Results can be used to strengthen the Reference Collection by revealing subjects not included now in the collection, to modify staff scheduling patterns at the desk, to identify topics for staff education programs, and to set future objectives for areas to be improved in our reference service. The fact that no two days are alike is one reason we are in this profession. From the College Archives Call for Publications Books and articles authored by members of the Carroll College faculty form a unique collection within the Special Collections of the Library. Thanks to these individuals for helping us document faculty activity. Please send your future publications, or bibliographic citations for them, to Jim Van Ess at the Library.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth the innermost core of language. Percy Shelley the human soul entire, squeezed like a lemon or a lime, drop by drop, into atomic words. Marianne Moore a psuedo-person. Reading poetry, he adds, is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. Now Hirsch suggests that poetry is to be read in the middle of the night under a single lamp in an otherwise dark room.