You have reached the homepage of Paul S. Piper, Reference Librarian for the College of Arts and Sciences, Western Washington University , Bellingham, Washington . My office is Wilson 276. Stop by, call me at 650-3097 or e-mail me to talk, set up classes or research instruction, conduct database/Dialog searches, or for research consultation. My areas of responsibility are on the left.

Classes:

Library 201 -Spring 2008 Blog Page
                     

Library 397 - Research for Creative Writing (offered again Winter Qtr, 2006)

Library 225  - Syllabus

Online Publications:

Grassroots Librarian Blog

A Failure to Communicate: Politics, Scams, and Information Flow During Hurricane Katrina  Searcher, 14(6), June 2006 (co-authored with Miguel Ramos)

Google Spawn: The Culture Surrounding Google, Searcher, 12 (6), June 2004

The Influence of Business on Government, Searcher, 11 (4) Apr 2003 (co-authored with Hazel Cameron)

Jason Webley: A Man with an Accordion, Habits of Waste, 6, Fall 2003

When ASAP Isn’t Fast Enough, Habits of Waste, 1, Winter, 2001.

Better Read that Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation on the Internet, Searcher v.8,8, Sept. 2000

Disaster & Humanitarian Resources on the Web: A Review, Searcher v. 9, 7, Oct. 1999
 

This page updated 1/20/05