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Borrow Ash & Smoke from the Maag Multimedia Center

For those of you who may have missed the April premieres,  YSU’s Ash and Smoke: The Holocaust in Salonika  will be  rebroadcast  on Western Reserve Public  Media Channel 45.2  at 9 P.M. on Thursday May 31st.    Toledo’s  PBS  station,  WGTE,  is negotiating for future broadcasts.    The program can also be borrowed from the Maag Library Multimedia Center on the Third Level of the library.

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AbeBooks is on the case:

According to this video, “Chemists at University College, London have investigated the old book odor and concluded that old books release hundreds of volatile organic compounds into the air from the paper. The lead scientist described the smell as ‘A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness.’”

So come sniff around the library!

    Ash and Smoke: The Holocaust in Salonika  will be televised  three times in April on our local PBS  stations from Western Reserve Public Media.  The premiere event is Thursday, April 12, at 9 PM on Channel 45.1.  It will be repeated at 8 PM on the following Thursday,  April 19, on the Fusion channel  45.2.   Late night viewers can tune in Monday, April 23 at 1 AM  on  45.1.  The film is also available on DVD and may be borrowed at the Maag Library MultiMedia center.

The producers wish to thank the many talented people here at YSU who worked to bring this story to television,  including those at the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies who provided a generous financial donation for the project.

The Nation’s Scott Sherman offers a look at the New York Public Library’s plan for renovation, the Central Library Plan (CLP.) At issue is the renovation of the flagship 42nd Street library and the relocation of 3 million books to New Jersey to make room for computers. Caleb Crain argues:

In the age of Wikipedia, the library probably no longer sees many high school students writing term papers, and in the age of the NYTimes.com website, far fewer need to trudge to the microfilm room. But the library’s core collection remains as indispensable to scholars as ever, and the ideal of the library—the belief that anyone should be able to walk in off the street and find out as much about a topic as has ever been published—is not susceptible to “metrics.”

And the staff are getting snarky:

One staff member told me about the recent experience of a researcher who came to the [NYPL] Schwarzman Building for scholarly reference books. The books, it turned out, were in the Princeton storage facility. “She didn’t want to go to the trouble to call the whole set from off-site, and to renew it every week, and this and that,” the staffer explained. Columbia’s library had those books on the shelf, so she went there. “I think her experience counts for exactly zero with the current library administration,” the staff member told me. “That’s not the kind of reader they want—this woman probably doesn’t even know how to tweet.“

Be sure to check out the photographic exhibit of  retired University Librarian, Dr. David Genaway at the Butler Museum of American Art now through the month of  May on the second floor  of the museum’s  southern addition.  The museum is located next to Maag Library and also  currently  presents former YSU photographer  Carl Leet’s  entry in the Regional Art show,  “Clean Sweep”.  Our Broadcast Technician,   Dan McCormick  of Media and Academic Computing is the subject of the work..

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.

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