The North Wing

Some days the inspiritation flows like a river and other days it’s like navigating a stream full of beaver dams.  That’s when you need a good laugh.  A great parody of inspirational management drivel is at and their demotivator collection.  Full of words of wisdom for a random bad day.

Have you seen the READ posters throughout the library?  They are pictures of SUNY Cortland’s luminaries, all reading a favorite book.

The READ poster program was started by the American Library Association to promote reading in schools and libraries.  Many popular figures from entertainment and sport have graced the posters over the decades.  

A few years ago, ALA made the poster template available to libraries to create their own posters.  Memorial library has been doing that for a few years now.  Dawn Van Hall created the posters.  She also created a movie clip that can be viewed from YouTube.

Do you know where your poster is?

Isn’t this the grandest picture, and just you don’t feel this way sometimes?

The image comes for the AP Multimedia Archive, a database of images and audio files from the Associated Press.  It’s a fabulous recource offered to the students, faculty, and staff of SUNY Cortland.  These files are available for use in presentations, reprots and other work including academic webpages.  Unfortunately, according to the licensing agreement, these cannot be used in student newspapers, e-zines, or journals.

The library has one silmultaneous use which means if one person is searching, the next person will have to wait.  If the demand for this resource increases, it is likely that the library will expand the subscription.

To use this database, go to library.cortland.edu and Click on Find Articles–Databases–by Title and it will be on the first page.

Have a good day researching!