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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. How much did the federal governmentspend on libraries per person in 1995?
2. What is the British counterpart to C&RL News?
3. In the 1960s, West Virginia’s most famous author gave a copy of her new biography to the state’s oldest educational institution to bring its library collection to the 100,000 mark. Name this celebrated author and the institution.
4. When did the American MathematicalSociety name an Ad Hoc Library Committee to study library issues that affect the mathematics research community?
5. How did the library at Butler University manage to get incoming freshman into the library before classes started?
Answers:1. The government spent $0.57 per person on libraries in 1995, about the cost of a pack of gum (February 1995). 2. The UC&R Newsletter, sponsored by the University, College and Research Section of the Library Association, is the British counterpart to C&RL News (December 1980). 3. Pearl Buck gave a copy of Pearl S. Buck, A Biography, by Theodore F. Harris, to Bethany College (September 1969). 4. The Ad Hoc Library Committee was named in 1989 (November 1989). 5. Butler University had a treasure hunt in the library (July/August 1993).
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