Up through the end of finals, the staffs of the Doe and Moffitt Libraries will be on full alert for expected increases in the smuggling of foodstuffs. Students living in libraries for the last week have had to act surreptitiously to remain well-nourished.
Library staffs have been regularly patrolling these study areas with garbage bags and confiscating everything edible. These patrolmen and women are so confident in their ability to spot even a crumb that they boldly announce their presence in hideous bright lime t-shirts. Apparently, having any sort of fashion sense is not a prerequisite for being a library administrator.
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Krista Lane on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 05:44 pm
Remember in elementary or middle school, when we were taught to put books back on the go-back shelf instead of trying to remember where they belong on the shelf?
Apparently proper cataloging (and the Dewey Decimal System) was a recent addition to the prestigious Institute of Common Sense, since UC Berkeley musicology professor Davitt Moroney discovered a manuscript missing since 1726: the score of some Italian composer we’ve never heard of.
It’s a case of “Where’s Waldo?,” only instead of a striped-shirted skinny guy waving amidst a sea of people and things, Alessandro Striggio’s hugely musicologically significant Catholic mass waved to Berkeley’s own Moroney in a sea of 100,000 manuscripts in a French library.
Let’s just blame the French and call it a day, no?
Deep in French Library, A Priceless Musical Find [Daily Cal]
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