April: National Poetry Month

Calligramme de Guillaume Apollinaire [http://peinturefle.free.fr/activite/calligram.htm Source] 

Help us celebrate National Poetry Month in April by sharing your poetry with the world!  To see your poetry featured on both the blog and the Flint River library's Poetry Wall, you can email us or bring your poem to the library desk.  Whether you just like to scribble poems in your note margins during class or are an aspiring writer -- this is your chance to have your voice heard!

To submit a poem, include:
           *Your name and program
           *Do you want your name published along with your poem?
           *A typed, handwritten or scanned version of your poem

You can bring your poem to the front desk, or email it to library@sctech.edu.

To learn more about National Poetry Month, visit the official website here! 

Women's History Month: Suffragettes

EMMELINE PANKHURST - (1858-1928). English Woman-suffrage Advocate. Mrs. Pankhurst Arrested Outside Buckingham Palace, London, While Trying To Present A Petition To King George V, 21 May 1914.. Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 7 Mar 2012.http://quest.eb.com.proxygsu-scre.galileo.usg.edu/images/140_1678023

Yesterday, thousands Georgians headed to their local voting booths to choose a Republican candidate.  Voting is such a simple process that it's hard to imagine the hard-fought - and sometimes violent - battle that went into assuring that 50% of the current population could take part.

Even looking at just one suffragette's history shows a full range of the challenges and brutalities these protesters faced.  Emmeline Pankhurst, from the photo above, was fifty years old the first time she was arrested. Over the course of her career, she would experience more arrests, degrading prison conditions, rocks and mud hurled at her in the streets, sexual assault from the British police, force feeding during hunger strikes, and numerous other abuses.  She - and other members of the Women's Social and Political Union - endured these attacks just to achieve the simple liberty of participating in politics.

To learn more about these courageous women, you can check out:

• Profiles of Suffragettes on Biography.com (link)
• A digital collection of newspaper clippings, banners, and memorabilia from the suffragette movement in the Miller Suffrage Scrapbook (link)
• "Women Who Dare," a video profile of the women - including suffragettes - who helped shape America (link)
• Through GALILEO, you can access Britannica's online visual history of women's suffrage (link)

Technology Tuesday: Will Facebook get you hired or fired?

What's on your Facebook page?  Or more importantly - who?

Now more than ever, employers are researching job candidates online.  Employers look to sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to find out more about you - not only your work background, but also your personality, your behavior and how you present yourself online.

So what exactly are employers looking for when they check out your profile?  According to a recent study by social media monitor Reppler, employers might hire - or fire - you based on:

• Photo albums and tags
• Pictures or mentions of alcohol or drug abuse
• Poor communication skills
• Inappropriate or discriminatory comments or posts
• Complaining about previous employers

To learn more about who's checking out your profile - and what they're looking for - check out this article on Mashable: How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates [Infographic]

Can't Keep Track of a Flash Drive?

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, and share them easily. Any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your phone or iPad, and the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it easy to share with others.

A Basic Account is free and allows you to save up to 2GB of data. That's the equivalent of a cheap flash drive, and you don't have to worry about leaving it in the computer or at home.

The Best Kisses in Literature

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). [Photography]. Retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest.http://quest.eb.com/images/144_1567396

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Flavorwire rounds up the most swoon-worthy, spectacular kisses ever committed to print.  Did your favorites make the list?

Check out the list here at Flavorwire! - 10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature

Black History Month: GALILEO resources

Romare and Nanette at the Neighborhood Arts Center. Neighborhood Arts Center photographs series. Jim Alexander collection. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.

Ranging from the Civil Rights Digital Library to Community Art in Atlanta, GALILEO has pulled together a great collection of its resources to highlight video clips, timelines, historic photographs, biographies and articles relating to Black History Month.

For the full list, follow the link: GALILEO Resources for Black History Month

Review of "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan

God is Love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. This is the theme from Francis Chan's most famous book, Crazy Love. I really like this book because Francis Chan points out the flaws in the modern day church and how to fully live out God's true purpose in your life. He digs deep into Christian theology and helps us figure out the amazing love God has for us; to help understand that God, Himself, is the embodiment of love. Francis writes on how the storms that are allowed to swell in our lives are there so that we will turn our eyes to our Heavenly Father, but we are so focused on the problem that we don't notice. God is relentless and He will never give up on you, and all of this is backed up by research and Scripture. I recommend this book to everyone.

Randy Smith