Alexis Carrasquel has been accepted as the 23rd Fellow of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program Office. She will be living in Alexandria, Va and working at the USPTO office for one year starting in May, 2008. Congratulations, Alexis!

Joel Gardner, oral historian, spoke at Hill Memorial Library on November 30. Discussing the two strands of oral history — the folklore documentary strand, which regards oral histories as “performances”; and the academic approach, which seeks to document historical facts through personal experiences of those who are interviewed – Gardner pointed out that Louisiana had […]