McKillop Library will soon be administering a nationally-recognized web-based survey called LibQUAL. The survey is designed to measure how library users perceive the quality of their library’s services.

Everyone who participates in the survey and chooses to take part in a prize drawing will be eligible to win an IPod Nano, which will be awarded to the lucky winner in late April!

The survey results will allow Salve to compare McKillop Library’s performance with that of peer institutions, as well as to help them assess how their services are meeting your expectations and where they may need to improve.

Recently, I have had an increase in my viewing of reality television shows. This may be in part to the fact that every other channel has some sort of reality based show. From “The Soup” on E, “The Moment of Truth ” on Fox, and any dance, song, modeling, dating, cooking competition shows, it is clear that America is obsessed with other people’s lives.

Students in Dr. Jameson Chace’s “Humans and Their Environment” class began Friday like any other. However, they did not know that afternoon they would all become partners in a fishing company for the next 10 years. The class gathered in Jazzman’s Café to embark on their fishing career.

Easy Street; it’s a place that everyone wishes they can drive to and stay for a little while. Sometimes Easy Street finds its way to us after periods of difficulty, while other times we stubble upon it when we least expect it. Life on Easy Street seems to just roll off our tongues like dice off our fingertips at a Roulette table.

The tears are welling in my eyes. I am looking back over four years and remembering the losses and the tragedies living life can present. I am remembering the beauty and the splendor of these four years. Have you stopped and listened to your heart lately? This world, this moment in time moves so fast onto the next moment in time-it is seldom anyone takes a moment to stop to feel their existence.