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The results of the favorite book survey are in!
The top (insert a number) books are:
1 Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
2 The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R.
3 Catch 22 Heller, Joseph
4 Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
5 The Bible
6 The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R.
7 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
8 Alice in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis
9 Beloved Morrison, Toni
10 Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J. D.
11 Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
12 Moby Dick Melville, Herman
13 The Chronicles of Narnia Lewis, C. S.
14 Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
15 1984 Orwell, George
16 A Chritmas Carol Dickens, Charles
17 A Wrinkle in Time L'engle, Madeleine
18 Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn
19 Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Geoffrey
20 Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
21 Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John
22 On the Road Kerouac, Jack
23 The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
24 The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto
25 Through the Looking Glass Carroll, Lewis
26 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark
27 All Creatures Great and Small Herriott, James
28 All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
29 Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
30 Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
31 Cat's Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt
32 Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
33 Emma Austen, Jane
34 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Robbins, Tom
35 Farenheight 451 Bradbury, Ray
36 Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions Abbott, Edwin Abbott
37 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Flagg, Fanny
38 Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Bach, Richard
39 Joshua Girzone, Joseph
40 Les Miserables Hugo, Victor
41 Little House on the Prairie Wilder, Laura Ingalls
42 Little Women Alcott, Louisa May.
43 Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave
44 Middlemarch Eliot, T. S.
45 Mrs. Dalloway Woolfe, Virginia
46 Silent Spring Rachel Carson
47 Sula Morrison, Toni
48 The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
49 The Color Purple Walker, Alice
50 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Shakespeare, William
51 The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
52 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
53 The Handmaiden's Tale Atwood, Margaret
54 The Idiot Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
55 The Little Prince Exupery, Antoine Saint
56 The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
57 The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
58 The Stand King, Stephan
59 Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher
60 War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo
61 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence Pirsig, Robt
62 100 Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
63 A Fire on the Moon Mailer, Norman
64 A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
65 A Man for All Seasons Bolt, Thomas
66 A Moveable Feast Hemingway, Ernest
67 A Passage to India Forster, E. M.
68 A Patchwork Planet Tyler, Anne
69 A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
70 A Return to Modesty Shalit, Wendy
71 A Rose In Winter Woodiwess, Kathleen
72 A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
73 A Thief in Time Hillerman, Tony
74 Abandoned Gallico, Paul
75 Adrift Jones, Triston
76 Aesops Fables Aesop
77 Alas Babylon Frank, Pat
78 American Psycho Ellis, Bret Easton
79 An Actor Prepares Stanislavsi, Constantin
80 Animal Farm Orwell, George
81 As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William
82 At Risk Hoffman, Alice
83 Aura Fuentes, Carlos
84 Awakening Chopin, Kate
85 Barchester Towers Trollope, Anthony
86 Being & Time Heidegger, Martin
87 Ben Hur Wallace, Lewis
88 Billy Phelan's Greatest Game Kennedy, William
89 Bird by Bird Lamott, Anne
90 Black Boy Wright, Richard
91 Bluebeard Vonnegut, Kurt
92 Bluest Eyes Morrison, Toni
93 Brother to a Dragonfly Campbell, Will D.
94 Buddenbrooks Mann, Thomas
95 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown, Dee
96 Carry on Mister Bowditch Latham, Jean Lee
97 Celestine Prophecy Redfield, James
98 Charlotte's Web White, E. B.
99 Charming Billy McDermott, Alice
100 Citizen Hearst Swanberg, W. A.
101 Collected Poetry Eliot, T. S.
102 Collected Poetry Heaney, Seamus
103 Collected Poetry Milocz, Czeslaw
104 Collected Sonnets Millay, Edna St. Vincent
105 Common Courtesy Martin, Judith
106 Common Ground Lukas, Anthony
107 Confederacy of Dunces Toole, John K.
108 Confessions of Saint Augustine Augustine, Saint
109 Cosmos Sagan, Carl
110 Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexander
111 Coyote Blue Moore, Christopher
112 Creation Vidal, Gore
113 Creatures of Light and Darkness Zelazny, Roger
114 Cross & the Covenants Howell, R. B.
115 Cry the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
116 David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
117 Decision at Thunder Rift Keith, Andrew
118 Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon, Edward
119 Description of a Struggle Kafka, Franz
120 Desert Solitaire Abbey, Edward
121 Diet for a Small Planet Lappe, Frances Moore
122 Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca
123 Do It! Let's Get off Our Buts Williams, Peter
124 Doll's House Ibsen, Henrik
125 Don Quixote Cervontes, Miguel
126 Dr. Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
127 Dragons of Autumn Twighlight Weis, Margaret
128 Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis, Margaret
129 Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret
130 Dubliners Joyce, James
131 Dune Herbert, Frank
132 Eight Cousins Alcott, Louisa May.
133 Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wolfe, Tom
134 Emily of New Moon Montgomery, L. M.
135 Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott
136 Ethics Aristotle
137 Executive Orders Clancy. Tom
138 Eye of the World Jordan, Robert
139 Failsafe Burdick, Eugene
140 Five Hundred Years After Brust, Steven
141 For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
142 Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
143 Franny and Zooey Salinger, J. D.
144 Frederick Lionni, Leo
145 Galloway L'Mour, Louis
146 Gaudy Night Sayers, Dorothy L.
147 Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie Rolvaag, Ole E.
148 God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati
149 Gods and Generals Shaara, Jeff
150 Goodnight Moon Brown, Margaret Wise
151 Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz
152 Green Eggs and Ham Suess, Dr.
153 Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Diamond, Jared
154 Hamlet Shakespeare, William
155 Henderson the Rain King Bellow, Saul
156 Her Majesty's Wizard Stasheff, Christopher
157 High Empire Brundy, Clyde
158 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas
159 Holidays in Hell O'Rourke, P. J.
160 Hot Sky at Midnight Silverberg, Robert
161 Inferno Dante Alighieri
162 Innocents Abroad Twain, Mark
163 Insanity of Normality: Childhood & the Drive to Power Gruen, Arno
164 Integral Trees Niven, Larry
165 Ironweed Kennedy, William
166 Isle of View Anthony, Piers
167 IT King, Stephan
168 Jane and Prudence Pym, Barbara
169 Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
170 Jhereg Brust, Steven
171 Jonathon Livingston Seagull Bach, Richard + Munson, Russell (Photographer)
172 Joshua and the Children Girzone, Joseph
173 Joshua and the City Girzone, Joseph
174 Joshua and the Holy Land Girzone, Joseph
175 Journal of the Plague Year Defoe, Daniel
176 Journey into Geometries Sved, Marta
177 Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael
178 Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard
179 Killer Angels Shaara, Michael
180 Killer Angels Shaara, Michael
181 King Lear Shakespeare, William
182 Kristin Lavransdatter Undset, Sigrid
183 Lady Chatterly's Lover Lawrence, D. H.
184 Last of the Breed L'Amour, Louis
185 Leaders Bennis, Warren + Nanus, Burt
186 Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt
187 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Agee, James
188 Light in August Faulkner, William
189 Living and Loving Busgaglia, Leo
190 Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry
191 Long Knife Thom, Alexander
192 Long Walk to Freedom Mandala, Nelson
193 Lord of the Flies Golding, William
194 Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership Autry, James
195 Love thy Neighbor Maass, Peter
196 Mama McMillian, Terry
197 Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolph
198 Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Beauvior, Simone de
199 Men In Black Spencer, Scott
200 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John
201 Midshipman's Hope Feintuch, David
202 Mount Misery Shem, Samuel
203 Mumbo Jumbo Reed, Ishmail
204 My Dinner with Andre (the screenplay) Gregory, Andre + Shawn, Wallace
205 My Utmost for his Highest Chambers, Oswald
206 My World and Welcome to It Thurber, James
207 Narcissus and Golmund Hesse, Hermann
208 Neon Wilderness Algren, Nelson
209 New Grub Street Gissing, George
210 Nicholas and Alexandra Massie, Robert K.
211 Nine Princes in Amber Zelazny, Roger
212 Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset
213 Oh the Places You WIll Go Suess, Dr.
214 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken
215 One Writer's Beginnings Welty, Eudora
216 Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with MacKenzie, Ken Grace
217 Painted Bird Kosinski, Jerzy
218 Parmenides Plato
219 Pat the Bunny Kunhardt, Dorothy
220 Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Caro, Robert
221 Pearl Steinbeck, John
222 Penrod Tarkington, Booth
223 Pentimento Hellman, Lillian
224 Pere Goriot De Balzac, Honore
225 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Grant, Ulysses Simpson
226 Phaedo Plato
227 Pigs Might Fly King-Smith, Dick
228 Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John
229 Polar Star Smith, Martin Cruz
230 Possession Byatt, A. S.
231 Powers That Be McCaffery, Anne
232 Prince Machiavelli, Niccolo
233 Prozac Nation: Young & Depressed in America Wurtzel, Elizabeth
234 Quotations from Chairman Mao Mao Tse-Tung
235 Race Matters West, Cornel
236 Rebecca Maurier, Daphne du
237 Red Square Smith, Martin Cruz
238 Rememberance of Things Past Proust, Marcel, et al
239 Reveille for Radicals Alinsky, Saul
240 Rose In Bloom Alcott, Louisa May.
241 Saint Maybe Tyler, Anne
242 Santaland Diaries Sedaris, David
243 Sati Pike, Christopher
244 Seeds of Greatness Waitley, Denis
245 Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
246 Seven Days in May Knebel, Fletcher
247 Seven Story Mountain Merton, Thomas
248 Seventeen Tarkington, Booth
249 Sharpe's Company Cornwell, Bernard
250 Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard
251 Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard
252 Shogun Michener, James
253 Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann
254 Silmarilion Tolkien, J. R. R.
255 Skinny Lega and All Robbins, Tom
256 Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut, Kurt
257 Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge Breger, Peter + Luckmann, Thomas
258 Song of Soloman Morrison, Toni
259 Sophie's Choice Styron, William
260 Sophie's World Gaarder, Jostein
261 Starship Troopers Heinlein, Robert
262 Steal this Book Hoffman, Alice
263 Strangers and Brothers Snow, C. P.
264 Strangers in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert
265 Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Farrell, James T.
266 Summa Theologica Aquinas, Thomas
267 Suprised by Joy Lewis, C. S.
268 Surfacing Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
269 Surreal Numbers: how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics Knuth, Donald and found total happiness
270 Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann D.
271 take a bow, B.C. Hart, Johnny
272 Tao Te Ching Tsu, Lao
273 Taran Wanderer Alexander, Lloyd
274 Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
275 Texas Michener, James
276 The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith
277 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Haley, Alex
278 The Belgariad Eddings, David
279 The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
280 The Book of Mormon
281 The Bostonians James, Henry
282 The Bourne Identity Ludlum, Robert
283 The Boys of Summer Kahn, Roger
284 The Bright Shining Lie Vann, John Paul
285 The Cat in the Hat Suess, Dr.
286 The Civil War: A Narrative Foote, Shelby
287 The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Yeats, W. B.
288 The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexander
289 The Destroyer Series Murphy, Warren
290 The Empty Space Brook, Peter
291 The End of the Affair Greene, Graham
292 The Girl with the White Flag Higa, Tomiko + Britton, Dorothy (Translator)
293 The Giving Tree Silverstein, Shel
294 The Good Earth Buck, Pearl
295 The Holy Man Alcott, Susan
296 The House at Pooh Corner Milne, A. A.
297 The House of God Shem, Samuel
298 The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
299 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
300 The Hunt For Red October Clancy. Tom
301 The Illuminatus Shea, Robert + Wilson, Robert Anton
302 The Jungle Sinclair, Upston
303 The Kennedy Imprisonment Wills, Gary
304 The Last Days of Socrates Plato
305 The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis, C. S.
306 The Lords of Discipline Conroy, Pat
307 The Lost Steps Carpentier, Alejo
308 The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas
309 The Magicians Apprentice Feist, Raymond E.
310 The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean
311 The Mandarins Beauvior, Simone de
312 The Mistress of Spices Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
313 The Moviegoer Percy, Walker
314 The Notebook Sparks, Nicholas
315 The Painted Bird Kosinski, Jerzy
316 The Peloponnesian Wars Thucydides
317 The Pilgrams Progress Bunyan, John
318 The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry
319 The Promise Land Lehman, Nicholas
320 The Promise Land Potok, Chaim
321 The Quiet American Greene, Graham
322 The Right Stuff Wolfe, Tom
323 The Scarlet Pipmernal Orczy, Baroness
324 The Screwtape Letters Lewis, C. S.
325 The Sixteen Pleasures Hellenga, Robert
326 The Sun also Rises Hemingway, Ernest
327 The Sunne in Splendor Penman, Sharon Kay
328 The Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann
329 The Tin Drum Gross, Gunter
330 The Velveteen Rabbit Williams, Margery
331 The Virgin and the Gypsy Lawrence, D. H.
332 The Warden Trollope, Anthony
333 The Way We Live Now Trollope, Anthony
334 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum, L. Frank
335 There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection Watterson, Bill
336 Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous Berkeley, George
337 Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert
338 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Carre, John Le
339 To Meet the Night in Ways that Bring the Dawn Mooney, Ross L
340 Tom Jones Fielding, Henry
341 Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
342 Touch the Earth McLuhan, T. C. ed.
343 Treasure Cussler, Clive
344 Tuesdays With Morrie : An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Albom, Mitch Lesson
345 Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera
346 Unintended Consequences Ross, John
347 Valis Dick, Philip K.
348 Velvet Room Snyder, Zilpha K.
349 Walk on the Wild Side Algren, Nelson
350 Watership Down Adams, Richard
351 Watership Down Adams, Richard
352 Way to St. Ives Gernes, Sonia
353 Weaveworld Bark, Clive
354 Websters Dictionary
355 Weetzie Bat Block, Francesca L.
356 West of Eden Harrison, Harry
357 What Color is Your Parachute Bolles, Richard
358 White Hotel Thomas, D. M.
359 Who Speaks for Wolf? Underwood, Paula
360 Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
361 Winnie the Pooh Milne, A. A.
362 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale & the Nature of History Gould, Stephen J.
363 Zen in the Art of Archery Herrigal, Eugen
The top 25 books all received three or more votes, while the remainder received one or two votes each. Seventy people from the IUSB campus community placed 473 votes for 363 different books.
NEW ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - Kevin, these could be grouped together under a like heading:
In-Depth Analyses of Current News and Events Now Just a Click Away
Congressional Quarterly, the respected provider of information on government, politics and public policy, describes its weekly publication CQ Researcher as "the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics." Formerly available to the IUSB community exclusively in the library's reference area, current and past issues of CQ Researcher are now available on the web to campus network users. CQ Researcher "covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria." Reports are compiled from a variety of reputable sources, and provide detailed bibliographies and notes to aid in further research. (Please note-- use of this subscription web-based service requires an IUSB network connection.)
Comprehensive Access to Statistical Information Now Available at the Statistical Universe Website
The Congressional Information Service, Inc. bills its Statistical Universe website as the "world's most comprehensive access to statistical information." Now, through a new library-supported subscription, IUSB network users can search an index to over 100,000 publications providing federal, state, and international statistics. (Please note-- use of this subscription web-based service requires an IUSB network connection.) Statistical Universe can be used to find:
- all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS' American Statistics Index - some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Index - approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics
Search by such options as subject, title or publisher, and retrieve abstracts that include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, periodicity, and, where applicable, the Superintendent of Documents (government) call number. In many cases, the abstract may also contain links to the issuing agency's or publisher's website where the full text may be viewed and downloaded, and to the full text on Statistical Universe, where the publication can be viewed, downloaded and accessed section by section or table by table.
Censtats now freely available on the web
Censtats databases are now offered free of charge from the U.S. Census site at http://tier2.census.gov/dbappweb.htm Until now, the CenStats website required us to login with a User ID and Password. The most popular feature has been the Census Tract Street Locator that allows users to find Census Tract numbers by typing in a street address.
CollegeSource College Catalogs collection on the web
The Schurz Library now has access to the Career Guidance Foundation's CollegeSource College Catalogs collection on the web. Catalogs are in Adobe .pdf format and can be accessed from 3 reference computer workstations ONLY. Please see a reference librarian for more assistance.
For more information about these newly available resources, contact the Schurz Library reference desk at 237-4441 or e-mail [email protected].
Book Sale Proceeds to Library Endowment Fund
Thanks to all of you who donated and/or purchase books at the Library’s book sale, held April 13-14, 1999. We raised over $1700.00 - $1500.00 of which has been designated for the library endowment fund. We plan to have another booksale in conjunction with IUSBFest - mark your calendars!
Schurz Library invites students to have coffee
The Library will again host free coffee during Finals Week in the library’s lobby. Look for it from Sunday, May 2nd to Wednesday, May 5th. It will be available from 5:00 p.m. until it runs out! Good luck on your finals!
Library Interim Hours
The library will be open 8 to 5 Monday through Friday and closed weekends during the interim period between Spring semester and Summer I. The schedule is as follows:
May 2-6 - 8:00 a.m. to midnight May 7 - 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. May 8-9 - CLOSED
May 10-14 - 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. May 15-16 - CLOSED
May 17 - Begin Summer Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Betsy Cotter resigns
Elizabeth Cotter, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, will resign from her position at the end of May. Betsy wishes to spend more time with her family, in her garden, and traveling. A search is currently underway to fill her position. Please take the time to stop by and wish Betsy well in her “retirement.” Learning Resource Center Hours
Interim hours are:
May 3-6 - 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. May 7 - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. May 8-9 - CLOSED
May 10-13 - 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. May 14 - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. May 15-16 - CLOSED
May 17 - Begin Summer Hours:
Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Sunday - CLOSED
The Schurz Library and the Learning Resource Center will be closed on Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day.
Workshop on Government Information on the Internet
Due to an overwhelming response from the business community, we are offering a second session of our workshop: “Going about your Business - Using Government Information on the Internet.” Beth Schuck, Visiting Assistant Librarian and Linda Fisher, Head of Government Publications, will lead the hands-on workshop on Friday, May 21, 1999 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. The workshop will be held in the Schurz Library Instruction room (L009), and this session is open to the campus community. Space is limited. To register, please call the Library Administrative Offices at 237-4449.
Library Journal Editor to Moderate Panel Discussion
John N. Berry III, Editor-in-Chief of Library Journal, will moderate a panel discussion on June 4, 1999 entitled, “Navigating toward the New Millennium: Libraries in Transition.” Panel participants include: Suzanne Thorin, University Dean of University Libraries, Indiana University; Jennifer Younger, Director of the University of Notre Dame Libraries, and Thomas G. Kirk, College Librarian, Earlham College. The event will be from 1:00 - 3:00 pm in Northside room 158. A reception will follow.
Stories for a Summer Day - Schurz Library Short Story Series
This series will be an opportunity to relax and be read to - something that adults rarely get to enjoy. Bring your lunches; the library will provide iced tea and lemonade. Roy Schreiber will open this event with a reading from his own works, “Triumphant Reason” on Thursday, May 20th. Other scheduled readers and their dates are: Charlotte Pfeifer - May 27; Mary Anna Dmitrikopolos - June 3; David Vollrath - June 10; Cindy Sutton - June 17; Jean Troutman-Poole - June 24; Sushma Agarwal - July 8; Isabelle White - July 15; and Tim Frohrip - July 21. All readings will be held from 12 Noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Library’s third floor conference room, L301. A complete listing of readers, their stories and dates will be sent out via mail code in the near future.