Another No Class Day!! Reduced library hours, BBQ for lunch, perfect sunny weather as we cross the Pacific. It doesn’t get any better. It was also declared to be Gay Pride Day, and in addition to arranging the BBQ, the gay student group put on a fun fashion show in the evening. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it was a really nice, inclusive event with an even mixture of gay and gay-supportive students and faculty. It was not a drag show, but an opportunity for people to show off the various outfits they’d acquired on the voyage, and do a little bit of vamping and dancing. The Union was packed and the audience was very appreciative!
In library news, we’ve started to see a lot more research requests as finals approach, and I’ve recently distributed a lot of proxy passwords to get to the databases. This week I put info in the Dean’s Memo about free, full-text searching in Academic OneFile, put up signs in the library, and added links to the library catalog to help students find the databases. Finding the best and most effective way to communicate our rich resources to students is a challenge when all they think they want is Google and Wikipedia. But here’s a great quote from one I did manage to reach this week:
“Who knew that the best resource in the library would be the librarian.”
Who knew! Made my day!
April 23, 2008 at 7:24 pm |
Hi Melinda,
Your posts made my day many times over the last three months.
Librarians everywhere are smiling and nodding over that student’s quote: “Who knew that the best resource in the library would be the librarian.”
Kelly