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Description: Learn how to 3D scan using an Xbox Kinect. Get hands-on experience scanning objects (or even people) to see how this technology opens up unique possibilities, especially in collaboration with 3D Printing. Date(s) and Time(s): Tuesday, Dec 6, Noon Location: ALB 107 Presenter(s): Matt Sonnenberg Audience: Campus Wide Register Here - Approved for SBE Events Credit

The Moth Snowstorm:  Nature and Joy By Michael McCarthy Call Number:   GE 195 .M425 2015 Review from the New York Times Book Review Publisher's Description :  The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir of the author’s first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature’s

Faculty and Staff . Please join us for our next Library Labs Workshop.  Description: ​Explore and discuss using web-based tools and social media to promote your scholarship activities. An introduction to building an online presence using Kudos, LinkedIn, and other free sites for researchers. Intended Audience:  Faculty and Staff Date & Time:   Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 at noon-1:00 p.m. Location:  LRC 318 (now Albertson Hall) Presenter:  Terri Muraski The workshop is free, but we would like you to  register here . We hope to see you there!  

New Trial Database: Credo Issue Briefs Description:   Issue Briefs includes concise articles on current topics, exposing both sides of controversial issues. The articles are reviewed by an editorial board of seasoned journalism professionals, and 3-4 topics are added every week and direct-published with no delay. Trial expiration:  December 15, 2016 Access: Find Databases  (for campus community only)

In recognition of University Press Week (Nov 14-19) from Yale University Press: Free Speech:  Ten Principles for a Connected World By Timothy Garton Ash Call Number:  JC 591 .G37 2016 Review from the NY Times Publisher's Description :   One of the great political writers of our time offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation, gross violations of privacy, tidal waves of abuse. A pastor burns a Koran in Florida and UN officials die in Afghanistan.   Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to ha

Description: Curious about 3D printing?  Explore the equipment and software surrounding this new technology and turn your ideas into reality.  Intended Audience:  Campus wide (Approved for SBE event credit for students) Date & Time:   Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 at noon-1:00 p.m. Location:  LRC 107 (now Albertson Hall) Presenter:  Matt Sonnenberg The workshop is free, but we would like you to  register here .   We hope to see you there!