The Impact of What We Consume and Dispose

After going through my citizen engineering and intro to photography courses, I’ve learned something that should be on the back of everyone’s mind especially to those that plan on making things for a living; how the things we consume or use at its end of life cycle impacts our environment. Throughout this post I hope…

Unheard Voices in Poetry; Calls for Social Change

This Poetry display showcases poetry from authors who capture unheard struggles and voices, as well as calls for social change. Much like our Library Voices blog, poetry serves as a medium to convey their perspective in a personal format. Their poems are insightful to understand perspectives and create a new outlook for the reader or emphasize and validate an already…

Creating an Ergonomic Workspace

er·go·nom·ic1: an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely— called also biotechnology, human engineering, human factors What exactly does it mean to make your space more “ergonomic”? To me, it’s organizing and rearranging things that will optimize efficiency while working. Since going to school and working…