Category Archives: Carleton

New Research Guides Went Live!

By Iris | Published: Monday, September 14th, 2009
This is probably only really exciting for me, but I’m SO EXCITED, so I thought I’d share. Those libguides we were working on over the last few months? Well, they went live today with the start of classes. I give you … [insert drum roll here] … Gould Guides! Now, as with any transition, some [...]
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New Trading Cards!

By Iris | Published: Friday, September 11th, 2009
We decided to change things up again. For years there were baseball trading cards, then for a couple of years there were anime trading cards, the last two years were classic comic book covers, and now… LP album covers! Here’s mine: And here are the rest of the gang’s. Like Unlike
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And So They Burned It

By Iris | Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
As I drove in to work this evening the familiar voice of a piano professor here spilled out of the car speakers that generally only bring me voices of people like Steve Inskeep, Michele Norris, Scott Simon and the other body-less NPR friends that follow me through my days. She was explaining that Annea Lockwood [...]
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Reading Sophomore Portfolios

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
This morning was the first of three that I’ll spend sitting in a room with 35 or so faculty members reading portfolio after portfolio.* Or rather, the faculty read through portfolio after portfolio while I gave up on ever reading that quickly and just got through as many as I could. And now my legs [...]
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ACRL Award

By Iris | Published: Monday, June 2nd, 2008
ACRL AwardOriginally uploaded by Pegasus Librarian. On Friday we had the great honor of receiving the ACRL Excellence in Libraries Award in the College Library division. Our college president, while introducing the award to those present at the Honors Convocation spoke about the importance of collaboration and of intellectual curiosity on a college campus, and [...]
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