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National Library Week is April 2-8;
National Library Workers’ Day is April 4
From a Library Journal (LJ) (November 15, 2002) interview with Electronic Frontier Foundation founder, John Perry Barlow:
LJ: As cyberspace develops, do you think libraries will maintain a physical role in their communities?
JPB: Oh, absolutely. In fact, I think physical libraries will be even more important in the future. Communities need that physical element…Libraries will be places where people will go to exchange ideas, and librarians will be even more essential than they are now, guiding people to information, knowing where to find it. I look at the potential for librarians and for libraries as being venues for all manner of salons, where the objective is not silence but conversation.
National Library Week is a time to celebrate the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers to their schools, campuses and communities. This year’s theme is “Change Your World @ Your Library.” For the 3rd consecutive year, the Tuesday of National Library Week is National Library Workers’ Day. This year it falls on Tuesday, April 4. You can read about the Day at the website of the American Library Association. Watch for special events in the College’s libraries during the week in April, and please take the opportunity to come into one of the library locations or use some of our online services at that time.
Story Time in the Library
The Library collaborates with the Children's Center to offer weekly story time sessions in the Library for the children aged three to five. Readers include librarians and library staff, students enrolled in the Children's Literature class of the Early Childhood Education program, as well as special guest readers – including College President, Karen Stout; Vice President and Provost, John Flynn; Associate Vice President, Joan Brookshire; and Vice President for Information Technology, Celeste Schwartz. We invite any interested faculty or staff to participate in this program. To schedule a session, please email or call Mary Beth Parkinson (7480) or, if off campus (215-619-7480).
Librarians Rule in Current Fiction!
The archetype of the librarian in literature and film is always of interest to professionals in the field. According to an article in Library Journal (April 15, 2005), librarians have become popular in current fiction. In addition to Larry Beinhart’s book, The Librarian, there are several recent novels which feature librarians. In her novel, The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman has her heroine, a New Jersey reference librarian-turned-investigator, team up with a local policeman. A “beautiful but stubborn” librarian is the love interest of the hero of Nicholas Spark’s True Believer. A vampire librarian is featured in The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall presents a language researcher for the New York Public Library dealing with her past after the events of 9/11.
Central Campus Library Hours
For Spring 2006 Semester
Monday – Thursday |
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. |
Friday |
7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
Saturday |
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
Sunday |
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
During Spring Break Week (March 13-17), the Library will close at 5:00 p.m. Monday – Thursday, March 13 – 16; the Library will be closed on Friday, March 17. The Library will also be closed on Easter Sunday, April 16.
