Inside Higher Ed is expanding the number of blogs they publish and we’re pleased that one of our authors, Mary W. George, recently launched Keywords From a Librarian.

The blog, according to George, is written, “not from the dead, but from the depths, that murky blob marked library on your campus map, that innocent but somehow chilling link on your institution’s home page, that awkward corner of uncertainty in your otherwise confident professional psyche.”

In the introductory post, George solicits library research assignments “that don’t seem to be working.” In addition to analyzing these assignments, she promises the blog will contain “general musings on what it means to be an information seeker in today’s world; consideration of library research concepts and tools that deserve more attention in the curriculum; responses to some of the Frequently UNasked Questions researchers, especially novices, have about how academic libraries function or about how one discovers ‘what’s out there’; and occasional exhortations.”

The blog is a natural extension of George’s professional work as acting head of reference and senior reference librarian at Princeton University Library and also complements her recently published book The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know.