Changes @ the Library

This summer has been one of change for the library, inside and outside. We have added signage to both front display cases to help identify the library! Often located by being "the tallest building on campus," we hope the new signs are a useful addition to the library facade.

University Web Site

Ashland University's web site is currently undergoing redesign. As the process continues and the roll-out date approaches, a content update freeze will be placed upon university web sites including the Library and Instructional Resource Center, beginning September 1st.

"The moratorium on web development will continue over the summer. A content freeze will go into effect 4 to 6 weeks prior to the website launch in late September or early October. All content on web pages will be moved to the new website as is unless there are emergency updates due to upcoming activities or other critical changes." -IT Advisory Committee

We understand how frustrating this may be to library users who are accessing databases for course work, using the catalog, requesting inter-library loan, or simply looking for library hours, news and information. To help keep library users up-to-date during the web site redesign process, we will use this blog and the Instructional Resource Center blog as news and information portals.

The Library News Blog, a spotlight feature, will continue to link directly to the most recent blog post. Visit here frequently; consider adding us to your feed reader!

Library Features will link directly to this post as a reminder the content freeze is in effect.

Portions of our web sites not effected by the content freeze include:

• Electronic Reserves
• LibGuides
• Library Catalog
• AU Library News Blog
• Instructional Resource Center Blog
• Chat Services
• OhioLINK

Please feel free to contact us with questions regarding the University web site redesign. We want to make this transition as easy as possible.

Library Spotlight: Apollo 11 Anniversary

"On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body." -- NASA

Internet Resources

• NASA 40th Anniversary Site
• Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journals
• Apollo 11 Program; Smithsonian
• NASA Television: YouTube
• History Channel: Apollo 11
• Moonwalkers: Time Magazine
• From Doughnuts To Liftoff: Apollo 11 Launch Was a Blast
• NYT: To the Moon Buzz! Apollo 11 at 40

In the Library Catalog

• Project Apollo U.S.
• Project Apollo U.S. History
• Apollo 11 Spacecraft
• Spaceflight to the Moon

In the Library, Juvenile Collection

• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
  TL789.8.U6 F56 2008
• Team Moon: How 400,000
  People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
  TL789.8.U6 A5825 2006
• Moon Over Star
  PZ7.A8483 Moo 2008

OhioLINK Database Maintenance

Please note the following message from Candi Clevenger @ OhioLINK. Planned maintenance for July 9th, between midnight and 4:00 am should have little affect on users:

OhioLINK staff will be performing planned maintenance on the machines that run the OSearch databases on Friday, July 9, from 12-4 a.m. We expect there to be few, if any, noticeable disruptions, but there may be brief periods where databases are unavailable or not fully functioning.

OSearch databases include:

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-1997


• Art Full Text


• ATLA Religion Database


• Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews


• Business and Industry 1994-2006


• Compendex/ Compendex Historical


• Education Full Text


• ERIC


• Inspec/Inspec Archives


• PAIS International


• PsycINFO/PsycINFO Historical


• Sociological Abstracts 1963-2005

-- (7/8/09) Candi Clevenger, OhioLINK Communications Manager

IRC Graduate Assistants

Applications are currently being accepted to two Graduate Assistant positions in the IRC. Click here to view the flyer (pdf).

OhioLINK ETD Center

News from OhioLINK regarding additions to the ETD Center:

Four programs recently joined the OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center and began contributing theses and dissertations online. The four newest ETD Center members are: John Carroll University, the Ohio University honors program, the University of Toledo's honors program, and Walsh University’s honor’s program.

There are now 30 programs, from 23 member institutions, participating in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. The ETD Center is a free, online database of more than 19,700 graduate theses and dissertations and undergraduate honors theses from students at participating Ohio colleges and universities. For more information about the OhioLINK ETD Center, visit the frequently asked questions page.

-- (7/1/09) Candi Clevenger, Communications Manager, OhioLINK

Ashland University's Dwight Schar College of Education is one of the thirty programs included within OhioLINK's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Center; click here to view AU's holdings. For more information, visit the ETD FAQ's Page.

Library Hours: July 4th

In observance of Independence Day, July 4th, Ashland University Library hours are as follows:

Friday, July 3rd: Library Closed
Saturday, July 4th: Library Closed
Sunday, July 5th: Library Closed

Summer hours resume on Monday, July 6th.