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
UCBA Fun Facts: Favorite villain?
Question: Who’s your favorite fictional villain?
Heather Maloney, Library Director: So many, but I’ll go with the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe….Tilda Swinton really brought her to life in the movie!
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: Hilly Holbrook in The Help by Kathryn Stockett or Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: Can I say “The Man?” Like, when a group of scrappy friends go up against The Man/Authority? Okay, probably not. In that case, I currently really love President Snow from The Hunger Games. I won’t say too much – spoilers! – but he is creepy in the best way.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: Hmm…hard to just pick one, but I’ll go with Dexter Morgan in the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay. I guess he’s considered a villian, but he has a good side too.
Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: Miranda Priestly in A Devil Wears Prada. You can consider her a villain but it depends on the day.
Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: Miss Breakbone from the children’s book “The Dunderheads” by Paul Fleischmen
Happy Halloween from UC Libraries
Halloween Challenge Winners
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.
Halloween Challenge: Solve It By Midnight on October 30 To Get Your Halloween Treat
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.
UC Libraries is on Instagram
Follow UC Libraries on Instagram to see a whole new side of the people, places, spaces and collections of UC Libraries. You can find us at http://instagram.com/uc_libraries or with the hashtag #uclibraries.
Online Contest: Lessons from the Winners
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
Online Contest: Image Detective. Day 5
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!
Online Contest: Image Detective. Day 4
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!
Government Resources on Ebola
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.”