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Glowsticks, Stormtroopers, and Stress Reduction


Last semester, the Sunday before finals week students organized a semi-impromptu rave. A video of it was recently featured by the Chronicle of Higher Education. I figured I would give a little of the back story on it. A student from SGA approached our manager of circulation and our director with an idea for a [...]

How To See The Library With Fresh Eyes


I just finished the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath. I highly recommend it and got a number of great ideas from it. But when I read it, one idea in particular stood out in relation to libraries. The idea is “the Curse of Knowledge.” The [...]

Who Are YOUR Users?


Google’s pretty powerful, right? It’s the most popular search engine, owns the second most popular search engine (Youtube), and there’s Gmail, Docs, etc. It’s a conglomeration of a lot of different services into a single massive company. Google can do a lot of amazing stuff because it’s so big and has so much capital. But Google’s [...]