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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
In 2002, a call came to science to suggest patriotic topics for a Library-wide exhibit. I proposed the Victory Garden and was honored to put together an exhibit for members of the James Madison Council and Congress. I became an expert on the subject from this experience. The concept of Victory Gardens was established in …
Posted in: Gardening, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
This week we are featuring two photographs of the public entrance to the Science and Business Reading Room taken over thirty years apart. I found the Science Reading Room image (left), as I was browsing through an old pamphlet box of historical material about the Library. We believe it was taken sometime in the late …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week, ST&B Division
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Imitation is the best form of flattery. With that said, Inside Adams will be imitating the Five Questions feature from the Performing Art’s blog In the Muse. We aspire to share with our readers the diversity of knowledge and valuable skills that make up the Library’s ST&B organization. We also should point out that our …
Posted in: Five Questions, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
What makes television shows like Bones, Criminal Minds, CSI, Law and Order, and NCIS so popular? Is it the intriguing plots and stories? I tend to think we love these shows because of the cool science and state of the art technology employed by the characters to catch criminals. If I weren’t a librarian, I …
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s Pic of the Week is inspired by my post Terrazzo: Beauty Under our Feet.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We rarely take the time to stop and notice the artistic details that go into decorating a building. If anything, we tend to take these creative endeavors for granted. Every day we walk on some sort of flooring, be it hardwood, linoleum, carpet, marble, or tiles, and if we look at what is under our …
Posted in: John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We welcomed this new addition to the Science and Business Reading Room last week. Researchers can now digitally scan material from our general collections and save the file to their USB flash drive (aka jump drive, thumb drive, and memory stick). Our Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room also has a book2net scanner. You can …
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The month of March brings us a multitude of celebrations, events, and observances such as Daylight Saving Time, the Ides of March, St. Patrick’s Day, Vernal Equinox, and Women’s History Month. In some years, we also we celebrate Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Purim in March. We should add two more things …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s Pic of the Week is a colorful drawing of the proposed interior of one of our reading rooms by our building’s architects, Pierson & Wilson. This drawing epitomizes the amount of detail, labor, and materials that went into the construction of the Adams Building- from the green formica wall paneling (Formica Insulation Co., Cincinnati, …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week