Case Study No. 2112: The Archivist (End Times)

End Times Extras | "About the Archivist"
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The cast and writer/director explore the world and characters of the Archivist.

In 2013, four teenagers must survive after civilization as they know it is wiped out. Twelve years later, their story is unearthed.

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EPISODE 2: http://youtu.be/AUtWsNBk5ww
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Written and Directed by Alex Nolan

In This Video:
Alex Nolan
Kim Miner
Solika O'Neill

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(c)2013 Alex Nolan. All rights reserved.
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["12 Years Later: The World of the Archivist" appears on screen, then cut to a young woman ("Alex Nolan, Writer/Director") speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: After all of the events of ... the apocalypse--
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: The people that we've seen in ... or, we've just heard little snippets of, or maybe even seen, as we start to wonder--
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: All of those have become much more powerful, and they have become ... a, um, a new world order.
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: In this new world live a character called the Archivist, and--
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: Against her will ... mm, she's resigned to it, but for one reason or another, it's not what she wants to be doing. Um, it has become her task to look through these videos.
[cut to another woman ("Kim Miner, The Archivist") speaking directly to the camera]
KIM: Honestly, she's a really interesting character, for me at least. Um, one of the first things I did as I was preparing was I wrote down a list of her favorite ... um, assault rifles. It's quite a long list, actually, and upon entering the set, I looked at Alex and I was like, "Could I possibly have a knife?" And she provided me with a knife.
[she laughs]
KIM: And also a scythe.
[quick cut to another shot of the actress speaking directly to the camera]
KIM: If I was sitting in my desk, I could kill you in three different ways.
[she laughs]
KIM: Um, because she would never be defenseless.
[quick cut to another shot of the actress speaking directly to the camera]
KIM: She was part of Ellie Burtke's strike team, and she ... It was her life. It was her dream. She thought she would die in a battle, and when she was not, it kind of broke her a little bit.
[cut back to the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: We start to see little glimpses into the life of this woman who has inherited this duty ...
[cut back to the actress speaking directly to the camera]
KIM: She is, um, not afraid of her dark places. Um, she refuses to admit that she has weakness.
[cut back to the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: We also brought in, um, two other characters to sort of interact with her, and one of these is Navin, who is sort of a busy body, and he is a high-up ... sort of secretary.
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: Then there's also, uh, the Archivist's former commanding officer, Ellie Burtke.
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: Well, she's just a terrifying person.
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: And I don't think she's a very nice person.
[cut to another woman ("Solika O'Neill, Commander Burtke") speaking directly to the camera]
SOLIKA: Well, I tried to explain this to my grandmother, and I kind of called her a "military princess" ...
[quick cut to another shot of the actress speaking directly to the camera]
SOLIKA: She puts up a wall, so she's ... like, stands up straight, makes sure no one sees her beneath that surface.
[cut back to the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: She holds a very special position, I think, in the librarian's world and in her worldview.
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: The Archivist is a very interesting character to work with, because um, as I think will become clear as the series progresses, she has a much more complex story than it originally appears. And I think that, in many ways, you could see the Archivist as ... being an accent to the story of the five survivors.
[quick cut to another shot of the writer speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX: Or, you could see them as accenting and helping her story.
[cut back to the actress speaking directly to the camera]
KIM: She's very bitter, and honestly, it was Trace and Harry and Adrian and Kimber who really brought her back. Um, even though twelve years in the future, they had no idea they were doing it, but their hope in the face of the apocalypse helped find her hope in the face of her own apocalypse.
["Subscribe!" appears on screen, then cut to the other actress saluting the camera]
SOLIKA: Until the end!

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From webserieschannel.com:

After a viral outbreak wipes out civilization, five geeky teenagers record their adventures on an old camcorder as they strike out across the apocalyptic landscape to find a home.

Twelve years later, a woman living in a post-virus society finds and tries to make sense of their videos - while coming to terms with the injury that changed her life forever.

Episodes

Camera On - [ Episode 01 (07:20) ]
The Archivist begins a new project; five survivors of a viral apocalypse find a video camera in an abandoned house.

Encounter - [ Episode 02 (10:06) ]
The survivors face a disturbing encounter while scavenging.

Masks - [ Episode 03 (10:33) ]
Trace interviews Charlie; the survivors make a plan.

Ready or Not - [ Episode 04 (08:32) ]
The Archivist prepares for a ceremony; Kimber records a video message.

Starships in the Dark - [ Episode 06 (12:51) ]
Trace interviews a group of traders the survivors meet on the road.

Symptoms - [ Episode 07 (09:33) ]
The Archivist is visited by her former commanding officer; the survivors believe Kimber is hiding something.

Stumbling - [ Episode 08 (11:39) ]
Trace finds Kimber recording a new video for Adrian.

The Students of Greenden College - [ Episode 09 (10:24) ]
The survivors are taken prisoner by a militarized society; Harry and Trace are reunited with an old friend.

The Mission - [ Episode 10 (09:48) ]
Maddi Valon offers the survivors a chance to prove themselves trustworthy.

Action - [ Episode 11 (08:20) ]
The Archivist plots the survivors' progress; Trace, Harry, and Charlie leave to complete Maddi's mission.

Believability - [ Episode 12 (08:40) ]
Commander Burtke questions the Archivist's interest in the videos; the survivors break into the Kenville lab.

What Next? - [ Episode 13 (10:57) ]
The Archivist completes a project; the survivors must choose a path forward.

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From tumblr.com:

Kim Miner as the Archivist

The Archivist is a mysterious citizen of a military society who watches the contents of the survivor's abandoned camera twelve years after they first began filming.

Case Study No. 2105: Ellen Wickham

Raytown librarian appointed to national committee
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A Raytown librarian will help selects books for schools across the country. Ellen Wickham is the library media specialist at Raytown South and was appointed to a national committee.
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From raytowneagle.com:

Ellen Wickham, Library Media Specialist at Raytown South High Schools has been appointed to the Young Adult Library Services Association committee to select the Best Fiction Books for Young Adults list. The list is published annually and is used by librarians who serve young adult patrons to assist in selecting books for purchase. Wickham's tenure begins on February 1, 2015.

Wickham has served locally and at the state level in many capacities, including serving six years on the Missouri Gateway Readers Award Committee, in various positions on the Board of Directors of the Missouri Association of School Librarians, and as president of the same group for the last four years.

"I was looking for ways to serve at the national level, so being a part of BFYA is really a dream come true," Wickham said.

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From kshb.com:

RAYTOWN, Mo. - An area librarian will help select books for schools across the country after being appointed to a national committee.

Ellen Wickham, the library media specialist at Raytown South, is one of 15 people appointed to a national committee to select the best fiction books for young adults.

Schools use the list the committee provides to purchase books for their libraries.

Wickham said young adult literature is hugely popular right now thanks in part to Hollywood.

"The Hollywood folks are realizing they have a built-in audience from all these great books that have come out," Wickham said. "And now they're producing movies, and that in turn gets the non-readers into reading the books."

Wickham is also President of the Missouri Association of School Librarians.

Case Study No. 2101: Staff of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences

'Like Chernobyl': Millions of unique texts feared lost in Moscow library fire
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The massive fire in Russia's leading academic library may have destroyed some 15 percent of the collection – or roughly two million unique, historic documents. The devastation "resembles Chernobyl," say academics hoping to save some of the ancient texts.

The blaze – which erupted at around 10 p.m. Moscow time on Friday (7 p.m. GMT), on the third floor of the Academic Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow – was fully extinguished at 11:24 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Emergencies Ministry. Firefighters will continue to pour water over some 2,000 square meters of the damaged building until Sunday morning.

With 49,000 readers and 330 employees, INION is the largest research center in Russia in the fields of social sciences and humanities. Its collection consists of 14.2 million texts in both ancient and modern European and Asian languages, including rare 400-year-old editions. It also has one of the biggest collections of Slavic language books in the country.

The library, founded in 1918, also boasts Russia's most complete collection of documents of the League of Nations, the UN, and UNESCO, as well as parliamentarian reports of the United States (since 1789), the UK (since 1803), Italy (since 1897), and many others.
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From telegraph.co.uk:

A million rare documents damaged in Moscow library fire
Cultural "Chernobyl" as blaze rips through one of Russia's largest university libraries

By AFP
11:11AM GMT 02 Feb 2015

A fire that ripped through one of Russia's largest university libraries is believed to have damaged over one million historic documents, with some describing the fire as a cultural "Chernobyl."

The blaze, which started on Friday and was still not completely out on Saturday evening, ravaged 2,000 square metres (21,500 square feet) of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow, which was created in 1918 and holds 10 million documents with some dating back to the 16th century.

"It's a major loss for science. This is the largest collection of its kind in the world, probably equivalent to the (United States) Library of Congress," Vladimir Fortov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences was quoted as saying by Russia press agencies.

"One can find documents there that are impossible to find elsewhere, all the social sciences use this library. What has happened here is reminiscent of Chernobyl," he said referring to the 1986 nuclear catastrophe.

Fortov said about 15 per cent of the collection had been damaged at the library, which includes one of the world's richest collections of Slavic language works, but also documents from Britain, Italy and the US.

Fortov told Kommersant FM radio that much of the damage was caused by water from the firefighting operations.

No one was injured in the inferno.

The fire broke out on Friday evening on the library's second floor and continued burning all day Saturday despite 200 firefighters' efforts to douse the blaze.

Library authorities initially said the documents were not in danger, but once the fire caused 1,000 square metres of the roof to collapse they were less certain about the risk to the collection.

A rescue service source told state-run RIA Novosti news agency it was impossible to remove the books because of the intense heat in the building.

According to Russian media, investigators looking into the cause of the blaze suspect an electrical short-circuit was to blame.

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From newsweek.com:

After a huge fire at Russia's Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences in Moscow was finally extinguished on Saturday, a long process began: salvaging books and collections damaged by flames, smoke and the water used by firefighters.

Though experts in the U.S. said they were not yet familiar with the specifics of the blaze at the Soviet-era building, they spoke with Newsweek about the precautions that such libraries and archives can take in case of disaster and what happens afterward when conservators are trying to rescue damaged materials.

The current standard procedure for salvaging books and collections damaged by water calls for the materials to be frozen as soon as possible. That's right: Stick them in a freezer.

"The material needs to be packed into cartons and frozen to stop the deterioration," says Duncan Rioch, a project administrator at Document Reprocessors, a company that specializes in salvaging water- and smoke-damaged books, documents and other archival material.

Previously, the company has been charged with restoration efforts for the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. Most famously, it helped salvage and preserve the documentation that came up from the Titanic. While Rioch explained the process to Newsweek on Monday, one of the company's staffers was en route to Brooklyn, where a fire that broke out Saturday morning ravaged a warehouse full of New York City agency records.

Frances Harrell, a preservation specialist at Northeast Document Conservation Center, says libraries and archives should install automated fire-suppression systems, like sprinklers, because water-damaged records "are recoverable. We like them wet better than we like them burned up." But the mold that can result from the wet paper can be extremely harmful, she adds.

Paper and other porous materials grow when wet and can therefore break bindings on books. Once the materials are frozen, though, they can be kept indefinitely until the institution is ready to continue the restoration process. A vacuum freeze dryer can then evaporate the ice out of the material without allowing it to go through a liquid state. In other words, the technique uses sublimation, which means the ice changes from a solid state directly to a gaseous state. The vacuum helps speed up the process.

Document Reprocessors also has an alternative cryogenic drying method that takes three or four weeks, rather than the seven to 14 days for vacuum freeze drying, but allows the company to dry leather and ancient documents without having them crack. Since the process is proprietary, Rioch said he couldn't reveal the details.

Once the documents are dry, they need to be assessed for damage caused by the water, or the smoke or fire that came before the water, Rioch explains. For example, water damage can cause the glue from book bindings to migrate onto the pages, so they need to be carefully separated.

When fire is involved, there can be an accumulation of soot on the material, and the water can carry it into the material. Because soot can contain creosote, a carcinogen, the book or document "needs to be surface-cleaned and encapsulated to preserve the historical document in a manner that it is still safe for people to handle," Rioch says. Sometimes in these situations, an organization will prefer to scan and index the contents for reference and encapsulate the full item in plastic, rather than encapsulating each individual page (with lamination, for example).

Harrell cited the 1973 fire at the National Archives' National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis and a devastating 2009 fire at the Historical Archive of Cologne in Germany, which led to that building's collapse, as other examples comparable to last week's events in Moscow. But fire is not as common as flooding and water damage, says Rioch, who adds that his company is working with many municipalities that are still recovering documents damaged during Hurricane Sandy. In any case, both fires and floods lead to water damage.

Vladimir Fortov, president of Russia's Academy of Sciences, compared the Moscow institution that caught fire Friday with the Library of Congress (LOC). So what would the Library of Congress do if its collections were damaged?

Elmer Eusman, chief of the conservation division, says the LOC has three main lines of defense in case of such an emergency. First is a so-called "beeper team" - which now uses iPhones - of about a dozen members, who are on a standby rotation to alert higher powers in case of a water breach or another situation. Second, the library has a designated space with equipment and supplies ready to salvage its collections.

When there's an emergency, there's "always a sense of panic," says Eusman. "You don't want to be thinking about what you need, you want it all already handy." The supplies and equipment include pads that soak up large quantities of water, boards to keep covers straight while drying, personal protective gear, freezer storage and a vacuum freeze dryer that can handle small quantities of materials.

Finally, the LOC has a contract agreement in place with a company that, like Document Reprocessors, can contribute manpower, supplies and equipment in larger emergencies.

The response part of a disaster, like putting materials in the freezer, "can happen very quickly and is relatively cheap," says Eusman. But that's just the first step. The recovery that follows is often slow and very costly.

Based on photographs he's seen in the news of the fire in Moscow, "it'll be a significant amount of damage," he says. "There's going to be irreparable loss, undoubtedly, but I'm sure some will be recoverable."

Case Study No. 2097: Angelique Kidd

Police, protesters accuse each other over use of pepper spray Thursday
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ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) – Police and protesters are accusing each other of using pepper spray at a protest in Ferguson Thursday night.
Police arrested three people during the demonstration late Thursday night. Authorities said 19-year-old Dasha Jones, 17-year-old Brandi Shields, and 25-year-old Moustapha Diop were arrested for blocking traffic. Shields and Jones have been charged with unlawful assembly, Diop was charged with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest, and assault on a law enforcement officer.
Jones screamed about the tightness of the handcuffs as she was taken away. Friday, many protesters expressed and frustration about the arrest and police tactics.
"They're violent (police tactics) and unnecessary," said protester Angelique Kidd.
Shields was the next to be arrested. Authorities used pepper spray in the process. Two officers claimed protesters shot them with pepper, however, those officers may have been accidentally hit by the pepper spray.
Authorities said Diop is a fugitive wanted out of Webster Groves.
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[scene opens with footage of police and protesters clashing in Ferguson (Mo.)]
JASMINE HUDA: [in voice over] Police say three people were taken into custody, and they refused to get out of the street when they were blocking traffic. Russell Kinsaul talked with protesters who are calling those arrests unnecessary. Russell?
[cut to a male reporter ("Russell Kinsaul, Ferguson") speaking directly to the camera]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: Jasmine, even after all the extra training for officers, protesters say police are still being heavy-handed, and protesters are upset about the arrest last night of a twenty-five-year-old man, a nineteen-year-old mother, and a seventeen-year-old girl.
[cut to more footage of the protests]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: [in voice over] The crowd of protesters scattered when police moved in to arrest three protesters after repeatedly warning them not to stand in the street and block traffic.
[cut to another angle of the protesters scattering, as a police officer chases down a young African American woman]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: [in voice over] An officer ran and took down nineteen-year-old Dasha Jones first. She was charged with unlawful assembly. Jones screamed in pain about the tightness of her handcuffs, as she was taken away.
[cut to footage of two police officers picking the woman up off the ground, as she repeatedly screams "Arrest!"]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: [in voice over] A day later, protesters expressed anger and frustration about the arrest.
[cut to the reporter interviewing a female librarian holding a cardboard sign]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: What do you think about the police tactics that you've seen out here during protests?
ANGELIQUE KIDD: I think they're violent and overly aggressive.
[cut to more footage of police subduing protesters]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: [in voice over] Seventeen-year-old Brandi Shields was the second to be arrested. Police used pepper spray in the process. Two officers claimed that protesters also shot them with pepper spray, but they may have inadvertantly been hit by fellow officer's spray. Shields is also charged with unlawful assembly.
[cut to more footage of police subduing protesters]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: [in voice over] Twenty-five-year-old Moustapha Diop didn't appear to be a target of police, until an officer told him to get back and he refused.
[cut to a YouTube clip of the African American man being arrested]
RUSSELL KINSAUL: [in voice over] You can see pepper spray coming in from the right, and Diop appears to push or hit an officer with his left hand as he goes down. He's charged with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest, assault on a law officer, and police say he's a fugitive out of Webster Groves.

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From thestar.com:

FERGUSON, MO. - She's a mom, a librarian, a U.S. army vet, just like her dad. She belongs to a Ferguson book club that hasn't met since police bullets felled Michael Brown in August.

Her 9-year-old daughter's on the Ferguson swim team. Her husband, who builds in-ground pools for a living, is president of their neighbourhood community association. Together, they launched two local community gardens. This is home. They're dug in, here for the long haul.

With a bio like that, Angelique Kidd, 41, admits she's just about the last person you might expect to find on the picket line, standing vigil day in and day out for the past 102 days opposite the Ferguson Police Department, demanding change.

"I've never protested anything in my life until now," Kidd said Tuesday afternoon, huddled alongside the handful of hardcore activists who've become good friends through months of heat, rain, and now sub-zero cold.

"It all started for me a few days after the shooting of Michael Brown, when our police chief was going to tell us who the shooter was. When he refused to say the name, something just came over me. I went outside with a can of (water-soluble) paint and wrote, 'Who shot Mike Brown' in big letters all over my vehicle."

Less than 10 minutes later, Kidd said, seven police cars - six from the Ferguson force, one from nearby Calverton Park - were in front of her house. She became terrified, ran inside, locked her doors and windows, and called her husband.

"They took down my licence plate and went away. And after I stopped being scared I started getting angry. And so I joined the march. I put signs on our lawn. And I've been down here opposite the police station almost every day since then."

Kidd admits she's lost friendships over her activism - although she won't know how many until Ferguson falls out of the headlines and things return to some semblance of normal. She's knows of at least two (unsuccessful) attempts to dislodge her from her part-time job at Ferguson Public Library.

And she is saddened that her home town has acquired a global reputation for hatred and strife when her reality suggests otherwise.

"The issue is not racial conflict between the residents of Ferguson. The issue is police accountability," she says. "It's important that the world understand that."

Still, Kidd admits her eyes have been opened by some of the reactions she has encountered with standing vigil with placards. More than a few white motorists have "flipped me the bird." One raised middle finger came from a passing Ferguson police cruiser. Other Ferguson cops, however, have actually acknowledged protesters with friendly waves, she says.

Kidd and the rest of the local core of protesters have seen larger waves of protesters come and go. Tuesday, they were joined by a student who had driven 15 hours from Delaware to be at their side. Another, a history student from North Carolina, came by air.

"I've come to understand that an event like this is a magnet for people with all kinds of axes to grind. My view is that's fine as long as they are non-violent. That's a line we won't cross. Sometimes my daughter joins me. I want to be heard, not hurt."

Kidd takes a dim view of the "I Love Ferguson" campaign that was launched in October in a bid to mend reputational damage. The signs now adorn nearly half of the city of 21,000 people's lawns, with a bright red heart between the words "I" and "Ferguson."

"It's fine to say you love your town. I do, too. But do you really need to hide behind a banner and pretend that everything is fine when a huge number of our population are not happy at all with where we are right now?

"We all need to heal. But it's too soon. We don't even have a grand jury decision yet. And until we do, my way of saying 'I love Ferguson' is to stand right here in front of the police station."

Those last words earn nods and smiles from the small group she's with. "You still yapping? At least you had something to say," says one, laughing.

Rick Canamore, 50, who lives in the nearby suburb of Normandy but does all of his shopping in Ferguson, is another long-termer on this line. His only previous experience with demonstrations was a march in St. Louis for Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen gunned down in 2012.

Now, apart from church and his work at a nearby pharmaceutical plant, this stretch of pavement has taken over Canamore's life.

"We dealt with the heat, we dealt with rain, and now, three months later, the cold and the snow. But this is too important to let go. We've got to change the police culture into a culture of training and accountability. No matter what the grand jury decides, we need real change."

Whether it will come in the ruling everyone awaits is a trickier question. The Missouri governor's pre-emptive declaration of a state of emergency, together with the activation of Missouri National Guard troops, suggests to many that there will be no indictment against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who fired six bullets into the unarmed Brown in a confrontation rife with conflicting eyewitness statements.

"I can't say if I'm optimistic or depressed as the grand jury ruling approaches," says Kidd. "I'm just numb with exhaustion, more than anything."

Case Study No. 2093: Karen Mand

Longtime Librarian Closes the Book on 43 Years of Service
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Longtime librarian Karen Mand retires after 43 years of service to St. Norbert College.
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From jrn.com:

Longtime Librarian Closes the Book on 43 Years of Service
By Stacy Engebretson. CREATED Jan 14, 2015

De Pere, WI -- The average American worker changes jobs about every four-and-a-half years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. So you can imagine the void St. Norbert College is going to feel as their longtime librarian, Karen Mand, calls it a career after 43 years.

Mand's enthusiasm for working in the college library is as infectious today as it was on her first day on the job back in 1971.

"I love libraries. I love working with books. The atmosphere on campus is a good place to work," she explained.

Mand has seen a lot of changes in 43 years including working in three different libraries on campus.

"Part of my job for many years was typing catalog cards and filing everything. You know once they were typed, they had to be filed."

Then in the late 1980's, she had to adapt to new technology.

"We had one computer for the whole library staff, so we had a sign-up sheet. Everybody had to sign-up for the time they wanted to use the computer."

The evolution of the internet brought new challenges for Mand. She was tasked with tracking 190,000 books and making it easy for students to access them. Now, after more than four decades of service, she's closing the book on her career.

"I don't want to learn anymore technology," Mand said with a chuckle.

Her colleagues threw her a retirement party to express the impact she's had on so many, not just as the Cataloging Management Specialist but also as a Student-Employee Supervisor and through her committee work on campus.

"I hope she feels a sense of pride and a sense of love, I think both of which are very well deserved. She's given so much, shown so much dedication and there are so many people who wish her well," said Library Director Kristin Vogel.

Mand says riding off into retirement is bittersweet.

"It'll be difficult. It will be hard to walk out of here."

It's difficult for the college as well to bid farewell to the one constant among all the changes.

"There will be many people who feel the loss of Karen on a day to day basis," said Vogel.

But Mand is looking forward to starting the next chapter in her life.

"Who knows what the future will bring? I'm open to anything."

Mand plans to spend her free time traveling with her husband, sewing and volunteering on campus and in the community.

Case Study No. 2086: Stephanie Supinski

YA FEST! World record! Most authors to simultaneously hug a librarian.
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[scene opens with an older female librarian (short blonde hair, glasses, white t-shirt) surrounded by a group of people]
JOSH BERK: [from off camera] Okay! So here we are, at YA Fest in Palmer, Pennsylvania! And we are setting the world record for the most authors to simultaneously hug a librarian!
[the librarian laughs]
JOSH BERK: [from off camera] Our librarian is Stephanie Supinski, we have approximately fifty authors ... I will do a final tally for the record books shortly. But at the moment, let's all just get in there on the count of three and give her a hug! Ready? One, two, three, do it!
[they all come together and hug her]
JOSH BERK: [from off camera] Yeah! Aw, lookit that! She's done a great job with the entire fest, and we couldn't have it without her! So she deserves a big group hug and much more! So, thank you everyone!
[they all applaud]
JOSH BERK: [from off camera] Enjoy the day!

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From recordsetter.com:

Easton, Pennsylvania, United States / April 19, 2014

Josh B. led 22 authors in simultaneously hugging a librarian. They set the record at YA Fest at the Palmer Branch of the Easton Public Library in Easton, Pennsylvania.

The authors are Melissa Groeling, Anne Greenwood Brown, Jacqueline Kesller, Jen McConnel, K.M. Walton, Margie Gelbwasser, Amie Borst, Bethanie Borst, Molly Cochran, Radjeep Paulus, Aaron Starmer, Tiffany Schmidt, Alissa Grosso, Josh Berk, Jennifer Murgia, Ellen Jensen Abbott, Cristin Terrill, Kit Grindstaff, David Lubar, Jennifer Hubbard, Jeff Hirsch, and Kimberly Ann Miller.

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From lehighvalleylive.com:

YA Fest brings 51 young adult authors to Palmer Township

[Authors Jennifer Murgia and Josh Berk along with Stephanie Supinski, the manager of the Easton Area Public Library's Palmer branch, look over Berk's book as they discuss the upcoming YA Fest at the Palmer branch. (Express-Times Photo | Sue Beyer)]

By John Best
on April 12, 2014 at 11:30 AM

Fans of young adult fiction have an opportunity to meet 51 of their favorite authors April 19.

Authors from all over the country will gather at the Palmer branch of the Easton Area Public Library to participate in YA Fest 2014.

Young adult fiction has seen a massive increase in popularity in recent years. From J.K Rowling's "Harry Potter" taking off in 1997 to the more recent "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" series, young adult books have produced multiple best sellers.

Jennifer Murgia, Palmer Township resident and author of four published books, is looking to tap into that popularity and give fans access to some of their favorite authors.

Murgia and fellow author Cyn Balog organized the first fest in 2012. In addition to local authors from previous years, authors will come from as far away as Chicago, Florida and New Hampshire.

"Our area had so many wonderful authors that wrote for this genre," Murgia said. "We really wanted to help showcase their work and also bring teens back into the library and install a love for reading. We want to unite everybody, books and teens and authors."

The 51 authors will be stationed around the library and guests will have a chance to talk with them, discuss their books and ask questions. The fest includes guessing games and a skit called Master Berk Theatre, which features author and Bethlehem Area Public Library executive director Josh Berk performing readings in a pompously comic way.

"I've been to a lot of writing festivals and we wanted to do something really fun," Berk said. "Make it as fun and interactive as possible."

Murgia hopes that meeting and talking with authors such as New York Times bestseller Jennifer Armentrout will encourage kids to read and possibly inspire them to write their own stories. With so many extracurricular activities in their lives, Murgia hopes YA Fest can bring reading and a love of books into focus for children and teens. Berk thinks encouraging youngsters to read builds for later success.

"Statistically speaking, if you want to set a foundation for a child's success in life, you want to start them off being a strong reader," Berk said. "There are a lot of tools to do that but one way is make reading fun and not a chore."

Berk has written four books, including one published earlier this year, "Say It Ain't So," a baseball-themed mystery novel for kids.

The festival starts at 10:30 a.m. and a 10-author panel will meet from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. to discuss their experiences writing for younger readers, followed by a question and answer period. The event will also serve to launch several books, including Charles Benoit's "Cold Calls." Writing duo Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman will give festival attendees an exclusive chance to buy "Blonde Ops" before its official release next month.

Case Study No. 2079: Kelly Richards

Bookish? Outdoorsman, former Flint cop hired as Muskegon County's new top librarian
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From mlive.com:

Bookish? Outdoorsman, former Flint cop hired as Muskegon County's new top librarian
By Stephen Kloosterman
on January 11, 2015 at 5:03 AM, updated January 11, 2015 at 5:07 AM

MUSKEGON, MI – Kelly Richards can get your kids' attention telling stories from his time working as a cop in Flint.

Then, he can get them a good book.

The Muskegon Area District Library has hired Richards from the Greater Flint area as its next library director. Despite being a librarian, he may be a more interesting man than the fictional fellow in the Dos Equis commercials.

He once worked as a cop in Flint, one of the nation's most dangerous cities. His career as a librarian stretched from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh. He loves to fish -- a hobby that he shares with many of Muskegon's residents.

He's got local roots. Sports fans, do you remember the name Percy Richards, Jr.? Kelly Richards' father, Percy, was on two state championship Muskegon Heights basketball teams in the 1950s.

Kelly Richards' parents left the Muskegon area for Flint, but he still has many relatives in the area. He would often visit the relatives in the summer, and he remembers fishing off the SS Milwaukee Clipper docked in Muskegon Lake.

"I used to fish with my legs crossed next to that big boat," he said.

He still fishes as a way to relax. On Friday, Jan. 9, he said was getting ready for an ice-fishing expedition. "I'm a very avid fisherman," the 49-year-old said.

An interesting career path

Richards has been working in libraries since the early-1990s, but worked for years before that as a policeman.

The daily grind of police work wore on him. He remembers responding to as many as 30 dispatches a day. There was no time to do anything proactive for the community.

"I did not have a chance to be like Andy Griffith," he said. "It became frustrating for me."

He was in Las Vegas when he happened to walk into a library. A woman in the library recommended he apply for a job there. He did. The woman hired somebody else, but she recommended Richards for a job across town. This time, he got hired.

"That was how I got into the field," he said.

His second career as a librarian took off after he was discovered by E.J. Josey, the first male African-American president of the American Library Association (the very first African-American President of the ALA was a woman, Clara Stanton Jones, in 1976).

Josey urged Richards to come to the University of Pittsburgh, where Josey was a professor, and to earn a Master's degree in library science.

"I said, 'Well, hey, it sounds good, but I got a brand-new baby -- I mean, brand new – and the wife is here with me.'"

Josey went to work and eventually offered Richards a position as graduate student assistant so that he could get paid and support his family while still attending school.

"I took the opportunity," Richards said. "You just couldn't beat that."

Richards worked as a librarian in Pittsburgh before ending up at the Genesee County Library in 2003.

Getting hired

Meanwhile, in Muskegon, the Muskegon Area District Library Board of Trustees was looking for applications. Steven Dix, the director of MADL for seven years, transitioned to a part-time status during the search process.

After the board unsuccessfully tried to hire a new director on its own, it turned to a recruitment firm in the fall of 2014.

"The library board was blessed with a number of qualified individuals," said the board chair, Doug Hughes. Twenty-eight applications were received. Eight of those individuals were interviewed by Skype Internet video, and then four of those individuals were interviewed in person.

Kelly stood out as a highly qualified individual.

"The board settled on Kelly based on his experience," Hughes said. "He's been in bigger cities. He's won awards."

Richards said he learned the craft of library outreach at earlier jobs.

"I really want to put my ear to the ground and find out what the community wants, and what the community needs," he said. "It's just a matter of what I can do to add to the foundation that's already there in the system."

And he has a never-fail trick for getting kids' attention.

"It's kind of funny," he said. "When I was in Las Vegas, I quickly realized the quickest way to get the attention of the young people was to talk about police stories."

Case Study No. 2074: Marie Gandron

9-year-old reading champ punished for winning too much?
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Librarian wants bookworm banned
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["Trouble with schools" appears on screen]
STEVE: [from off camera] Well, believe this ...
[cut to a still image of a young boy standing next to an elderly female library aide, as "Bookworm Bummer - 9 year old accused of 'hogging' contest" appears on screen]
STEVE: [from off camera] Nine-year-old Tyler Weaver just won his public library's reading contest for the fifth year in a row, but instead of patting him on the back, the head librarian wants to change the rules so other kids will have a chance.
[cut to the set of "Fox and Friends", where Steve Doocy is sitting next to a young boy and his mother]
STEVE: Joining us right now, Tyler and his mom, Katy Weaver. Good morning to both of you.
KATY: Hi.
TYLER: Hi.
STEVE: Congratulations. Tyler, how many ... Every year, your local library has this contest to see which kids can read the most books. How many did you read this year to win?
TYLER: Sixty three books.
STEVE: You read sixty three books? Over, uh, what period?
TYLER: [pause] Um, three weeks?
[Steve laughs]
STEVE: That is amazing!
KATY: Six weeks.
TYLER: Six weeks.
[Katy laughs]
STEVE: Listen, it's amazing. I've only read three books in that period.
["Page Turner - boy told to 'make room' for other champs" appears on screen]
STEVE: Okay, so ... uh, this is the fifth year in a row that you've won, right?
TYLER: True.
STEVE: Alright, and what is it you like so much about reading?
TYLER: Well, I like to learn ... I like to learn something new.
STEVE: You do? And I understand you've read at least one book about each of the fifty states, right?
TYLER: Yep.
STEVE: What a great kid you have raised, congratulations!
KATY: Thank you!
STEVE: Okay, so fifth year in a row, you heard through the newspaper that the library director had a problem with your son winning every year, year after year.
KATY: Yes. Yes, I had called Meg Hagerty at the Post Star, and I wanted just--
STEVE: Your local newspaper.
KATY: Local newspaper, and I just wanted a picture of him buried in the Sunday paper.
STEVE: Sure.
["He Hogs the Contest - librarian wants reading champ banned" appears on screen]
KATY: So Meg called the library director, and that's when all the comments came out and that's how I found out that they weren't happy.
STEVE: And what were the comments? Well, the public library director up there in Hudson Falls ...
KATY: Mm hmm.
[cut to a still image of Tyler and his brother]
STEVE: [from off camera] Not far from Glen Falls, New York, said that this young man right here, Tyler, hogs the contest every year and he should step aside and that other kids quit because they can't keep up.
[cut back to the still image of Tyler and the library aide]
STEVE: [from off camera] How does that make you feel, mom?
KATY: [from off camera] Very angry.
STEVE: [from off camera] Mm hmm.
[cut back to the mother and son being interviewed]
KATY: And disappointed.
STEVE: Why?
KATY: Because Tyler worked so hard for it.
STEVE: Yeah.
KATY: He deserves this. He should deserve praise and he should be rewarded for it--
STEVE: Mm hmm.
KATY: And my other son came in second place, and people should be proud of them!
[she laughs, as "Inspiration or Menace? - debate over 5th grade reading winner" appears on screen]
STEVE: Absolutely. And apparently what the library director wanted to do, until it became a big story in your local paper--
KATY: Mm hmm.
["Punishing Success - Mom: everyone should be proud of Tyler" appears on screen]
STEVE: Was she wanted to put all the names of all the kids in the program into a fish bowl or something like that and pull out a winner, right?
[cut to a still image of the female library director in question (black hair, glasses, floral pattern dress)]
KATY: [from off camera] Yes.
TYLER: [from off camera] Yeah.
KATY: [from off camera] We disagree.
[Steve laughs, then cut back to the mother and son being interviewed]
STEVE: Well, yeah. The winner is the winner, you would think.
KATY: The one who worked for it!
STEVE: That's right.
KATY: You work for it, you don't get it by luck.
STEVE: You did work for it, and not only did you work for it, but you gave up other things to do it. You could've been doing other things at the time, but y'know, you set aside special time to read sixty three books, right?
[he nods his head, and Katy laughs]
STEVE: Alright. What would, what would your message be to the library director?
["Tyler Weaver, 9 year old reading champ" appears on screen]
TYLER: Um, all I want is a apology and an explanation so, for why they thought ... thought that, that um, that I should stop reading.
STEVE: Yeah.
TYLER: To let other people ... to have a chance to win.
STEVE: Sure, absolutely. Well, it's an interesting story.
["Wussification of America - boy told to step aside, let others win" appears on screen]
STEVE: Are you gonna go ahead and do it again next year if they have it, or are you gonna hog the contest again?
[they laugh]
STEVE: I got a feeling if they do it, you'll be there, right?
KATY: That's right.
STEVE: Alright.
[Katy laughs]
STEVE: Uh, Tyler and Katy Weaver, thank you very much for joining us today.
KATY: Thank you.
STEVE: Alright, and congratulations. And congratulations to your brother who came in second place. That's great.
[Katy laughs]
STEVE: What do you think about that? Email us, friends at foxnews dot com.

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From foxnews.com:

Reading Too Much? Librarian Wants to Ban NY Boy From Competition
Aug 20, 2013 | As seen on Fox and Friends

A 9-year-old New York boy just won his public library's children's reading club contest for the fifth year in a row, but instead of being congratulated he is being told to step aside! The Hudson Falls Public Library director said that Tyler Weaver hogs the competition and should be banned!

Weaver read 63 books between June 24th and August 3rd, and has won the competition every year since he was in kindergarten.

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From today.com:

The mother of a 9-year-old reading whiz from New York is asking for an apology after a local librarian said she wanted her son banned from a reading club contest that he just won for the fifth year in a row.

After Tyler Weaver read 63 books between June 24 and Aug. 3 to win this year's Dig Into Reading competition at the Hudson Falls Public Library, director Marie Gandron told a reporter from the Glens Falls Post-Star that Weaver "hogs" the contest every year and should "step aside.”

"Other kids quit because they can't keep up," Gandron said.

Gandron's declaration didn't sit well with Tyler and his family.

"When he heard what the director said [about him] he was very upset," Katie Weaver, Tyler's mother, told TODAY. "He's never seen being good at reading to be a negative thing. And he shouldn't! He realized that the director was wrong.

"I was really, really angry when I heard what she said," Weaver said. "I think Tyler deserves an apology. I want him to see that even though one person disagrees, if it's something he wants to pursue, I think he should go for it. He learned a great lesson about ignoring negativity.”

Tyler has read 373 books over the course of five contests that began when he was in kindergarten. His younger brother, Jonathan, 7, also is a voracious reader, having won the contest for his age group two years running. However, books are not Tyler's sole interest.

"When this first happened, Tyler was excited because he won the book club again," Weaver said. "He loves being king of the book club! He loves to read, but he also plays soccer, he swims, and he rides his bike, like any 9-year-old boy.”

Weaver said she has not heard anything from Gandron or the library's board since Gandron's public comments. Gandron told the Post-Star she initially wanted to change the contest rules so that the winners' names would be drawn out of a hat rather than just being the children who read the most books.

In a previous year, she discovered that a girl and her mother were lying about reading more than 200 books. As a result, children now have to answer questions by a library aide about the content of the books after they return them in order to verify that they have indeed read what they've claimed. Lita Casey, a library aide for 28 years, told the Post-Star that Gandron's idea to change the rules to picking names out of a hat is "ridiculous.”

"My feeling is you work, you get it," Casey said. "That's just the way it is in anything. My granddaughter started working on track in grade school and ended up being a national champ. Should she have backed off and said, 'No, somebody else should win?' I told her [Gandron], but she said it's not a contest, it's the reading club and everybody should get a chance."

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From yahoo.com:

It may be a quiet place, but the public library in Hudson Falls, New York (population: 6,927), is buzzing with drama these days, and the story has all the components of a good novel (albeit a novel set in a library, featuring librarians and a 9-year-old reading-contest winner as the main characters). That 9-year-old is Tyler Weaver — the self-proclaimed "king of the book club" and one of the library's most frequent visitors — who will be taking his book business elsewhere, now that a longtime library aide who stuck up for him in a contest controversy has been fired.

"The kids call her Gram. That makes it even worse," Tyler's mother, Katie Weaver, tells Yahoo Shine. "Gram" is Lita Casey, a library aide who spent 28 years working at the Hudson Falls Free Library. But Casey says that the library's board of trustees let her go without reason this week, a month after Casey defended Tyler, who won the library's summer reading contest, "Dig into Reading," for the fifth time by reading the most books in a six-week period.

"I'm not very happy. I was not ready to leave," Casey, who's also a former preschool teacher, tells Yahoo Shine. "I loved my job, and I loved the little kids."

Weaver explains that the library controversy started when she called the local newspaper, the Post-Star, asking if they would feature Tyler's win in the paper. "I called the paper because I was proud of Tyler," she says, "not because I wanted to complain."

The publication then reached out to former library director Marie Gandron for a quote on Tyler's reading success. Instead of praising Tyler's effort, Gandron told The Post-Star that Tyler "hogs" the contest every year and he should "step aside." (And if you don't believe a grown woman would say these things about a little boy who reads a lot, check out the story the paper published.) "Other kids quit because they can't keep up," she told The Post-Star last month, adding that she planned to change the reading program's rules, suggesting they draw names out of a hat instead of awarding prizes, such as T-shirts, water bottles, and atlases, to kids who read the most books. (Gandron has not returned Yahoo Shine's request for comment.)

Disagreeing with Gandron's proposed rule changes, Casey stepped in and stood up for Tyler, who read an impressive 63 books in just six weeks, which made him the clear winner, fair and square. "I don't think it should be a lottery," Casey explains. They all had the same amount of time." The contest only requires kids to read 10 books to participate, and there is no word on how many books the runner-up logged.

And the plot thickens: According to Weaver, Gandron then left her position at the library, never having apologized to Tyler. Michael Herman, president of the library's board of trustees, confirmed to the Post-Star last week that Gandron was no longer employed by the library but wouldn't say whether she had been fired or quit.

According to Casey, a member of the library board called her Monday evening to let her know she'd been fired but wouldn't give her a reason. Casey, not surprisingly, is convinced that her firing is related to the controversy over the library's reading contest, but she hasn't been given a chance to speak with the board since and isn't happy about the whole thing. "I would say I don't deserve this. I don't know what it is. I wasn't going to quit with all of the flak," she says. (The librarian at Hudson Falls Free Library who answered Yahoo Shine's call said she could not comment on the situation, and Herman could not be reached for comment.)

Weaver doesn't agree with the board's decision, either, and points out that Casey has dedicated her life to encouraging kids to read. "I don't know what the board was thinking," she says. "For them to let her go and not give her a reason, that's wrong. Someone who stands up for kids, stands up for what's right — those are the kinds of people I want in my kids' lives."

Casey says she's received many calls of support, but she won't be frequenting the Hudson Falls Free Library anymore. "I'm going to miss it," she says. This story could have a happy ending, though: If there's an opening at a nearby library's children's room, she'll happily begin a new chapter there. And Weaver says that she, Tyler, and a few other families will be following suit. "We'll be going to another library with her," she says. Why? The answer is simple, according to Weaver: "She's so sweet."

Case Study No. 2069: Maureen P. Walsh

Maureen Walsh, Ohio State's Institutional Repository Services Librarian
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Maureen Walsh, University Libraries' Institutional Repository Services Librarian, talks about her work and how she can help researchers and scholars organize and share their work with a worldwide audience.
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[scene opens with a female librarian (brown hair, glasses, grey blouse, black skirt) speaking directly to the camera]
MAUREEN WALSH: I work with researchers and scholars across campus to help organize and describe their works, and make them openly available to a worldwide audience.
[cut to the librarian helping a female professor at her computer]
MAUREEN WALSH: [in voice over] This year, we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Knowledge Bank, the Ohio State University's open access repository. Over the last ten years, we have been fortunate to have worked with over eighty partners.
[cut back to the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MAUREEN WALSH: To make their scholarship openly available to the world via the Knowledge Bank.
[cut to the librarian sitting in the library and smiling for the camera]
MAUREEN WALSH: [in voice over] I'm Maureen. I'm the Institutional Repository Services Librarian ...
[cut back to the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MAUREEN WALSH: And I would be happy to help you.

Maureen Walsh
Institutional Repository Services Librarian
walsh.260 [at] osu dot edu
Phone Number: 614-292-3330

18th Avenue Library
175 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

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From osu.edu:

6th Annual Knowledge Bank Users Group Meeting
June 19, 2014 / Maureen P. Walsh

On May 13, 2014, thirty-four faculty and staff from around The Ohio State University joined the Knowledge Bank team in the Thompson Library for the Sixth Annual Knowledge Bank Users Group Meeting. Participants included long-standing and established partners as well as new partners of our institutional repository and publishing programs.

This year we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Knowledge Bank. The meeting included a retrospective of the past ten years of the Knowledge Bank, an update on the publishing program and Open Access mandates, and an interactive program focused on the Libraries' research services. The presentation slides from the meeting are available via the Knowledge Bank.

The Knowledge Bank team would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of our partners for making this year's event a huge success. The continued participation and input from our partners is invaluable to us and we appreciate the opportunity to gather as a group to talk about our goals and accomplishments.

If you have comments about this year's meeting, or suggestions for next year, please let us know.

Case Study No. 2060: Kathleen McCook

Feature - Kathleen McCook
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The story of Kathleen McCook, a 91-year-old former librarian with an incredible memory

Filmed and edited by Tara Knott
Photos courtesy of Kathleen McCook and Laurie Evans, Belmont Village
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[scene opens with various shots of students studying in the library of Belmont University]
TARA KNOTT: [in voice over] With final exams quickly approaching, college students everywhere are trying desperately to remember everything they've learned all semester long. Perhaps they should take notes from this woman ...
[cut to a still image of an elderly woman]
TARA KNOTT: [in voice over] Ninety one year old Kathleen McCook. Ask her to recite a poem for you, and her only question is ... "How many would you like to hear?"
[cut to the woman speaking directly to the camera]
KATHLEEN MCCOOK: I could almost hear a poem once, and know it. Somebody said to me one day, "You must spent your entire childhood memorizing poems." I never memorized poems, at all.
[cut to an exterior shot of Belmont University]
TARA KNOTT: [in voice over] At Belmont University, psychology professor Doctor Lonnie Yandell said even his colleagues have a hard time figuring out what makes a memory stick.
[cut to the male professor speaking directly to the camera]
LONNIE YANDELL: Long term memory is by far the most complicated kinda memory, because actually ... um, it's still a pretty big mystery how we get so much information into our memory.
[cut to a closeup of one of the bookshelves in the library]
TARA KNOTT: [in voice over] Yandell said McCook, a former librarian, may remember poems more easily because she's emotionally connected to them.
[cut to a still image of a page featuring Myra Welch's "Touch of the Master's Hand"]
TARA KNOTT: [in voice over] And that's certainly the case with one of her favorite poems, "The Touch of the Master's Hand." Five stanzas, two hundred and seventy six words, and McCook didn't miss a single one.
[cut back to McCook speaking directly to the camera]
KATHLEEN MCCOOK: "And many a man with life out of tune, and battered and scarred by sin, if offered cheap to the thoughtless crowd, much like the old violin. A mess of pottage, a glass of wine, a game and he travels on. He's going once, he's going twice, he's going and almost gone. But the master comes, and the foolish crowd can never quite understand, the worth of a soul and the change that's wrought by the touch of the master's hand."
["To see McCook recite the full poem, visit www dot belmontjournal dot com" appears on screen]
TARA KNOTT: [in voice over] For the Belmont Journal, this is Tara Knott.

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From wordpress.com:

Kathleen McCook's body may be confined to an electric wheelchair, but her mind certainly knows no bounds.

The former librarian and home economics teacher, 91, remembers countless poems and can recite them at a moment's notice, a talent she discovered as a teenager.

"I was at a young people's conference with a friend – I was about 15 years old – and I heard a man recite the poem, 'The Touch of the Master's Hand,'" McCook said. "I could say the poem, and I don't ever remember trying to memorize it."

That poem became one of her favorites, and she can still recite it word-for-word to this day, along with many, many others.

It could be the repetitive structure, the rhyme, or rehearsing the poems over and over again throughout the years, but McCook said she hopes she just has a good memory. After all, when you've lived 91 years, there are quite a few things you don't want to forget.

Case Study No. 2056: Fania Brantsovsky

How I Became the Librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
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Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - describes how she began working at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and how the Institute received books from all over the world.

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Fania Brantsovsky
in conversation with Christa Whitney

A production of the
Wexler Oral History Project
at the Yiddish Book Center

[scene opens with an elderly female librarian (short grey hair, white blouse) being interviewed in Yiddish]
CHRISTA: [translated] How did you become the librarian here?
FANIA: [translated] I think that Dovid Katz ... When the institute was created, Dovid already knew me from the community. Well, he needed someone who could read Yiddish, who could write Yiddish. We receive a lot of letters.
[she points off camera]
FANIA: [translated] Indre knows Yiddish as well, she took the courses here. And so it was all built up, and then we decided ... This entire library is made up of gifts.
[she smiles]
FANIA: [translated] We don't have any money to buy books. Mendy Cahan brought a lot of books. We get books from America, from Australia. I remember receiving three large bags.
[she chuckles]
FANIA: [translated] And some of those books were very useful. For instance, when we visited Libele, I saw that he had a memorial book for teachers. So I decided to ask him for a copy. And we got the book from Australia.
[she shrugs]
FANIA: [translated] Well, perhaps there should be more new computerized books, but I'm old and with all this ... you know?
[she throws her hands up]
FANIA: [translated] And I'm happy that people come and use them, that students use them when the Yiddish course is running. That's an important thing.

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Wexler Oral History Project
Yiddish Book Center (c) 2012

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From yiddishbookcenter.org:

Fania Brantsovsky, former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 27, 2012 at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania. This interview is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Interview Date: July 27, 2012
Narrator Full Name: Fania Brantsovsky
Narrator Birth Year: 1921
Narrator Birth Place: Kaunas, Lithuania
Interview Location: Vilnius Yiddish Institute

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From holocaustlegacylithuania.com:

Fania Brantsovsky
"I always felt proud to be Jewish, despite what we experienced in the Holocaust."

Fania was interned in the Vilnius ghetto with her family. On the day the ghetto was liquidated, she escaped to the partisan forts in Rudnicki Forest. After the war, she married fellow partisan Mischa Brantsovsky. She currently works as a librarian at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and helps camp and ghetto survivors at the Jewish Community Centre. She actively perpetuates the memory of those who perished through tours of Jewish Vilna and the partisan forts. As she explains: "I guide people to the Ghetto and to Paneriai. I see that as my sacred duty to those who died, who cannot get up and tell others what took place there and in the Ghetto. For as long as my legs will carry me, I must go on doing that. There are other guides... maybe they know the figures and dates better than I do. That is not my main aim, but my story comes straight from the heart."

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From jewishchronicle.org:

In search of the Yiddish voice that still whispers in Lithuania
By Rokhl Kafrissen
September 25th, 2008

Vilnius, Lithuania (JTA) - Months ago, I decided that, as a loud and insistent partisan on behalf of Yiddish language and culture, I should improve my spoken Yiddish.
It would be this summer or never.

I had just left my job as a corporate attorney and time, if not money, was on my side. I was newly employed as the part-time Internet/outreach/youth-wrangling editor for a Jewish culture and politics magazine with a traditionally Yiddish speaking (intensely, and devoutly secular) readership.

I managed to convince my employers at Jewish Currents that not only was it necessary to spend more than a month in a language immersion program, but also that my trip to Yiddishland would generate plentiful material for upcoming issues.

So off I went to the Vilnius Yiddish Institute's summer Yiddish program in Vilnius, Lithuania. Vilna - I never referred to it as Vilnius - was a place about which I had sung, read and attended lectures.

Last April, I sat in the office of a colleague, a woman much wiser than I, and told her I would be going to Vilna this summer to perfect my understanding of Yiddish case endings. There are only three, so I figured a month would be enough.

Vilna! Yiddish! Wasn't it cool?

My colleague looked at me dryly, as only she can. "Vilna is no more," she said. "There is only Vilnius, babe."

But for me, and for all my Yiddishist friends, Vilna is a very real place. Vilna was the home of great modernist Yiddish poetry, of important Jewish publishing houses, the birthplace of the YIVO Institute, the resting place of the Vilna Gaon.

For those of us left cold by the clapping and swaying of Upper West Side neo-chasids, the idea of Vilna is a comforting touchstone, home of the traditional opponents of the Chasidim: the Misnagdim.

Although my own family is solidly Romanian, I am regularly in touch with what I call my inner Litvak: the cerebral, slightly aloof Jew who shies away from Friday night swaying at shul.

I was personally offended by the suggestion that Vilna no longer existed.

History and myths

My colleague turned out to be right: Vilna is no longer. Today, Vilnius speaks loudly. Jewish Vilna is only a whisper heard by those who care to listen closely. Indeed, the dissonances between Vilna and Vilnius ripple across the country, and the globe.

But first, some clarification. The city we know by its Lithuanian name, Vilnius, once was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Until the close of World War II, Vilna/Wilno (Yiddish/Polish) was a majority Polish and Yiddish-speaking city. Lithuanian speakers were always a small fraction of its population.

After the war, under Soviet occupation, Vilna became Vilnius. Compared to Lavia and Estonia, Lithuania mostly resisted "Russification" and had a relatively small Russian population.

Lithuania has been independent for less than 20 years and is still in the process of writing its national history - and myths.

The competing histories of Vilna and Vilnius - Lithuanian, Polish and Yiddish - erupted this spring and summer with an international scandal surrounding the Lithuanian 'investigation' of Jewish former partisans for their wartime activities.

The official conflation of anti-Nazi activity with pro-Soviet collaboration is still alive in Vilnius and lies at the heart of the investigation.

And so, in addition to pondering the difference between the accusative and the dative case, I unexpectedly found myself right in the middle of an international story my first as a real journalist.

The Vilnius Yiddish Institute sits across the street from the Presidential Palace; you can practically see the changing of the guard from the classroom windows.

The institute's librarian, Fania Brantsovsky, was a partisan during the war and for the past few months has been targeted by the Lithuanian justice system.

Perhaps the fiercest librarian ever to catalog a Yiddish book, I quickly learned that Fania, 86, was not a woman to be intimidated by anything, even a prosecutor's investigation.

Even among Vilnius' small remaining Jewish community, Fania is unusual. She was born and raised in Vilnius - many of the approximately 4,500 to 5,000 current Jewish residents were born outside Vilnius.

When Fania guides us through the city she takes us to the place where her former school, the Sofia Gurevitch Gymnazia, was located. Sofia Gurevitch was one of the first places to have a telephone.

Being chosen to speak on the phone was an honor for the student with the clearest, most pleasant voice. Fania still beams with pride at the memory of being that student.

A few streets over, Fania points to where she and the other partisans emerged from underground. They escaped from the ghetto through the sewers, a daring plan made possible only by the specialized knowledge of another partisan, an engineer.

A few streets later and we see a plaque dedicated to Theodor Herzl, who, we learn, spent a short time in Vilna. But there's no plaque marking the spot where Fania and her comrades emerged from the sewers to go on to complete many acts of daring sabotage against the Nazis.

The Lithuanian government's ability to adequately document and preserve the stories of the ghetto and Jewish resistance - and Jewish suffering - is seriously compromised by the continuing official association of anti-Nazi activity with Soviet oppression.

The Museum of Victims of Genocide in downtown Vilnius is housed in an enormous building, the former home of the Lithuanian KGB. Just as chilling as the recreated KGB surveillance mechanism are the museum's official silences. Ponar, where a large portion of Lithuanian Jewry was murdered, is nowhere to be found among the museum's genocide victims.

Over the course of three years, some 70,000 Jews were murdered at Ponar, a forest the Nazis used as a death factory, about six miles from Vilnius. Fania also led us through Ponar, she herself a walking monument to resistance and survival.

Fania's voice remains as strong and clear as it was the day she was chosen to speak on the phone at the Sofia Gurevitch school. But hers is only one voice, too easily drowned out in a still-unsettled political discourse. The anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed across the Vilnius Jewish Community Center on Tisha B'Av didn't take place in a vacuum.

The official Lithuanian narrative is one that shouts over voices of resistance, such as Fania's. But my colleagues at the Institute, Jews and non-Jews, from all over the world, including Lithuania, will continue to join our voices with Fania's, and so ensure that Jewish Vilna continues to have a voice.

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From defendinghistory.com:

German President awards Fania Brantsovsky the Federal Cross of Merit
28 October 2009
...Antisemitic Tirade Follows in Vilnius

Antisemitic reaction on Lithuania's main news portal came within minutes of the German embassy's press release announcing its award to anti-Nazi Jewish partisan veteran Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky, librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute. The award is the president's Federal Cross of Merit. It was presented to her by Germany's ambassador to Lithuania Hans-Peter Annen in a ceremony at his embassy in Vilnius.

[May 2010: Disturbingly, neither Fania's award nor the antisemitic barrage against her has been mentioned to this day on the VYI website.]

Case Study No. 2046: Morgan Holzer

The Weirdest Questions People Asked Librarians Before Google
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The Weirdest Questions People Asked Librarians Before Google
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From gothamist.com:

Before Google, Here's What New Yorkers Asked The NYPL
Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 22, 2014 1:15 pm

Recently some folks at the New York Public Library discovered a box containing old reference questions from the 1940s to 1980s. They'll be posting the questions to their Instagram account on Mondays (starting today), but have shared a bunch with us today, noting, "we were Google before Google existed." (On that note, Neil Gaiman once pointed out, "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.")

Check out what people wanted to know decades ago, below - the NYPL has included answers and dates with some:

* Is it possible to keep an octopus in a private home?
* I just saw a mouse in the kitchen. Is DDT OK to use? (1946)
* Does NYPL have a computer for us of the public? Answer: No sir! (1966)
* What did women use for shopping backs before paper bags?
* Are black widow spiders more harmful dead or alive?
* Is it proper to go to Reno alone to get a divorce? (1945)
* Are Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates the same person?
* Can NYPL recommend a good forger?
* Where can I rent a beagle for hunting (1963). We also had requests to rent a guillotine.
* Has the gun with which Oswald shot President Kennedy been returned to the family?
* What is the life span of an eyelash? Answer: Based on the book Your hair and its care, it's 150 days.
* What is the life span of an eyebrow hair?
* Does the Bible have a copyright?
* What percentage of all bathtubs in the world are in the US?
* Can you tell me the thickness of a US Postage stamp with the glue on it? Answer: We cannot get this answer quickly. Perhaps try the Postal Service. Response: This is the Postal Service.
* What does it mean when you dream of being chased by an elephant?
* How do you put up wallpaper?
* A question from New Year's Day 1967: I unexpectedly stayed over somewhere last night. Is it appropriate to send a thank you?
* What's the difference between pig and pork?
* What kind of glass should I use in my greenhouse in Cuba?
* Can mice throw up?

These were all asked either via phone or in person, and we're told, "The system back then was the same as today, in that we tried to answer right away. While we're not 100 percent sure how certain questions wound up in this box, they seem to be questions that we didn't have an answer to at the time (for example, at least one question was put in the box in the 1940s, and then answered in the 1970s)."

People still use an updated version of this, called Ask NYPL, and the library says they receive about 1,700 reference questions a month via chat, email, and phone.

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From boingboing.net:

In the New York Public Library's Instagram account, Information Architect Morgan Holzer is posting images of 3x5 cards pulled from a shoebox collecting 50 years' worth of weird questions that were posed to the system's reference desks, which were strange and notable enough to warrant addition to the collection.

It's a great collection of the kinds of weird miscellanea that today we pose to search engines without thinking twice, but which were once the province of a hard-working cadre of information specialists who were asked to figure out how to sell notable lighthouses one day, and what the natural enemy of a duck was the next day.

Here's some current reference questions from NYPL:

* Are vegetables and fruits being sold to American supermarkets that are fertilized with human excrement?

* What are the chances of survival after someone's heart stops for more than five minutes? I am having trouble finding a good source that breaks this down. The databases are tough to use and google is being no help. Thank you for any help you can lend!

* I am looking for articles in sociology about how individuals in small group settings tend to look outward to have their needs met, while people in larger groups tend to look inward. The specific context is about people with developmental disabilities who live in residential facilities, and trying to get support for the proposition that people are better off in smaller settings where they would look more to the community rather than the institution for support. Thank you for any guidance about searches or articles.

* I'm looking to do a comparison between the efficiency of buses versus the subway. At rush hour, how many people can load and unload from a subway train (say, the 4 at Grand Central)? About how long does that take? 10 seconds, 45 seconds? Through how many doors in how many cars? Thank you in advance!

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From laughingsquid.com:

Staff at the New York Public Library recently found a recipe box containing a collection of interesting reference questions posed to librarians from the 1940s through the '80s.

"People came to the library for reference, but also for info on buying and selling, looking for inspiration, crafty project ideas, and even to find photos. In a world pre-Google, librarians weren't just Wikipedia, they were people's Craiglist, Pinterest, Etsy, and Instagram all rolled into one."

Some are sad ("Any statistics on the life span of the abandoned woman?"); some are silly ("You'll have to forgive me I'm from New Jersey"); some are sufferingly existential ("Trying to solve the riddle of existence"). Patrons of the library are still welcome to seek answers from librarians, but now Ask NYPL offers help via phone, email, chat, or text message.

The library will release a new question - some with the original answers - each Monday on Instagram under #letmelibrarianthatforyou.

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From jezebel.com:

"Do mice throw up?" and "Any statistics on the lifespan of the abandoned woman?" are some of the less strange questions that librarians at the New York Public Library have been writing down for decades. If you're wondering if people asked about sex, the answer is "yes, absolutely."

Before Google, I used HotBot - because it sounded like the best search engine for a teen looking for porn, fuck you Alta Vista - and before that I don't even remember how I asked difficult questions that I wouldn't have the answers to. Now that I'm an adult, I am addicted to googling everything from "how do you really pronounce 'lascvious'" to "Am I having a heart attack right now or what?" to "What are some good ways to tell if the advice nurse knows the symptoms of a heart attack and is just lying to you to spare your feelings because it's too late for you to be saved?" I can't imagine life without Google. But for people in the 40s, 50s and 60s, the only people they had to ask these difficult questions were librarians, arbiters of truth and knowledge. Of course, the librarians were writing these questions down.

The NYPL is releasing some of the best questions they've received on their Instagram and the ones that have already been posted are doozies. My favorite, aside from "what percentage of all bathtubs are in the US?" and "You'll have to excuse me, I'm from New Jersey" - which, not a question - is this one, posed by a woman who was going to politely become a millionaire or die trying:

*****
Telephone call mid-afternoon New Year's Day, 1967:

Somewhat uncertain female voice: "I have two questions. The first is sort of an etiquette question. I wentto a New Year's Eve party and unexpectedly stayed over. I don't really know the hosts. Ought I to send a thank-you note? Second, when you meet a fellow and you know he's worth twenty-seven million dollars because that's what they told me, twenty-seven million, and you know his nationality, how do you find out his name?"
*****

"I mean, yes, I want to marry someone for their money, but I don't want to be vulgar about it."

You can see more questions here and check back every Monday for more. I haven't been as excited about the library since the SFPL upped their borrowing privileges from 20 to 75 books per person.