{"id":2051,"date":"2019-04-01T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:32:01","slug":"the-icosihenagons-at-at-rlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2019\/04\/01\/the-icosihenagons-at-at-rlb\/","title":{"rendered":"The icosihenagons at the RLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing has its squared circle.\u00a0 The UFC has its octagon.\u00a0 But the RLB outdoes them all with its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/icosihenagon\">icosihenagons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, the RLB has four 21-sided glass rooms. One of them is used for <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/academic-success\/tutoring\/accounting_drop_in.cfm\">accounting drop-in<\/a> tutoring, and the other 3 usually are available as study rooms that can be <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/about-us\/policies-procedures\/study-room.cfm\">reserved through the Appointment Tool<\/a> in MyUB.<\/p>\n<p>However, every Monday at 5:00pm throughout the month of April, the icosihenagon rooms will be converted into an arena to host a single elimination Library MMA tournament. The competition will begin April 1, with the winners advancing to the next round on the following Monday.\u00a0 The tournament with culminate in the championship round on April 29 where the winner will be crowned \u201cDean of the Library\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2052\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2052\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2019\/03\/dashawn1-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2019\/03\/dashawn1-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2019\/03\/dashawn1-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2019\/03\/dashawn1-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2019\/03\/dashawn1.jpg 1679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UB Student Da&#8217;Shawn Bailey training for the Library MMA in one of the icosihenagonal rooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Library MMA, the competitors are each given a cart full of books which they have to arrange in correct order by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/catdir\/cpso\/lcco\/\">Library of Congress Call Number<\/a>.\u00a0 The match starts with each competitor having one minute to arrange the books followed by a one minute round of full contact combat with the goal of bringing chaos to the opposing bookcart.\u00a0 The rounds alternate until one of the contestants has arranged all of their books in the proper order.\u00a0 Since all 21 walls of an RLB icosihenagon are made of glass, members of the UB community will be able to watch this exciting competition while studying on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the library.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Dean of the Library Jeffrey Hutson thinks the competition for \u201cDean of the Library\u201d is wide open.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA lot of our books are reshelved by our student workers, so they have a lot more recent experience with arranging books by LC call number than many of our librarians,\u201d Hutson pointed out.\u00a0 It is hoped that the newly crowned Dean of the Library will begin his or her duties July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing has its squared circle.\u00a0 The UFC has its octagon.\u00a0 But the RLB outdoes them all with its icosihenagons. That\u2019s right, the RLB has four 21-sided glass rooms. One of them is used for accounting drop-in tutoring, and the other <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2019\/04\/01\/the-icosihenagons-at-at-rlb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The icosihenagons at the RLB<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}