STUDY & EXAM LIBRARY HOURS: April 27-May 11

All of us at the library wish you the best of luck on exams!
April 27- May 9: 8AM – Midnight
May 10: 8AM-8PM
May 11: 9AM – 5PM

Build a story?? Build a poem?? Page 43, Line 13.Day two of National Library Week

Join us in the campus level hallway of the Library,  Tuesday, 16 April 2013.

Directions:

Pick a book, any book, or one that you particularly like.

Go to page 43, and write down on a piece of paper the text at line 13, only line 13.  Don’t worry, it’s not supposed to be a sentence.

Remember the citation.

Add your text to the bottom of the collection of line 13s. Add the citation of the book, followed by your name.  Don’t forget to leave your name (see below)

Read the text.  Is it a story? Is it poetry?  We may have to move the lines of text up or down to make some sense.

For example:

Draw a circle around the Pine Street neighborhood and he’d find an

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action. Vintage Books: New York, 1995./ Carl Yirka

 The first fifty participants will get a dollar off coupon for coffee at the Grounds for Appeal.  Questions? See, Carl Yirka.

National Library Week Festivities!

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK! SHOW SOME LIBRARY LOVE!

MONDAY 4/15: Library Training for VLS Staff 1-2PM|Oakes 210
Lisa Donadio will start with MyLibrary, an efficient mechanism for tracking one’s usage of JULIEN, the Library’s online catalog. Cynthia Lewis will teach the uses of ILLiad, the interlibrary loan service. Finally, Carl Yirka will walk through a variety of advanced uses of Google.

TUESDAY 4/16: Build a Story & Support the Class of 2013|All Day| Library Lobby
Pull any book off the library shelves. Go to page 43, line 13. Write this sentence on the “Build a Story” board in the library lobby. Cite the sentence, and include your name. The first 50 participants receive a coupon for $1 off any beverage at GFA to support the class of 2013.

WEDNESDAY 4/17: King Arthur Flour Cupcakes & Nutshells|1:30 PM |Library Lobby
Every good celebration needs cake! Join us. Reep the benefits of one our library vendor’s errors, with a Nutshell grab bag!

THURSDAY 4/18: Library Author Series with Benjamin Sovacool | 12:45-2| Cornell Seminar Room Professor Sovacool concludes the 2012-2013 Author Series with “Eradicating Poverty with Renewable Energy: Insights from the Asia Pacific.” We will have time for lively discussion, and refreshments will be served!

FRIDAY 4/19: Raffle & Game Winners Announced|11:45 PM| Library Lobby
We will announce our grand prize raffle and game winners Friday at 11:45 in the library lobby. Enter the raffle all week, it’s free!

AND, of course we will have the usual suspects: candy all week, and fun word games!