"IM" a Librarian

Have a question about library services or sources? Add "boatwrightinfo" to your AIM buddy list and "IM" a Librarian. The service is available during reference desk hours. For more information, connect to Ask a Librarian on the library's web site.

Banned Books Week: Celebrate the Freedom to Read!

Faculty, students, and librarians will celebrate the right to read during Banned Books Week. On Tuesday, September 27, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM we will have a Read Out, reading aloud from books that have been challenged or banned. At 1:00 Rod Smolla, dean of the Law School and 1st Amendment expert, will speak on the 1933 federal court case that ended the U.S. ban on importing James Joyce's Ulysses. At 2:00 Sen. H. Russell Potts, Jr., will speak and entertain questions. Come to Adams Auditorium at 4:00 for a showing of Fahrenheit 451. Come and celebrate our freedom to read! (Rain location is old game room in the Commons.)

Group Study Rooms Upgraded in Boatwright Library

Two “state of the art” group study rooms were renovated and updated over the summer on the second floor of Boatwright Library.  Bullet tables, plasma screens, computers and DVDs were installed to accommodate study group facilitation.  These rooms will serve as “test models” for further renovations on Basement Levels 1 and 2.

Library Subscribes to Diversity Database Suite

The University Libraries acquired the Diversity Database Suite in July 2005. This suite of online full-text databases includes GenderWatch, Alt-Press Watch and Ethnic News Watch. GenderWatch is a full-text database incorporating archival material on women and gender issues dating back to 1970. Ethnic News Watch provides comprehensive access to the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States from 1960 to the present. Alt-Press Watch is a full-text database of newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletters of the alternative and independent press from 1995 to the present. Connect to Online Databases on the library's web site to search the individual databases.

Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Resources

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is the subject of many useful web sites, some of the best are listed below:

Yahoo News offers one of the most comprehensive collections of links, updated continuously. Video, audio, news, blogs and emergency information sources for New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast are all included.
Katrina News for Louisiana from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana offers many specific links for small town information in Louisiana, as well as New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina 2005 from the Yahoo Directory offers collected links to Blogs, Missing Person and Survivor lists, Photographs and Videos, and Relief Efforts.
Hurricane Katrina Recovery from FirstGov, the Federal Government web portal, with particular emphasis on information for victims, those seeking missing persons, and those needing relief effort information.
Several sites that are devoted to Katrina recovery information from Mississippi include the Jackson Channel, Gulf Coast News , and the Sun-Herald.
Hurricane Central offers Weather channel information on past, present, and upcoming hurricanes of this season, including Katrina.
The American Association of Museums web site offers updated reports on the condition of museums and historical sites affected by Katrina's devastation.
Google News is excellent for tracking new Katrina news stories as they are published.

Boatwright Library now offers 24/7 Service

In response to student requests for longer weekend hours in the library, the first and second floors of Boatwright Library are now open 24/7 on a trial basis during Fall semester. Library services end at 1 a.m., Sunday – Thursday and at 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, but users may stay past those hours to study on the first and second floors. Two security guards will check university ID cards and patrol the building between 1 a.m. – 8 a.m. (Sunday – Thursday) and between 9 p.m. – 11 a.m. (Friday –Saturday).