LIBRARY HOLIDAY HOURS 2008-2009
Dec. 13-14: Sat.-Sun. CLOSED
Dec. 15-19: Mon-Fri. 8am-5pm
Dec. 20-21: Sat-Sun. CLOSED
Dec. 22-24: Mon-Wed. 8am-5pm
Dec. 25 2008-Jan. 4 2009 CLOSED
Jan. 5-9 Mon-Fri. 8am-5pm
Jan. 10-11 Sat-Sun. CLOSED
REGULAR HOURS RESUME JAN. 12
For the next two weeks, the Library will be open till midnight Monday through Thursday--Dec. 1-4 and Dec. 8-11.
Reference service will not be available after 10pm.
Regular hours on Fri., Sat. and Sun., Dec. 5, 6, 7.
The IUS Library is sponsoring a quilt show in our art gallery Oct. 20-Dec. 15. Anyone connected to IU Southeast
(and this includes your mother) is welcome to submit a hand or machine-made quilt of any size or design.
An opening reception to honor the quilt artists will be held on October 24, 5-7p.m.
Interested persons should fill out the entry form below, and bring the quilt with the entry form attached to the Library between
Oct. 13 and Oct. 15.
For information contact Nancy Totten at 941-2209 or ntotten@ius.edu
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NAME__________________________________________E-MAIL ______________________________________________
ADDRESS_____________________________________________________________PHONE________________________
NAME OF QUILT______________________________________________________________________________________
CIRCLE ONE: BASED ON PATTERN ORIGINAL DESIGN
Note: While utmost care will be taken with the quilts and we do not anticipate problems, the Library will not be responsible for accidental damage or theft.
In the February A Little Knowledge... presentation, learn what Informatics has to say about whether males or females are in the driver's seat in regard to human molecular evolution. Dr. Sridhar Ramachandran reports on what he and his students in the on-campus BioInformatics Information Research Group have discovered. Tuesday Feb. 17, 12:15-1, LB230. Everyone is welcome!
In compliance with certain federal and state requirements, forms that can be filled out to register to vote in Indiana are available at the Reference Desk in the IU Southeast Library.
Voter registration forms are also available on line at the Indiana Secretary of State website: Indiana Secretary of State and the Election Assistance Commission website: www.eac.gov. To download and print the form you will need Adobe® Acrobat Reader®.
Registration Deadline: applications must be postmarked (or hand delivered to your county voter registration office) no later than 29 days before the next election.
THE SITE OF THIS PRESENTATION IS CHANGED TO LB330, THE CURRICULUM MATERIALS CENTER
In the summer of 2008, Yu Shen of the IUS History faculty took a group of students to China for a 3-credit hour course covering China’s history and culture. By all accounts it was a wonderful experience for everybody. Join us for the joint presentation of A Little Knowledge… and the International Programs Committee as the students share their experiences in China and exhibit some of the items they brought back. Monday, Nov. 17, 12:15-1 Library LB230.
OPEN BOOKS, the community/campus book discussion group, will meet on Friday, Oct. 10 at noon in the Library, LB230. Marian Ziebell will lead us in a discussion of Vladimir Nabokov's short novel Pnin. We hope you can join us!
Come in and vote for your favorite photo! You can also purchase notecards made from last year's winners. Main floor of the Library.
The Library staff welcomes all new and returning students, and we hope you will drop in to the library soon. Some of you have had your Ucard activated to serve as your library card already; if you haven't, just come to the circulation desk and we will quickly do that for you. And remember, the Library Bistro is now open!
The Library will be open regular hours (Sat. 9-5; Sun. noon-6) on Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31, but will be CLOSED on Monday, Sept. 1, for the Labor Day holiday.
The Library's community/campus book discussion group, OPEN BOOKS, will meet for the first time this semester on Friday, September 12, at noon in LB230. We're reading The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Francis, and the discussion will be led by our own Kevin Peers, currently a librarian at Bellarmine University. We welcome all students, staff, and faculty as well as community members. We'll have drinks and cookies; feel free to bring your lunch.
The Library will be open the following hours between Summer II and Fall semesters:
Aug. 5-22 (all weekdays) 8AM-5PM
Saturdays & Sundays CLOSED
Friday, Aug. 15 Closed for Staff Meeting
Regular hours resume on Monday, Aug. 25. Regular hours are listed on the Library's web page.
OPEN BOOKS schedule 2008-2009
July Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
August Galileo’s Daughter, by Dava Sobel
September The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic
October Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
November Bold Spirit, by Linda Lawrence Hunt
December Freakonomics, by Leavitt and Dubner
January The Aeneid, by Vergil (Books I, II, and IV)
February The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
March Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
April The Body in the Library, by Agatha Christie
May The Memory Keeper’s Daughter , by Kim Edwards
Staff, faculty, students and community members are invited as always to the Library's book discussion group, OPEN BOOKS, for a discussion of Philippa Gregory's historical novel, The Other Boleyn Girl. We'll be meeting at noon on Friday June 13 in the Library. Everyone is welcome!
"On or about August 18, 2008, Dining Services plans to reopen the facility offering coffees, teas, assorted pastry, cold beverages, made to order sandwiches, hot soup of the day and grab n go items.
Hours of operation will be 7:30 AM ~ 7:30 PM, Monday ~ Thursday and 7:30 AM ~ 2:PM on Fridays.
FYI: You will be able to use your U Card for all Coffee Shop/Food Court purchases in the fall.
Thanks for your patience while we undertake this transition to add another service location on campus."
| Get your new U Card today!The new U Card is designed to fit all of your needs. Its a university ID card, a debit card, a library card, and a key to the IU Southeast residence halls all in one. Easily load your card with funds by cash or credit card and use these funds to purchase goods and services throughout campus. The U Card will replace all existing university ID cards and all students, faculty, and staff will need one. Go the the new Multipurpose Room from 9:00am till 9:30pm Monday through Thursday of this week, Jan 7-10. |
May OPEN BOOKS will be held on Friday May 9, 12 noon, LB230. Kim Clemens will be leading our discussion of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. We will also be selecting our future readings on that day, so come prepared!
To help you get through finals, the Library will be open till midnight April 14-17 and April 21-24, though some services--Reference, scheduling rooms, etc., will not be available after 10.
Thanks for your support of National Library Week activities! The
winners of the IUS Library jump drives are
Kara Draper and Jessica Mattson.
Join the folks at the library as we celebrate National Library Week, April 13-19. This year's theme is DISCOVER THE WORLD, and we want to help you do just that with the activities we've planned for each day of the week.
Monday, April 14 : Students in Dr. Pooser's International Studies Class will share the research they've done on international cultural and social issues with us. 12:15, Third Floor Rear.
Tuesday, April 15: Special photo show and lecture "Faces of Peru." Kathleen Satterwhite discusses her photographs of the people of Peru and the context of those photographs. 12:15, LB230. Exhibit on main floor.
Wednesday, April 16: Third Annual International Poetry Reading. International students and faculty of IUS read favorite poems in their own language, and the Library provides a booklet for attendees containing the poem in its original language as well as an English translation.
Thursday, April 17: Come and play international games with us in the Center for Cultural Resources! The CCR houses a number of games played all over the world--come and try your hand at them! 12:15 in LB330, the Curriculum Materials Center.
Friday, April 18: Congressman Baron Hill speaks at the Student Research Conference, sponsored by the Library and the Office of Research. Time and place TBA--watch this site!
ALL WEEK: Register to win a thumb drive! Drawing will be held on Friday, April 18. Winners notified by e-mail.
Don't forget the joint meeting of TGIF and OPEN BOOKS on Friday, April 4, at 3pm at the New Albanian. We'll be discussing the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. This will be fun; be sure to join us!
On Friday, April 11, OPEN BOOKS will be discussing the first one Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael mystery series, A Morbid Taste for Bones. Brother Cadfael is a medieval monk in charge of his abbey's gardens who just happens to run into mysterious goings-on everywhere he turns. If you like mysteries, or if you like medieval tales, or if you like gardening, you'll enjoy this discussion. Everyone is welcome! Friday, April 11, 12 noon, Library 230.
OPEN BOOKS is changing the order of its spring selections: We will read Into the Wild for February and Howard’s End for March.
So our revised schedule is as follows:
Friday, Jan. 11 Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Friday, Feb. 8 Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
Friday, Mar. 14 Howard’s End, by E. M. Forster
Friday, Apr. 4 Joint meeting with TGIF; time, place, and book TBA
Friday, Apr. 11 A Morbid Taste for Bones, by Ellis Peters
We had a lively discussion of Walden and hope you will join us for our next session!
Join us for OPEN BOOKS on Friday, March 14, when Dr. Christa Zorn will lead us in a discussion of her favorite novel, Howard's End by E. M. Forster. That's in LB230 at 12 noon, and everyone is welcome. And don't forget that on April 4, there will be a special joint meeting of OPEN BOOKS and TGIF at the New Albanian on Grant Line Road at 3pm, to discuss Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains. Everyone is welcome there too!
Curious about corporate culture? You won’t want to miss A Little Knowledge… “Inside the Corporate World”
Dr. Jim Williams, a Chemistry professor at IU Southeast, spent many years in the world of large corporations as a chemist and as a manager before coming to IU Southeast. His discussion will include both heartwarming stories and horror stories about his experiences “Inside the Corporate World.”
12:15-1 , on Tuesday, March 18, in the Library, LB230.
Everyone is welcome!
Our juror, Kay Grubola, Artistic Director for the Louisville visual Arts Association, has chosen the following works for awards:
GRAND PRIZE PURCHASE AWARD:
Pascalle Ballard
Drawing, “Queen’s Thief”
DIRECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY PURCHASE AWARD:
Josh Howe
Drawing, “Path to Knowledge”
MERIT AWARD, CERAMICS
Ben Hammond
“Teapot”
MERIT AWARDS, DRAWING
Susan Brown
“Toe Tag”
Susan Brown
“and peace be with you”
Mary Jo Moss
“Un Sueno del Norte”
MERIT AWARD, PAINTING
Kristy Levrock
“Inspiration”
MERIT AWARD, PRINTMAKING
Robert Wooley
“AWAKE!”
Thanks to everyone, and we hope to see you on Friday!
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE...
Dr. Kelly Ryan from the History faculty knows that our forbears in early America did more than make a revolution. Come hear Dr. Ryan as she presents "Refashioning the Sexual Self: White Women`s Seduction Narratives, 1780-1820" in another of the Library`s A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE... presentations. Wednesday, April 9, 12:15-1:15, in LB230. Everyone is welcome!
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