University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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McKeldIn library, its multitude of stacks lay dormant A library is a collection center for knowledge McKeldin has become a collection center for dust Since the opening of the more modern and versatile Undergraduate library, the wooden doors behind Testudo have been opening less and less. McKeldin ' s use has declined 50 per cent since the opening of theUCL. With this lack of student use, a strange phenomena has begun to occur. Books have begun to float in the aisles and strange figures to move in the corridors The ghost of McKeldin library has begun to walk the floors The ghost of McKeldin library may be likened to Charles Dicken ' s ghost of Christmas past Both ghosts personify the |oy and lividity with which youth is associated. But like Ebenezer Scrooge, student use of McKeldin has soured with age. Now only the ghost remains Daily, the ghost meanders through the dark passageways reading foreign language texts, listening to classical music and studying the wisdom of the sages At night, the ghost walks-up antiquated, curving steps to the 2nd floor card file. But even here, he fails to find those whisps of McKeldin ' s past glory And each night at closing time, the ghost leaves as he and thousands of other past students of McKedlin library have left, past the guard at the door, the marble columns and the per- petual gaze of Testudo 22 UMporium

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The ghost of McKeldin Library ALBRECHT ' S PHARMACY 21

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