POWER IN THE TOWER

I have been informed by reliable sources that we now have wireless internet throughout the entire library building, bottom to top, lobby to tower.

So, NOW where are you going to do your work?

Tell me!

Weekend Pop Culture Library References

Well I work in a library now, so I can't help but notice references to librarians, libraries, etc in my everyday life.

NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell me had not one but two library-based riffs this weekend:

a question about really old library fines,
and
in their Limerick Quiz (second question):


And Doonesbury features an archivist and an important primary source.

Passive Aggressive Library Signs

a colleague shared this with me:

Passive Aggressive Library Signs

I wonder which ones you wish were at Atkins...

Wordle, Reference Desk Help

A representation of what you all asked for from our reference librarians, in the space of one week in March.  (with the help of  www.wordle.net).
Anything look familiar?

And here's a wordle that includes what the reference librarians did, not just what they were asked:

How not to be in the Library

A co-worker shared this link with me. I'm sure many of you can relate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHqdz-g8tQk

A Quiet Zone Experiment

On the Third Floor of Atkins, which is now a Quiet Zone, you can now find some of these:

Both skeptics and supporters of self-policing in the library will soon have information about whether it's a feasible way to try to keep Quiet in the QZ.
Skeptics seem to be of the mind that 1)  UNCC students are incapable of policing themselves, and 2)  that it's somehow the job of library staff to make sure people keep quiet all the time, in all areas of the library.  These cell citation pads are scattered in the Third Floor Quiet Zone as a way of giving license to self-police.  And maybe, to add a little humor to the stress of trying to find a place to study in the run-up to final exams and research papers.

So, let me know if you use one.  Or if you receive one.

24/5, so it begins!

Well this is what many of you begged and pleaded for. It's happening-- a 24 hour library. It will be 5 days/week up until reading day, and then 24/7 for the rest of Finals.

So, what are you doing in the 24 hour library?
Group study?
Paper writing?

What are the advantages to you?
What problems are you encountering?
Etc.

Please, do tell.