NUCmas Tree
Wed 16 Dec 2009, 11:01 pm
I love the NUC Christmas tree (which I first saw on FriendFeed) put up by the folks at Loyola Marymount Library. Good thing it’s a Catholic university and not a public school, because I think I’m not sure the geometry of the National Union Catalog volumes lends itself to creating a giant menorah or dreidel.
Also, side poll: if you have used the NUC for more traditional library work in the past 10 years, please drop a comment briefly describing how you used it.
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I am a coward and was afraid to copy/paste this image. That said I had a big menorah on the door of my classroom in the public school I work at BOOYAH.
Comment by jessamyn — December 17, 2009 @ 12:31 am
I am so disappointed. Our NUC is bound in a motley of colors: brown, yellow, gray, red. No way we’re getting a Christmas tree out of that mess.
Our Reader’s Guide, however, is another matter…
A colleague reports that she used the NUC last week to try to track down publication details for the Chicago Dramatic Times, which may have been first published in 1892. But this is for an archives project.
Comment by Catherine — December 17, 2009 @ 7:34 am
Jessamyn, they put a by-nc-sa license on the images, perhaps in response to your post?
Catherine, I think a Treeders Guide would be a bit precarious.
The last I remember anyone using the NUC was when I worked in Interlibrary Loan at Delaware in the mid-1990s.
Comment by Steve Lawson — December 17, 2009 @ 8:03 am
Nope, not in the last ten years. Summer 1996, I think, verifying obscure holdings for an ILL request.
Comment by caleb — December 18, 2009 @ 4:26 pm