Skip to content

Posts from the ‘Stories’ Category

Celebrating Kennedy Library’s ACRL Award

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) named Cal Poly’s Robert E. Kennedy Library as a recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. In other words, Kennedy Library was picked as the best university library out of all who applied. Click here to read the award-winning application.

Of course winning an award as huge as this one comes with a huge celebration to match! The library celebrated this prestigious award for a few days last week. Read more

Open Science Café: My Experience

Learning is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” —Warren Barris

Open Science Café has empowered me to make my event an incredible reality!

Read more

Student assistants of the library: Alex Georges

This post is written in collaboration with Lauren Young, LibRAT and Kennedy Library Out Loud contributor.

Making more than 600 master theses searchable through the library’s online cataloging database, PolyCat, may sound difficult and complicated. But, for Alex Georges, student assistant for library-monographs, this all a part of what makes his position unique. In addition to cataloging recently submitted and past alumni’s master theses, Alex sorts through incoming mail and processes new books and gift orders.

Read more

Dancing together from 0 to 31: Art + Computer Science = Learning

What is the benefit of educational games? How do art and computer science interact? And most importantly, what is “the binary dance?”

Pete Hawkes, our Cal Poly Science Cafe guest at the second annual San Luis Obispo Mini Maker Faire on May 10, explains all that and more in this interview.

Read more

How Kennedy Library helps you save money

No longer will you break the bank buying an expensive textbook that you kinda-sorta used in that one GE class. No longer will you have to sell back that $150 biology textbook only to receive a fraction of what you paid for it. And no longer will you have to ogle at your friend’s iPad, wishing it were yours. This is all thanks to Kennedy Library’s dedication to affordable learning. Read more

Student input is key in reimagining Kennedy Library

This post is written by Andrew Bui, Student Library Advisory Council.

As a member of the Student Library Advisory Council, I’ve had amazing opportunities to collaborate with library administration about how we experience Kennedy Library. Being  someone who admittedly, (and sometimes unfortunately) views the library as a second home, I felt all the more honored when I was asked to help take the idea of student input even one step further.

Read more

Outstanding student employee of the year nominees and winner!

Cal Poly’s Outstanding Student Employee of the Year awards reception was held last week. Among the nominees were three students from Kennedy Library — Ben Kieffer, Matt Rice and Lauren Young, who was named second runner up!

Read more
http://lib.calpoly.edu/outloud/category/stories/page/3/
lib.calpoly.edu
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-41
46026
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:PA2EI3VBNCO5VEWIWCDQBOYWEOS2PU67
<urn:uuid:e9c8d1c7-063e-4737-bc0c-da5d78e8c183>
2014-09-23T22:26:23Z
129.65.23.210
sha1:DIZSNPI5KJ7BYYIBVS4RW2VQKAK4B6PV
<urn:uuid:2eee688d-c093-469c-8943-004a4db6cbe0>
http://lib.calpoly.edu/outloud/category/stories/page/3/
length
response
<urn:uuid:38ec9811-c816-4952-9771-e4a2b5fb949a>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-41
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for September 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf