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...Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary sounds like the Whole Earth catalog gone bonkers, listen carefully. Sewage and wetlands wildlife, like each other when the sewage is free of industrial metals, Arcata has found. Since this is the case in most small and midsize American cities, combining them is technically easy. The swamp substitutes for some of the high-cost stages of sewage treatment. But take caution from weary Arcatans: skip the politics. The city's sewage saga sounds more like Gilbert and Sullivan than John Muir's diaries...
...anniversary of the library comes in the midst of a trend towards automation, according to Heather E. Cole, librarian of the Hilles and Lamont Libraries. Cole said the library began using the computerized card catalog system HOLLIS this fall and expects to completely automate the circulation system in the next few years...
...think that students could ask for a better reference staff. Their eagerness to help patrons find quick facts or structure in-depth research is vital in the college setting. We of the technical services staff acquire, catalog and repair the books required for reserve as well as those deemed necessary to our library's general collection. Because we now use HOLLIS and no longer have to rely on paper systems for much of this, we can process materials more quickly...
...contest winners have spent an average of $11,000 on their projects, compared with a $25,000-to-$35,000 cost for a new metal building. There are exceptions, though: the Taylor family's handsome horse barn in Orange, Va., built in 1933 from a Sears, Roebuck mail-order-catalog kit, cost $39,000 to restore to its former efficiency...
...even at a young age, was noted by his fellow schoolmates. Though his unquestionable talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the stereotypical outsider artist. As Professor Cropper points out in the exhibit catalog, Testa's vacillating career and his eventual suicide fostered the "myth of a wild uncontrolled romantic spirit." This myth, too, hurt the popularity...