{"id":5023,"date":"2024-05-02T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:03:02","slug":"de-stress-and-finish-strong-at-the-rlb-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2024\/05\/02\/de-stress-and-finish-strong-at-the-rlb-library\/","title":{"rendered":"De-Stress and Finish Strong at the RLB Library!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5034\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2024\/05\/DeStress-Fest-wb-20241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finals and due dates for projects and papers are fast approaching. During this stressful period in the semester, don&#8217;t forget the RLB Library is here for you! Stop by the Library during DeStress Fest (May 6-9) for de-stressing activities and study space:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tuesday, May 7, 12 to 2 p.m. (1st and 2nd floors<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Relax by painting your own personal rock. Supplies are provided.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Meet &#8220;Poe&#8221; the Comfort K-9! Petting a dog can help reduce your stress hormone.<\/li>\n<li>Play cornhole toss for physical and mental diversion.<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loveinthetrenches.org\/\">Love In The Trenches<\/a>&#8221; to assemble Narcan kits (4th floor, Room 412).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Tuesday, May 7, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. FINAL FINISH<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Stay late at the Library to finish STRONG!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join us for an evening of food (did someone say PIZZA?), beverages, giveaways, and support services provided by the dedicated RLB Library team.<\/li>\n<li>Final Finish is a great opportunity to work on final projects and to finish the semester strong. Throughout the evening, you will have access to writing tutors, reference librarians, and math &amp; content tutors. Video games, board games, and other fun things will also be available for your enjoyment, including Poe the comfort dog!<\/li>\n<li>If you need to focus or need help staying on track, there will be a Pomodoro Study Hall set up on the 3rd floor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/take-it-from-someone-who-hates-productivity-hacksthe-pomodoro-technique-actually-works\">Read how the Pomodoro technique can increase your productivity.<\/a> Join us for a community work environment and support!<\/li>\n<li>Also on the 3rd floor is a new sensory room if you need a dedicated sensory safe space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Throughout the week:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Free coffee, lemonade, and snacks will be available to help you study in the Library!<\/li>\n<li class=\"last-child\">Play board or card games or vintage video games from our <a href=\"https:\/\/library.ubalt.edu\/services\/game-collection.cfm\">Game Collection<\/a>. Or you can borrow and take one home! <strong>Lower level, Room 013.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget we have streaming videos available for you to watch and take your mind off stress, including films on <a href=\"https:\/\/ubalt.libguides.com\/streaming\">Kanopy, Swank and other platforms<\/a>. Free to watch if you are a University of Baltimore student, staff or faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Quiet space to study on floors 2-4, including group study rooms or pods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The RLB Library also has many other <a href=\"https:\/\/ubalt.libguides.com\/continuityofclasses\">resources<\/a> to help with finals. Our staff are always available to assist you with research, finding resources, navigating databases, tutoring, writing, printing, using technology, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finals and due dates for projects and papers are fast approaching. During this stressful period in the semester, don&#8217;t forget the RLB Library is here for you! Stop by the Library during DeStress Fest (May 6-9) for de-stressing activities and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2024\/05\/02\/de-stress-and-finish-strong-at-the-rlb-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  De-Stress and Finish Strong at the RLB Library!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,9],"tags":[633,602,616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}