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ATTENTION STUDENTS! Would you like to see more computers in Canaday, Collier, and Carpenter? If so, where should we put them?

Information Services is thinking about rearranging some of the computing and study spaces on campus, and we'd like your input.

• Would you like to see more computers in carrels on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Canaday?
• Are there spaces that should have wireless computing access, but don't? Where?
• Do you like big tables with many computers, or do you like one computer on a table so you can spread out?

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Talonbooks is proud to release the much anticipated Beyond Recall, a paean to the indomitable human spirit by the extraordinary artist and social activist Mary Meigs (1917-2002).

Editor Lise Weil will discusss the vision and creative process behind this important new book.

Thursday, December 1, 7:30pm
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library

Refreshments served.

Sponsored by Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library.

For more information, contact Special Collections at 610-526-6576.

I have been the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information and Resources at Bryn Mawr since July, 2004.  I am involved with special projects involving digital images and love to help students discover and use primary resources for their academic work.  Currently I am preparing a database and collection guide for materials left to the College by Theresa Helburn (BA, 1908), producer of New York's Theatre Guild. This collection includes programs, scene plans, advertisements, playscripts, and over 1000 photographs, and is jointly held by the Special Collections Department and the Art and Archaeology  Collection.

Prior to working at Bryn Mawr, I held a fellowship in Theatre History and IT Modelling at Warwick University in Coventry, England.  My interests include travel, film, mystery novels, Jane Austen, and architecture, especially the playhouses of 17th-century France and the early theaters of Philadelphia.

You can contact me at cwillifo[at]brynmawr[dot]edu or visit my desk in the Special Collections Department, on the 2nd floor of Canaday Library.

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I'm Amy McColl, Assistant Head of Technical Services at Swarthmore College Library.  My responsibilities include assisting in managing acquisitions and cataloging, as well as coordinating collection development activity for Swarthmore and in the TriCo consortium.  I also work one reference shift per week, so you may see me at the Ref Desk on Wednesday afternoons.  You can contact me by emailing amccoll1@swarthmore.edu, by phone at 610-328-8484, or by finding my office behind the "Green Wall" on the main level of McCabe Library.

I serve on the Mellon 8 Steering Committee, I'm the TriCo Acquisitions SuperUser (we still don't have our capes!), and I'm on various other Swarthmore and TriCo committees as well.  In the wider library world, I'm a member of the ALCTS Publisher-Vendor Library Relations Interest Group.

In my free time I love to spend time with my family, and our favorite activities include camping and hiking at Ricketts Glen or Hills Creek state parks, attending Phillies baseball games, and going to the beach. 

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Hello I am Anna Headley and I work in McCabe's Technical Services at Swarthmore.  In this position, I enjoy ordering books and cataloging books and movies.  I also watch over the video viewing areas and help with website content and design.  I attended Swarthmore from 1999-2003 and majored in Education and Film and Media Studies.  Please feel free to contact me at aheadle1 at swarthmore dot edu.

 
Outside of work I make movies and hang out with my cat and husband in west philly (cedar park).

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Read the Toilet Papers for Dec. 5, 2005

Patrons have reported difficulty viewing and printing PDF files from JSTOR on Macintosh computers in the libraries. If you experience this problem, and are using a Safari browser, try using Firefox. JSTOR URLs are stable, so you can just cut and paste from one browser to the other.

Our librarians and the ITS staff are aware of the problem, but ask that you report any trouble that you have. In order to get the situation remedied, we need to gather as much information as we can!

As part of the Ben Franklin 300 Philadelphia celebration Haverford College Special Collections and the Hurford Humanities Center present the exhibition 'Franklin & Friends' and the Franklin Speaker Series.

David Waldstreicher, Professor of History at Temple University, is the author of Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and American Revolution. He will speak on the topic of Franklin, Quakerism and Slavery. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 - 4:00 pm, Magill Library, Philips Wing

This holiday season, the Swarthmore College Library is sponsoring a book drive to help rebuild the children’s literature collection at the Southern University of New Orleans, which was completely destroyed by flooding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Swarthmore College Library has partnered with the Southern University of New Orleans through the American Library Association’s “Adopt-A-Library” program, which benefits libraries in the Gulf region that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Please drop off new or gently used books in collection boxes located in McCabe, Cornell, and Underhill libraries. Newbery, Caldecott & Coretta Scott King award books and African American children’s literature are especially needed, but any books that you or your family have enjoyed are welcome. Children's books, rather than young adult literature, are requested. Lists of award-winning books are available at: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/awardsscholarships.htm
If extra duplicate copies of books are received, they will be donated to children’s reading charities in Chester, PA

Money donations to help with the cost of shipping are also gratefully accepted. If you would like to support the book drive this way, please write a check payable to the Swarthmore College Library and send via campus mail to Ann Cary, McCabe Library (any extra money will be used to buy books).

Donations will be accepted until December 17th.

For more information contact: Ann Cary, Reference and Instruction Intern, 610-957-6107, acary1

I am the Circulation Services Supervisor at Magill Library, Haverford College. I can be contacted by e-mail at dheckert@haverford.edu

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Remember that if you want to keep any of your thesis books over winter break, make sure to renew these books. They will be due May 7.

Go to: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/patroninfo/ Type in your name and barcode from your college I.D.

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