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About the Poems.

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Poetry relating to the Stanford University Libraries was a regular feature in SUL News Notes from early on in its run through the middle of 1996, with occasional poems published thereafter. Some were signed, but most appeared uncredited; for the latter, the proper credits are provided here where authorship has since been acknowledged.

The Poems - List by Author.

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This list is alphabetical by author. For listings by title and subject, see below. The list was complete as of the end of 1997: other poems may have been published since. The date appearing after each poem title is that of the issue of SUL News Notes in which the item originally appeared. Links to the complete texts of the poems are provided. If a link is non-functional, it is because the author's permission to post the text has not been secured.

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Anonymous

Baltierra, John

Baron, Ken

Carr, R.T., III

Doble, Chris

Harper, Pennye

Kunde, Brian

Leitner, Jack

Levine, Harold

Skinner, Geoffrey

The Poems - List by Title.

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This list is alphabetical by poem title. For listings by author and subject, see below. The list was complete as of the end of 1997: other poems may have been published since. The date appearing after each poem title is that of the issue of SUL News Notes in which the item originally appeared. Links to the complete texts of the poems are provided. If a link is non-functional, it is because the author's permission to post the text has not been secured.

| Author List | Subject List] |
  1. After the Sale / Geoffrey Skinner 94_11_11
  2. And a Partridge in a Pear Tree ... / Anonymous 92_12_18
  3. Asbestos / Brian Kunde 93_11_05
  4. An Attitude for Mondays: a Sonnet / Anonymous 94_03_04
  5. Back to Work: a Sonnet / Brian Kunde 94_03_25
  6. Barcoding Ditty / Anonymous 93_12_10
  7. Between Terms / Brian Kunde 95_09_15
  8. The Big Game / Anonymous 93_11_19
  9. The Book and Bug Battle / Anonymous 93_09_03
  10. Book Bindings / Anonymous 94_01_07
  11. Book Bordello / Brian Kunde 95_11_03
  12. Book Sale: a Sonnet / Brian Kunde 92_12_11
  13. Bookworm / Brian Kunde 92_09_18
  14. The Borrower Blues / Brian Kunde 96_02_09
  15. Campus Drive in Bloom / Brian Kunde 95_05_05
  16. Cleaning Out the Hoop / Anonymous 95_08_25
  17. Computer Cries: a Sonnet / Brian Kunde 93_01_15
  18. Cubberley Library / Anonymous 93_04_16
  19. Cutting Corners / Brian Kunde 96_02_23
  20. Databasing: a Sonnet / Brian Kunde 93_05_28
  21. Ditch Diggers / Brian Kunde 94_10_07
  22. Dog Days / Brian Kunde 96_05_03
  23. The Donor / Brian Kunde 95_11_17
  24. The Drought Rained Out? / Anonymous 92_11_06
  25. Elevator / Brian Kunde 95_01_27
  26. Ella Harsin Retirement Dedication Song / R. T. Carr III 96_01_12
  27. An Encounter in the Quad / Brian Kunde 94_04_08
  28. An Exchange of Roses / Anonymous 93_10_22
  29. The Fans of Green / Anonymous 93_02_19
  30. A Few Remarks ... in Honor of Joan Dible / R. T. Carr III 96_01_26
  31. The Fixer-Uppers / Anonymous 92_10_16
  32. From the Work / Brian Kunde 95_04_21
  33. Goodbye to Green: a Sonnet / Anonymous 93_02_05
  34. Got Books Here / Brian Kunde 95_10_20
  35. A Green West Poem / Ken Baron 99_04_30
  36. The Holidays at Stanford / Anonymous 96_01_12
  37. Holy Meyer / Anonymous 93_04_02
  38. The Hoop Group, or, the Fountain Fixers' Song / Anonymous 94_06_03
  39. I Suffer an E-Change, or, Electronic Blues / Brian Kunde 96_01_26
  40. An Inaugural Sonnet / Anonymous 92_10_09
  41. Information Highways and Byways / Brian Kunde 95_12_08
  42. Keyboard / Anonymous 92_12_18
  43. Libraries and Fleas / Brian Kunde 94_11_18
  44. The Library / Jack Leitner 94_12_22
  45. Library Bashing / Anonymous 93_08_06
  46. Library Labor / Brian Kunde 94_07_01
  47. Losing Users / Anonymous 93_06_25
  48. Modem Operandi / Brian Kunde 94_01_21
  49. The Moving Muddle: a Sonnet / Anonymous 93_02_12
  50. Moving Week at Green / Anonymous 93_03_05
  51. Non-Roman Materials (by an Obviously Monolingual Cataloger) / Brian Kunde 93_01_29
  52. NOTIS Freeze (Written During One) / Brian Kunde 93_01_22
  53. The Oak Worms' War / Brian Kunde 94_04_22
  54. Ode to a Barcode (In the Pindaric Mode) / Anonymous 92_09_18
  55. An Ode to Else, or, Averse to Different? / John Baltierra 92_04_17
  56. Ode to Serials / Anonymous 95_12_15
  57. Ode to Tia, or, Tia Gozzi Cha Cha Cha / Chris Doble 94_09_16
  58. Ode to Virginia White or Miller / R.T. Carr III 95_04_21
  59. On Raynard C. Swank / Anonymous 95_03_24
  60. On the Eucalyptus Clipping / Anonymous 95_01_13
  61. On the Palm Drive Repaving / Brian Kunde 94_08_26
  62. On Top of Green Library / Anonymous 96_08_02
  63. On Weekends / Anonymous 94_02_04
  64. Online on the Line / Brian Kunde 92_11_20
  65. Paper Pushers / Brian Kunde 95_09_29
  66. The Paperless Society / Brian Kunde 96_03_29
  67. Poetry in Motion / Anonymous 92_08_07
  68. Prayer to a Periodical (a Serial Cataloger's Supplication) / Anonymous 93_06_11
  69. The Process / Brian Kunde 93_12_10
  70. Professor Pens Poem for Library Staff Member / Harold Levine 02_10_25
  71. Pruning Branches / Brian Kunde 92_11_13
  72. Quiet Days / Brian Kunde 95_06_16
  73. Rained Out / Brian Kunde 95_05_19
  74. The Red and the Black / Anonymous 95_06_02
  75. Reference Work / Anonymous 94_12_22
  76. Repairing Palm Drive / Anonymous 94_07_29
  77. Repositioning / Anonymous 93_01_08
  78. Reshelving / Brian Kunde 93_07_23
  79. Retirement!!! / R. T. Carr III 96_01_12
  80. Rufus, the Library Dog / Brian Kunde 95_04_07
  81. Serial Killers / Anonymous 93_07_09
  82. Serious Wrestles in Serial Records / Brian Kunde 92_10_30
  83. Slogging Beneath the Backlog / Brian Kunde 92_10_23
  84. Soccer Traffic / Anonymous 94_07_15
  85. The Sonnets of Green / Anonymous 93_10_15
  86. South Stacks / Brian Kunde 96_04-19
  87. Spellbound / Pennye Harper 92_07_17
  88. Stanfordspeak / Anonymous 96_05_17
  89. A Stanford Nursery Rhyme / Anonymous 95_08_11
  90. Stanford on the Simmer / Brian Kunde 95_06_30
  91. Stanford University / Brian Kunde 94_06_17
  92. Structural Restructuring / Anonymous 94_05_06
  93. Summer Weather / Brian Kunde 94_08_12
  94. System Change / Brian Kunde 96_05_31
  95. System Failure: an L-II's Lament / Anonymous 92_08_21
  96. Tanner and Branner / Anonymous 94_09_30
  97. Termanated: a Sonnet / Anonymous 93_05_14
  98. To Students Who Could Use a Book / Brian Kunde 93_10_01
  99. To William, Bishop of Oxford / Brian Kunde 95_02_24
  100. The Tower of Hoover / Brian Kunde 93_03_19
  101. [The Train] / Anonymous 92_07_24
  102. Ultra-Modern Sul / Brian Kunde 95_02_10
  103. Under Construction / Brian Kunde 95_07_21
  104. We Do It All for You! / Anonymous 93_08_20
  105. Wear and Tear / Anonymous 94_11_04
  106. The Wet Way to Work / Anonymous 95_03_10
  107. When a Library is Academic / Brian Kunde 92_10_02
  108. Winter at Stanford / Brian Kunde 94_12_09
  109. Work Cycle / Brian Kunde 95_07_28
  110. The Work Week: Three Sonnets / Brian Kunde 93_04_30
  111. workday haiku / Brian Kunde 08_06_04
  112. The Year's End Doldrums: a Sonnet / Brian Kunde 94_12_22
  113. Your Learning We're Burning to Sense, Sir! / Brian Kunde 92_09_25

The Poems - List by Subject.

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This list is alphabetical by subject. For listings by author and title, see below. The list was complete as of the end of 1997: other poems may have been published since. The date appearing after each poem title is that of the issue of SUL News Notes in which the item originally appeared. Links to the complete texts of the poems are provided. If a link is non-functional, it is because the author's permission to post the text has not been secured.

| Author List | Title List |

Topics:

 | Animals | Art | Barcoding | Book Sale | Books | Branch Libraries | Campus Events | Campus Life |
| Campus Maintenance | Campus Sights | Cataloging | Censorship | Christmas |
| Collection Development | Computers | Coordinate Libraries | Cost-Cutting |
| Daily Hazards and Irritations | Databases | Environmental Issues | Fountains |
| Government Problems | Green Library | Hoover Institution | Internet | Libraries, Attitudes toward |
| Libraries in General | Library Usage and Users | Loma Prieta Earthquake | Materials Preservation |
| People | Public Services | Re-Engineering | Repositioning | Seasons | Serials | Social Issues |
| Sports | Technical Services, Moving of | University of California at Berkeley | Weather | Work |

Animals <—

Art <— Barcoding <— Book Sale <— Books <— Branch and Coordinate Libraries <— Campus Events <— Campus Life and Sights <— Campus Maintenance <— Cataloging <— Censorship <— Christmas <— Collection Development <— Computers <— Daily Hazards and Irritations <— Databases <— Environmental Issues <— Fountains <— Government Problems <— Green Library <— Hoover Institution <— Internet <— Libraries, Attitudes toward <— Libraries in General <— Library Usage and Users <— Loma Prieta Earthquake <— Materials Preservation <— People <— Public Services <— Repositioning, Re-Engineering, and Cost-Cutting <— Seasons and Weather <— Serials <— Social Issues <— Sports <— Technical Services, Moving of <— University of California at Berkeley <— Work <—

Prepared by Brian Kunde and Geoffrey Skinner
This page was established Dec. 11, 1995,
and last updated Dec. 3, 2013.

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