Introducing Le book

If you haven't seen this video, it's a classic!

Information R/evolution

A very creative video gives us pause to think about information and its organizational systems. Take a look!

I broke the door!

This morning I was headed to the main stairwell and the door handle on the first floor just came off in my hand. Maybe I'm super strong or maybe the building is falling apart. I alerted Chris and Tom and I called the Physical Plant. They said they'd send someone over. In the meantime, the door is propped open and the handle is here at the ref desk. After this I might have to dress up as the Hulk for Halloween.

The Scanner PC

Has anyone else heard complaints about the scanner/microfilm computer? Apparently, it's extremely slow in both running the Adobe program and browsing the Internet (so slow as to to cause people to just leave in the middle of trying to scan). A patron suggested we try defragmenting the hard drive (actually, she first suggested we just get a new computer), but there's probably nothing we can do besides maybe putting a sign on the bulletin board that says something like, "Patience is a virtue."

A Fair(y) Use Tale

If you haven't seen this video about copyright and fair use, it's definitely worth it! Plus you get to refresh your knowledge of animated Disney movies!

Antonio Panizzi: ''the fact of a man's being a political exile does not exclude him from the Reading Room.''

This NYT article from 1997 describes the establishment and relocation of the British Library's famous circular reading room. For the anglophiles and book lovers among us, it is an interesting trip back to Panizzi's time: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/09/bookend/bookend.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin