COE Open House begins Friday morning-

The annual COE Open House begins at 9:00 am Friday morning, with 7,000 + attendees expected. More information on the COE website: http://www.engr.washington.edu/openhouse/ Our display is called: What Came First? Test your Invention Knowledge. There are UW Libraries mood pencils to be given away in a cup on the glass front cabinet next to the display- please refill the cup as needed. The box is on the reference desk. Thanks! and enjoy those little people!!

Librarians ARE hiding something...

Namely the LabVIEW 8.2 software package on reserve by the ME department. You won't find it in the catalog. Nope, we are HIDING it. You can find it under "ME" in the course reserves (no class number)... Of course, that assumes that you know that the ME dept put it in our reserve collection or that the patrons know this... Or you can just memorize that it is under PC0820 in the reserve section which is what I'm going to do. You may be asking why our catalog is so sacrosanct that we can't just add a bare bib record pointer to the item so that there is an actual chance of finding this item through normal pathways .... I know I am.

Stephen Colbert: "Librarians Are Hiding Something"

In his interview with John Perry Barlow about why The Electronic Frontier Foundation is su ing Viacom (which "owns" Stephen Colbert) Colbert 'trademarks' the phrase "Librarians are hiding something." Watch the interview here: http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/03/26/librarians_are_hiding_something.html