The Second Floor Librarians

A common complaint that we get at the desk on the second floor is about our catalog. People often say they aren’t able to find what they’re looking for.
Library catalogs are designed to, amongst other things, support fairly complicated searches by library staff. This can mean that the average user gets stymied.
So until the library [...]

That is a awfully cheesy title for the post – I apologize. But it’s true! The annual model train show will be at the library next weekend.

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The annual Big Book Sale, put on by the Friends of the Library, is coming up this weekend! You’ll find it at the Benton Co. Fairgrounds (map), and the dates and times are as follows:

Friday, Feb. 26th, 5 pm – 9 pm
Saturday, Feb. 27th, 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday, Feb. 28th, 11 am – 4 [...]

This coming Thursday, February 25th, at 7 pm, the library is proud to host the first Spring Creek Café, put on by the Spring Creek Project at OSU.
Modeled on the popular Socrates Cafés, Spring Creek Cafés invite people to come together in an informal setting to participate in thoughtful, guided discussion on topics of deep [...]

A while back, we had a nice exchange with one of our Twitter friends, John Bergquist (@johnflurry). He posted a link to a Huffington Post article with pictures of amazing libraries around the world. Readers have been voting on their favorites, and at the moment, the top library is the Long Room in the Trinity [...]

For any of us who are learning or have learned another language – we all know that not being understood because of bad pronunciation can be really frustrating.
I’m happy to tell you that our online language learning program, Mango Languages, now offers a way to improve your pronunciation, with its new voice comparison feature!

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The second floor librarians just noticed that today is exactly one year since we first posted on our blog. And this is the 151st post. How cool is that?!

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Why does the library have only one copy of (insert super-popular book title here)?!?
This is a very common question/complaint we get from you, our library users.

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I’m not a New Year’s resolutions sort of person. Why bother making them if I know I’m not going to keep them anyway? But I have been thinking about my reading habits the last little while, and I think I’m going to make some reading resolutions.

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We have an exciting music-themed event coming up, to help you chase those winter blues away. John Sarantos will present a Native and world flute mini-concert and lecture at the Corvallis library on Saturday, January 30th at 3 pm.

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