Monthly Archives: April 2009

Mashup Contest Screening and Awards 2009

Posted on April 30, 2009 by

Held on April 30, 2009, this event included a screening of all Mashup Contest 2009 entries and awarding of prizes. The event was moderated by Peter Decherney (Cinema Studies).

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Vote for your favorite mashups!

Posted on April 27, 2009 by

Vote for your favorite mashups! Our annual mashup contest has taken off this year with 33 entries, and for the first time, we are taking online votes at http://wic.library.upenn.edu/mashup/2009voting.htmlAll entries are linked there with descriptions. Online voting closes on April … Continue reading →

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Don’t Leave your Project on the Workstation

Posted on April 27, 2009 by

Hey everyone. Please don’t just leave your project files on a workstation in the lab and expect them to be there when you come back the next day. There’s nothing stopping anyone else using that machine from deleting things to … Continue reading →

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Comic Book Contest Winners!

Posted on April 16, 2009 by

We congratulate the winners of the 2009 Comic Book Contest sponsored by Penn Libraries in conjunction with POW!: The Year of the Comic and this year’s Penn Reading Project selection, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion Year History … Continue reading →

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Even cheaper hard drive

Posted on April 7, 2009 by

This is almost getting ridiculous, how cheap these things are. Buy.com has a 640GB hard drive for only $66.99 with free shipping. That’s TEN CENTS per Gigabyte. That is a CRAZY price for one of the portable drives. I just … Continue reading →

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Hawk Cam

Posted on April 6, 2009 by

Very cool. You can watch live footage of the hawks that have taken up residence on the ledge of a Franklin Institute window at: http://www2.fi.edu/hawknest.php

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New Lab Consultants!

Posted on April 2, 2009 by

We have three new lab consultants, Chase, Janice, and Thomas! You’ll be seeing a lot of them around the lab, so be sure to say hi (and try to go easy on them at first.)

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Update to Penn Libraries Board of Overseers (8/1/09)

Posted on April 1, 2009 by

Students Julia Luscombe and Kristin Hall joined WIC Director Anu Vedantham in presenting an update to the Penn Libraries Board of Overseers. The students discussed their academic research and how WIC has fit into their academic activities. The director’s presentation … Continue reading →

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