When I asked blog superstar Antoinette Powell for some blogging advice for my introduction, she kindly wrote an excellent one for me!
Former Mudd Library Night Supervisor Angela Vanden Elzen now has a day job. As of mid-July, Angela is our illustrious hard-working Interlibrary Loan and Circulation Assistant. If you are a regular reader of this space, you remember the previous, highly regarded ILL & Circ. Assistant, Cheryl Kraft, left the Mudd’s bosom to devote herself to the Neenah Public Library (June 29, 2007.) Angela is more than able to fill those shoes.
In real life, Angela devotes herself to her cats, her nut-ball Lab/Akita puppy, and her husband Adam. She is working on her MLIS, and should cancel her World of Warcraft account now that the semester has begun.
Angela lives in the same space Cheryl occupied and will be available to serve the Mudd patrons Tuesday through Saturday during the regular academic year. We are thrilled Angela has emerged from the darkness, yet remains in the Mudd.
So, please come see me or call x6758 with any interlibrary loan, electronic reserve, or World of Warcraft questions.
Here’s what we’ll bet you don’t know about Freddie Mercury: he was born in Tanzania, his real name was Farrokh Bulsara, and today would have been his 61st birthday.
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Forty-three years ago today if you were between the ages of, say, 10 and 20 and you were in Wisconsin, and especially if you were a girl, you were only thinking of one thing: tonight’s concert. You’d sent away for tickets the previous spring and were lucky enough to have gotten one. Good thing, too, because reports surfaced about tickets being scalped for as much as $20. Of course, back in the spring a lot of people thought no one would remember who The Beatles were come September. They were wrong. That $4.50 would prove to be about the best money you’d ever spent.