National Library Week Events

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Listen to Greg Roberts reading a few of his haiku from April 20, 2007 podcast.

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

In "G.L.",you find
Books on any topic, if not
Contact "I.L.L."!
- D

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

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

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

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