Student Spotlight - January 2009

Kim Calvert – Library student assistant

1. What’s your year, major and hometown?
Senior, Mathematics major, Commercial Design minor, candidate for secondary education. Rose Valley, PA

2. To what campus organizations or clubs are you a member?
Amis, P-SPEA, and Mascots anonymous

3. What was the last book you read?
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon

4. What do you like to do for fun?
Snowboard, canoe, hike, take pictures, hang out with my super, awesome boyfriend, take motorcycle adventures, and get sucked into Lifetime movies with my Mom.

5. What have you learned while working at the library?
How to manual feed colored paper through the printer so no one prints on my colorful paper. It actually saves a lot of time and cuts back on the waste of paper. Very neat!

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Snowden 'til 2 2008

On the evening of December 5th, the Snowden Library hosted our annual Snowden 'til 2 extravaganza. There were a total of sixteen professors hosting study sessions. The Creative Arts Society (CAS) brought in a Wii and hosted a Play-Doh smashing table just outside of the library. Special appearences were made by Snowden and Santa throughout the night. A good time was had by all.

Snowden sighting at Christmas party

Snowden made an appearance at the Lycoming College Holiday event. The event was well-attended and organized by the Class of 2011. Snowden checked out the action around Jack's Corner, then took a moment to do a bit of holiday shopping in the bookstore.

Student Spotlight - November 2008

Chandra Besong

1. What’s your year, major and hometown?
Year: 2012
Major: Undecided
Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts

2. To what campus organizations or clubs are you a member?

• Black Student Union
• Habitat for Humanity
• Campus Activities Board
• Etc.

3. What was the last book you read?
Breaking Dawn from the Twilight Series

4. What do you like to do for fun?
Sing, Read, Draw, play my guitar, and hangout with friends

5. What have you learned while working at the library?
Where to find books in a university library, and I like to help others.

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Web 2.0 Workshop held at Lycoming

Snowden Library planned and hosted a workshop for the Susquehanna Library Cooperative on October 31. The guest speaker was Jody Condit Fagan from James Madison University. Members of the planning committee were Janet Hurlbert, Mary Broussard, Sue Beidler, Alison Gregory and Tami Hutson. Instructional services librarians presenting on the program were Mary Broussard with a poster session titled "Integrating Virtual and Physical Games: Library Instruction in a Small Academic Library" and a panel presentation, "Widgets: Web Coolness for Non-Techies;" Alison Gregory with a poster session, "Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom;" and Sue Nelson with a panel presentation, "Zero in with Zotero."

More pictures of the event can be found on the library's Flickr page. Links to many of the presentations can be found on the workshop's Web site.

Harry Potter Night

The library hosted our annual Harry Potter Night on the night of October 24. There was plenty of butterbeer and pumpkin pasties to go around. In addition to the food, students competed in costume, crazy sock, and trivia competitions and the Horcrux Hunt obstacle course. Many Lycoming staff and faculty dressed up as characters from the books and came to help make the night a success.

More pictures from the evening can be found on the library's Flickr page.

Digitization, Digitization, Digitization!

Snowden Library and the College Archives recently participated in a mass digitization pilot project with 13 other libraries, large and small. The digitization was done by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to build an Internet library that offers permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Looking forward to Lycoming’s bicentennial celebration in 2012, we chose to digitize a selection of College yearbooks from different decades of the twentieth century and the History of Lycoming College and its Predecessor Institutions, published in 1958.

Check out our yearbooks and the College history on the Internet Archive site by clicking here. You can browse through the books using the “flip book” viewer, and you can also download PDF copies of each book. The most exciting thing is that now these books are available to anyone, any time, and they’re full-text searchable, too!

Sample page from 1948 Arrow Yearbook.

The program is coordinated by PALINET, a network of more than 600 libraries, archives, and museums in the mid-Atlantic region, with a goal of making electronic copies of interesting books available to the public via the internet. Funding for the project came from the Sloan Foundation.