Library Open House

Library Holiday Open House

You are cordially invited to the AU Library holiday open house to be held on Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Join us from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm for refreshments and seasonal entertainment.

Library Extended Hours

It's time! Monday, November 29th, the library will begin it's extended hours schedule opening at the regular time and remaining open until 2:00 a.m. providing study and work space for interested students. A complete extended hours calendar is available on the library hours page:

Week of November 29th

Monday, November 29th - Thursday, December 2nd
7:45 am to 2:00 am

Week of December 5th

Sunday, December 5th
1:00 pm to 2:00 am

Monday, December 6th - Wednesday, December 8th
7:45 am to 2:00 am

Extended hours do not apply to the Instructional Resource Center (IRC), library second floor. Color printing will not be available during extended hours. Ashland University Library wishes everyone success on the end of year studies and exams.

Library Hours: Thanksgiving Break

Library Hours Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday, November 24th
Library Closes 5 pm

Thursday, November 25th - Saturday, November 27th
Library Closed

Sunday, November, 28th
Library Open 6:00 pm to Midnight

Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday break and remember, extended library hours begin Monday, November 29th!

OCLC First Search Maintenance

OCLC will conduct maintenance on successive Sundays, November 7th and November 14th, from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Eastern time. All FirstSearch databases, including Article First and WorldCat, will be unavailable during those times.

LexisNexis Scheduled Maintenance

LexisNexis Academic will have a scheduled maintenance outage following the switch to Standard Time in the USA.  The database may be down on Sunday, November 7, from 2 a.m. EDT to 6 a.m. EST.

Science Information Searching

The federal government’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information has created three search engines to assist the science researcher in locating timely information.

• SCIENCE accelerator provides searching for the 12 OSTI databases as well as DOE data.
• Science.gov searches 42 databases and over 2,000 selected web sites from 18 scientific and technical organizations from 14 federal agencies.
• The World Wide Science Organization provides a search on 76 databases from 65 countries and international organizations.

For help searching these databases, contact the Documents Department in the library at 5410 or Janice Marotta at jmarotta@ashland.edu.

Library Spotlight: New Books

New books are added to the library collection throughout the academic year. When shelf ready, titles are featured on the new book shelf on the main floor near the computer and recreational reading area.

Books have been selected by AU librarians and are subject to the library's collection development policy which includes professional reviews and faculty recommendations. Contact your library liaison for more information or submit a suggestion via the library catalog.

Recent additions to the collection include:

• Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward
  BF378.H54 F74 2010
• Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts
  CS49.G38 2010
• Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory
  DS712.H457 2010
• Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little:  Overcoming Organizational Immaturity
  HD58.8.K588 2010
• A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research
  HF5415.2.W29 2010
• Abortion
  HQ767.2.A26 2010
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  HB9950.A437 2010
• Bringing Reading Research to Life
  LB1050.6.B75 2010
• Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
  LB3479.U6 P55 2010
• Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
  PN4899.W31 W346 2010
• Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
  PQ8098.1.L54 I78 2010
• White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side
  R724.E385 2010

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