Category Archives: library

A: 120,000

Q: How many loose journal issues have you moved over the last couple months? We have about 2000 journal subscriptions in our library.  Let’s say that one of our average journals comes twelve times a year.  That’s 24,000 loose issues … Continue reading

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oh, nothin’ much, what’ve you been up to?

the project of identifying 150,000 books that will be moving to the basement of our new library has been completed. we put green tape on the spines of books that were deemed “low use” items. when the movers come they’ll … Continue reading

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Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine

for more about this, see http://atdotde.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-quality-journals-by-elsevier.html. a wink and a nod to eagledawg for her advice on this comic.

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bubble bath, anyone?

imagine this fountain in the atrium of the von der ahe library filled with bubbles and a guy wearing swim trunks, and you have our favorite library prank of 2009. (link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WxkkU1Zkrk)

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The shelves are full

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