Archer Library (the beginning)

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💜✨Time flies ... but the foundation stays the same. 🦅 Welcome to Archer Library 🦅 Thanks to Ashland University Archives for the throw-back photograph!

IRC Hours Update: Fall Break

IRC Hours: Fall Break

• Thursday, 10/22: Close 4 p.m.
• Friday, 10/23: Closed
• Saturday, 10/24: Closed
• Sunday, 10/25: Closed

The IRC's fall hours schedule will resume on Monday, October 26.  A complete listing of IRC hours and updates is available on the main library calendar. Enjoy fall break!

Banned Books Week: October 4-10

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Banned Books Week • Oct. 4–10
Let Books Be.

📚 The reasons might not be what you expect. 👀

Books have been challenged or restricted in schools and libraries for all kinds of reasons — and sometimes the stories behind those challenges are surprising.

▶️ Watch the video to learn more.

📖 Explore the Banned Books Week display on the main floor.

Then consider picking up a book that makes you curious, asks difficult questions, or gives you a perspective you haven't considered before.

FYS Drop-in Research Hours

💬 "I'm not sure where to start..."

If that's how you're feeling about your First Year Seminar (FYS 100) research project, you're not alone—and we're here to help. Stop by our FYS 100 Research Drop-In Hours for one-on-one assistance with:

📚 Find reliable sources

🔍 Search library databases

💡 Narrow your topic

📝 Citing your sources

✅ Leave with a plan

No appointment. No pressure. Just drop in.📍 Active Learning Lab • Library Main Floor

New Books • Juvenile Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, near the digital sign, or in their regular location.

• A Door is Open
  PZ7.M2246 Do 2026
• The mountain that wouldn't move
  PS8607.U386 M68 2026
• Odds and ends
  PZ7.1 H87 2026
• Fox catches a wave
  PZ7.1.T29 Fnh 2026
• Can I do it?
  PZ7.M462 Can 2026
• Tajín and the twelve thunders : a pre-Columbian myth
  PZ8.1.M7954 Taj 2026
• The things we hold
  PZ7.1.L5217 Th 2026
• Axolotl-Ella: A Sort-of-Cinderella Story
  PZ7.M5615 Ax 2026
• Another tongue
  PZ7.1.N375 Al 2026
• Bear for a Day
  PZ7.1.T29 Be 2026
• Story Rug
  PZ7.B5319 St 2025
• Thank you for this day
  PZ7.1.A3687 Th 2026
• The cow in the dark at night
  PZ7.1.H364224 Co 2026
• Monster mender
  PS8603.A527 M66 2026
• I'm Frankie Frankenstein
  PZ7.1.F73 I6 2026
  
  
  
  
  

Juvenile Books • Picture Books

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, near the digital sign, or in their regular location.

• Maud and the very eventful week
  PZ7.1.A513 Mau 2026
• Off the wall
  Z7.I217 Of 2026
• Find the sun
  PZ7.1.H3713 Fin 2026
• Once upon a pickup time
  PZ7.1.L5555 On 2026
• At the edge : curious creatures of planet Earth
  PN6110.A7 E45 2026
• The day my brother became a tree
  PZ7.1.L5234 Day 2026
• Yeti is not ready for game over
  PZ7.1.C427 Ye 2026
• Hugo's hair
  PZ7.1.A45 Hu 2026
• The ice cream crocodile
  PZ7.1.D835 Ic 2026
• Kindness glows in the dark
  PZ7.1.V355 Ki 2026

Juvenile Books • Holiday

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, near the digital sign, or in their regular location.

• Mysterious Mittens : a moontime cats Halloween story
  PZ7.1.M6 Mys 2026
• Here a creak, there a shriek!
  PZ8.3.C7674 He 2026
• A very scary book
  PZ7.D629 Ve 2026
• Mother Boo : poems from Spookytown
  PS8643.A59 M68 2026
• Three little witches and the spooky old house
  PZ7.A6749 Ar 2026