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messenger inquiry service
Through June 10, Knight Library is
testing Ask Us, an instant message
service that will allow students, faculty
and staff to get real-time answers to li
brary-related questions from their resi
dence hall, home or office computers.
“It’s a new service for us, but
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many academic and public libraries
across the country already have
services like this,” Barbara Jenkins,
Knight Library’s head of reference
and research services, said. She
described the service as an effort
to increase students’ efficiency
and productivity.
“We just want to make it easier for
people to check in with the library ...
with any questions from A to Z,”
Jenkins said.
Ask Us, which requires the Inter
net Explorer Web browser, is avail
able from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, and can be accessed
by clicking the question mark icon
in the upper-right corner of any li
brary Web site. Jenkins said the ser
vice’s hours may extend if the serv
ice continues past the pilot phase.
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Films: Festival features 'Leila'
'Osama' and 'Door to the Sky'
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makes judgments.
“In Islam ... your status doesn’t de
pend on your background,” she said,
“but depends on how strong you cling
to the faith.”
Not everyone in the MSA agreed
when a discussion arose about show
ing the controversial film “Osama.”
The film is about a mother and her 12
year-old daughter living in Afghani
stan during the Taliban regime. The
story follows the girl as she fights for
the survival for both her mother and
herself by disguising herself as a boy so
that she can work, according to the
film’s Web site.
Toran said that she hasn’t seen
the film yet, fearing it will be too
much to bear.
“I’ve had many opportunities to see
this film, but I haven’t because it’s too
painful,” she said.
Some members of the MSA ex
pressed discomfort with showing the
film because it portrays Islam in such
a negative light, Toran said.
“The MSA is trying to be sincere,”
she said. “We just hope that the cam
pus society can meet us halfway.”
Toran hopes the event will shed
more light on the often misunderstood
part of Islam.
“I think it’s so easy to find the
black and white of everything,” she
said. “You have to work to under
stand things deeper.”
The film festival opens today with
the showing of “Leila” from Iran.
“Osama” will be shown on Thursday,
May 5. Thursday, May 12, “Door to
the Sky” from Morocco will be
shown. All movies will begin at
6 p.m. in the International Resource
Center. May 18 there will be an infor
mal panel discussion with local Mus
lim women, also at 6 p.m. All events
are free and open to the public.
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