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Meaningful Books and Getting to Know the Community

  • Posted by Andy
  • February 3, 2010

Last Friday I participated in the Meaningful Books Series at Champlain College which is run by my colleague Sarah Cohen. I don’t normally do things like this, but I really love this event series every time I’ve gone, simply because you get to learn a lot more about a member of your community. So I [...]

I just tweeted in the library

  • Posted by Andy
  • April 9, 2009

Twitter has gotten a lot of press lately. CNN loves to talk about it. It has been on both John Stewart and Steven Colbert. Jimmy Fallon uses it copiously and talks about it on his show. Twitter has grown 2,300% in 13 months. There is no ignoring it.
Yet, recently at the ACRL conference in Seattle [...]

Going to the library is like sex

  • Posted by Andy
  • March 19, 2009

Follow me on this one. It’s a sensational title, but as I was in a library instruction class the professor actually compared going to the library to sex. You can’t get better marketing than this.
We were doing some Q&A towards the end of the session, when the conversation surprisingly turned to libraries and library science [...]