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Veterans and Service Members Lounge
Veterans Day is being celebrated during the entire week of November 7-12. A listing of Recognition Week activities is online. Included on the listing is an invitation to our students who are service members or veterans to drop by the … Continue reading
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Library Catalog Upgrade
The Library Catalog had a significant upgrade right before Orientation Week (convenient timing, isn’t it?!). We’ve named our new catalog HalCat (short for Harold Andersen Library Catalog). It needs more tweaking, and we are experiencing some technical difficulties with its … Continue reading
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Make your wish for new Library titles
The Library has a “Wishing Tree” where you can use paper ornaments to tell us what DVDs, books, graphic novels, CDs, or video games you wish we would consider adding to our collections! Make your wishes known! The Wishing Tree … Continue reading
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Tagged books, CDs, collections, DVDs, library, video games, videos
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New Stuff Tuesday – September 16
Instead of featuring new materials this week, I thought it would be appropriate to introduce the new kids on the block (not the ones with a comeback album). That’s right, it’s New StAff Tuesday. Since May, we have had four … Continue reading
New Stuff Tuesday – September 2
Raise your hand if you’ve taken a tour. Raise your hand if you actually paid attention and/or remember every little detail of the tour. My point exactly. We understand that traveling as a herd with your classmates isn’t the most … Continue reading
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We’re on the Airwaves!
If you listen to the WSUW, you may have heard an advertisement unlike any other. That’s right, the University Library has their own sixty-second spot. The ad highlights just some of the reasons for visiting us here in the Library. … Continue reading
Invest Now, Relax Later!
6 March 2008 – 4 PM BI Lab (room 2211 in the University Library) Financial markets – they’re like roller coasters – rocketing up, plunging down, leveling out and any variation in between. For those involved, it can be a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, databases, investing, library, library events, online resources
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Library Helps Reduce Global Warming
You may have noticed something you took for granted before. Custodians used to clean the Library after hours, but now they’re here during the day and evening, tidying up after us. So how do the custodial shift changes help reduce global warming? The University … Continue reading
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Snowflakes at the Library
I’m not sure how everyone feels about the ridiculous amount of frozen precipitation that we’ve gotten already this winter, but did you see the size of the snowflakes falling down last night? They were HUGE. Conveniently enough, we also had … Continue reading
Community Borrower Cards
A piece of business before we get to the fun for Friday. The Library has changed the prices of the Community Borrowers effective January 1, 2008. The price has increased to $10 for one year or $25 for three years. … Continue reading
