Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a fun time celebrating the start of 2012. At CPB, we’re all very excited for the start of this new year. Last month our friendly little guide began appearing in campus bookstores, and we’re excited to see the other bookshelves across the country that become host to PaperBuddy. (Our Buddy even made a quick trip to the Big Apple to meet some academic publishers!) To learn more about the latest information on CPB, and where you can purchase a hard copy of the book, stay connected with us on Facebook and Twitter. After pouring over each page of the manuscript to finalize it for publication, we re-familiarized ourselves with some of our favorite parts of the book, such as the popular end-of-section “Slacker Steps.” At the end of each section we re-cap in a bulleted list the main tips and ideas of that section. In other words, if you’re a slacker (and there’s nothing wrong with that!) you can still gain a lot of information from reading these steps and checking out the “For Example” boxes. We love the whole slacker concept so much that we’ve decided to create a new series of blog entries on the website called “Slacker Skills,” where we give quick tips for finding information and getting work done in a short amount of time. (And, let’s face it, after this past weekend of celebrating, we’re feeling like slackers ourselves this week—ha!) So, with tomorrow’s blog post, we’ll be posting the first entry in this series. We hope you enjoy this inaugural set of Slacker Skills. Cheers!