2009-2010 Newsletters

April 27 2010 • Volume 5, Number 29 
  • Carlson Library Goes 24/7
  • It's Not Too Late To Get Help
  • Library Tip: Protect Your Valuables
  • Library Tip: Return Day
  • Computer Tip: Undo? Redo?

Something To Think About:
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter, find simplicity
From discord find harmony
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein

April 20, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 28
  • Two Weeks And Counting...
  • Hot News! Fan Us!
  • Carlson Library: Open 24 Hours For End Of Semester
  • Computer Tip: The "411" On Google Voice Local Search

Something To Think About:
Sometimes your joy
is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
--Thich Nhat Hanh

April 13, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 27
  • Text A Librarian
  • Academic Excellence Week
  • Library Quiet Zones
  • Computer Tip: Force A New Page In Excel

Something To Think About:
Be nice to nerds.
Chances are you'll end
up working for one.
-- Charles Sykes

April 6, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 26
  •  "Locating Sources" Workshop
  • Comparative Business Stats-Electronic Access
  • Current Magazines & Journals Available
  • Computer Tip: Automatically Select All Connected Cells

Something To Think About:
What the teacher is,
is more important
than what he teaches.
--Karl Menninger

March 30, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 25
  •  Workshops Can Help -- Act Quickly!
  • Libraries Closed This Weekend
  • Library Tip: Online Renewals
  • Computer Tip: Increased Font Size On Excell Sheet Tabs

Something To Think About:
Weeds are flowers too,
once you get to
know them.
-- A.A. Milne

March 23, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 24
  •  Webpage Update: New Search Box
  • Borrowing At Other Libraries
  • Computer Tip: Print Perfectly The First Time

Something To Think About:
To be trusted
is a greater compliment
than to be loved.
--George MacDonald

March 16, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 23
  • Research Project? We Can Help!
  • Faculty Author Seminar - Monday
  • Library Tip: Text A Call Number
  • Computer Tip: Select An Entire Table

Something To Think About:
To live a creative life,
we must lose our fear
of being wrong.
--Joseph Chilton Pierce

March 2, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 22
  • Winter Break Hours
  • Electronic Books For Most Subjects
  • Computer Tip: Color Coded Tabs


Something To Think About:
There is no exercise
better for the heart
than reaching down
and lifting people up.
--John Andrew Holmes, Jr.

February 23, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 21
  • Videos, DVDs, CDs
  • Journal Alerts
  • Computer Tip: Undo That Please!


  Something To Think About:
To those with ears to hear,
libraries are really very noisy places.
On their shelves, we hear the
captured voices of the
centuries-old conversation that
makes up our civilization.
--Timothy Healy

February 16, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 20
  • New Books & Media
  • Research Tutorials Online
  • Guides And Pathfinders
  • Computer Tip: Bulleted Lists

 Something To Think About:
If you wish to travel far and fast,
travel light.
Take off all your envies, jealousies,
unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears
--Glenn Clark

February 9, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 19
  • Wednesday's Faculty Author Seminar - The McCain-Palin Tradition...
  • The "Subject Appoach" To Journal Articles
  • Suhr Library: Have Laptops -- CAN Travel
  • Computer Tip: Take A Trip Down The Virtual Turnpike

Something To Think About:
No act of kindness is ever wasted.
--Aesop



February 2, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 18
  • If We Don't Have It...We'll Get It!
  • Group Study Rooms
  • Groundhog Questions Answered
  • Computer Tip: Changing Your Mind While Surfing

Something To Think About:
Education is the movement
from darkness to light.
--Allan Bloom

January 26, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 17
  • Virtual Campus/Distance Education Support
  • Need Help When The Library Is Closed?
  • Book & Resource Suggestions
  • Computer Tip: Lost In My Programs Again!

Something To Think About:
Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Involve me and I understand.
--Chinese Proverb

January 19, 2010 • Volume 5, Number 16
  • Welcome Back!
  • Databases Discontinued
  • U-Borrow Service Discontinued
  • Computer Tip: If "one Is Good" Then "Two Is Better" ...Right? WRONG!

Something To Think About:
Real generosity toward the future
lies in gving all to the present.

-- Albert Camus

December 8, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 15
  • Carlson Library Open 24 Hours!
  • Last Chance To Win Prizes!
  • It's Not Too Late To Get Help!
  • Library Tip: Protect Your Valuables!
  • Library Tip: Return Day
  • Computer Tip: Web Page Message ... "Done but with errors on page"

Something To Think About:
Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don't want it.
What appears as bad manners, an ill temper, or cynicism is always a sign
of things no ears have heard,
no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
down there where the spirit meets the bone.
-- Miller Williams

December 1, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 14
  • Papers Due?
  • Don't Miss Out - Take The Survey!
  • Library Quiet Zones
  • Extended Hours
  • Computer Tip: Navigating In MS Word

Something To Think About:
Counsel woven
into the fabric of real life
is wisdom
-- Walter Benjamin

November 23, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 13
  • Thanksgiving Break Hours
  • Have You Taken The Survey?
  • Spreading A Little Sunshine
  • Computer Tip: In Your Face(book)!

Something To Think About:
The Pilgrims made seven times
more graves than huts.
No Americans have been
more impoverished that these who,
nevertheless, set aside a day
of thanksgiving.
-- H.U. Westermayer
November 17, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 12
  • Four Weeks & Counting Down!
  • "Fair Use" Question Prompts Changes In Electronic Reserves At Clarion University
  • Faculty Library Tip: Online Classes
  • Computer Tip: Quickly Delete A Line Of Text
Something To Think About:
All of life is interrelated.
We are all caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality,
tied to a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly
affects all indirectly.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
November 10, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 11
  • Faculty Author Seminar-Wednesday
  • Tell Us What You Think
  • Library Tip: Electronic Books
  • Computer Tip: A Bar Of A Different Color
Something To Think About:
The single largst pool of
untapped resource in this world
is human good intentions that
never translate into action.
-- Cindy Gallop
November 3, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 10
  • Complete A Survey For A Chance To Win!
  • Library Budgets & Acquisitions Funds
  • Library Tip: Author Searching
  • Computer Tip: Is The Mini Toolbar Giving You A Mini Headache?
Something To Think About:
One must be fond of people
and trust them
if one is not to
make a mess of life.
-- E.M. Forster

October 27, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 9
  • Faculty Tenure & promotion Recognition Reception...Today!
  • What Is Fair Use? Copyright Web Conference Session...Today!
  • Win Cash and Gifts
  • Library Tip: Flash Drives, Batteries, and Supplies
  • Computer Tip: Arrow Keys Quick Tip
Something To Think About:
Ask not what your
Pumpkin can do for you,
ask what you can
do for your Pumpkin!
-- Author Unknown


October 20, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 8
  • "Colonel Drake And His Legacy" Lecture To Be Presented On Thursday
  • Copyright Web Conference Sessions
  • Library Tip: Online Renewals
  • Computer Tip: Online Renewals
Something To Think About:
One of the sanest,
surest, and most generous
joys of life comes from
being happy over
the good fortune of others.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
October 13, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 7
  • Information Literacy Awareness Month
  • Phone, Email & Chat Reference Services
  • Library Tip: Closing Routine
  • Computer Tip: Format A Report In 10 Minutes!
Something To Think About:
Lots of folks
confuse bad management
with destiny.
-- Kin Hubbard
October 6, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 6
  • Faculty Author Seminar - Wednesday
  • Databases Discontinued
  • Library Tip: Text A Call Number
  • Computer Tip: MS Word's AutoCorrect
Something To Think About:
We either make ourselves
happy or miserable.
The amount of work
is the same.
-- Carlos Castaneda
September 29, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 5
  • Autumn Leaf Festival Hours
  • Group Study Rooms
  • Faculty Study Room
  • Library Tip: Laptops
  • Computer Tip: Bullets That Are Just Right
Something To Think About:
If you're overwhelmed
by the whole,
break it down into pieces
-- Chuck Close

September 22, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 4
  • Faculty Author Seminar - Friday
  • Information Literacy Workshops - Frday
  • Where In The World Are All The Chairs?
  • Computer Tip: Documents With "Odd" Names?
Something To Think About:
Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
September 15, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 3
  • Influenza Info
  • Virtual Campus/Distance Education Support
  • Information Literacy Faculty Professional Development Workshop
  • Carlson Level A Presesntation Upgrades
  • Computer Tip: Get Into The Wireless Zone
Something To Think About:
Don't be content in your life
just to do no wrong.
Be prepared every day
to try and do some good.
-- Sir Nicolas Winton


September 8, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 2
  • Databases Added
  • Databases Dropped
  • Information Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday
  • Computer Tip: Calculate On The Fly ... Without Formulas!

 Something To Think About:
Each time a man stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends fortha tiny ripple of hope...
and crossing each other from a milion different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-- Robert F. Kenndy
September 1, 2009 • Volume 5, Number 1
  • Welcome!
  • Carlson And Suhr Libraries' Services
  • Library Hours Change
  • Library Tip: ID Cards
  • Passport - Around The Campus In 42 Days Sessions
  • Computer Tip: Column Counting In Excel
 Something To Think About:
I find television very educational.
The minute somebody turns it on,
I go to the library
and read a good book.
-- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)


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