Thanksgiving Message

  As a reminder, the library will be closed on Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving. We will open Friday at our usual time.

We hope you and your family  have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Some Thanksgiving Trivia

What food was served at the first Thanksgiving Dinner?

There is no evidence that turkey was eaten at the first Thanksgiving, a three-day meal shared between the pilgrims and Wamponoag tribe in 1621. It is more likely that they ate venison and a lot of seafood.

Today, though, we sure eat a lot of turkey. According to a study done by the National Turkey Association, Americans eat 690 million pounds of turkey during Thanksgiving 2007. That is equal to the weight of the entire population of Singapore.

An estimated 46 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving (the birds weigh, on average, 16 pounds). That is more than double the amount eaten on Christmas (22 million) and Easter (19 million). In 2010, more than 244 million turkeys were raised and about 226 million of those were consumed in the United States.

What Utensil was missing from the first Thanksgiving day dinner?


The fork.

What did they use to eat their meal with?

A knife, a spoon, and their fingers.
The fork was not brought by the pilgrims. Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts introduced it 10 years later, but it did not really catch on until the 18th century.

 In what year did Football start being a Thanksgiving tradition?

It all started in 1934, when the Detroit Lions was bought by G.A. Richards. Trying to build up the fan base for the team, he scheduled a game for Thanksgiving Day to play the Chicago Bears, who at the time were world champions.

The game sold out and was broadcasted live on radio. And with that huge success,the tradition began. Since then, the Detroit Lions have played 67 Thanksgiving games!


What year did Macy's famous parade start?

The parade began in 1924 with 400 employees marching off from Convent Avenue and 145th Street in New York City. During this time the parade was accompanied not with the oversized ballons of our favorite cartoon characters, but with live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo -- from camels to elephants.

Refworks Brownbag

Create your bibliography with the click of a mouse. OK, so it’s not that easy, but RefWorks will help you organize your sources, cite them and create a bibliography for your thesis or other long paper. Come and learn the tricks on Wednesday Novemeber 16th from 12:45 to 13:45 in Room 112.

5 Facebook Privacy Settings You Must Review Now

The number of places where you can get tagged on Facebook continues to grow, but you can give yourself the right to approve all tags before they can appear on the site — and the ability to do this has gotten more refined than ever.
There are actually five different options you can enable that together limit whether anyone’s effort to tag you can go live on the site.
To get to these five options, fist click the down arrow in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and select “Privacy Settings.”
Then, scroll down to the heading “How Tags Work” and click on the linked words “Edit Settings,” located to the right.

The pop-up window shown above appears, listing the five options for controlling tags.
All but the middle one default to “off,” and you’ll want to decide whether to turn them on so you can:

• Receive prompts to approve or decline everything your friends post on your wall or link you in before the item can appear on your profile.
• Similarly vet all tags that your friends add to your content before they can become visible on your profile.
• Opt in or out of being suggested to your friends when they are tagging photos.
• Permit or disallow your friends to include you in their check-ins to places.

That middle option has more choices than simply on or off. Here you get to decide on how visible your profile or timeline content is.
The options here include “public,” “friends,” “friends of friends,” or “custom.”
So you can choose from any of those lists to create a customized audience for your timeline or profile.
We recommend that you make your timeline or profile visible to friends and consider blocking current and former coworkers.
Even if you have cool colleagues, remember that timeline can serve up everything ever posted to your profile since you joined the site — you can alter this as well by selecting different pieces of content to make visible, but it’s best to start with limited visibility as a default and then make specific posts public as you go.
Which privacy settings, if any, have you used on Facebook so far?