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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 [...]

Rave in the Library!


Students at Champlain College had a rave on Sunday night in the library. One of our digital film-making students shot this video. It looks like good clean fun…with stormtroopers mixing the techno beats.

Libraries = Learning and Fun


Libraries come down to two key concepts: learning and fun (in the context of information). We’ve known this for years. An example is our collection of both scholarly works  and more leisurely reading. These two concepts are the reason why we collect content in varied forms. They are the reasons we host events for our users. [...]