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Category Archives: Beyond the Reg

Berkeley library graffiti: violence, identity, and vaginas

Thursday, March 4, 2010

About a month ago, with the help of a friend I got into Doe Memorial Library at UC Berkeley on a busy Saturday afternoon, where I proceeded to photograph all the graffiti I could find in unoccupied study carrels. The resulting data set, while small, is markedly different from the UChicago graffiti corpus in a [...]

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Beyond the Reg: Eckhart math library

Monday, February 8, 2010

Amidst the classrooms and offices of Eckhart Hall lies the large-ish room with large windows and two quirky balconies that houses 55,000 “research level monographs, scholarly journals, and selected textbooks in computer science, mathematics, and statistics”. Who studies there? My husband did a stint as a student assistant in Eckhart Library, and as he recalls [...]

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Beyond the Reg: Make-your-own graffiti space

Monday, February 1, 2010

As noted previously, Crerar isn’t exactly a hotbed for graffiti. Fun things show up on whiteboards sometimes (though, no doubt, this penis, for instance, was part of a legitimate core bio review session) but compared to the Reg, there’s not so much there. One day last year, that changed. A student covered the Crerar elevator [...]

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Beyond the Reg: lawyers and social workers don’t commit class B misdemeanors

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Today I set foot in the School of Social Service Administration Library and D’Angelo Law Library for the first, and possibly last, time. I had to look up where the SSA Library was, and not-exactly lie (Security guard: “Are you a law school student?” Me: “Staff.” Security guard: “I haven’t seen you around before.” Me: [...]

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Beyond the Reg: the graffiti of Crerar science library

Friday, January 29, 2010

While Regenstein is the biggest library at the University of Chicago, it’s only one of five* libraries on campus. My vague impression has been that most of the “good stuff”, from a graffiti perspective, is at the Reg, but I’ve never actually looked into the graffiti at the other libraries. As a student, I’d set [...]

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