Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Slow Fires film screening

by Beth Ann Koelsch



On Tuesday, October 28, the Staff Development Committee sponsored a screening of the film Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record. The film is about how library and archival materials such as books, other paper-based materials, photographs, film, and sound recordings deteriorate due to the composition of the materials and environmental factors.

Information about the film can be found here.

Afterwards, manuscripts curator Jennifer Motszko led a discussion about environmental and storage policy best practices.

25 staff and faculty attended the screening and enjoyed classic movie candy!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Staff Association Meeting

Next Friday, October 31st!

We're coming up on the end of October and that means it's time to have a staff meeting. And, due to its proximity to Halloween, we're going to celebrate with a number of activities. We hope there'll be something for everyone, so please join in the fun.

Decorating the Info Commons:
Darinlee and her crew of minions will be decorating the area outside of the CITI/JIL. It's a very high visibility area, so we're glad the project is in such capable hands. Should you want to help out please refer to the signup link below.

Dressing Up: Halloween costumes are appreciated and even encouraged, so please show up dressed up, if you would like.

Decorate Your Desk Items:
If you don't particularly feel like dressing up, how about dressing up your desk or office supplies? Bring down your costumed staplers, lamps or other Desk Art and we'll put pictures up on Flickr.

Staff Meeting: better known as "Food Brought To You By The Letter P".
Since there are few that hate a good traipsing through the world of alliteration, we figured that we would have all foods brought to the event start with the letter P. Popcorn, Pie, Punch, Pumpkin-something and Pickled items are all acceptable, but don't be afraid to create something different.

Also, don't forget about Hermann's tour starting at 10 am at the front of Jackson Library.

Sign ups for the Meeting/Party and for the Info Commons decoration team are located here:

https://library.uncg.edu/committees/stffassn/eventsignup/

Username: library\yourusername
Password: your library password

If you have any problems or concerns, please contact Cheryl or Brown

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Archives Ephemera Shout Out to the Reference Librarians!



From the University Archives...a poster circa early to mid 1960s? If the television show Mad Men had a episode that took place in a library...this would be seen in the background.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

When I go to a new city...

From Beth Ann Koelsch, Curator of the Women Veterans Historical Project in the University Archives

My favorite tourist-y thing to do is swoon over/take pictures of interesting signage!

Here are some from San Francisco....



Old circa 1968 Peter Max style 7 up signs in North Beach...I saw not one, but 2!

















Just a great storefront....also North Beach


















More North Beach Signage....



















In the basement of beatnik shrine City Lights Bookstore...still North Beach




























Action series in SoMa!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Obama in Greensboro


On September 27th, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden came to visit Greensboro for a rally downtown. There was an estimated 18,000 people in attendance. I arrived at 9 to get in a line that already was exceedingly long. The gates opened a little after 10am, and the rally started about 12:15. It was well worth the wait though - both Obama and Biden gave great speeches and the crowd was really pumped.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

New member of the Jackson family

Michelle Courtney had Leona at 3:01 am on 9/17/08. Leona weighs 9 lbs 2 oz, and is 20.5" long. She and Michelle are doing great and are at the Women's Hospital. Hopefully some baby pics are on the way!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Game Night



Game Night was once again a rousing success. Here is my personal favorite picture of the evening, thought up and executed by Hannah. And no, we didn't both wear blue shirts on purpose. Other pictures are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminerva/sets/72157607134110073/