Archive for February, 2011
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Not dating, not friends, just taking the same course.
Posted February 28, 2011 by newsMany courses at the university encourage collaborative projects and or group study. Finding a good place to meet up after class can be tricky. Your apartment may be too far away or filled with too many roommates. Hallways in classroom buildings are filled with students going to and from classes. The Cougareat has too many [...]
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Mini Scores: A lot of little things is still a lot
Posted February 25, 2011 by newsMini scores have nothing to do with a good round of golf, or that terrible day in high school gym class when you got the lowest bowling score in history. (I swear there was something wrong with those pins.) No, mini scores are little books of brilliance. They are the same music that you will [...]
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Hidden Assets for Business, Economics and Designers
Posted February 24, 2011 by newsThe library recently “shifted” the books with H-HJ call numbers. For you civilians out there, that means the business and economics books have a new home in the library. They are located on level 1 right in the center of the building. This change means that there is more room for these important books. Lots [...]
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Fashion and Flora, the Lee Library goes way beyond digitizing books and documents.
Posted February 23, 2011 by newsThe Harold B. Lee Library will open a new exhibit in March highlighting the wide range of materials that have been digitized. There will be a letter from King Phillip II of Spain from the 1500s as well as a paper dress from the 1960s and botanical specimens from the S. L. Welsh Herbarium. The [...]
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He Bibles and She Bibles
Posted February 22, 2011 by newsThis Wednesday and Thursday the library will host a symposium to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible. Then, next August the library will install a large exhibit of materials related to the King James Bible in our exhibit space on level 1. As a teaser for the large exhibit curator Maggie Kopp has [...]
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The Last Book on the Left
Posted February 18, 2011 by newsIf you walk into the library and go all the way down to level 1, enter the Social Sciences area, walk as far to the east as you can, then turn left and walk to the end of the stacks you come to the eastern-most book in the building. It’s the last book on the [...]
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Sometimes the best book isn’t a book (and it isn’t a digital file either)
Posted February 17, 2011 by newsLibrarians are often asked what the best new book is. We don’t mind, we like books. In fact we have newsletters and listservs where we share ideas about fun new books and great classic books. For example, just this week a librarian suggested that young readers should look at The Hunger Games series and that [...]
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BSF, ASRS, VNA and Other Book Related Words
Posted February 16, 2011 by newsBack in the 20th century book lovers learned words like buckram, foxing, and dog eared. Today there is an entirely new set of terms to learn. Try ASRS, VNA, ARC, Barn, BSF. By and large these are acronyms. They stand for Automated Storage and Retrieval System, Very Narrow Aisle, Automated Retrieval Center, Borrower’s Automated Retrieval [...]
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Do You Like Books? You Might Like This.
Posted February 15, 2011 by newsToday the fine folks at Fine Books & Collections posted a blog about the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference that we host every year. If you want to take a look you can find it here. Every year we invite book lovers to meet and learn about rare books and more. This year we [...]
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What are those things?
Posted February 14, 2011 by newsAs you walk around the library you may notice small signs that look like crossword puzzles for a monosyllabic language. Perhaps you were hoping to find a list of questions…18 down: What is a three letter word for an insect that makes honey? 19 across: What is the symbol for the chemical element Beryllium? And [...]