In observance of Independence Day, July 4th, Ashland University Library hours are as follows:
The IRC will be closed Friday, June 19th through Sunday, June 29th.Instructional Resource Center summer hours and updates are available on the IRC web site.
Since that time there have been posts highlighting additions to the IRC collection, juvenile collection, education and general AU library circulating collection, IRC updates and news, as well as a variety of informational entries. The numbers are somewhat staggering:The New IRC Collection Blog
"Welcome to the Instructional Resource Center Collection Blog! Beginning with the fall 2005 academic school year, this blog will replace the yearly book lists published on the IRC web page. Items, both circulating and reference, will be entered as they are cataloged and available for use. Each entry will have an accompanying heading, specific to the genre. Please note that anyone with a specific book request will continued to be personally notified via email when the books arrive." -- June 10, 2005
So far this year (including this post) ...
Thank you for your continued interest in this project!
Please note the following changes and updates to regular IRC summer hours:Instructional Resource Center summer hours and updates are available on the IRC web site.
All three of the winning authors are widely renowned. Mr. Pratchett, perhaps best known for his raucous comic fantasies for children and adults, displays a philosophical bent with Nation, a young adult novel about two nineteenth-century children who create a new society from the ground up. Candace Fleming’s dual biography of the President and Mrs. Lincoln employs the intricate scrapbook format that distinguished her earlier Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor. Margaret Mahy, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a two-time recipient of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honor book citations, has written scores of novels, easy readers, and picture books. Bubble Trouble, a tongue-twisting tale about an airborne baby, marks the New Zealander’s second collaboration with English illustrator Polly Dunbar.
Fiction and Poetry Winner:Nation
Terry Pratchett
PZ7.P8865 Nat 2008
Nonfiction Winner: 
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at
Abraham and Mary
Candace Fleming
E457.905 .F58 2008
Bubble Trouble
Margaret Mahy
PZ8.3.M278 Bu 2009
Old Bear
Kevin Henkes 
PZ7.H389 Okd 2008
Higher, Higher
Leslie Patricelli
PZ7.P2472 Hi 2009
All of the above titles are part of the AU library juvenile collection; all title links go to the library catalog.
Visit the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards web site for more information about past and present award winners, audio and video of acceptance speeches, and criteria and submission guidelines.
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.
Grades K-5
