Librarians can teach you this... and probably have.

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Spring Semester begins soon. The books are in the library...

I read a lovely review of a newish book this afternoon. The book is The Givenness of Things: Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015) by Marilynne Robinson. The review was written by Richard Cox in his blog Reading Archives and the Academy.

Robinson states, “Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less, alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader’s store of hypotheses, about how life is to be understood” (p. 15). Now faculties are sometimes loath to assign books because students often will not read them. “Now we are more inclined to speak of information than of learning, and to think of the means by which information is transmitted rather than of how learning might transform, and be transformed by the atmospheres of a given mind” (p. 28). What, we might ask, are we losing in all this?

I am inspired by this life on this campus, and want to know that learning still takes place here. Come! Come to the books! Listen to the voice that speaks. Listen and learn...

Butler Libraries Open House to Start the Season

Bookface Winner!

The students ran a contest to drive interest in our social media platform, and we have a winner! What a great face!



Thank you, Nelson! ..and Avery, too :-)

Signs of the Coming Semester

We said hello to Jeff Tymony this morning, just dropping in. Good to see a faculty member who's taken the summer break, and looking forward to all the others returning soon.

Registration for the fall semester continues:
https://youtu.be/H8-UDCAw_dg

See you soon!

Legal Resources for Kansas Tenants from the State Library of KS

A lease agreement often requires duties from both the landlord and the tenant. Tenant issues and rights are addressed in a new online resource page on the Kansas Legal Services website:
http://www.kansaslegalservices.org/node/1934/tenant-issues-and-rights-kansas-renters

Kansas tenants specifically have issues with their security deposits. Whether they don’t know how much a landlord may charge or whether they’re trying to get their security deposit back, all these questions are answered on our new resource page. Additionally, there’s a guided interview that tenants can use to get their security deposits back. This form gives tenants an opportunity to file an action in small claims court with ease; they simply enter their information and it will generate their information into a court approved form. These papers can be taken to the County Courthouse for filing by the tenant. Fees and notice to the landlord are explained in this guided interview.

The new resource page informs tenants about all the details they need to know about their lease. It informs tenants about the whole process, from move-in to move-out, about what they need to know, and what duties they owe to the landlord and vice versa. The information is in a simple Q&A style format, and contains additional videos with more detailed information.

Thank you for helping make these resources known to library users.

Marilyn Harp
Kansas Legal Services
785-233-2068
Visit our website at: http://www.kansaslegalservices.org



Cindy Roupe
Director of Reference
State Library of Kansas
300 SW 10th Ave Rm 312-N
Topeka KS 66612
785-296-3296 ** 800-432-3919
Ask a Librarian - http://kslib.info/ask

GPO releases App for 114th Congress

FYI,

CONGRESSIONAL MEMBER GUIDE APP FOR 114TH CONGRESS

http://www.gpo.gov/newsroom-media/presspage/15presspage14.htm

Many thanks to Jeff Imparato, Public Services Librarian
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library