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The Lamont News-List lamontnews-list(a)fas.harvard.edu
January 11, 2005
http://hcl.harvard.edu/lamont
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Don't forget: as is our custom during Reading Period and Exams, Lamont
remains open every day--including Fridays and Saturdays--from 8 a.m. to
12:45 a.m. So arrive early . . . or stay late between now and January
24th!
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IN THIS ISSUE:
-- Recommend Some Good Reading: You've Still Got Time!
Add your favorite title(s) to our list and you'll qualify for a
great **prize**
-- Looking for copies of old final exams?
Link into them right from Lamont's home page
-- Get Late Night Research Help in Lamont
If you're finishing a research paper or project this week, a
Lamont Reference Desk Prefect can answer your questions!
-- Cool Tools in Lamont
LET'S GO 2005 travel guides are here
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RECOMMEND SOME GOOD READING: THERE'S STILL TIME
. . . and win a **prize** just for doing so!
You can't beat this deal. Send us the title of a good book, describe what
you like about it, and you'll automatically qualify to win a great prize:
a $10 Starbucks coffee card AND a Lamont stainless steel travel mug.
Since we sent out our first call, in the December 17, 2004 issue of the
Lamont News-List, we've been receiving some really interesting and
eclectic titles from our subscribers. Now it's your turn to add to our
mix!
Let us know what you read during the Winter Break. Or what you're dying
to read once exams are over. Or just tell us about a book you think other
people might want to know about.
Books on any and every subject are welcome!
DEADLINE TO ENTER THE DRAWING: **JANUARY 19, 2005**
Winners will be chosen at random and notified by email.
We'll publish the suggestions in our next issue of the Lamont
News-List--just in time for Intersession!
Send your suggestions to sgilroy(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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LOOKING FOR OLD FAS EXAMS?
Link to them right from Lamont's home page
http://hcl.harvard.edu/lamont/resources/exams.html
Old FAS final exams (some dating back as far as 1997) are available online
at the address above. Although you'll find a generous selection of
materials, not every instructor or every course is represented here.
Harvard faculty are not obligated to post exams, and many do not
participate in the program.
Remember, too, that much of the material on this page will be dated: exams
typically make their way online two full terms (or more) after they've
been administered. Courses can change drastically from year to year, even
when they're taught by the same instructor.
That said, there are also many good reasons to take a look at the page.
Understanding something about the parts of an exam or the general shape
that questions may take can help minimize pre-test anxiety by giving you
a sense of what might be expected of you and in how much time.
Lamont retains no paper copies of old FAS exams, but several other Harvard
libraries do. We've also listed these libraries, and what we know about
the FAS exams they have in print, at the web address above.
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LATE NIGHT REFERENCE AND RESEARCH HELP IN LAMONT
Or, what to do after the librarian goes home
You had good intentions. You meant to finish up that final paper during
Winter Recess. But somehow, between the visits with friends and family,
the holiday cheer, and the luxury of having whole days to yourself again,
your research never quite managed to get done.
And now, at 10 p.m. one early January night, it hits you: the Reading
Period deadline for that paper is creeping ever closer. With just a
little bit of direction, you know you could get the research process
started and keep your rising sense of panic at bay. But Widener is
closing. . . and while Lamont will be open a few hour longer, its friendly
Reference Librarians have gone home. Your research-whiz roommate has
fallen asleep and it's too late to phone your TF. Where should you turn?
Here's a solution: bring your questions to a Lamont Library Reference Desk
Prefect.
Prefects are undergraduates hired to staff the Reference Desk "after
hours," 4 nights each week, Sundays through Wednesdays, from 8:30-11:30
p.m. They can point you toward the language dictionaries, or help you
search the HOLLIS catalog, of course, but you'll find them tremendously
helpful in solving more complicated research conundrums, too.
Tell them what you're looking for and they'll know where to get it.
They'll give you good advice on the databases to start with or work with
you to figure out what to do next. And if they can't answer your
question, they'll pass it along to a Lamont Reference Librarian, for
follow-up the very next day.
The Lamont Reference Desk is only footsteps away, and on Sundays, Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, it's always open late! Reference Prefects can
also be reached by phone, at 5-2451.
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COOL TOOLS IN LAMONT:
LET'S GO 2005 travel guides have arrived on our shelves!
If you're planning a great escape from Cambridge during Intersession, we
have good news for you: LET'S GO 2005 guides have arrived in Lamont!
Written by Harvard students, LET'S GO bills itself as the "bible of the
budget traveler," and each guide is packed with information that will help
you stretch your dollars further, find hidden deals, and decide what you
should splurge on.
This year, three new travel guides--for Ecuador, Peru, and Vietnam--have
been added to the series, bringing the total number of guides to 45.
LET'S GO 2005 guides are kept on Lamont's Reference shelves [REF ROOM G
153 .6]. These can't leave the library, because they're in such high
demand, especially in the Spring term, when undergraduates comp for summer
positions at LET'S GO. However, earlier editions--from 2003 and 2004--can
be checked out. You'll find them in the travel collection in our
Farnsworth Room on Level 5.
The LET'S GO website (
http://www.letsgo.com) is also worth a look for
additional travel information, airfare specials, currency conversion
tables, and the like. You'll even find online versions of the LET'S GO
guides posted here.
And by the way: LET'S GO guides aren't the only travel books you'll find
in Lamont. FODOR guides and even a few books from the _City Secrets_
series are also shelved in the travel collection in the Farnsworth Room.
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HAVE A TOPIC you'd like to see us cover in a future issue of the Lamont
News-List? A research question you need answered? A tip you want
to pass along to other Lamont News-List readers? All suggestions welcome!
Send your thoughts and comments to sgilroy(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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