Scott Carlson

How college faculty and staff can help students "hack" their college experience through a proactive, personalized approach to success. College is a complex, high-stakes game, according to authors Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson, but students can learn how to win it. Hacking College offers college advisors, faculty, and staff in student and academic affairs a groundbreaking guide to rethinking higher education so that students can succeed in an increasingly complex world. Drawing from extensive research and real student experiences, this essential book exposes the hidden challenges and bureaucratic traps that undermine student success, from convoluted transfer processes to a single-minded emphasis on majors. Each chapter provides actionable strategies to help advisors lead students to tailor their education to their aspirations. Through vivid case studies, Laff and Carlson advocate for a proactive approach to education—encouraging students to "hack" their college experience by crafting a personalized field of study. This method challenges the traditional focus on declaring a major and empowers students to link their personal interests with academic pursuits so that their education aligns with future career and life goals. Enriched with insights on how to find underutilized institutional resources and foster meaningful mentor relationships, Hacking College encourages students, educators, and institutions to transform passive educational experiences into dynamic journeys of discovery and self-fulfillment.

Betty the Bald Chicken was inspired by Lori La Bey's journey caring for her mother who lived thirty years with Alzheimer's disease, but this book is not limited to those dealing with dementia. Betty's story applies to almost every human situation from illness, bullying, mental health, emotional well-being, addictions, divorce, and death, to everyday struggles of not feeling like we fit in, or we are not understood. This children's book is filled with beautiful illustrations that engage all ages by highlighting the roller coaster of emotions we all go through. Betty the Bald Chicken teaches people of all ages we have much more in common with one another than we are different. The questions in the back of the book help us talk with our children about the ripple effect our choices have on others, even if we don't know them. It opens the conversation to take decision-making seriously and how others will think about us based on our choices. We truly hope you find Betty's journey helpful to you, your family, friends, and clients as we try to live graciously together.

Betty the Bald Chicken was inspired by Lori La Bey's journey caring for her mother who lived thirty years with Alzheimer's disease, but this book is not limited to those dealing with dementia. Betty's story applies to almost every human situation from illness, bullying, mental health, emotional well-being, addictions, divorce, and death, to everyday struggles of not feeling like we fit in, or we are not understood. This children's book is filled with beautiful illustrations that engage all ages by highlighting the roller coaster of emotions we all go through. Betty the Bald Chicken teaches people of all ages we have much more in common with one another than we are different. The questions in the back of the book help us talk with our children about the ripple effect our choices have on others, even if we don't know them. It opens the conversation to take decision-making seriously and how others will think about us based on our choices. We truly hope you find Betty's journey helpful to you, your family, friends, and clients as we try to live graciously together.

Linked data has become a punchline in certain circles of the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community, derided as a much-hyped project that will ultimately never come to fruition. But the fact is, linked data is already happening now, evident in projects from Big Tech and the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the web pages of library service platforms. The goal of exposing cultural institutions' records to the web is as important as ever-but for the non-technically minded, linked data can feel like a confusing morass of abstraction, jargon, and acronyms. Get conversant in linked data with this basic introduction from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). The book's expert contributors:summarize the origins of linked data, from early computers and the creation of the World Wide Web through RDF;walk readers through the practical, everyday side of creating, identifying, and representing semantically rich linked data using as an example the funk classic Mothership Connection album from the band Parliament;explain the concept of ontologies;explore such linked data projects as Open Graph, DBpedia, BIBFRAME, and Schema.org's Bib Extension;offer suggested solo and group entry-level projects for linked data-curious librarians who wish to dive deeper; andprovide a handy glossary and links to additional resources. This valuable primer on linked data will enable readers at any level of experience to get quickly up to speed on this important subject.

The Twin Cities witnessed a recent explosion of craft beer breweries and brewpubs, but the region's beer history reaches back generations. The Minneapolis Brewing Company introduced the iconic Grain Belt beer in 1893, and it remains a local favorite. Fur trapper and bootlegger Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant established a St. Paul tavern along the banks of the Mississippi River in the early 1800s. The area has been home to some of the best-known beer brands in America, from Hamm's and Schmidt's to Yoerg's and Olympia. Today, microbreweries such as Bad Weather Brewing, Summit Brewing and more than fifty others are forging new avenues. Join author Scott Carlson as he offers an intriguing history and guide to Twin Cities beer.

Choosing Death is widely recognized as the definitive history of extreme music subgenres. For this revised and expanded edition, author Albert Mudrian (editor-in-chief of Decibel magazine) reveals there is life after death metal; the book now flaunts a whopping 100 additional pages in three new chapters; 50 additional interviews; a grisly 16-page color insert; and a new cover painting by legendary death metal artist Dan Seagrave (known for his classic Entombed and Morbid Angel album covers). This head-rushing history also features forewords by famed BBC DJ John Peel and Repulsion cofounder Scott Carlson.