Time Capsule

The Barco librarians and staff are also very busy with the renovation this week. We're wearing work clothes all week because there's a lot of physical work to be done. All the stacks that were wrapped in plastic during the summer have to be unwrapped, and then the books need to be dusted and moved to their new permanent locations in the stacks.
One of the librarians put together a time capsule which was "buried" on August 16, 2004 as the final walls were completed for the renovation. Enclosed in the capsule are items that represent this particular library and law school, law librarianship at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and the personalities of the particular librarians and staff employed here, along with written descriptions of the items and what they mean to us.
TIME CAPSULE CONTENTS:
1. Pennsylvania Senate proclamation made upon the death of our named benefactor, Yolanda Barco.
2. A pen typical of the type given to students and librarians by our Westlaw representative.
3. A compact disc from CALI - Computer Assisted Legal Instruction
4. A pocket calendar given to one of the librarians by the Law Library Microform Consortium
5. A guide to some of the nearby restaurants compiled by the library for guests of the law school.
6. Covers from several new books purchased by the library.
7. The renovation timeline
8. A story written by one of our librarians for our holiday party.
9. A book entitled "Legal Research Exercises" sent by the West publishing group to every academic law librarian in the country in hopes that we will use it as a textbook in our classes
10. Copies of "The Weekly BLUR" (Barco Library Under Renovation)
11. A copy of the BLUR Web page which we mounted for this Summer of renovation.
12. Some official university communications received five years ago when there was fear that the computers wouldn’t function properly at the turn of the millenium.
13. A librarian’s pay stub.
14. The campus news publications.
15. A framed cartoon that was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
16. Gaylord Library Supply Catalog. Placed in one page of this catalog is a piece of tattletape.
17. A sign from the end of a bookcase "Please Reshelve These Books".
18. The staff phone list.
We wonder when the time capsule will be discovered - and what the law library will be like then.

Librarians hold aloft a ball made of the plastic wrap removed from the stacks


Where in the walls is the time capsule?