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Augsburg Now: A Librarian's Lament: Nov. 22, 1946
Winter 1998, Vol. 60, No. 2
A librarian's lament
Augsburg Echo, Nov. 22, 1946
Author unknown
"That's the most awful thing I have ever seen!" - There you
have a graphic opinion of the sadly sagging magazine rack in the Augsburg
Library. "Can I quote you on that?" I asked Ms. Tangjerd, head librarian. "You
certainly can," she replied.
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In a special interview with Ms. Tangjerd, it was revealed that the library
staff is working hard and often unsuccessfully to cope with this year's
accelerated pace of campus life.
Besides an almost doubled load of desk work, the staff is working on
a two thousand dollar lot of books which was ordered and delivered this
summer. These books were purchased through a special appropriation of the
Board of Trustees in order to fill the gaps in the collection. Seven boxes
of bound periodicals, 100 volumes, returned from the binders, are still
stacked by the door because the librarians don't have the time to unpack
them or the space to put them.
Ms. Tangjerd is anxious to improve conditions and facilities in the library.
To demonstrate the need of a few improvements
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Reference desk in the Old Main Library
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she told me about the chair
that came apart under a student's weight the other day, and the window frame
that fell out when she tried to let in a little fresh air. As a final and
conclusive proof, she glared at the decrepit excuse of a magazine rack and
made the classic understatement: "That's the most awful thing I have
ever seen!"
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A 'light' history of Augsburg's libraries
A library progresses forward:
a review of Echo articles as Sverdrup rose
Agnes Tangjerd: ode to the librarian
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