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Salem Press Blog Award Winner!


This blog was just named the best Academic Library blog in the 2011 Salem Press Library Blog Awards! I feel really honored to be nominated by some of the great judges, but especially to be included among the winners. In the academic category there were a lot of great blogs nominated, especially one of my favorites: ACRLog. [...]

All Fun, All The Time


The unofficial motto at our library is “all fun, all the time.” It’s even on our Facebook page. We do a pretty good job infusing it into everything we do and it’s become ingrained in our culture. One of the Teaching Librarians says that if she isn’t having fun in the classroom she doesn’t want [...]

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 [...]