Music to blog by

As I type this, I'm being serenaded at the reference desk by a jazz quintet from the university's music department. This is one of the projects instigated by the library's music and audiovisual librarian. Previous projects have involved having solo musicians play guitars or more esoteric instruments in the library lobby.

The jazz players are quite good. It's a bit strange, sitting in the echoing, largely empty three-story-tall atrium of the library, being treated to a sultry saxophone arrangement of "The Shadow Of Your Smile." But it's a kind of strangeness to which I suppose I could become accustomed. Now if only the student workers could bring me a decent glass of Scotch.