Hi-ho, A Delgado the Librarian here, reporting to you LIVE from a Thursday evening shift at the reference desk.
I'm only here for 2 hours today, gentle readers. Things have been quiet & crickety for about the last 30 minutes which has given me an opportunity to update the blogolio.
I spent some time with a student this evening working on citing YouTube videos in MLA format. Trickery I tell you, trickery! It turns out that ACC actually has a YouTube citation example on our MLA student guide page which is pretty nice (and unexpected). Oh holy smokes, readers! There's even an example for citing a Tweet in MLA. WHOA! Student and I kept second guessing ourselves whether or not to list the YouTube username as video author/creator. In the end we opted not to since we weren't confident that the YouTube username was actually the author/creator. It turns out (I've had 2 turns in this posting, does that mean I've done a 360?) that Student was asking for citation help on the paper Zhe was writing for the application for UT's Advertising program. I felt all sorts of special, not to mention scared. Luckily, Student was going to ask for help from an American Literature professor which alleviated some of my fear. Sigh.
I had another warm & fuzzy moment earlier in my shift. A student asked for help finding the link for the InfoGame from the ACC Library Services website and finding the InfoGame handout. I showed Student and Student went away happy. Yay! Approximately 20 minutes later I saw and heard Student showing a (presumably) classmate how to find the InfoGame & InfoGame handout. More YAYs!!!!!!!!!! I helped a student and the student paid it forward. I hope that means I have good karma in store for me because yes, I really am that shallow.
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