McIntyre Library Newsletter - Fall 2017

McIntyre Library just released Issue #86 of our newsletter, Off the Shelf

Articles in the newsletter include:

• Pictures and stories from our award winning event, After Dark
• An overview of the library's strategic goals
• Information about the Sounds of Eau Claire oral history project
• Highlights from the 2nd Annual McIntyre Library Summer Conference
• Recent acquisitions to the library

And so much more!

You can get to the newsletter by clicking on the link above or using this link. Enjoy!

Questions or comments? Contact the editor at vandezjl@uwec.edu

McIntyre Library Newsletter - Spring 2017

McIntyre Library just released Issue #85 of our newsletter, Off the Shelf

Articles inside the newsletter include:

• A farewell letter from director John Pollitz
• Introduction to the interim director Jill Markgraf
• Introductions to the interim heads of research and instruction
• Introduction to our new employee, Roxanne Backowski
• Part two of our history of McIntyre series
• Recent acquisitions to the library

And so much more!


You can get to the newsletter by clicking on the link above or using this link. Enjoy!

Questions or comments? Contact the editor at vandezjl@uwec.edu

McIntyre Library Newsletter - Fall 2016

McIntyre Library just released Issue #84 of our newsletter, Off the Shelf 

Articles inside the newsletter include:

• Digitization of The Spectator
• The history of McIntyre Library: 1916-1966
• Research & Instruction's new look
• The history of the Blugold mascot
• Recent acquisitions in popular fiction and nonfiction
• And much more!

You can get your newsletter by clicking on the link above or using this link.  Enjoy!

MiniConferences with a Librarian April 11th - 22nd

The Research Center is holding MiniConferences with a librarian or peer research consultant to help you with your research project or paper!

Sign up online for a one-on-one 20-minute appointment with a McIntyre Library research expert. We are offering appointment times during the weeks of April 11th - 15th and April 18th - 22nd, including evening hours on Monday and Thursday nights of both weeks.

Pick a time slot at https://mcintyrelibrary.youcanbook.me/

Appointments will be held at the Research Center, next to the Information Desk on the first floor - check in at the Information Desk under the "Ask Me" banner.

(For other weeks, appointments can be requested by emailing library.reference@uwec.edu or using the consultation form.)

McIntyre Library Newsletter - Spring 2016

McIntyre Library just released Issue #83 of our newsletter, Off the Shelf 

Articles inside the newsletter include:

• The redesign of the circulation desk 
• McIntyre's Honors course: "Living in an Information Economy"
• Miniconferences in Research & Instruction 
• A gift of rare books donated to Special Collections & Archives
• Our new student employee scholarship
• And much more!

***In the newsletter's introduction from our Director, John Pollitz, there is information about the McIntyre Alumni Reunion Picnic to be held in Carson Park during Homecoming. This event is for all current and past employees, student employees, and librarians. Check out the article for more information and the link to a preliminary planning survey!

You can get your newsletter by clicking on the link above or using this link.  Enjoy!

Schneider Family Book Award Celebration - October 16, 5:30 pm

Help McIntyre Library celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Schneider Family Book Award in McIntyre Library on October 16, 2014 at 5:30 pm. 

The celebration honors emerita Professor Katherine Schneider for her work in setting up the award for authors whose books focus on the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

It will be held on the 2nd floor of the library in the Breezeway (L2022) and feature a speaker from the American Library Association, a 10th anniversary display, and hors d'oeuvres.

Support has been provided by McIntyre Library and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Visiting Minority Scholars and Artists Program.

Thanks to all who made Last Call--games, mini-golf, a success

Reference Rex, the library's unofficial mascot, practices putting to prepare for mini-golf at the library's

LAST CALL.

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Day/time: Thursday, September 2, 9 p.m. to midnight.

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Event: Experience the library as you never have before. Free pizza and popcorn, a 9-hole mini golf course throughout the library, lots of games, and way more fun than you ever expected to have in the library. If you like poker, PS2, N64, board games, life-size Clue, and much more, show up for the food and fun.

Location: McIntyre Library.

Sponsors: McIntyre Library, Sodexho, Toppers Pizza, Action City.

Contact: Eric Jennings for more info. (jenninge)