Here's some interesting publicity for libraries: there was a whole category
called "Around the Library" on a Jeopardy! program I saw this weekend. Some
of the questions were as follows (and not all were answered correctly by
anyone!):
1. Answer: The common library classification system named after a large
library in Washington, D.C.
Question: What is the Library of Congress?
2. Answer: The tall, long sets of shelves that hold books; they may be
either "open" or "closed.
Question: What are "stacks?" (No one got this right!)
3. Answer: Novelist [so and so, I can't remember the name] criticized the
replacement of this library fixture with computer lists of library contents.
Question: What is a card catalog?
There were two other questions, but I can't remember them. However, I'm
pretty sure they were fairly simple ones. I think it must have been teen
week or college week or something because the contestants were quite young.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share this little tidbit. Hope you all have/had a
nice weekend.
Anne
Anne M. Kirkhope (419) 530-2946
University of Toledo Law Library FAX: (419) 530-8485
2801 West Bancroft St. akirkho@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Toledo, OH 43606
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