September 28, 2010

Banned Books Week 2010

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, is September 25 - October 2, 2010.



"Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States." -
ALABanned Books Week

The Office For Intellectual Freedom created a video for their YouTube channel that features the Top Ten Banned and Challenged Books of 2009 and reasons for challenges and bans. Included in the top ten list are classics; The Chocolate War, The Color Purple, The Catcher in Rye, and To Kill a Mocking Bird; and children and young adult titles; The Earth, My Butt, And Other Big Round Things, And Tango Makes Three, and Twilight.



For more information: Internet Resources

For More Information: AU Library collection

Visit the IRC News blog for a different look at Banned Books Week provided by The Puppet Book Banners.

September 27, 2010

Update: Library Walkway & Sidewalk

The library is open!

Demolition continues on the sidewalk and walkway outside the library main entrance. In order to safely remove concrete up to the library display windows, there will be rotating closures for the main entrance and exit doors.
  • Enter and exit the library using the patio doors.
  • Enter the library using the main doors, exit the patio doors.

Weather permitting, plans are in place to pour new concrete the end of this week. Thank you for your continued patience.

September 24, 2010

IRC Hours Update

The Instructional Resource Center will be closed this weekend, Saturday 9/25 and Sunday 9/26. Computers and regular printing remain available on the second floor, as do general second floor collection items.

Color printing, laminating, the Ellison Machine, and other services offered inside the IRC will not be available. We will re-open on Monday following regular hours.

Need to color print? There is a color printer available in Patterson.

IRC News: Big Books

Have you ever searched for a big book in the library juvenile collection? Located on the second floor, big books were crowded into two rolling carts.


Not anymore! Each big book has been placed in large hanging media bag and the entire big book collection relocated next to the book kits. Hanging bags will make it easier to transport big books to and from the library and provide protection for the book during inclement weather.


Looking for a specific big book? Call numbers are located at the top left / bottom left side next to the spine of each book. The collection now has added functionality and browse-ability. Stop in and see the new big book area the next time you are in the library.

September 22, 2010

Library Walkway & Sidewalk

Yes, the library is open!

Please excuse the noise and dust. The walkway and sidewalk outside the library main entrance are being replaced. During construction, we recommend using the patio entrance on the north side of the building for easy access. Thank you for your patience.

September 19, 2010

LIC: Accent on Success

Accent on Success library instruction sessions meet in the LIC, or Library Instruction Classroom located on the ground floor of Ashland University Library. After entering the library, use the elevator directly across from the circulation desk, or the stairs, to the ground floor (G). The LIC is the large classroom located in the center of the ground floor with doors to the right, left, and around the back (across from the restrooms).

The following Accent on Success sessions scheduled are scheduled this week.

Monday, September 20th
  • Walters (Section A) 8:00 am
  • Herin (Section D) Noon
  • Moretz (Section O) 9:00 am
  • McDonald (Section X) 6:30 pm
  • Brohm (Nursing) 2:00 pm
  • Brohm (Nursing) 3:00 pm

Tuesday, September 21st

  • Metzger (Section C) 9:25 am
  • Stofer (Section H) 3:00 pm
  • Rosler (Section K) 12:15 pm
  • Kaskey (Section N) 10:50 am
  • Ajwa (Section R) 1:40 pm
  • Gorrecki (Section XX) 6:30 pm

Wednesday, September 22nd

  • Broda (Section F) 2:00 pm
  • Kaufman (Section G) 3:00 pm
  • Villareal (Section I) 11:00 am
  • Harkness (Section J) Noon
  • Garlock (Section M) 10:00 am
  • Fox (Section Q) 1:00 pm

Thursday, September 23rd

  • Walley (Section E) 8:00 am
  • Aune (Section L) 12:15 pm
  • Stratton (Section P) 9:25 am

Friday, September 24th

  • Heimann (Section B) Noon

Library instruction sessions for Accent on Success are conducted by AU reference librarians Craig Gable (cgable@ashland.edu), Jeff Pinkham (jpinkham@ashland.edu), and Kathryn Venditti (kvenditt@ashland.edu).

September 12, 2010

LIC: Accent on Success

Accent on Success library instruction sessions meet in the LIC, or Library Instruction Classroom located on the ground floor of Ashland University Library. After entering the library, use the elevator directly across from the circulation desk, or the stairs, to the ground floor (G). The LIC is the large classroom located in the center of the ground floor with doors to the right, left, and around the back (across from the restrooms).

The following Accent on Success sessions scheduled are scheduled this week.

Monday, September 13th
  • Walters (Section A) 8:00 am
  • Herin (Section D) Noon
  • Moretz (Section O) 9:00 am
  • McDonald (Section X) 6:30 pm
  • Brohm (Nursing) 2:00 pm
  • Brohm (Nursing) 3:00 pm

Tuesday, September 14th

  • Metzger (Section C) 9:25 am
  • Stofer (Section H) 3:05 pm
  • Rosler (Section K) 12:15 pm
  • Kaskey (Section N) 10:50 am
  • Ajwa (Section R) 1:40 pm
  • Gorrecki (Section XX) 6:30 pm

Wednesday, September 15th

  • Heimann (Section B) Noon
  • Broda (Section F) 2:00 pm
  • Kaufman (Section G) 3:00 pm
  • Villareal (Section I) 11:00 am
  • Garlock (Section M) 10:00 am
  • Fox (Section Q) 1:00 pm

Thursday, September 16th

  • Walley (Section E) 8:00 am
  • Aune (Section L) 12:15 pm
  • Stratton (Section P) 9:25 am

Friday, September 17th

  • Harkness (Section J) Noon

Library instruction sessions for Accent on Success are conducted by AU reference librarians Craig Gable (cgable@ashland.edu), Jeff Pinkham (jpinkham@ashland.edu), and Kathryn Venditti (kvenditt@ashland.edu).

September 9, 2010

Library Spotlight: Juvenile Books

AU library adds new books to its collection throughout the academic year. New books added to the juvenile collection are featured on the new book shelves on the library second floor, outside the Instructional Resource Center and adjacent to the juvenile stacks. The following juvenile and YA fiction titles have been added to the collection:



The Instructional Resource Center Blog routinely provides information regarding new additions to the IRC, juvenile, and education collections.

* This booklist was originally posted on the IRC News blog, Juvenile Books: Fiction, 9/8/10

September 3, 2010

Library Hours: Labor Day

The library is open this weekend & Labor Day!

Following the University Labor Day holiday schedule, the library is open regular hours this weekend: Saturday (9/4) from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday (9/5) 1:00 pm to midnight, and Monday (9/5) 7:45 am to midnight. Updates to regular hours are posted on the library web site. IRC hours updates on available the IRC web site and IRC news blog.