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The Library will be open 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31. Reference librarians will be on hand from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and again from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. for your 10th week reference needs…

As part of the Mudd Library’s never-ending quest to provide better service, we are pleased to announce the successful cloning of Music Librarian, Antoinette Powell.

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When asked about this development, Pete Gilbert, University Librarian, noted, “We regularly get requests to have Antoinette attend this meeting or do that class or process this huge stack of electronic reserves — all at the same time. Now we’ll be able to meet those requests. We’re also looking forward to improved communication within the Music Library department.”

Noted horn player Keith Powell was unavailable for comment.

The Mudd Library will be open an extra hour Monday-Thursday to accommodate those extra study needs:

Monday, March 15:     8 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Tuesday, March16:      8 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Wednesday, March 17:      8 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Thursday, March 18:      8 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Friday, March 19:      8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday, March 20-21:      Closed

Reference Librarians will be available until 10pm.

And good luck on your exams and papers from all of us at the Mudd!

Bloggers sometimes get a bad rap (‘But what do you DO?”) Finally an opportunity has come along which may get people off your back.

Tourism Queensland is looking to hire a caretaker for the Great Barrier Reef , a six-month job that pays US$100,000. But there’s a catch. You have to be “willing to walk white sandy beaches, sit under palm trees and swim with turtles as they soak up the sun.” You also must “keep a blog and photo diary in exchange for six months rent-free … in a three-bedroom home on Hamilton Island complete with plunge pool, views of the Whitsunday Islands and golf buggy.” Oh, and you get return airfares and travel insurance.

If you “have a communication that is arresting and interesting” and feel able to “go through a genuine recruitment process,” this reef’s for you. But first, read all about The Great Barrier Reef in the Mudd. You never know what kind of a hell-hole it may be.

One of the Llibrary’s digital image collections, “Art of the Poster,” has been selected as one of four featured “Collection of Collections” for October by CONTENTdm. Lawrence’s collection includes more than 160 digital images of historic posters dating from 1890 to 1918. Designed by artists well-known for the work in other media, these posters helped bridge the gap between “high art” and popular visual culture.

Just like you, we love multi-function appliances. If you have bored kids, or if you are amazed by unexplainable science, try this at home.

Members of the unlikely trio of William Shakespeare, Sergei Prokofiev and Shirley Temple are celebrating a birth anniversary today. Of course the Mudd has the first two, but did you know we have a recording of “On the good ship Lollypop?”

Should you find yourself in Widnes, England today, and if you have forgotten to buy a token of affection for your sugar-pie, you are in luck. You can take your honey-bunch to a lecture on decontamination after an anthrax attack. Say it with antimicrobial pesticides.

The Mudd’s got you covered, anthrax-wise.