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C&RL News 30th anniversary quiz

Here is the next installment of the C&RL News

30th anniversary quiz. Test your recollection of events that have been reported in the News since 1966.

1. What was “cooked” at Alfred University’s 1994 “cardbecue”?

2. Why was the 1991 IFLA Conference inMoscow an affair to remember?

3. How did the library at the Universityof Arkansas at Little Rock keep pace with a 20-year growth from less than 5,000 undergraduates to more than 12,000 graduates and undergraduates?

4. In 1994, “LOEX” went west. What is“LOEX” and where in the west did it land?

5. Name the first periodical to be devotedto the use of computers in libraries. When did it begin publication and who was its first editor?

Answers:1. The 100,000 cards from its closed 1,148 drawer card catalog were burned during a symbolic ceremony to celebrate the change from the Dewey classification system to the Library of Congress system (September 1994). 2. For the first time ever, a political coup took place during IFLA’s annual conference (October 1991). 3. By instituting a student library fee, the University of Arkansas expanded its library as the enrollment expanded (July/August 1992). 4. LOEX stands for Library Orientation and Exchange, and it landed in Willamette University in Salem, Oregon (November 1994). 5. The Journal of Library Automation began publication in April 1968 under the editorship of Frederick G. Kilgour (May 1968).