Someone notices that these codes look like library book numbers. Specifically, they look like Library of Congress codes. They google some of the codes, and find some of the books in some library catalogs online.
As it happens, you’re on a large university campus. But this campus doesn’t have just one library; it has many! What should you do about this?
Someone has noticed that the map of campus in the briefing book is not just a map of campus; it’s a map of all the libraries on campus. They turn the page over, and see a listing of all the library names, locations and phone numbers. One of the libraries is highlighted; the Engineering library.
You take all your clues and head to the engineering library. It’s currently open and occupied by studying students, so you very quietly enter and begin searching the stacks for the book codes you have. You find them. Inside each found book, there’s a card;
At this point, all the teams have found enough capsules to decode the bottom lines into book numbers. They bring all their clues to the library, pull their books off the shelves, and find the cards. Here’s the total set of books & cards.
Here’s the list of book information and card phrases, in case it’s hard to read the pictures;
- TR659.8 N48 2017
After the flower market
by Johanna Neurath
NEIL ARMSTRONG - QA242.5 H33 2017
Around the Zilber-Pink conjecture
by Emmanuel Ullmo, Andrei Yafaev, Thomas Scanlon, Philipp Habegger, Gaël Rémond
SYNCHRONOUS ROTATION - UG1242 G85 N54 2012
Night hunters: a history of the AC-130 gunship
by William P. Head
ARISTOTELIAN PHYSICS - PT2708 E94 S77 2013
Strawberry Fields Berlin
by Julian Heun
ARCHIMEDES CRATER - GB842 S66 1991
Snow, hydrology and forests in high alpine areas
Tomasz P. Jannson, editor.
PHASES - TJ200 C76 2002
Design and application of the worm gear
by William P. Crosher
CRESCENT - TA682.43 K79 1998
Cold weather concreting
by Boris A. Krylov
GOOGLE X PRIZE - QL638 A25 N38 2007
Rescue of sturgeon species in the Ural River basin
edited by Viktor Lagutov.
CELESTIAL OBJECT - ND487 B835 2015
A Regency Buck: Adam Buck (1759-1833)
by Peter Darvall
APOLLO PROGRAM - QL737 R632 L66 2000
Beavers: a wildlife handbook
by Kim Long
SATELLITE PLANET - QC355.3 T75 2005
Tribute to Emil Wolf: science and engineering legacy of physical optics
Tomasz P. Jannson, editor.
TOTAL ECLIPSE - TX819 H4 B58 2017
Harvest: unexpected projects using 47 extraordinary garden plants
Stefani Bittner & Alethea Harampolis; photography by David Fenton
EARTHSHINE
What do the books have in common? What’s the relationship between the cards and the book? And how does it get you closer to the location of the payload? See the next page for hints.
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