Suggestion:
Good day, just to let you know there is a good-sized congress of wasps checking out the roof area of library, visible from balcony at both the north and south edges of building, sometimes swooping down toward the balcony itself. Thank you.
Response:
Thank you for taking notice of the Yellow Jacket (WASPS). We have had this problem for years. We have had the interior of the Library painted with a special paint that the Wasps do not like so they will not come in our building. As far as the outside of the building, I will turn it into Facilities Management and see if there is something that can be done on the outside. We will be getting a new roof soon and this probably will take care of the problem. Facilities will probably take care of the problem then.
Mickey Dudley Russell
Library Administrative Manager
940 898 3746
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Suggestion:
Dear Blagg-Huey, I have tried looking more closely at the Lady statues, as you suggested to "They have all sort of machine parts that compose them.. the Lady of the Night has an old fashion lawn mower for a base", but when doing that their ghostly side becomes only more strong. This lawnmower cuts to my sprouts of happiness when I look into it. Worried for that these Night Ladies must be offset with a positive statue force to balance the energies so that a good tone for study and learning will root down in the library, especially when we need luck and study late at night. Maybe they could go in the ASSC or Art Hall which is not open late as library. Thank you, and thank you for taking to heart my suggestions regarding these spooky statues and for your great library and services.
Response:
I am happy that you took time to take a hard look at the statues. The University accepted the statues, not the Library. I am sorry to say it was part of a gift agreement when the University accepted the statues that they be placed in the Library. We had no control of the situation. I also want you to know as many people that do not like them there is a large amount of people that do like them.
I am attaching the actual translation of both these statues to give you better insight as to their meaning.
I hope this helps. Also, I noticed while reading about the two statues there are misspelled words. I am assuming the person that gifted the statues wrote this in a hurry. Both statues have been in this building for 20 years.
Translations of the Statues:
When I first saw "The Lady of the Day" in the lovely garden of the Fielding Institute at the Shipley exhibit in Santa Barbara, I found myself strangely drawn to her. Vines of leaves and photographic slides attached to her skirt, her weight slung over to one side with burdens, and she glowed in transcendent bliss. Later I came to know that this peaceful composed Madonna is one powerful side of womanhood, but there is another side which balances this sweet one--"The Woman of the Night."
This powerful woman may only come out in my dreams, yet I knew her power was also essential. In the 1980's, I carried out ta research project in which fifty-three Texas women participated intensely. There were high achieving women, who were college students, many of them working on graduate degrees. They were also mothers and held down full of part time jobs with responsibilities. They were carrying a triple burden. In addition they were carrying loaded memories which I refer to as "hauntings" from "ghosts" and "inspiriations" from "spirits" of their childhoods. (see my book, Becoming, Mature: Childhood Ghosts and Spirits in Adult Life. 1989, Aldine de Gruyter.)
There is a wild spirit, akin to that of loyal wolves which women have been said lately to "run with" hiding beneath the muscles fo the ladies of the day. "The Woman of the Night is a fierce woman, with hips that could roll over everything like a lawn mower, a woman who would defend her turf and protect those she loves. She may be "Shiva the Destrotyer", The Jungian "Terrible Mother" archetype, the Witch, the Hag, the Crone, the one who puts up with no nonsense. She wears a mask which protects her unknowable essences but reaveals herself to be a pwoerful queen, or angry leopard. She is one who would dig her teeth into a snare and remove it from her baby's ankle and who frieghtened me in the mirror of my dreams. Then I realized she is on my side.
So these two sides of a complete women's soul encompass both the day and the night, the Yin and the Yang, the male and the female, the happy and the sad, the joyful and the angry, the open and the closed, the vulnerable and the formidable.
Valerie Malhotra Bentz, was Associate Professor in Sociaology and Social Work at Texas Woman's University from 1978 until 1992. She is currently (1996) living in Santa Barbara, California, where she is Associate Dean and Professor at The Fielding Institute.
Mickey Dudley Russell Library
Administrative Manager
940-940 3746
Dear Blagg-Huey, I have tried looking more closely at the Lady statues, as you suggested to "They have all sort of machine parts that compose them.. the Lady of the Night has an old fashion lawn mower for a base", but when doing that their ghostly side becomes only more strong. This lawnmower cuts to my sprouts of happiness when I look into it. Worried for that these Night Ladies must be offset with a positive statue force to balance the energies so that a good tone for study and learning will root down in the library, especially when we need luck and study late at night. Maybe they could go in the ASSC or Art Hall which is not open late as library. Thank you, and thank you for taking to heart my suggestions regarding these spooky statues and for your great library and services.
Response:
I am happy that you took time to take a hard look at the statues. The University accepted the statues, not the Library. I am sorry to say it was part of a gift agreement when the University accepted the statues that they be placed in the Library. We had no control of the situation. I also want you to know as many people that do not like them there is a large amount of people that do like them.
I am attaching the actual translation of both these statues to give you better insight as to their meaning.
I hope this helps. Also, I noticed while reading about the two statues there are misspelled words. I am assuming the person that gifted the statues wrote this in a hurry. Both statues have been in this building for 20 years.
Translations of the Statues:
When I first saw "The Lady of the Day" in the lovely garden of the Fielding Institute at the Shipley exhibit in Santa Barbara, I found myself strangely drawn to her. Vines of leaves and photographic slides attached to her skirt, her weight slung over to one side with burdens, and she glowed in transcendent bliss. Later I came to know that this peaceful composed Madonna is one powerful side of womanhood, but there is another side which balances this sweet one--"The Woman of the Night."
This powerful woman may only come out in my dreams, yet I knew her power was also essential. In the 1980's, I carried out ta research project in which fifty-three Texas women participated intensely. There were high achieving women, who were college students, many of them working on graduate degrees. They were also mothers and held down full of part time jobs with responsibilities. They were carrying a triple burden. In addition they were carrying loaded memories which I refer to as "hauntings" from "ghosts" and "inspiriations" from "spirits" of their childhoods. (see my book, Becoming, Mature: Childhood Ghosts and Spirits in Adult Life. 1989, Aldine de Gruyter.)
There is a wild spirit, akin to that of loyal wolves which women have been said lately to "run with" hiding beneath the muscles fo the ladies of the day. "The Woman of the Night is a fierce woman, with hips that could roll over everything like a lawn mower, a woman who would defend her turf and protect those she loves. She may be "Shiva the Destrotyer", The Jungian "Terrible Mother" archetype, the Witch, the Hag, the Crone, the one who puts up with no nonsense. She wears a mask which protects her unknowable essences but reaveals herself to be a pwoerful queen, or angry leopard. She is one who would dig her teeth into a snare and remove it from her baby's ankle and who frieghtened me in the mirror of my dreams. Then I realized she is on my side.
So these two sides of a complete women's soul encompass both the day and the night, the Yin and the Yang, the male and the female, the happy and the sad, the joyful and the angry, the open and the closed, the vulnerable and the formidable.
Valerie Malhotra Bentz, was Associate Professor in Sociaology and Social Work at Texas Woman's University from 1978 until 1992. She is currently (1996) living in Santa Barbara, California, where she is Associate Dean and Professor at The Fielding Institute.
Mickey Dudley Russell Library
Administrative Manager
940-940 3746
Suggestion:
Wirelessprinting.When I check out a chrome book would like to be able to print from the laptop
Response:
Thank you for this suggestion and I hope you enjoyed using the Chromebook. We have looked at wireless printing solutions, but the campus has not decided on how to handle wireless options. We will continue to explore this service for the library.
David Schuster
Texas Woman's University
Director of Library Information Technology & Technical Support
Phone: 940-898-3909
Wirelessprinting.When I check out a chrome book would like to be able to print from the laptop
Response:
Thank you for this suggestion and I hope you enjoyed using the Chromebook. We have looked at wireless printing solutions, but the campus has not decided on how to handle wireless options. We will continue to explore this service for the library.
David Schuster
Texas Woman's University
Director of Library Information Technology & Technical Support
Phone: 940-898-3909
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