Cool Resource: Clusty

Ever try to search the web outside of Google? There are many other search engines that operate differently and may be a better fit for the kind of searching you need to do. Clusty (http://clusty.com/) has a google-like simple interface and returns results lists similar to Google, but it includes "clustering" of related terms on the left side that you can click on to "drill-down" to a more specific subtopic. This is really great for those times when you're not sure what terms to use to find the information you want.

I did a search on "church planting" and from my cluster list, selected the 15 "Church Planting Resources" that were more to the heart of what I was looking for.

You can also limit your results by sources of Clusty's results (i.e., all the Wikipedia articles on the topic). And you can easily limit by the type of site such as .edu if you want something from an educational institution or .gov for government web sites. You can even limit to news, jobs, and blogs on the topic.

When searching images, you can sort by size, file type, URL, and more. You can search for news on a topic and sort the results by source and section (i.e., sports, technology, entertainment).

And I like the logo.

Special Hours for Easter and Spring Break

The library will be closed for two weekends in March. The three-day Easter Weekend beginning Good Friday, March 21st through Easter Sunday March 23rd. We will reopen at 2:00pm on Monday, March 24th.

Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, March 25th through Friday, March 28th then be closed the next weekend as Spring Break begins for Pacific Christian College students (our main patron base and student workforce). Intersession hours will begin Sunday, March 30th through Saturday, April 5th.

For a full list of library hours and exceptions can be found at http://library.hiu.edu/faq.html#two.

Fall preregistration will be held for Pacific Christian College continuing students in the library following Spring Break April 8th and 9th.