National Library Week Events
April 15-21, 2007
It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries, librarians and library workers and to promote library use and support.
What’s the one place on campus where you can come together with the ideas you need to write your thesis or your project report, your friends for your Monday study group and with the trained professionals who can connect you with the resources for your next research project? It’s the Gordon Library. Ideas and the space, resources and personal service you need to make them happen come together @ your library.
| Date/Time | Event |
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| Monday, April 16 at 2 p.m. | Come Together to Learn How to Find Scholarly Information on the Web Fast |
| Wednesday April 18, 3 - 4:30 p.m. | Student Art Reception, 3rd Floor Library |
| Thursday April 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. | WPI Faculty/Staff Book Signing in Campus Center |
| Friday, April 20 at noon | Come Together to Learn 43 Things in 43 Minutes |
| All Week | All Week - Library Haiku: Enter to Win |
Thursday April 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Campus Center Foyer
Faculty and staff will be signing their latest books which can be purchased from the campus bookstore.
| Date/Time | Authors | Audio/Interview |
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| 11 a.m. - noon | Brigitte Servatius, Professor of Mathematical Sciences Combinatorial Rigidity; Matroid Theory |
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| 11 a.m. - noon | David Dollenmayer, Professor of German House of Childhood |
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| noon - 1 p.m. | Gary Pollice, Professor of Practice, Computer Science Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design |
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| noon - 1 p.m. | Steven Bullock, Professor of History Revolutionary Brotherhood |
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| 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. | George Heineman, Associate Professor of Computer Science Component Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together |
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| 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Jeffrey Forgeng, Adjunct Associate Professor of History & Paul S. Morgan Curator, Higgins Armory Museum The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570; Daily Life in Stuart England |
READ Posters
Helen Shuster, |
Joan Daughney, |
Joe Kraskouskas, |
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Joel Brattin, |
Neil Spellman, |
Philip Clay, |
Haiku is one form of Japanese poetry which often centers around nature and natural things in the universe.

WPI community members, wrote their own haiku about the library, information or research, and prizes were given to those in bold below.
Submissions
Listen to Greg Roberts reading a few of his haiku from April 20, 2007 podcast.
In JapaneseHon wa tanoshi
Tanoshi wa kikenshi
Hon wa kikenshi
In English
Books are fun
Fun is dangerous
Books are dangerous
- anonymous undergraduate
library book
overdue but still at home
i will pay later
- Anonymous undergraduate
Yay, two monitors!
The computers in back rock!
Gordon Library!
- Greg Roberts
Statistics and facts
You can find these things in books
In the library
- Greg Roberts
Gordon Library
National Library week
A haiku contest?
- Greg Roberts
Our local book-house
Goes by the name of Gordon
Or "G.L." for short
- Greg Roberts
Building on a hill
Front entrance on second floor
Or is it the third?
- Greg Roberts
My brother once said
Gordon Library is cool
I understand now
- Greg Roberts
Helpful, friendly staff
Plenty of information
Gordon Library
- Greg Roberts
Did the beep go off?
That's someone stealing a book.
No, wait, false alarm.
- Greg Roberts
Big screens in Tech Suites
Mock your student poverty
That's my tuition
- Greg Roberts
I like your firm buns
But that's not appropriate
It's library week
- Greg Roberts
I can do research
If I use a computer
But I don't know how
- Greg Roberts
Gordon Library
Study here like a wise man
Achieve perfection
- Brendon Willey
What is a haiku?
do you think you could teach me?
haiku's sound like fun
- Anonymous undergraduate
Beginning to end
We're writing the book of life
Fill pages wisely
- Anonymous undergraduate
This book is so big
How will I read it in time?
Library powers
- Anonymous undergraduate
i hate the staircase
alas i have to climb it
to get to the books
- Anonymous undergraduate
greg roberts inspires
me to pen this ode to his
prolific haikus
- Anonymous undergraduate
Through education,
And library provision,
Knowledge is refined
- Lynda Menard
Wealth of text to see
There to open doors for you
See into beyond
- John Norton
Midnight the shy one
PDF scans a sonnet
Its flight a suspense
- Anonymous staff
At midnight we sink
Into oceans of paper
Only one more hour
- Anonymous staff
At eight we return
To swim across continents
We go IN and OUT
- Anonymous staff
Pete eats wicked fast
The library is too loud
Bread bowls are so good
- Nakhoan Kim
The rarest treasure
Deep, informative, and still
A readable book
- John Schneeloch
In "G.L.",you find
Books on any topic, if not
Contact "I.L.L."!
- D
I met her right here
On the cold library steps
Clenching some Shakespeare
- Greg Roberts
Where do these things go
Every time that I hit send
I want to see them
- Greg Roberts
Dusty, ancient tomes
Information overflow
Let's ask Christine Drew
- Greg Roberts
haiku; first line, five
wow! the second has seven!
the third, five again
- Anonymous undergraduate
Library research
Gordon makes it so much fun
Google makes it fast
- Greg Roberts
Research? I just searched.
Don't tell me to search again.
Info's hard to find.
- Greg Roberts
Gee whiz, books are fun
Gordon Library has tons
Wait, these are school books
- Greg Roberts
All IT info
Infinite within Gordon
True tech knowledge suite
- Joe Politz
If only papers
Were as easy as haikus
No need for G.L.
- Greg Roberts
Masters almost done.
Job plus classes impairs sleep.
Local Dunkin key!
- Jason Bourgeois
Ground floor is too loud.
The basement is too quiet.
Top floor is just right.
- Amanda Tarbet
A single volume
Resting on the countertop
May I check this out?
- Anonymous undergraduate
Waiting for summer
When will warm weather appear
Bone weary of cold
- Evelyn Doyle
Sweeping stacks of books
Information overload
Librarians arise
- Munaf Aamir
Stacks of books so high
and stretching for miles out
I am lost. Help, Staff!
- Rachel Pennellatore
Silent library
Student focus fills the air
Oh wait. They're sleeping.
- Rachel Pennellatore
Gordon Library
Climb the steep steps to the top
Out of breath-I'm tired.
- Rachel Pennellatore
Are you stuck? Need help?
I.M. the librarian
Only at tech school
- Rachel Pennellatore
I must get that book
paper is due tomorrow
It's checked out now! Doom.
- Rachel Pennellatore
Through Enlightenment
Congregates Loyalty
Gains Empowerment
- Yessir
Experienced Minds
Inculcate and Cultivate
An Erudition
- Lynda Menard
Those pages which were
Once crisp and white, are now torn,
Wrinkled or missing.
- Amanda Tarbet
MQP research
Our cacophonous keyboards
Playing a quartet
- Anonymous staff
Unsolved ignorance
O my wikipedia
Lacks authority
- Anonymous staff
A lust for info
O my wikipedia
Bittersweet affair
- Anonymous staff
Newspapers. 3rd Floor.
Virgina Tech. Iraq.
Mourning headline blues.
- Anonymous staff
Eat more meat not feet
Slaughter more cow not daugther
Grill under the sun
- Geoffrey Karasic
Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Shades
of nature are changing in
around library
- D
Gordon Library
Come to our fine library
And see what you find
- Anonymous undergraduate
Gordon Library
exterior conceals its wealth
as do books themselves
- Karen Rossow
i love to read books
but I don't love dirty crooks
no more school, good looks!
- Scott Guzman
Library Dumpster
How you mock me with your scent
Please, please go away
- Anonymous undergraduate
A paperback book
Relaxed outside in the spring
The world is at peace
- Kevin Knowlton
Rich inheritance
The knowledge of the ancients
Free to all the world
- Anonymous undergraduate
Library candy
It is oh so delicious
Please give me some more
- Maureen Ryder
Walking out the door
There is the dumpster, ready
To swallow your trash
- B. Servatius
Gordy - the Library Mascot
Silently watching, He sees everything that happens
Yet, he never speaks!
- Anonymous undergraduate
Yellow springtime growth
brings hope to library walls.
Wisdom is outside.
- Anonymous undergraduate
Gordon Library
I spend all of my time there
Good thing its so great
- Ryan Keough
If time is money
Then why won't my professor
Let me buy more time?
- Ryan Keough
School is very hard.
At least the librarians
Are wicked awesome
- Ryan Keough
double you pee eye
three point one four one five nine
Is our fave number
- Ryan Keough
Jump through space and time
Travel to worlds beyond this
Open up a book
- Ryan Keough
Is that glass half full?
Maybe it is half empty?
Who cares, I'm thirsty
- Ryan Keough
Black smoke engulfs me
If you can't stand the heat then
Get out of the fire
- Ryan Keough
Gordon Lib blossoms
With blue-green inspiration.
Info lights the spring.
- Anonymous Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Hustle bustle rush
But gordon library is
The quietest place.
- Anonymous undergraduate
first, second or third?
Look at the maps! There you see
your book's location
- Anonymous undergraduate
Coffee? Email? Books?
Combined with computers
at Gordon Library
- Anonymous undergraduate
Sacred edifice,
Of tomes real and virtual,
Reveal your soul now
- Peter Christopher
What chance do I have?
Can I out-do Greg Roberts?
Or Ryan Keough?
- Peter Christopher
Popular video
Need a good movie 2nite?
2 many 2 choose
- Anonymous staff
Beep. due May 18.
But will you renew, renew?
Summer’s almost here.
- Anonymous staff
Machine gun typist
Newspaper headlines sadden
A vigil of words
- Anonymous staff
No money 2 buy
The library’s copy is in.
The Lord of the Rings.
- Anonymous staff
Need a place that’s fun?
But homework not nearly done
Gordon Library!
- Tom Cox
Sitting near window
On top floor of library
Enjoying scenery
- D
April, really tough time
Students take shelter in G.L.
and survive right
- D






