Tools — Reviewing Zotero

What is Zotero?

Zotero is free to use software that allows the user to save, organize, and cite tons of online scholarly sources. Zotero was made and is run by the Roy Rosenzweig center for History and new Media but is an open source…

The Writers of Wikipedia

Who actually writes the vast sea of knowledge that is Wikipedia?

Who Writes Wikipedia? Should We Become One of Them?

“In your assignment, do not use Wikipedia as your sources, not even take a look at it.” Every time when my high school teachers assigned projects that included possible web search, they would emphasize Wikipedia is not the site you would…

Libraries As Publishers

One of the biggest issues that comes with scholarly journals is not having them be accessible or affordable to the…

Mendeley: A Reference Tool Review

As a student in college, one of the things that is inevitable is research. Regardless of your major…

What I wish I had Known: Hidden Value of Libraries

Who Writes Wikipedia?!

We all have to just come out and admit it: Wikipedia is undoubtedly an irreplaceable resource for basic information about whatever it is we need to know.

I can think of countless times in my own life where I have turned to Wikipedia for reliable information on a…