General Building
Library History
Library of Congress
Policies and Procedures
LITS Staff and Service Points
100

The time we close during Finals Week.

What is 2am?

100

The year Burke Library was established.

What is 1972?

100

True or False: Categories change LC Designations.

What is true? (Example: JX, international law changed to KZ [law of nations] and JZ [international relations])

100

The color of the light that blinks when you arm the vending machine door.

What is green?

100

The department run by Cat Stern.

What is Acquisitions?

200

Location to book a production booth.

What is 25Live?

200

The building(s) that previously housed the Hamilton College library.

What are Morris Hall and CJ?

200

Number of basic single-letter classes (N is a class, NA is a subclass)

What is 21 basic classes?

200

True or False: If a daily room sheet is blank, you still need to put it up. 

What is false? (But you need to remove yesterday's sheets.)

200

Director of Resource and Digital Strategies.

Who is Shay Foley?

300

Year of Burke's most recent renovation.

What is 2023?

300

The most recent department to join the library.

What is Institutional Research?

300

Time that the Library of Congress Classification system was established.

What are the late 1800s to the early 1900s?

300

Describe the process of shifting.

What is moving books into empty spaces to maintain LC and/or space?

300

The person that picks the display books every month.

Who is Kristen Strohmeyer? (Research Desk)

400

Floors with accessible bathrooms.

What are the 1st and 2nd floors?

400

The place reference section used to be.

What is the first floor (where Couper Classroom currently is)?

400

The president that appointed the current Librarian of Congress (extra 100 pts if you can name the librarian!)

Who is Barack Obama? (and Who is Carla Hayden?)

400

True or False: The key to the second-floor classrooms opens all five rooms.

What is false? (it only opens 4/5 rooms)

400

Margie's favorite lunch.

What are beets and sardines?
500

Animals found inside the library.

What are mice, squirrels, and dogs?

500
The colors (and patterns) of the library carpets.

What are orange, patterned orange, patterned gray, and blue?

500
The street address for the Library of Congress

What is 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington DC?

500

The number of buttons and/or switches that you need to hit/press upon opening and closing.

What are 7 switches and 1 button (touchscreen)?

500

LITS staff helping to chair the What If initiative.

Who are Lisa McFall and Jerry Tylutki?