S.s. Librarianship

This Week...Mind Grapes: Sam may be abandoning Doctor Who again because of opinions, Alli is reading China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, and we both talk a little bit about the podcasts we love.Where do we put this?: Sam went to a talk about the past, present, and future of the Oxford English Dictionary, launching us into a discussion on traditional reference sources. Do we still use them? Do students still use them? And what do professors mean when they tell new students not to use encyclopaedias?Links: China MievilleThe Night of the Doctor: A Mini EpisodeThe BookRiot PodcastNerdist IndustriesMy Brother My Brother and MeRoderick on the LineWTF with Marc MaronDr. Stephan Dollinger at UBC Faculty of EnglishOxford English Dictionary OnlineThe Road to the OED: A History of English Language Dictionaries (UBC RBSC Exhibition)