Holy cow it’s FRIDAY, and this week has been equal parts absolutely awesome and absolutely insane. The Fall semester is in full swing, and sometimes I find it hard to think of my top 5 really great things of any given week, but I’m going to do my best. I know I haven’t posted a […]
Tag: higher ed
Sexy Hipster Librarian: Exotic, Erotic, the Other
In less than one week, I will be visiting Albuquerque, New Mexico (about a 5 hour drive) for the Southwest Pop Culture Association‘s annual conference where I will be presenting “Sexy Hipster Librarian: Exotic, Erotic, the Other.” We have all heard of the sexy librarian trope in pop culture, but this presentation will examine how letting-down-the-bun […]
Open Library of Humanities
Recently, I accepted appointment to the Editorial Committee for the Open Library of Humanities, an open access publishing platform. Its founder, Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln. It is well known that the state of publishing in academia is sick. “Since 1986, subscription costs for academic journals have risen by 300% […]
Living Learning Communities & Librarian Involvement
On Friday, November 30th, Jean Henscheid came to West Texas A&M to do a workshop on Living Learning Communities as a way to engage and interact with students to give them a more positive college experience. I have seen Residential Learning communities at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, but I was never a part of any of […]
