Yesterday, June 18th, was our dear friend Alison’s last day at the Murray Library. She is leaving us to take on the challenge of her first ever librarian job – as Director of the Theological Union Libraries! We know she’ll still be on campus most of the time, but we won’t be able to see her as much as we used to, and we’re very sad about that.

In honour of Alison’s love for 83 cent Polar Pops from Mac’s, we decided to decorate her desk with Polar Pop cups on her last day in the office. Several of Alison’s coworkers spent hours creating paper flowers with which to decorate the cups. Alison was very surprised when she came in to work yesterday morning! We’re glad we could make her laugh.

We also had a food day for Alison. Does anyone want leftovers? There are still some cheezies and stale chips in room 122!

Summer hours start today at the Murray Library, so yesterday we said good-bye to Megan, who had her last shift before taking the summer off. Megan is our late-night circ staff member, and she’s the one that keeps the building running until 11 pm on weeknights during the school term.

To say good-bye, the Murray Social Committee (aka Justine the Magnificent) planned a fabulous Harry Potter-themed food day. The decorations were in the Hogwarts house colours, and staff members could take a quiz to find out which house they belonged in.

Everyone did a great job of bringing in delicious food, which included bourbon caramel cupcakes, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Jelly Beans, gummy frogs, Butterbeer, Hermione’s Magical Mushroom Tarts, and lots of cookies and snacks.

Have a great summer, Megan! See you in September!

As part of our “Take a Break with US” events, the Murray Library held an Angry Birds Competition last Friday.

The library’s Peer Mentors wanted to do something fun to finish off the school year. They heard about the Angry Birds Tournament that Eva and Darlene had created several years ago (see old pictures on the Murray Library’s Facebook page) and decided to do something similar. So the Peer Mentors, along with Eva, Darlene, Lara and Amy, started planning together. 

We made 2 large structures using old boxes, and we make some smaller tabletop structures using paper.Students could try their hand at any or all of the structures. There were no winners or losers. The point was just to have fun and let out some steam.

The most popular part of the event was the free cake! A huge thanks to Darlene and her friend who made and donated the cake.

Students who participated could all enter their name in a draw for prizes. The prizes were 2 windbreakers which were donated by the U of S Bookstore and 7 Angry Bird plush toys donated by the Campus Computer Store.

The event was a huge success! We had over 80 people come into the room for the 2 hours that we were open, and others even tried coming in after we had already cleaned up because they heard about how much fun it was.

You can click on any of the images below to see them in a larger size.