ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


March 1997 /  191

C&RL N ew s 30th anniversary quiz

Here is the next install­
ment o f the C&RL News 

30th anniversary quiz. Test your recollection 
o f events that have been reported in the News 
since 1966.
1. What was the A IA ’s 1992 campaign slo­

gan prom oted during National Library 
Week?

2. Name a science fiction writer whose
photo appeared on the cover o f C&RL News.

3• The world’s largest collage is located 
at which university library?

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

5. In the 1960s the Library o f Congress
acquired an unknown and unpublished 
autographed letter o f 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).