{"id":137721,"date":"2020-12-18T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=137721"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:49:56","slug":"items-in-the-librarys-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/18\/items-in-the-librarys-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"18 items in the Library&#8217;s Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So much has changed during the pandemic. What hasn&#8217;t: Students still lose things in the library. (Or maybe they just leave them there, like printouts of thesis chapters.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stopping by the Ladd Library Lost and Found on Dec. 17,  we saw and identified these items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1919\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/edited-2020-12-16-10.38.57-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/edited-2020-12-16-10.38.57-2.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/edited-2020-12-16-10.38.57-2-400x208.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/edited-2020-12-16-10.38.57-2-900x467.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/edited-2020-12-16-10.38.57-2-1536x797.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><figcaption>Items in the Ladd Library Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Quarter zip hoodie<\/strong> by Toad&amp;Co, self-described creator of \u201csocially and environmentally committed garments that are equally suited for the rigors of the trail or the tavern.&#8221;<br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>: <em>Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe<\/em> (2020), by Lorenz M L\u00fcthi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/mar\/22\/cold-wars-asia-the-middle-east-europe-by-lorenz-m-luthi-review\">described by the Guardian<\/a> as \u201cthe latest major work to suggest that our understanding and collective memories of the conflict should be reassessed. With 700-odd pages of dense, dry text, it is a heavyweight contribution.\u201d<br><\/li><li><strong>Four pens<\/strong>, including a classic Bic Crystal style, which was included in the Museum of Modern Art&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/82141\"><em>Humble Masterpieces<\/em> exhibition in 2004<\/a>. Plus, a pen from Needham (Mass.) Bank.<br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>: <em>The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett&#8217;s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox<\/em> (2017), by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/class\/history\/faculty-and-staff\/horne_g\/\">historian Gerald Horne<\/a>.  The book tells about the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press, which &#8220;fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad,&#8221; according to a description. It was headed by Claude Barnett, &#8220;one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures as diverse as Jawaharlal Nehru, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Nixon.\u201d<br><\/li><li><strong>Scrunchie<\/strong> (there\u2019s always one in lost and found)<br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>: <em>My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations<\/em> (2006), by <a href=\"https:\/\/africana.sas.upenn.edu\/people\/mary-frances-berry\">historian Mary Frances Berry<\/a>, who tells the story of Callie House, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4952667#:~:text=Transcript-,Over%20a%20century%20ago%2C%20an%20ex%2Dslave%20named%20Callie%20House,Struggle%20for%20Ex%2DSlave%20Reparations.\">who sought reparations for formerly enslaved Black people<\/a> in the late 19th century. <br><\/li><li><strong>Several water bottles<\/strong>, including a Camelbak Eddy style imprinted with &#8220;Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs,&#8221; and one whose logo is mostly rubbed off.<br><\/li><li><strong>Several chapters of a senior thesis<\/strong>, heavily highlighted, focusing on the history of the global war on terror.<br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>: <em>What Time Is Purple<\/em>, by Tom Hammond. The top review on Amazon says, \u201cThe book was in extremely excellent condition, just as advertised. It arrived promptly.\u201d<br><\/li><li><strong>Pop-up hair brush<\/strong><br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>: <em>The Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines <\/em>(2003)<em>,<\/em> by\u00a0Katherine Gottschalk and Keith Hjortshoj. It\u2019s about what it says!<br><\/li><li><strong>One winter glove<\/strong>, no brand name seen<\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>:<em> Penobscot: The Forest, River, and Bay<\/em> (1996) by the Island Institute of Maine and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingwaterfrontarchives.org\/2013\/03\/27\/the-penobscot-a-threatened-bay\/\">described later \u201cas much a reflection<\/a> on a coherent past as a call to action based on the environmental and social threats of the mid \u201990s.\u201d<br><\/li><li><strong>Eyeglasses<\/strong> by Longchamp, either anti-glare or prescription<br><\/li><li><strong>One earring<\/strong><br><\/li><li><strong>Apple device charger<\/strong><br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong><em>: Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall<\/em> (2012), by Sir Thomas Browne. In 2012, it was a New York Review Books \u201cClassic Books Collection\u201d selection. Browne is described as \u201cone of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne&#8230;.[H]is work is quirky, sonorous, and enchanting.&#8221;<br><\/li><li><strong>Book<\/strong>: <em>Our Brilliant Eternity <\/em>(2020), by Paul Baribault, a Lewiston playwright and children\u2019s book author. One description says it\u2019s about \u201cour soul\u2019s climb toward Enlightenment, and how the Earth is a schoolroom, not a courtroom, in this journey.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has changed during the pandemic. 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