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...school district too, the war created holes that had to be filled and that began to feel like a contagion. First, grade-school librarian Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones...
Walking and physical motion have also been steadily drained from the workplace. Even a low-impact job like research librarian no longer involves much reaching, bending and pulling tomes from the stacks--not when you can let your fingers do the walking on a keyboard. To put modern society's lack of movement in context, researchers at the University of Tennessee's Department of Health and Exercise Science studied a group of Old Order Amish, a religious sect that shuns cars and other modern conveniences. Using pedometers, the researchers found that the average Amish man took 18,425 steps...
...three levels. This information was released last year, but many students are just hearing the news now—but with more misfortunes piled on. Not only will Quad residents have to face limited study space, the College has announced that there will be reduced library hours, less librarian services, and limited access to reserves. The Pforzheimer House Committee (HoCo) has started a petition to keep access to Hilles near current levels, and we sympathize with their efforts...
...response to the plan for reference prefects, the petition pushes for at least a part-time librarian, or an option in which students are allowed to sign up for hours to meet with...
...Brainard said the new reference prefects will be well trained to help students. In addition, Quad students will be able to schedule on-site consultation with a librarian and special presentations on the use of library resources will be periodically held for students...