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The Time Warp Issue of the Leaks contained news from individual staff members, a list of interesting acronyms and of interesting serials title variations, cutesy baby pictures of selected staff, news from selected staff members' gardens, a list of popular pet's names, sundry classified adverts, an advert for Church Sani-White toilet Seats, answers from library people to the query, "If you were a plant or an animal, what would you be?", and some recipes. A special follow-up issue contained news about a vagrant kitty that made its home around the library and Amy Avers' newborn colt, solutions to the pet names word search, and a key to match staff names with their baby pictures.

This page was last modified on 29 June 1995.

Swang: Speaking With Acronyms, Not in Greek

• NOS: They say it represents "numbers" but there are those who feel it more aptly states in more cases than not "Not On Shelf!"
• ASOL: American Symphony Orchestra League
• SDWB: Stud Dog Wanna Be
• DMVL: Department of Motor Vehicles (means long liner!)
• PVP: Post-Vacation Punishment; i.e. catching up on all the work that piled up while you were gone
• SPAM: Society for the Prevention of Acronym Mania
• GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out
• SCUM: Society for Cutting Up Men
• SNCA: (pronounced SNICKA) Society of North Carolina Archivists
• RTFM: Read The Friggin' Manual!
• GLAMOUR: Gay men, Lesbians, And Many Others Under one Roof

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Some requests submitted to the Serials Department...

• Ladies H Journal
• Journal of Les Research
• Harvard Bus Review
• Wom R Bks
• Ma Clean's
• 18 Cent Studies
• Etnohistory
• Organ Dyn
• International Review of AA Art
• Jl of the Amer Medical Ass
• Journal of Studs on Alcohol

Here's a periodical that cause much merriment in the Catalog Department: "Piano & Keyboard: the Bimonthly Piano Quarterly."

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Names of selected library pets.

Achilles	Cotton	Louie	Roxanne
Alexis	Cricket	Maggie	Scipio
Angelica	D-O-G	Mama	Scooter
Arthur	Dexter	Martha	Sedona
Baby	Do	Missy	Shao
Baby Ruth	Elizabeth	Molly	Sky
Benson	Elvis	Mr. Mousse	Solo
Bird	Emma	Muggins	Sparky
Black Toe	Floyd	Nehru	Splotch
Blue	Frank	Nestle	Stranger
Boris	Frijole	Nicky	Tasha
Bryce	Garfield	Nikko	Taz
Bruno	George	Nip	Thumper
Callie	Hannibal	Noah	Tiger
Cat	Isabel	Oliver	Trapper
Chelsea	Issadora	Pemberton	Val
Christine	Jessie	Philamena	Watson
Cilantro	Joey	Poe	Winslow
Clancy	Julia	Psyche	Xiao Xiao
Clementine	Katie	Rat	Zeus
Cody	Kronos	Ringo

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