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Fun Distraction: Accents
Meet Erik Singer a dialect coach and his fellow Linguists in this video from Wired about the history behind accents of the English language in North America. What an interesting profession! https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A (21 mins) “Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik and a host of…
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Reading Workshop on Friday 10/22
Reading Workshop @ Memorial Library Friday, Oct. 22, 2021 — 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Did you know that all readers encounter challenges when they read? Have you been experiencing any reading challenges this semester? Come join a small group to work through some of these reading challenges together. Attendees will walk away with tools,…
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Fun Distraction: Mini MP3 Players
Remember Hit Clips? Tiny MP3 players from Tiger Electronics that played clips of popular songs from small micro chips that you could clip together as well as to your clothes or backpack? These were popular about 12 years ago in the early 2000s. The nostalgia is overwhelming! Here is an original commercial for this rad…
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Fun Distraction: Croc Mom
Watch as sneaky croc cameras from “Spy in the Wild” – BBC capture incredible footage of a mother crocodile’s first moments with her hatchlings on the banks of the Nile River. https://youtu.be/_bVZeOt7bCw See more clips from BBC’s Spy in the Wild – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088t67m/clips #memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary
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Fun Distraction: Wax Figures
You know those life like wax figures you see in museums of famous figures, presidents, movie stars? Have you ever wondered how they are made and how can they possibly look so life like? Check out this video from the Science Channel’s show “How It’s Made.” The process is fascinating! https://youtu.be/7B2yDuitwTY #memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary
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Biochemistry Posters on Display in Memorial Library Last Spring
This past spring, SUNY Cortland seniors Alexis Mastrelli and Morgan Salanger were among the students in a biochemistry class who were tasked with creating posters to explain the structure and function of metabolic enzymes. Those posters are now on display both in the lobby of Memorial Library and online through the Digital Commons repository Read…
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Fun Distraction: Bears
Need a good belly laugh? Watch this bear family discover the joys of a hammock. We “double dog dare” you not to laugh! Video from The Dodo: Woman buys a hammock for the bear family that comes by her yard … and they LOVE it. https://youtu.be/mm8WXtrmjjg #memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary
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Westlaw Campus Research Database is NOW Available
Memorial Library is happy to announce that Westlaw Campus Research is now available from the Databases A-Z page. If you encounter any issues in using Westlaw, please contact The Help Center at 607-753-2500. You can always check the status of any service at https://cortland.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/2298/…