This is from a book review of a biography of Joseph Schumpeter, the economist best known for describing capitalism's "creative destruction."
While still in his 20s [c. 1910] he won an appointment to a chair in Czernowitz, an eastern outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where he found that his students were denied proper access to the library. Challenged to a duel by the school's librarian, he fought to help his students and, not least, to demonstrate his honor--satisfaktionsfähig--as an Austrian gentleman. By virtue of his swordsmanship, Schumpeter drew first blood, and the library's collection was made fully available to his students.
Had to share that.
"Perishable Goods"
by Robin Blackburn
The Nation
September 24, 2007
(We have access to some articles in the Nation but not others, and not this one, not yet.)
Friday, September 28, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
The Chemistry Assignment
The Chemistry Assignment will be going on over the next couple of weeks. What to do:
1. Make sure students use their quick reference guides (the front/back handout) to get ideas for places to look. Point them to the books or sit them at a computer and show them how to find the databases.
2. For more sources of information, and for extra copies of that guide or the assignment, check the course website.
3. If the Dictionary of Organic Compounds (online via ChemNetBase) doesn't lead to a synthesis reference, use SciFinder. The steps for doing so are outlined here. I'm leaving some copies at the reference desk. But feel free to print it out and give it to students.
4. Refer difficult cases to me.
Thanks!
1. Make sure students use their quick reference guides (the front/back handout) to get ideas for places to look. Point them to the books or sit them at a computer and show them how to find the databases.
2. For more sources of information, and for extra copies of that guide or the assignment, check the course website.
3. If the Dictionary of Organic Compounds (online via ChemNetBase) doesn't lead to a synthesis reference, use SciFinder. The steps for doing so are outlined here. I'm leaving some copies at the reference desk. But feel free to print it out and give it to students.
4. Refer difficult cases to me.
Thanks!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Two handy LC tips!
To print/save/open/etc. in the Office 2007 suite:
In the upper left-hand corner of the programs, there's a round button-type thing emblazoned with the multi-colored Windows "square" (easy to miss but here's a hint: it kind of glows). Click that to reveal a graphics-based version of our favorite File... menu.
To get headphones to work on a jack in the front of the Shuttles:
Plug the headphones into the pink microphone jack instead of the green headphone jack. Amy G. helped a patron last night and none of the jacks on the back worked. Fortunately, our handy TSA II, Swati, said that the microphone jack works on the headphones for some unknown reason.
In the upper left-hand corner of the programs, there's a round button-type thing emblazoned with the multi-colored Windows "square" (easy to miss but here's a hint: it kind of glows). Click that to reveal a graphics-based version of our favorite File... menu.
To get headphones to work on a jack in the front of the Shuttles:
Plug the headphones into the pink microphone jack instead of the green headphone jack. Amy G. helped a patron last night and none of the jacks on the back worked. Fortunately, our handy TSA II, Swati, said that the microphone jack works on the headphones for some unknown reason.
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