Please join us for a wonderful celebration of traditions around the world.

November 13th at 3 pm @ the Triceracopter

 Coming Together to Give Thanks

 What:       Join us for food & fun to learn about other cultures and how people around the world celebrate the fall, harvest, family, and giving thanks.

When:      Thursday, November 13, 2014 @ 3:00pm

Where:    Langsam Library @ the Triceracopter

Who:        UC students

?s               olga.hart@uc.edu, 556-1580

As part of the UC Libraries Strategic Planning initiative, we’re gathering data geared toward answering questions about discovery behavior in the UC community.

The short  (7 questions) survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7KXDW33

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Congratulations to the Halloween challenge winners: Elizabeth Hieber and Dominique Hosch!

The story in which the narrator, a member of D’Odds family, learned German in order to master a book on demonology, is titled “Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange.” It is available online through a link in the catalog record.

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In this story the narrator, a member of D’Odds family, learned German in order to master a book on demonology.
What is the title of the story?
Please name another supernatural story by the same author.

Answer the questions using the form below by midnight on Thursday, October 30th.

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The online contest is over! Thanks to all who participated.

Friday challenge answer:

The Airplane crossing image is real. It shows Gibraltar Airport , where the runway insurrects with a road. The other two images have been manipulated. –
– The airplane that was Oscar Meyer wiener jet actually looks like this. Read the story of this fakery on the Museum of Hoaxes site.
– The crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine looks very different. See this fake debunked at http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fauxphotos/, a very useful site documenting hoax photos and viral videos.

Friday challenge winner: Kylee Loebick

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As we celebrate Information Literacy Awareness Month, we challenge you to demonstrate your skills as an image detective.
There are a lot of amazing picture posted on the web, but many of them are real and others are not – there are so many ways to alter images or pass them for what they are not by adding a misleading caption. Let’s see how good you are at spotting fakery!

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As we celebrate Information Literacy Awareness Month, we challenge you to demonstrate your skills as an image detective.
There are a lot of amazing picture posted on the web, but many of them are real and others are not – there are so many ways to alter images or pass them for what they are not by adding a misleading caption. Let’s see how good you are at spotting fakery!

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