Testimonials & Reviews

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College/University Librarians

I just wanted to let you know how happy we are with NoodleTools. Our students love it! The librarians love it! When I talked with the other community college librarians about renewing our subscription, they all swore they couldn't live without NoodleTools and urged me enthusiastically to renew - it's now considered an essential library service. Thanks for providing a great product at a great cost. I have never found a friendlier, more helpful, more responsive, more ethical website than yours. I'm so happy I could be a part of bringing it to my university. We greatly appreciate your willingness to work with us and have NoodleBib to be a vital tool in our bibliographic instruction. I overheard a young man whining to another student about a research assignment. The second student said, "Oh get over it, just use NoodleTools."

K-12 Librarians

...after several years, our students now see NoodleTools as a "way of life!" NoodleTools is the most reasonable and most useful library subscription that contributes to student success. It is a powerful teaching tool for recording, organizing, and citing research. The design is so user friendly! Thank you for your quick response. The customer service I receive from NoodleTools is the absolute best. I love that I can learn something new every time I use it. I always tell my students to use the help features in NoodleTools if they have a question. Yesterday, an AP English teacher told her students that now that they had NoodleTools to guide them, she was going to take an early vacation. We love the product. I love it.... Countless students said thanks after I showed them how to use it. How often are you thanked for instructions by high school students? I want you to know I'm a big fan of NoodleTools. We just did a workshop presentation to our Middle School faculty, demonstrating all the amazing things you can do with Noodle Bib and especially the new Notecard feature. We were a huge hit. More than one faculty member told us afterward that this was the best workshop they'd ever experienced in their teaching careers. All thanks to your brilliantly intuitive and outrageously useful program! I have used it with 5th-8th graders and I find that students are actually willing to consult more than the minimum number of sources because they know they will have help creating the proper citations. This encourages curiosity and intellectual engagement. Our English, History and Science teachers love NoodleBib and they are using it for their own research. Every living soul I've introduced to NoodleTools claims to have found Heaven on Earth -- from third graders in my elementary school through my doctorate-holding, college-professor husband. Thank you for having such a great response to people who write to give feedback to your website. Quick, and great to know the feedback means something to you. Just wanted to thank you for all your help over the years, your quick responses (impressed the entire English department when you answered the question about the pretrial Milosevic brief), and the pertinent enhancements you make to the site. "Choose the Best Search Engine" still ranks for me as one of the finest tools ever developed in the field of education. Once again your customer support is excellent - I am very happy I chose you for my library and my students are ecstatic! There has been an overwhelmingly positive response to NoodleBib here at Collegiate. We have fallen in love with the product! I find that using technology to create citations gets the kids' interest up. I just loved it when 7th graders gasped "Awesome!" when they saw their first NoodleBib citation "pop up" two days ago! Teaching students citation syles used to take hours and hours of valuable class time and reduce teachers who were grading the papers to look for punctuation errors in the citation. Now students have a meaningful task when they have to look carefully at the source and the rote meaningless part is done for them. It is absolutely incredible how your program totally swept our school and that we don't have a single teacher who would dream of having the students compose a citation without noodles. You have all my respect. I have to tell you how much our students at Harpeth Hall love Noodletools. It has made citation so much easier for them.... Thank you so much for making this program possible! NoodleTools was a HUGE hit with the faculty and students this year!! Really made my life a lot easier as well. "Noodle" has become a new verb at our school. The eighth-grade students have been using NoodleTools to generate their works-cited lists. One of our Integrated Language Arts teachers has coined a new verb. She asks the students if they have "noodled" an article before students are given permission to print it. Service is the key to success! I am going to retire this year and I would just like to say how much I appreciated your prompt, friendly, professional and understandable assistance throughout the period of our subscription. You have certainly gained a fan....

We tried it with a seventh grade language arts class. They liked it and I never thought middle school kids would like anything to do with a bibliography. With assistance even the learning support kids did well.

Does [NoodleBib] make kids lazy? On the contrary, they need to know so much about their sources. NoodleBib simply handles the punctuation and arrangement of the information. If your goal is to have students be aware of their sources and cite them... this is the tool for you.

NoodleTools is absolutely fantastic. I finally have teachers who don't teach English expecting kids to have bibliographies for every project because they are easy to do and because the teachers know that they will come in a correct format. The cost is really minimal for what you get. We use it for 4th on up. I highly recommend it.

I have had many graduates in the past few years come back to visit and mention how well prepared they were for college, particularly with regards to properly completing a works cited page because of the work they did in the library with their class using NoodleBib.

Students

Your service is first-rate, as is your product. - D. V. (Ph.D. student)

I just wanted to thank you - this has been the most helpful thing I have used in the three years of college. You probably are responsible for the major part of my 4.0 average this semester. - K. M.

Wow, thank you so much for NoodleBib. It saved my life...and my grade! Incredible service! Thanks again! - J. S.

I have found a problem. There are no links on the Web site where people like myself can write and tell ya'll thanks so very much for providing such a great service. - G. D.

I LOVE your site! Thank you so much. My senior paper would be taking me about 10 times as long. Keep up the good work! - N. G.

You guys are amazing!! I shared the site with my whole English class. I am an MLA junkie (bought the stylebook with my birthday money) but the site is so much easier and just as accurate. - S. B.

Your bibliography program is incredible! It made making my bibliography faster, easier, and even fun! - D. A.

I'd just like to drop a quick thank you to everyone at NoodleTools. I've used your site since a friend put me on to it three years ago when I started at Auckland University and it has been one of the best finds on the Internet. - M. M.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for this wonderful service. I've been subscribed now for quite some time, and I have to say, it is worth every penny. What used to take me hours or days to look up each thing in the MLA Handbook, now takes me maybe an hour for the entire project. - B. O.

I'm really surprised at the speed of you taking care of the problem for me. Since it's a weekend and a holiday weekend at that, I didn't expect the problem to be resolved until Monday! Thanks so much for taking care of it quickly for me! P.S. I love NoodleTools...As an English major, it's a lifesaver! - J. A.

I just wanted to say THANK YOU and that you have a wonderful site, and great tools that are really helpful to busy college students like me!! - Y. K.

Everyone here at USC uses it and loves it! I can speak for many who hate hate hate making bibliographies! Thank you for making this site and saving students so much time! - A. G.

I just can't tell you how much I love NoodleTools. This year I did three papers for one of my Nursing classes and the teacher asked if she could keep them to use as examples for students next year. - J. L.

You have the best customer support response time of any site I've used. - B. B.

I found your site...and I have to tell you, I felt like a six-year-old opening a package on Christmas morning! I haven't been this excited since '77 when I was introduced to the Wang System 30 Word Processor! I could just kiss you all! Mahalo again for a great product... - C. B.

Recent Reviews

Searcher Magazine, July/Aug. 2007 ("Citations and Aberrations" by N. Tomaiuolo)
NoodleTools stands out because instead of simply presenting an ambiguous form that a user may not correctly complete, it attempts to teach at almost every step. In NoodleBib Express, if a user chooses to cite a journal article, the software will provide a definition of a journal. This not only checks the user's choice, but reminds the user of the essence of the publication type selected. NoodleBib Express continues to engage the user by asking if the journal was online or in print, from a Web site, or a database and will even coach the students on those "picky details" such as capitalization. The user not only gets an accurate citation, but has quite possibly learned something about sources and documentation.

CHOICE Magazine, June 2006 - "Highly recommended"
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Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.31 n.4, July 2005 (J. Kessler & M. K. Van Ullen)
NoodleBib's error rate was less than that of the widely used and supported EndNote....[NoodleBib does] a better job than EndNote with citations for some types of sources that undergraduates frequently use, such as full-text articles from an online database.

PC Magazine, Spring 2005 - NoodleTools voted one of PC Magazine's "Top 100 Sites"
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