Okrand made a point of distinguishing the actual building a few times at qepHom 2016: landmark Daq noy (not a building) landmark qach noy (building) monument, memorial van Hew (sculpture) monument, memorial van qach (building) postal service QIn tum post office (building) QIn tum qach planetarium logh chal je 'angweD planetarium (building) logh chal je 'angweD qach … and from elsewhere we know of: tower chalqach house juH qach hospital ropyaH qach theater (i.e. building) much qach --Voragh P.S. {'angweD} “museum” (n) On Behalf Of Terrence Donnelly Speaking as a librarian, I was thrilled to see that these terms exist; I missed them initially, somehow. To me, the {paq nojwI' qach} is the literal building housing the books and the staff, while the {tum} refers to the entity more abstractly. If you said, "I'll check the Library and see if they have that" and you used your phone app or the on-line catalog, it would be the {tum} you are accessing, but not the {qach}. If you are talking about visiting the library, I don't see much difference. I also don't see how {tum} implies "public", but that's how it's glossed, so be it. BTW, I would qualify {De' QulwI'} as not just "librarian", but specifically "research librarian". In fact, as the term stands, it could refer to anyone in the data analysis or research field. {paq nojwI'} is much more appropriate for what I do all day. ter'eS ________________________________ From: "Michael Roney, Jr." <nahqun@gmail.com<mailto:nahqun@gmail.com>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu<mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu>> wrote:
Also from qepHom 2016:
paq nojwI' qach library (building) (n) paq nojwI' tum library (public) (n)
Do we know what the difference between libraries is?