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.
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
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!
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!
The U.S. Government Printing Office’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications offers access to a variety of Federal Government information Resources on Ebola.
A wide range of information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is available, including facts about Ebola; various preparedness checklists for patients, hospitals, and healthcare coalitions; and a handout on “What you Need to Know About Ebola.”
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!
UC Libraries and the UC Table Tennis Team co-sponsored a table tennis tournament Oct. 17th. The collaborative effort was an event in the Langsam Connect Diversity Series. A library team made up of Dean Xiamao Wang and other players from the library took on the four winners from the TTC, for a grand finale, with the TTC the champ!
Watch the video of the tournament highlights.
By Rosemary Franklin and Olga Hart
