Archer Library Hours
Archer Library's fall hours schedule begins Monday, August 29th. A complete listing of library hours, exceptions, and updates is available on the library website. Please note that library hours are subject to change.
August 29, 2022
August 22, 2022
Faculty College 2022 • Active Learning Classroom
Ashland University Faculty College • Fall 2022
Join us Wednesday, August 24th at 3 p.m. in Archer Library's Active Learning Classroom
This session introduces Archer Library's new Instruction Program site and a tour of the active learning classroom. We will explore our redesigned library program, instructional support options, implementation of ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy, and assessment.
Attendees will participate in a scavenger hunt, in person or online, featuring information literacy-based activities designed to compliment each work area. We will explore the collaborative learning environment and high-tech classroom features perfect for library instruction. Feel free to take a sneak-peak at our session guide. Bet you didn't realize (ahem) "we know where your cat lives" - something to look forward to.
Librarians will be available to discuss designing and scheduling library instruction sessions. We hope to see you in the library.
August 15, 2022
Archer Library Instructon Program
Course Integrated Library Instruction
Archer Library's instruction program supports the educational mission of Ashland University by providing information literacy based library instruction sessions. Core competencies of information literacy include "the abilities involved in identifying an information need, accessing needed information, evaluating, managing, and applying information, and understanding the legal, social, and ethical aspects of information use" (ACRL,2006). Instruction sessions are designed to actively involve students, each provides opportunity for experiential learning and scaffolds relevant research skills.
Librarians will work with you to:
- Identify library resources (e.g. databases, eBooks and OER) best suited to student research,
- Design and develop sessions that actively involve students, provide for experiential learning and scaffold relevant research skills to support assignments,
- Provide students with information literacy skills to help them think critically about their research Explore and identify assessment strategies for your library instruction session, and
- Identify information literacy framework knowledge practices and dispositions to connect research and learning with student success
July 13, 2022
OhioLINK Music Center 2.0
OhioLINK Music Center 2.0
The Music Center release provides a more updated look and feel and aligns the user interface with other OhioLINK-managed electronic resources such as the Electronic Journal Center (EJC) and Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center. The release includes a new feature that allows users to save frequent searches as a URL.
Click here to listen to music selections by John Williams including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
About the OhioLINK Music Center
The OhioLINK Music Center, a subset of the Naxos Music Library, is an online streaming music database of international works from Classical to Spoken Word. The 78,000+ tracks, 21,000+ works can be searched or browsed by track, title, performer, album, composer and date of composition.
The OhioLINK Music Center, a subset of the Naxos Music Library, is an online streaming music database of international works from Classical to Spoken Word. The 78,000+ tracks, 21,000+ works can be searched or browsed by track, title, performer, album, composer and date of composition.
Access to the music files is restricted to the students, faculty and staff of OhioLINK member institutions. Off-campus authentication is required.
June 30, 2022
Hours Update: July 4th Holiday
Archer Library will be closed,
Monday, July 4th
Summer hours will resume on Tuesday, July 5th. A complete listing of library hours and updates is available on our website.
June 16, 2022
Bloomsday: Celebrating Ulysses by James Joyce
June 16th is Bloomsday! What is Bloomsday?
It is
a celebration of the novel Ulysses by James Joyce which all takes place on
Thursday, June 16th 1904 in Dublin, Ireland and is named for the
central character, Leopold Bloom.
The first celebration of Bloomsday in Ireland was 1954 for
the 50th anniversary, and continues to this day with special visits
to the places mentioned in the novel. But people around the world celebrate
Bloomsday too, with people dressing up as characters from the book, hosting readings,
re-enactments, and performances, as well as creating food and drink from the
book.
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| Celebrators (1999), image from Wikipedia |
Importance of Ulysses
The book itself was published February 2, 1922 by Sylvia
Beach through her bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris. In the 100 years since
its publication, Ulysses has been celebrated and censored, banned and cherished.
Banned on obscenity charges while still in draft chapters and again in a 1928 US Customs
trial, the book afterwards was seized at US customs and burned because it “might cause
American readers to harbor "impure and lustful thoughts".” This ban
was challenged in court and lifted in 1934; the free speech arguments in defense
of Ulysses in that landmark case have shaped the subsequent
debates about literature’s rights to freedom of expression to this day.
The Archer Library is lucky to have a copy from this first seized 1922 run of Ulysses in our Special Collections seen here
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| 1922 copy of Ulysses - Archer Library Special Collections |
And while we can’t read from it for Bloomsday, we are
excited to enjoy the celebration of the James Joyce’s work 100 years later. Let
us know how you plan to celebrate Bloomsday, or your thoughts on this epic noel
by James Joyce!
To learn more about Bloomsday here are some of the official websites:
https://jamesjoyce.ie/bloomsday/ (James Joyce Center)
http://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/ (Festival page)
https://www.ireland.com/en-us/things-to-do/events/bloomsday-festival/
(Ireland’s tourism page)
Want to read the book yourself?
Read the book here: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
Listen to the audio book here: https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook
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| First page of Ulysses (1922 edition) |
June 13, 2022
New • Library Instruction Program Site
Library Instruction • Welcome
The Archer Library Instruction Program guide is a your gateway to course integrated library instruction sessions. Here you will find information about library instruction session types, instruction support provided by library guides, information literacy Framework, library instruction assessment, and meet Archer Library's instruction librarians.
Explore the Program Guide
What's here? When exploring this guide, you will find forms for requesting library instruction sessions and/or an Archer Library Guide. Further reading includes resources focused on the value impact of academic libraries, information literacy instruction, and overall student success.
Course Integrated Library Instruction
Librarians are available to collaborate with instructors. We will work with you to design instruction sessions and assignments that support your course learning outcomes and the information literacy framework.
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