Librarians in Literature

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Welcome
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Fun Fact
The STCC Library gets copies of every selection
from Oprahs Book Club, courtesy of Oprah and The
American Library Association!
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Do You Know.

• How many libraries belong to the Cooperating
  Libraries of Greater Springfield?
• A. 7
• B. 10
• C. 14

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• B. 10

CLGS was formed in 1971!
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Librarians in Literature
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey
Niffenegger The story of Henry De Tamble, a
Librarian with Chrono-Displacement Disorder. .
. 'The Time Traveler's Wife is a very old love
story wonky, sexy, incredible... but charmingly,
inventively retold.'The Times (London)
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Joke Time
Ha Ha!

• Q How many reference librarians does it take to
  screw in a light bulb?

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Joke Time
Ha Ha!

• A I dont know, but if you give me your phone
  number, Ill get back to you.

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Library Quotable

• My alma mater was books, a good library.
• --Malcolm X

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Do You Know.

• What year did STCC open?
• A. 1967
• B. 1892
• C. 1976

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• A. 1967

STCC Just Celebrated its 40th Birthday!!
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Wow!

• The STCC Library recently completed a renovation
  project that replaced 401 windows in Building 27!

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Please
Put cell phones on vibrate! Thanks!
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Librarians Portrayed in the Movies
Party Girl (1995) With Parker Posey
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Trivia Time

• The largest public library building
• in the United States is Chicagos
• Harold Washington Library Center.
• It measures 756,640 square feet and contains more
  than 70 miles of shelving!

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Library Quotable

• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their
  hair done in the library?
• --Lily Tomlin

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Do You Know.

• How many numbers in an STCC Library Barcode?
• A. 12
• B. 14
• C. 10

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• B. 14

Barcodes need to be updated every semester,
including summer session.
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Welcome
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Word Scramble
WEEDY ILMCDAE MSSTYE
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Word Scramble
DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
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Library Quotable

• Getting my library card was like citizenship it
  was like American citizenship.
• --Oprah Winfrey

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Have you heard the news?
Read Between the Pages, the STCC Librarys
Newsletter!
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Trivia Time

• Famous Librarians
• include
• Casanova
• Batgirl
• Mao Tse Tung
• J. Edgar Hoover

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Librarians in Literature
The Librarian by Larry Beinhart Librarian David
Goldberg stumbles into a political conspiracy
that stretches all the way to the White House.
. . . (a) barn-burning political thriller
complete with recipes for how to steal a
presidential election. . . Kirkus Reviews
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Be A Library Superhero!
Get Your Barcode Now!
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Fun with Barcodes

• All STCC Barcodes begin with the numbers 28132
• Some students actually memorize their barcodes!

28132000001234
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Librarians Portrayed in the Movies
Desk Set (1957) Featuring Katherine Hepburn
and Spencer Tracy
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We blog. . .
Do You blog?
Library news, notes, happenings, and even the
occasional joke at http//library.stcc.edu/blogge
r/blogger.html
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Do You Know.

• What was the name of the librarys pet fish?
• A. Neo
• B. Dewey
• C. Mr. Limpit

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• Neo
• (2005-2008)
• The name Neo was chosen from dozens of entries
  submitted in our Name the Fish contest in 2005.

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Trivia Time

• The tallest academic library building in the
  world is the W.E.B. Dubois Library at the
  University of Massachusetts in Amherst. It is 28
  stories tall and measures 295 feet.

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Amazing Fact
C/W MARS includes more than 140 libraries and
circulates more than 9 million items annually
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Librarians Portrayed in the Movies
Music Man (1962) starring Robert Preston and
featuring Shirley Jones as Marian the Librarian
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Joke Time
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• Q Why are there no books in the Prague Library?
  

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Joke Time
Ha Ha!

• A Theyre all Czech-ed out!

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Please
Put cell phones on vibrate! Thanks!
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Word Scramble
LACL BNMUER
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Word Scramble
CALL NUMBER
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Library Quotable

• "You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges
  are not going to do any good unless you are
  raised and live in a library every day of your
  life.
• Ray Bradbury

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All the Best Nursing Students
Use CINAHL with Full Text Its like vitamins for
your research paper!
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Do You Know.

• How are most of the books in the STCC Library
  organized?
• A. By Title
• B. By Color
• C. By Subject

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• C. By Subject

Each call number is associated with a particular
subject. For example, a call number beginning
with N is a book about art or artists.
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Librarians Portrayed on Television
Rupert Giles (played by Anthony Stewart Head)
from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Word Scramble
ECFENERRE OOBK
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Word Scramble
REFERENCE BOOK
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Amazing Fact
The Library of Congress houses more than 30
million volumes!
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Do You Know.

• Who is the President of STCC?
• A. Samuel Bowles
• B. Ira Rubenzahl
• C. Theodore Geisel

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• B. Ira Rubenzahl

Dr. Rubenzahl was named President in July, 2004.