The Instructional Resource Center and Ashland University Library, included in Ashland University's Closed for the Holiday schedule, will be closed Friday, December 19, 2008, to January 4, 2009.
The following DVD's have been added to the library circulating collection. The library's DVD collection is located in the listening lab, room 201, library second floor.
Just a reminder as everyone goes off for your Thanksgiving holiday, all of OhioLINK central systems will be offline on Saturday, November 29, from 7 a.m. to hopefully no later than 4 p.m. This includes the central web server, the EJC, the EBC, the Central Catalog, the DMC and DRC, ETD, and the OSearch Databases. If you have direct links to databases at vendor sites such as EBSCO or OCLC, you should still be able to access those sites. - Anita Cook, OhioLINK
AU Library is joining the campus-wide effort to conserve resources and Go Green. Beginning December 1, the Library will send notices by e-mail only.
Thank you for your patience. We are looking forward to presenting our new streamlined library web site to the university community.
This week Ashland University Library will launch its new web site. Although the address/URL remains the same, links to individual library pages may have changed as we have reorganized the page to make finding information simpler.
If you find broken links on your personal web pages, online course documents or Angel course management pages please feel free contact Diane Schrecker, library web administrator at dschreck@ashland.edu for help locating and linking to your favorite pages.
The following book has been added to the circulating collection. You will find it shelved in the new books display in the reference area on the main floor of the library or in it's regular location.
2008 National Book Award Finalists"Five novels, four of them written for young adults, have been selected as finalists for the 2008 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The winner will announced on November 19th at a dinner and ceremony in New York City. Daniel Handler chairs the judging committee, which also includes Holly Black, Angela Johnson, Carolyn Mackler, and Cynthia Voigt."
(Simon and Schuster) review
(Atheneum) review
(Scholastic)
by E. Lockhart (Hyperion) review
(Knopf)The Horn Book, 10/16/08
Interested? Two of these books are currently part of the juvenile collection:
Check them out!
The three HP Scanjet 4300 C scanners located on the listening lab (west) side of the second floor are currently out of order. Signs are posted on the scanners and help tickets for each have been submitted (10/8/08).The following book has been added to the juvenile collection. It will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.
Help support CMLA!! (Collegiate Middle Level Association)
Do you need to build up your classroom library or need to buy gifts for siblings or friends? We have the perfect place... Come to our Scholastic Bookfair! It's a Safari Theme and we have many books and other materials great for the classroom or for gifts.
Place: Come check it out in the foyer of the Education Building.
Date: Monday, October 6 – Friday, October 10
Times: 10:00am-6:00pm
Regular IRC hours resume on Tuesday, September 2nd. Enjoy the holiday weekend!
The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.
Please note, the 2003 edition of this title is available in the AU Circulating collection and the 2005 edition of this title is available in the AU Reference collection.
The Instructional Resource Center will be closed next week, August 11th through August 15th.We’re pleased to announce two recent advances in ERIC of interest to librarians and all ERIC users: the addition of more than 130 new comprehensively indexed journals, and release of a redesigned and enhanced Web site. Users can now search a richer collection of education-focused literature while taking advantage of improvements that speed information discovery on the public ERIC Web site. In addition, a newarea just for librarians includes useful information for patron support and collection maintenance.
New Journals in ERIC
As of June 30, 2008, ERIC has added more than 3,600 new records from newly acquired journals. Work is underway to increase coverage even further by seeking additional partnerships with publishers of both journal and non-journal literature. New journals are indexed from 2004 forward, exceptfor titles indexed prior to ERIC’s 2004 transition to an all-electronicservice. Once recent titles have been acquired and indexed, ERIC willacquire 2002-2003 electronic back issues of previously indexed titles toprevent gaps in journal coverage.
Redesigned Web Site
ERIC released a redesigned Web site on August 3. Highlights include:
For more information about ERIC’s new journals and the redesigned site (including a detailed list of what’s changed), see the rotating featuresarea on the home page of the ERIC Web site. - August 6, 2008
