who are these masked avengers...and where did they get those fabulous shoes?

avengers of entropy


Linda Cuhna: Superhero Identity: "Dewey Decimal Woman"

Elizabeth Washburn: Superhero Identity: "The Bookwyrm"

Christina Wolfskehl: Superhero Identity: "Ctr Alt Dlt"




We are an elite team of superheroes who selflessly save the world on a daily basis. By day we work as ordinary MLS graduate students, but at night we fight the Forces of Chaos! (And frankly, you won't find a better looking team of superheroes for you dollar!)





On a warm summerís night in June we received a frantic phone call from a distraught Fall River librarian.

ìItís our card catalogue" she cried. "Major L. Majority and his evil cohort Lazy Laggards wonít let it go!î





It seems that in 1997 the Public Library decided to stop updating its card catalogue and focus strictly on converting patrons over to the online version. For the past 8 years dutiful librarians hung posters throughout the library and handed out bookmarks at the Circulation Desk informing patrons ìAs of 1997 we no longer update our card catalogue. Please ask us about our online system!î Librarians gave everyone who approached them a 5-minute impromptu session. For those wanting more, the library offered formal classes once a week for the first year, and once a month for the next three years.

Also available via the library's homepage, were online tutorials. And for those patrons with a home computer, but without Internet access, take-home CD-ROMs were on hand for check-out.

Once educated on how to use library's new technology, the librarians have kept these goodly citizens up-to-date via email and the library's website about any online upgrades. The librarians have vigorously publicized upgrades such as 24-hour access to online journals and other local libraries' catalogues, and online chats with reference librarians for any informational needs! Overall it has been a successful endeavor with upstanding citizens Mrs. Innovator and Dr. E. Adopter.



"Now we need to physically remove our outdated card catalogue to make space for even more computers, but Major L. Majority and Lazy Laggards are making it impossible. They have done everything in their power to avoid the computers. Why haven't they been affected by our previous attempts at familiarizing them with the online catalogue? WHAT CAN WE DO, MASKED AVENGERS?!"




Our mission: find out why the library's previous promotion of the online catalogue was krytonite to Major L. Majority and Lazy Laggards, and what we can do to help ease the Dastardly Duo into this new card-catalogue-free universe!