This Really Frosts my Cupcake
This news story from CNN about a teacher in Indiana who was fired for using the book Freedom Writers to get her students excited about English really got me angry. I found myself yelling at the moving...
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Books and the Web: Reading and the Flourishing Life
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the effects of the interweb on reading. Nicholas Carr and his fascinating article, “Is Google Making us Stoopid?,” brought up the idea that Google and...
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Information Literacy for the 22nd Century
Yesterday, I attended the Burlington Book Festival. The best session was one entitled Writing in the 22nd Century: A Panel Discussion. It was a terrible title that did not really fit what they were...
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The Magic of Writing
TC & Me The author T.C. Boyle was on campus this week, and I was able to meet him. He stopped by the library to view cover art that students had created for his novel The Tortilla Curtain. Some of...
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Dinosaur Display!
I just wanted to share this awesome dinosaur display I put up. You can view all the pictures on our library’s Flickr page. Don’t forget to share what you’re passionate about…even if it’s dinos.
View ArticleMeaningful Books and Getting to Know the Community
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...
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It’s All About Appearances
In Borders the other day I happened upon this display. Glancing at it, I figured “oh, looks like they’re hocking the Twilight books pretty hard still.” But on closer inspection, that wasn’t the whole...
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How To Reduce Clutter In Your Library
Image from Yuba College on Flickr It can be difficult to drop things that we’re doing or get rid of things we’ve had for a while. Just watch the show Hoarders. We become attached to our possessions and...
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