There’s been a lot of talk lately about Sex and Power or Sex and Control. Okay, maybe there’s just a lot of talk about sex again. Much of this seems to be due to the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. I can’t seem to go anywhere without this story being discussed in some…
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Happy National Running Day
It’s How I Run… June 6 is National Running Day so I thought I would do a long overdue post on running. Here are some general running tips from me. Keep in mind, these may not work for everyone, but they are some things that help me with running. The Two Most Important Things You’ll…
Tech Tip Tuesday: Read Faster
Last week I gave you DailyLit, a service that sends you bit of a book to your email, the only place we tend to spend a lot of time reading. This week, I will keep with my reading theme. With the amount of information we consume each and every day through reading, there still seems…
Tech Tip Tuesday: DailyLit
I like to read, it’s true. Many people assume that is why I became a librarian. Many people also assume, that as a librarian, I get to read books all the time. I do read a lot, but since becoming a librarian, I certainly don’t read as many books as I would like to. What…
I AM…PENN STATE
For the glory of old State, For her founders strong and great, For the future that we wait, Raise the song, raise the song. Sing our love and loyalty, Sing our hopes that bright and free Rest, O mother dear, with thee, All with thee, all with thee. When we stood at childhood’s gate, Shapeless…
Tech Tip Tuesday: Google Fun
I’ve been somewhat of a Google Geek since about 1998, when I read a paper by Brin and Page while I in still working on my M.I.S. I knew they were going make something big, only I didn’t have a good business mind back then. If I did, I might be much better off financially…
Research Paper Frustration
Meredith Farkas highlights one of my other frustrations with research paper assignments in her blog post, “I need three peer reviewed articles” or the Freshman research paper. With today’s technology and search engines, it is certainly much easier to search for and find ‘peer-reviewed’ articles, which is great. However, it seems we are often…
Citation Frustration!
This morning I read an article and I actually yelled out a triumphant ‘Yes!!’ while reading it. Someone else feels the same as I do about citations. I know articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education may not be high on everyone’s Sunday morning reading list, but I was waiting for my family members to…
Tech Tip Tuesday: Productivity and Time Management Tips
Life is busy and seems to keep getting busier. We have meetings, events, projects, tasks, interests, and much more. How can we better manage our productivity and time more effectively and efficiently? Two tools that work for me are my calendar and my to-do list, specifically I love my Google Calendar and Remember the Milk…
Tech Tip Tuesday: Visual.ly
Many years ago, before I became a librarian, I worked in the Registrar’s Office at Indiana University (*the* Indiana University in Indiana and not Pennsylvania). I spent my days having fun with college enrollment data. Exciting stuff, I know! While I was there, though, I was introduced to Edward Tufte, one of the pioneers of…
