National Library Week -- Read Posters

April 15-21 is National Library Week, and the library will be celebrating with a new "Read" poster each day. You've probably seen them, American Library Association posters with celebrities such as Orlando Bloom or Hilary Swank posing with a favorite book. GRCC has its own celebrities, and one of them is Lee Semsen, who will be retiring at the end of spring quarter after 29 years as a librarian at GRCC. In the poster, Semsen is posed with the bible of cataloguing, The Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index or the DDC for short. Speaking of the Bible, National Library Week was started in 1958 by a group of publishers, booksellers, librarians, and journalists after a 1955 Gallup poll revealed that 61% of American adults had not read any books, except the Bible, in the preceding year.