Artist Eero Saarinen’s list of his wife’s good qualities, ca. 1954, from the Lists, to-dos and illustrated inventories of great artists.
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So many awesome moments in the Archives today! At the top of the list is this one: Sheree Morgan, Class of ‘88, came in and identified HERSELF on this Archives postcard of two students in a lab! She tells us that she and her friend Annette Owens ‘86 are shown here working on Annette’s thesis project in Chemistry, probably in spring of ‘86. Thank you, Sheree! (Oh, and she also made buttons including one of that lab picture of herself!)
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Reader Submission by David Leeds
Never ones to be outdone, Crossett Library is rolling out some pet therapy for our patrons. Of course, after a quick call to PETA it turned out that renting kangaroos and elephants is not easy OR humane (or legal, I’m not sure, I hung up when they started talking about lawsuits.)
But our patrons deserve the best, so they got the best that we got! From left to right, our Animal All-Stars:
Horton Who
George Monkey
Reindeer
Kangaroo
Sleepy Boy
Camel
Bearry
Hungry Caterpillar
If you’re in the area (on campus) feel free to come by this afternoon and Pet A Pet. (Best if you steer clear of the camel, fur is a little funky from spending most of its life inside the mouth of a golden retriever.)
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The most amazing library carrels ever invented. There’s a ton of traditional carrels right next to these and they are usually almost empty while you can barely find one of these to work in because they’re all occupied.
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(Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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Red Sox are #BostonStrong!
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I had to snap this before boarding the plane. “Librarians call dibs on Indy!” #ACRL2013
I grabbed a shot on the way out too. I am sentimental like that. Plus, it was nice to see signs welcoming librarians everywhere we went in Indy.
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Helping undergraduates develop research skills, while rated highly important by library leaders, doesn’t strike faculty the same way. Only slightly over half rated this role as very important, and most did not agree that this is primarily the library’s responsibility, though nearly half did agree that librarians help students develop these skills and succeed. In both cases a substantially smaller share of faculty respondents in the sciences agreed. “This raises important questions about a perceived mismatch between library services and the needs of undergraduates in the sciences,” the report concluded. Among humanists, all roles except for the research support role were rated as very important by more than two thirds of respondents. Among scientists, however, just over half rated the gateway and archival role as very important, and even smaller shares rated other roles as very important. Over a quarter of scientists agreed strongly “because faculty have easy access to academic content online, the role librarians play at this institution is becoming much less important” (compared to about 20 percent overall).
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