Podcasts
Sep 13, 2012
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This is episode 5 of 12…aka the coolest episode!!!
Why, you ask? Because Kristen and I got to interview author Stephen Chbosky about his book The Perks of Being a Wallflower!
Sep 13, 2012
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This is episode 4 of 12.
In episode 4 “Tearjerker,” Kristen and I discuss books on ALA’s Top 100 Banned and Challenged Books of 2000-2009 that made us cry. I love books that can elicit a strong emotion from me, whether that emotion is joy, hope, sorrow, anger, etc.
Jun 1, 2012
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MacKenzie Smith, an academic research library leader specializing in information technology and digital knowledge management, presented “Data Papers in the Network Era” on May 24 in Cal Poly’s new Data Studio (Room 111C) at the Kennedy Library. Her talk (podcast below) covered data sharing, repurposing and citation, the peer-review of data and more.
May 18, 2012
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Why write a book? There are many reasons. One very good one is when a book does not yet exist for your topic. That’s one reason why Michael Boswell, Adrienne Greve and Tammy Seale set about writing Local Climate Action Planning together.
May 11, 2012
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Fact as Verb: How data is changing nouns into verbs. That was the title of Quentin Hardy’s talk (listen to the podcast, below) at the opening celebration for Cal Poly’s new Data Studio at Robert E. Kennedy Library. Many of us wondered what that title meant.
Feb 17, 2012
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Matt Ritter has visited every town in western California with a population of over 40,000 to check out their trees. That is what you do if you’re going to create a guidebook called, A Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us as Ritter did (Heyday, 2011).
Jan 23, 2012
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Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering Professor Dr. Dianne DeTurris gave a compelling and quite funny talk on how this whole commercial space flight thing is going to get off the ground (I couldn’t resist) at Science Cafe on January 11, 2012.
