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  • Get Ready to Celebrate!

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    Are you a student who has done some cool research? Have a creative project you’re proud of? Are you involved with a campus group that did something awesome? Why not share it at the annual Celebration of Creative Inquiry? It will be held on April 30th between 5-7 pm in the campus center. To join…

  • Reducing Paper Waste: The Sequel

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    Those of you who receive Folkelore by e-mail may have been disappointed to hear about Chloe Radcliffe’s video without knowing where to find it. It’s embedded in our blog page, but it didn’t travel along with the e-mail message. Our apologies. Here’s the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBnsca0aZKA Enjoy!

  • Reducing Paper Use: The Movie

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    fister

    Chloe Radcliffe created a video about the new printing policy that meters printing and begins to charge students five cents a page once they’ve used up a 600 (or 300 double-sided) page allocation. Though the policy has left some students unhappy, it has reduced waste. At the library, we have noticed it has cut printing…

  • Of Course We’re Open!

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    Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night … if it’s not a holiday, we’re open. At this busy time of year, students have lots of work to do, and if classes are called off, that’s just one more chance to get to it. But if you’ve spent hours in the library working on papers…

  • Information Fluency Course Taught This Spring

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    The library is offering a course this spring for students who would like to know more about research in their chosen major and in general. This .5 credit course meets once a week, on Mondays from 2:30 – 4:30, but if a student is interested and can’t meet a that time it can also be…

  • And Yet More on Open Access

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    … this news just in. The faculty at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, passed an open access mandate similar to the one passed by Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Trinity is the first liberal arts college to pass such a mandate. The news is so fresh I don’t have anything to link to,…

  • More on Open Access

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    A bill currently in Congress would instruct federal agencies that provide significant funds for research to ensure that the results of that publicly funded research are made public. (That’s a lot of “public” in that last sentence, but hey, there’s a reason for that. It’s a simple equation: public funding of research = public knowledge.)…

  • Open Access Week

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    Happy Open Access Week! What are we celebrating? The gathering momentum of a movement to make research more available by changing the dynamic of how it is produced, presented, and accessed. Basically, scholars write up their research to share it. They submit it to their peers for review through the channels of book and journal…

  • Constitution Day Event – the U.S. Constitution and Immigrants’ Rights

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    Join us this Thursday, Sept. 17th (also known as Constitution Day) in the Gustavus Library Associates Reading Room for a conversation with Alisa Rosenthal of the Political Science department on the subject of immigrants’ rights and the Constitution. Yes, Virginia, there will be refreshments. The event will be held from 3:30 to 4:30. We also…

  • Open to Debate

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    The library has been fairly quiet over the summer, but that changes this week as the Summer Speech Institute students and coaches use the library to find ideas and texts to fuel debate. This, of course, is exactly what libraries are for and we’re delighted to have a chance to help with this program. Michelle…