Library Hours: Fall Break

AU Library Hours for Fall Break are noted below. A complete list of AU Library hours and updates is available on our web site.

• Saturday, October 24 | Closed
• Sunday, October 25 | Closed
• Monday, October 26 | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Regular hours resume on Tuesday, October 27th.  

AU Library: Facebook

Are you following Ashland University Library on Facebook?

News, information, updates, and library activities are a few of the things we feature. Comments (and likes) are always welcome.

AU Library FAQs

Introducing AU Library FAQs! This is the first in a series of blog posts with information about AU Library's searchable FAQs knowledge base. If you have already used our FAQs page, let us know what you think.  If you are new to our FAQs page, here's a few "FAQs" to get you started.

Have you used AU Library's FAQs site?  
AU Library FAQs is a searchable help site that includes quick and easy answers to a variety of frequently asked questions about AU Library, Circulation & Reserves (including OhioLINK), Library Reference and Instruction, and the Instructional Resource Center.

How does AU Library FAQs work?
Type your question into the search box, already answered questions will auto-populate the drop down menu.  Select the question from the list and you will be directed to answer page; many times the page will include links for more information.

What if my question is not answered on the AU Library FAQs page?

If your question is not posted, each page has a submission form. Click on the link and submit your question to AU Library. We will respond to your question via the email address you provide.   

Where do I find AU Library FAQs?

Select Research Guides from the AU Library home page and then choose LibAnswers & Chat. You will be directed to the AU Library FAQs page.

AU Library: Instant Answers

Have you used our Instant Answers service?  It's a quick and convenient way to get AU library hours and phone information from AU Library and the Instructional Resource Center. Instant Answers provides opportunity for you to text* us and have automatic answers sent directly to your phone, tablet, or other mobile device.

Choose from the following sets of key words:

• library hours - receive AU library hours schedule
• library phone - receive AU library main and reference phone numbers
• IRC hours - receive IRC summer hours schedule
• IRC phone - receive the IRC phone number

pssst ... you may want to try texting welcome to receive a quick welcome message and provide opportunity for you to save the text number to use at a later date.

*Key words are not case sensitive. Standard messaging rates may apply for each text.

IRC and Pinterest

Are you following the IRC @ AU Library on Pinterest?

We have a great collection of boards featuring Book Trailers, Ellison Dies, Alphabet Books, Cumulative Tales, Bullying & Cyberbullying, and IRC Activity Books.


Our site continues to grow with new pins and boards, updates are often tweeted via @IRCaulibrary (you should follow us there, too!). Coming soon ... a board featuring math books in the juvenile collection.

Library Spotlight: New Books

New books are added to the library collection throughout the academic year. When shelf ready, titles are featured in the new books area on library main floor, near the computers and recreational reading area. Titles are selected by AU librarians and subject to the library's collection development policy which includes professional reviews and faculty recommendations. The following titles have been added to the library's main collection.

• On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss
  BF575. G7.K82 2014
• The Travon Martin in US: An American Tragedy
  E185.86 T739 2015
• Go Set A Watchman
  PS3562.E22 G6 2015
• Ideal: The Novel and the Play
  PS3535.A547 A6 2015
• The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth
  E169.Z8 F73 2015
• Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Reshaping America
  E184.A1 F739 2015

If you have a recommendation, be sure to contact your library liaison for more information.

OhioLINK: Review

Let's Review ... Ashland University Library is an OhioLINK member institution. In addition to the digital and physical resources available to you at the main campus library, AU students, faculty, and staff have access to OhioLINK.  This is one way AU Library is working for you.

Below is a narrative from What Does OhioLINK Provide?

"Research Databases OhioLINK offers more than 100 electronic research databases, including a variety of full-text resources. These databases cover many academic areas at varying levels of detail." 

"Electronic Journal Center (EJC) OhioLINK launched the Electronic Journal Center, a collection of full-text research journals, in 1998. The EJC contains almost 10,000 scholarly journal titles from approximately 50 publishers across a wide range of disciplines." 

"Electronic Book Center (EBC) OhioLINK’s growing collection of 81,000 e-books covers a wide variety of subjects and includes scholarly monographs; encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works (for tracking down a quick fact or illustration); and computer and technology titles (for in-depth, how-to books and technology tips)."  

"Digital Resource Commons (DRC) The Digital Resource Commons preserves and hosts a variety of multimedia material owned and licensed by OhioLINK. DRC collections include: 3,000 digital educational films and documentaries; thousands of electronic images, and more." 

"Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (ETD) The ETD Center is an open access showcase of research and scholarship from students at Ohio universities, offering access to over 39,000 undergraduate honors theses, masters’ theses, and doctoral dissertations from students at participating Ohio colleges and universities."

"Ohio Music Center The OhioLINK Music Center is an online streaming music database of international works in a variety of genres, from Classical to Spoken Word. The Music Center offers more than 81,000 tracks from more than 22,000 albums."  

"Electronic Finding Aid Repository (EAD) The OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository contains descriptions of archival collections from contributing institutions in Ohio."