ArmacostFit Holiday Workouts

Winter Break 2014-2015

Information Workout of the Day (IWOD) schedule

• Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
• No so-called ‘Rest Days’. Information never rests, nor shall you, Infoseeker! Except when you want to.

DAY 1

3 rounds to ensure access to, and understanding of:

• 1 image from ArtStor.
• 1 article from a JSTOR journal.
• 30 pages from a book of your choice from the Armacost Library Catalog.

DAY 2

From an ergonomically-appropriate chair or sofa, in front of a clock set for 40 minutes, with a cup of coffee on the side table, and a 25-gram, 2HB wooden pencil at hand:

• 10 minutes – search for and skim articles on culture and commodification in the ABI/INFORM Complete business database.
• 5 minutes – Armacost Library Catalog Subject and/or Keyword browsing for French literature.
• 5 minutes – two-finger pencil dead lifts, alternate fingers.
• Repeat.
• You may choose a non-French language for the second literature-browsing session.
• Sip coffee as needed.

DAY 3

Full-brain information exercises, alternating eyeballs as needed.

For all eternity:

• Read a piece from a poetry volume found via the Armacost Library Catalog… aloud… in front of a cat.
• 8-lb. dumbbell cat lifts, 50 reps. (If you can’t find a dumbbell cat, Armacost Library staff, or Barbara Murray, may be able to provide access.)
• Put the cat down.
• Read 30 more pages in your book of choice.

DAY 4

Complete as many rounds as possible… in as many minutes as you want… wherever you want:

• Read one chapter from a book on California (or someplace else) found via the Armacost Library Catalog, 1 rep.
• Watch a video of your choice on Ethnographic Video Online, 1 rep.
• 30 double-unders – (Is there when the Crossfitters barf? No barfing in ArmacostFit. Take it outside.)
• Clean up.
• Don't get any stuff on your book as you read 30 more pages. Don't be LeBron in his sweaty shirt huggin’ up Princess Kate. Respect.
• Find an article about royalty via the GenderWatch database, 1 rep.

DAY 5

90 minutes

• Read a peer-reviewed article about holidays in the ProQuest Research Library, 1 rep.
• Learn about the properties of an element of your choice on the CRC Press Interactive Periodic Table.
• Skim an article on said element in a chemistry journal via American Chemical Society Web Editions.
• 30 more pages in your book!

DAY 6

1 hour

• Listen critically to a section of Weinberger’s Svanda Dudak aka Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer in the Naxos Music Library.
• Got pages? Keep reading that book!

DAY 7

10 minutes

• Synthesize what you have learned this week in a one-page essay (1.5 spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman, narrow margins) and send it to Your Librarian at the Armacost Library.

Have a Fine Winter Break, InfoBulldogs!