Posted by Jessica in Uncategorized on 10. Apr, 2013 | No Comments
Tweet A month to celebrate P oetry. R ead, I magine and L isten to the ways to enjoy poetry! April is National Poetry Month. This tradition began in 1996 when the Academy of American Poetry declared this month a time to celebrate and ban together to enjoy readings, festivals, book clubs and [More...]
TweetHave you heard that we’re transitioning away from MLA formatting and citation style to the use of APA style in the Spring ’13 term? It’s true! APA style, the preferred style for scholarship in business, criminal justice, information technology, and allied health, is more closely aligned with Central Penn’s program offerings, and will better prepare [More...]
TweetThink you can’t use the library just because you’re not a Summerdale student? Think again! Our goal is to provide complete service to ALL Central Penn College students, staff, and faculty. That’s one of the reasons we provide access to online databases like Films on Demand, Ebrary, and EBSCO, which you can use any time, [More...]
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Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Events on 08. Mar, 2013 | No Comments
Maybe you’ve already seen today’s Google Doodle, which celebrates International Women’s Day, but do you know why we celebrate women internationally today? And did you know that the month of March is Women’s History Month? We asked our very own Professor Melissa Wehler to tell us what these celebrations of women mean to her. Here’s [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Uncategorized on 05. Feb, 2013 | 2 Comments
A high school teacher in Prosser, Washington wants two books that are available to kids in the middle school library to be removed from the shelves. The books are Dave Pelzer’s A Child Called “It”, in which he recounts the horrendous abuse he sustained at the hands of his mother, and The Popularity Papers, a [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Reference, Research, Services on 09. Jan, 2013 | No Comments
Welcome, new students! Welcome back, returning students! We’re pretty excited about the new year, the new term, and some new tools we have to help you with your research! Next time you’re on the library’s Online Resources page, you might notice a few changes. First, our instant messaging widget has changed. You can still access [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Uncategorized on 12. Dec, 2012 | No Comments
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the library! Every year, the library puts up a tree in front of the fireplace. This year you can still sit by the fireplace and enjoy the glow of twinkling holiday lights and the cheerfulness of a tree.[/p] But this year, we’ve decked the halls just [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Events on 24. Oct, 2012 | No Comments
Lately we’ve been feeling like library instruction in Freshman Seminar classes hasn’t been much fun. We like fun. So we decided to steal an idea from a couple of librarians in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to kick off our Fall Freshman Seminar library instruction. What’s the Idea? Everyone loves a little competition, right? We thought it [More...]
Posted by Jessica in Uncategorized on 18. Sep, 2012 | No Comments
September 30th to October 6th 2012 is the 30th anniversary of the Freedom to Read. This is banned book week! This certain week of the year helps support our right to intellectual freedom and the free exchange of ideas. There are many books that have been removed or restricted in libraries and schools across the [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Reference, Services, Technology on 13. Sep, 2012 | 1 Comment
So you’ve finished writing your final paper, and the last thing you have to do is cite your sources in an MLA Works Cited page. Everyone says you should just use EasyBib. But how do you get it to correctly create your citations? Here are a couple of tricks and tips for using EasyBib effectively. [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Events, Reference on 11. Sep, 2012 | No Comments
Do you plan to vote for the first time in the November election? Have you voted in an earlier election, but not as a Pennsylvania resident? Do you plan to vote using an absentee ballot (will you be in Australia on Election Day)? If you can answer “yes” to any of the above questions, NOW [More...]
Posted by Jessica in Events on 04. Sep, 2012 | 1 Comment
REMEMBRANCE. September 11, 2012 will mark the 11th anniversary of the mayhem that ensued that Tuesday morning in 2001. Four planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists crashed throughout the east coast; two planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City (American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175), one plane into the Pentagon [More...]
Posted by Jill Hallam-Miller in Uncategorized on 19. Jul, 2012 | No Comments
You probably think of the library as being a place to find books and online resources to help you complete assignments. True…but we don’t just have those kinds of resources! We also have resources to help you manage your life in “the real world.” Take a look at our “General Resources for Students” guide to [More...]
