Author: fister
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Steamed!
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On Sunday night, just as many students were ready to start a marathon midterm study session and get serious work done on projects, something went wrong with the library’s heating and cooling system. It got hot. Really hot – and we weren’t able to get it fixed as quickly as we would have liked. Our…
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Faculty: First Friday @ The Library
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Faculty are invited to drop by for refreshments and conversation in the Gustavus Library Associates Reading Room (just past the reference desk on the main floor) this afternoon, March 2nd, between 1:30 and 3:30. The topic for this First Friday is Ebooks: what do you think of them? What impact might digital books have on…
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Dickens/Darwin Birthday Party
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It’s not too late! Join us today, February 28th at 1:30 for birthday cake and conversation about two notable Victorians whose 200th and 2003rd birthdays are celebrated this month. Julie Bartley (Geology) and So Park (English) will have a few words to say. And yes . . . there will be cake.
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Birthday Party for Charles
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As we write this blog post, it’s Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. We are also approaching Charles Darwin’s 203rd birthday. We though we’d go ahead and have a birthday party for both of them. Please join us on February 28th at 1:30 in the GLA Reading Room of the library for cake and a conversation with…
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Children’s Collection – Now With Noise!
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Over touring week, the library’s children’s collection did some traveling of its own – from the third floor to the lower level, where it now occupies a cozy nook at the south end of the floor. Though originally it seemed to make sense to place this collection near the education books, we realized that little…
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Wikipedia Outage – and Free Books
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As you might have heard, the English-language version of Wikipedia is one of many websites (including the Internet Archive) going dark on Wednesday, January 18th, to protest bills in congress that many internet users feel threaten the web. SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act – H.R. 6231) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act, S. 968) are…
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Tools to Help You Focus
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Do you feel that Facebook is nibbling away at your attention span? Do you find yourself checking status updates when you should be studying for the chemistry exam? There’s an app for that – or at least a browser extension that will help you focus. For Firefox users, the Leechblock add-on will let you set…
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Spring Courses @ The Library
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Library faculty are offering four courses this January and spring. Jeff Jenson’s January IEX course on genealogy has already filled, but you still have a chance to sign up for these spring courses. NDL 201 – Reading Workshop is a .25 credit pass/fail course that meets half a semester on Wednesday afternoons, from 2:30 –…
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Where Did the Databases Go?
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As you may have noticed, we’ve made some dramatic changes to our website. One question that we have heard through backchannels is “what happened to the databases?” After doing a wide-ranging study of student use of the library, we learned that many students who want to search for articles were baffled by our previous site.…