We seldom take this holiday off because the semester is too new and there are classes. Staff have the option of either working and taking a day later or taking the day off. Most of them opt to be here if they can - same reason. Plus our student workers have just returned and aren't quite back in the routines yet.
For so early on in the season, the reference desk in inundated! Research is already going full tilt, and serious research at that. Honors projects about the effect of music on autistic children (not therapy, just music for memorize things by, like singing the alphabet etc.). Lots of interesting projects like that. These students are indeed laboring hard.
You can almost feel the intensity of study in the air. There is a certain quietness and somber concentration. Student peruse the new book shelf with an attitude of serious contemplation. The printer spews out non stop piles of articles and scholarly material enough to fill a university library. Keyboard clack papers into being. Pages of reference books rustle. It is indeed a day filled with labor. I love it.
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