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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 the AIA’s 1992 campaign slogan promoted during National Library Week?

2. Name a science fiction writer whosephoto appeared on the cover of C&RL News.

3. The world’s largest collage is locatedat which university library?

4. What library acquired the papers ofNobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer in the mid-’90s?

5. In the 1960s the Library of Congressacquired an unknown and unpublished autographed letter of Benjamin Franklin’s in which he refers to a musical instrument that he invented. Name the instrument.

Answers:1. The slogan was “Your Right to Know: Librarians Make It Happen” (February 1992). 2. Author Kurt Vonnegut appeared on the cover of the News (July/August 1978). 3. The world’s largest collage is at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas (October 1984). 4. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin acquired Singer’s papers (May 1994). 5. Franklin invented the armonica, also known as the glass harmonica, from which sound was produced by the friction of wetted fingers on the rims of a set of tuned glass bowls (December 1968).