Jackson Leaks

Friday, June 7, 2013

Farewell Festivities for June 13th

Greetings!

We want to bid a fond farewell to Joe Williams, who will be much missed. Farewell festivities in the Faculty Center at 2pm to 3:30 pm on June 13th will honor Joe and, as previously announced, our retirees Bill Finley and Hermann Trojanowski (Stephen Dew will be in Europe). Cards are available for signing in the Library Administration Office for Joe, Hermann, Bill and Stephen. Robin is also accepting contributions for gifts for our three retirees. We will miss all of those who are leaving and want to extend all our best wishes to them. All are invited to this festive event!

Thank you,

Your Staff Association Board

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Graduation time!

It's graduation season! Share news and pictures of the graduates in your life on Jackson Leaks. Feel free to send pictures and names to Kimberly Lutz (kdlutz2@uncg.edu) to post if you prefer.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

"Stealing History" : a 60 minutes video clip

Good afternoon all,

Normally I don't watch "60 minutes," but somehow I randomly caught this on Sunday night and thought I would share with you all.

It's a 14 minute segment titled "Stealing History" that focuses on the theft of archival documents and other historical artifacts primarily by Barry Landau from the National Archives. However, it also mentions several historical societies and other archives that have been targeted by thieves. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50148120n

As an archivist, this is just another stark reminder that we need to be aware of our patrons and what they are doing once we give them access to our documents. It is also a sad reminder that thefts in libraries and achives do happen.

Sean

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

baby deer stuck in our backyard...

came back from a week vacation to find this little on in our yard! We think his mom birthed him in the yard and then we came home, she hopped the fence but the baby could not. We had to corral the baby dear out the gates which took a little time but finally the baby got out and back with mom in the woods by our house :)

Monday, May 27, 2013

Kittens

A message from Mary Krautter:

Some of you may have noticed a couple of feral cats hanging around the building for the past few months. I have touched base with someone who has been faithfully feeding them and last week, we saw kittens for the first time. And it's a long story but Robin and I caught one Friday afternoon. Kitten has been remarkably easy to tame! We watched Behind the Candelabra together last night - or I watched it and kitten slept on my chest. But there are 3 more out there, and we're going to try to trap them and get them adopted while they are still young enough to tame easily. With the older ones, we'll try to trap and have them neutered and release them; everything I have read and vets I have talked to say that's the best choice. Let me know if you too want a TV buddy - they are about 6 weeks old.