October 2023 – Mary and Jeff Bell Library Blog

“Tell me a horror story about…”: Generating Spooky Stories with ChatGPT

Post author:Trisha Hernandez
Post published:October 27, 2023
Post category:Books & More Library Randomness

Greetings, readers!! There are many things to know about me, but the most relevant for today is that I’m a big horror and true crime fan. The thrill began as a child when I would sit in the center of my parent’s bed (obviously the center - my effort to ensure that if something was hiding under the bed, it couldn’t reach me on that big California king), reading Alvin Schwartz’ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (https://go.exlibris.link/cmRcXzPk). I…

Upcoming Movie Night and Movie Review: Missing

Post author:Bell Library
Post published:October 17, 2023
Post category:General I-Know News @ Your Library

A movie review by Sean Nicastro. Come join us on November 15th at 6:30 pm in the UC Legacy Hall (145) for a film screening! The movie that we will be watching is Missing. There will be drinks, snacks, and everyone will have a chance of winning some cool prizes! Missing is a movie released in 2023 directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. The movie follows June, played by Storm Reid, as she searches for her mother who…

Introducing Zotero, your personal research assistant!

Post author:Lorin Flores
Post published:October 13, 2023
Post category:Library Hacks Things to Do

Have you heard the news about the University’s new implementation of Zotero? You might be curious what Zotero is and what it does. Zotero is a free online tool that helps you store and organize your research sources (journal articles, book chapters, etc.) Zotero works as a desktop app on your device, but also has a browser connector to help you gather citations from your sources and a web-based version, too. Zotero generates bibliographies of your stored citations either as…