JollyLibrarian

May gives us time to finish processing the new materials that have been coming in during the previous few months. Here is just a sample of the many new books that are now on exhibit.

My Stroke of Insight– Jill Bolte Taylor. A brain scientist’s story of her own massive stroke at 37.
The Inaugural Address 2009–Barack [...]

Facts:

75% less energy is used with a compact fluorescent (CFL) lightbulb than a regular one.
CFLs last up to 10 times longer.
CFLs reduce the release of carbon dioxide.

Take action:

Buy a package of CFL bulbs.
As lights burn out, replace the bulbs with the CFLs.
Dispose of CFLs properly (not in the garbage). Many stores now have take-back programs.

The Jolly Librarian recently found myself in the market for a new car. The last time I bought a car was a decade ago when I wrecked mine in Pennsylvania and had to buy one within walking distance of my apartment. In the intervening years, I hoped that cars would be stocked at Wal-mart and Target [...]

One of my most pleasant duties each year is to attend graduation. It’s really nice to see students whom we’ve gotten to know in the library walk across the stage. Here are some highlights:

Authors Ronald Howard and Clinton Korver take a very personal, hands-on approach to ethics in this book. Unlike many introductory books on ethics, they do not spend much time on assisted suicide, abortion, death penalty, etc. but examine the ethical choices that most of us have to make on a daily basis. They also refuse [...]

The end of spring semester also sees the ending of the school year for most children. From my vantage point, it seems that teachers are too often criticized and not often enough praised. Having once taught junior high students as well as college, I remember how hard it is to teach, and how, sometimes, it [...]

It may be the last thing you feel like doing at the moment, especially after surviving a week of finals, but the end of the semester is a good time to take a minute and reflect on what worked and what didn’t the previous fourteen weeks. By the time you begin the next semester, you [...]

It is final exam week at Nashville State. Students are trying to take exams and finish up papers and projects. Faculty are furiously grading. And here in the library, we’re trying to help students finish up those papers, check in all the books that have been used during the semester, and contact those folks who [...]