Twitter Tuesday is a weekly feature that looks back at the USC Libraries' conversations in the Twitterverse. You can follow the USC Libraries on Twitter at @USCLibraries. Feel free to ask questions or send comments on Twitter; we may repost your question here the next Tuesday.
One follower continued an earlier conversation about the libraries' new Quick Search:
colleengreene: @USCLibraries Are there plans to include site-search? i.e., lib policy pages, lib blogs, etc.
USCLibraries: @colleengreene For now, no. We're starting out strict re: what research resources to include, so LibGuides are in, but not other site pages
colleengreene: @USCLibraries Thx! My stakeholders were just looking at your home page & saw your Tweet reply to me. They got a kick out of that.
We also picked up another conversation from the previous week:
faithx5: @USCLibraries Do the books in the Cinematic Arts Library circulate, or are they library use only?
USCLibraries: @faithx5 Most of the Cinematic Arts Library's books do circulate, but for 2 weeks instead of 4.
A couple Twitter users were kind enough to recommend their own followers on Follow Friday (#ff):
cindymariej: @USCLibraries deserves a #FollowFriday just for giving personality to a library
USCLibraries: @cindymariej Thanks for the #ff. We do try to be personable!LAArquitecto: #ff @USCAlumniAssn @uscarchitecture @USCCU @USCedu @USCLibraries @USCMAAA @USCMLS @uscpsycho @USCRipsit @USCTMB
USCLibraries: @LAArquitecto Thanks so much!
One of our daily photos from the USC Digital Library sparked an interesting conversation about freeways and emergency airplane landings:
USCLibraries: Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) under construction #onthisday in 1961: https://twitpic.com/2a41rj #uscdiglib
latta: @USCLibraries it has always been my understanding that our (CA) fwys are so wide to allow for large aircraft takeoffs/landings in emergency.
latta: @USCLibraries i mean in light of the national panic state at the time, ICBMs, and communist threat etc during planning period.
USCLibraries: @latta According to the U.S. DOT, that "is a myth that is so widespread that it is difficult to dispel." https://bit.ly/apP9IY
latta: @USCLibraries ashamed to say i have propagated it. many yrs, in fact. i'm sure i heard it on pbs as well. thanks, Omniscient One! 1
latta: Thanks to @USCLibraries, home of everything worth knowing, I learnt it is *not* true CA fwys are so wide so we can fit planes. #weallsayit
A Twitter user posted photos of both the Doheny and Leavey Libraries:
AntDom15: I Love the USC campus. now for the library
August 2 was the 241st anniversary of the arrival of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola in present-day Los Angeles:
USCLibraries:Great tweets today from @LAhistory about the 1769 Portola expedition arriving in present-day Los Angeles.
USCLibraries: RT @LAhistory: Aug 2, 1769: Los Angeles River named "El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula” by Portola expedition
USCLibraries: A map from the #uscdiglib (Calif. Historical Society Collection) showing the Portola expedition's route https://twitpic.com/2b1gse
Tomoko8Sept: @USCLibraries El Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles was the Spanish civilian pueblo-town founded in 1781 https://tinyurl.com/yj3xbel