The staff of the Archives & Special Collections recently voted to purge the collection of all material containing sentences that begin with the letter ‘A.’ This decision was adopted in response to the growing need for sentences beginning with ‘S.’ To accomplish this, student archivists will commence cutting sentences out of items and rewriting the sentences to begin with ‘S.’ If the cutting process proves too tedious, the students will simply white-out the sentences and write into the books. Such a process may seem defamatory, but Collins Memorial Library maintains that it is important to encourage innovation in a new generation of librarians.
Student workers are excited for this purging process to begin and have already triaged the items they would like to change. They will begin with Nicholas Copernicus’ “On the Revolutions” (1978), Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” (1485), Swornstedt and Power’s “Methodist Hymns” (1850), and Houston S. Chamberlain’s “Richard Wagner” (1896). These are heavy tomes that will require the most work. Once those are complete, the students will move on to the rare books in the Shelmidine Room, including many ancient works collected from the Middle East.
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY 2014!
By Maya Steinborn