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Puppies In The Library And Social Media


  I think @champlib should rent out puppies tostudents to help you study and deal with stress. Everyones GPA would increase #campchamp #btv — Marc Rizzi (@MarcRizzi) April 1, 2012 It all started with a tweet. At the start of the month a student made an off-hand comment on Twitter about renting puppies to deal [...]

Award Reception And “Allies In Education”


“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle We had our celebration for the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award on Monday. You can check out some of the pictures from the reception on Champlain College’s Facebook page. We got to celebrate with students, our student workers, [...]

Library Awesome!


David Lankes wrote an truly excellent post a few months back discussing the issue of some working librarians worrying that libraries are doomed, complaining, finding excuses, and saying “yeah, but…” when faced with change. He went on to talk about how librarians should somehow find ways to stop “worrying about their future, but instead go about creating [...]