Library Lens - Week 11

This week's submissions come from library staff in Porter and Davis Circulation and Library Technology & Facilities Services. Subjects include a quiet corner behind the scenes, colleagues pausing to celebrate an anniversary, the return of the University's unofficial mascot, the wintry weather, a back stage peek at technology, and a prize winner. 

The book return area on the 1st floor of Porter.  On the desk are piles of items "that have been visiting Guelph or Laurier [and are] coming home," writes Bev Hubbard. 

Stefaniada Voichita writes, "It’s been a year since the CIRCus Newsletter Group started its work and in the meantime we’ve published three awesome issues.  Here, we’re celebrating the Newsletter’s anniversary and our hard work for the past year!" 

Aziz Aboueleinin took this photo from his office window at Davis.  "It seems like this goose, like me, can’t wait for the spring!"

Stefaniada Voichita notes that Wednesday was a "capricious weather day. Sunshine (while driving to work)! Few hours later, snowing (a view from my office window in DC)."

A colourful image from the library server area, showing "the network connections to the network communication switches. The large yellow and blue cables are copper Ethernet connections to servers and workstations while the thinner orange and yellow cables are high speed fibre cables between switches and to the campus network backbone."  Submitted by Carl Nagel.

Remember the "Roll Up the Rim" prize that the mysterious La Bastille of St. Paul Res sent to Laurie Strome a couple of weeks back?  Well, Jeanette Chapman won the draw for the free donut.  "Here she is all smiles with her prize."  Submitted by Laurie.

This week's throw-back photo

It's hard to believe that we once worked with such toy-like screens.  A GEAC circulation terminal, circa 1977.