Library Blogs

Quiet by Susan Cain is an excellent study of introverts and how they are underappreciated in the workplace and at school.

Every year, March the 14th, 3/14 or 3.14, is Pi Day. Once century, however, the date is 3/14/15, making it an extra special Pi Day. Tomorrow is such a day. In celebration, we present a Suffragist pie recipe from a 1915 suffrage charity cook book.

The Oxford Very Short Introduction (VSI) series is a great way to explore a new topic.

Wicked Autumn is a British village mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie, but with a contemporary setting.

This is a beautiful book that showcases the lives of dogs living in France: modern city dogs walking by the Seine in Paris, working dogs herding goats on a rocky mountainside, and well-mannered dogs living in regal surroundings.

A long-desired recon project finally gets attention.

It’s possible we should have written this blog post years ago, when we first created our workflow for how we shepherd digitization projects through our Digital Library. Well, we were busy creating it, that’s our excuse. Three years later, we’re on our third iteration.

This beautiful atlas showcases fifty islands across the world that have the status of being isolated and remote, each with a unique history.

Here is our list of most popular games during the month of February. The Xbox 360 and Xbox One capitalize almost the entire list, with Smash making an appearance on the Top 10 list for the first time in quite awhile. The game series has dominated Fridays at the CVGA more and more this semester, with students even bringing in their own game disks and controllers in order to get as many simultaneous games of Smash going at the same time as possible.