JollyLibrarian

Unfortunately, the Monday Motivator is coming out on Tuesday due to the Jolly Librarian’s encounter with a nasty stomach virus last week.
The tip for this week: Choose canvas bags.
Why?

400 BILLION plastic bags are used every year.
Only 5.2% of those bags are recycled.
Plastic bags are not environmentally friendly. They take more than a 1000 years (!) [...]

The Jolly Librarian is all in favor of helping our planet. So in the spirit of Earth Day, here are some reading/writing tips that might help you do your part to conserve our resources:

Check books out from the library instead of buying them. I have to admit that this is not something I regularly do. [...]

Some smarty pants once said that most people who write poems have never read one! But why should people choose between the two? I heartily recommend doing both. But it is probably a good idea to read some first. Poems have a way of speaking to the heart that no other genre can quite manage. And if [...]

Okay, despite your best intentions to start on your research paper early, you just didn’t quite get around to it. Now it’s due next week, and you’re a little panicked! Here are some tips that might help:

While your first impulse might be to rush in and start writing, don’t! Your best bet is to take [...]

After last Friday, this is a timely reminder. 800 tornadoes are reported each year. A tornado’s path can be more than 50 miles long and 600 feet wide.
We can’t prevent disasters, but we can try to be prepared to deal with them.

Develop a family communication plan so that you know that everyone’s all right. (Remember [...]

At this point of the semester, many of you are writing argument papers. For the past few days, students have been looking for articles on topics such as:

smoking
animal rights
English first
adoption

Points of View Reference Center can be a great source for these types of papers.  It is one of the selections under “multidisciplinary” on the library [...]

Sometimes students want to know why we ban cell phones in the library. Is it that we hate cell phones in general? Not at all. In fact, everyone on staff (except for Charles) has one, and most staff members can be found on theirs at some point during their breaks and lunch.
Still, there is one [...]

Last week, Emily Bush, our instructional librarian, was giving a presentation to a philosophy class. She was showing  a database that provided opposing viewpoints on various topics. A student raised his hand and asked, “Aren’t those biased sources?” He wanted sources that were unbiased.
And that, my friends, is the problem at hand. Is there such [...]