McIntyre Library Seeks Head of Special Collections & Archives

McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has a probationary tenure track faculty vacancy available at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor to serve as Head, Special Collections and Archives with an anticipated start date of spring 2011. This is a 12-month position reporting to the Director of Libraries. For complete job announcement, see http://www.uwec.edu/Employment/faculty.htm .

Universal Borrowing update complete

Universal Borrowing is the fastest way to get books and materials from other UW libraries. Try to get your books from Universal Borrowing first before requesting them through Interlibrary Loan.

http://www.uwec.edu/Library/services/borrowOther.htm

Interlibrary Loan is used to order journal articles. Books, DVDs, CDs, and materials that are not available through Universal Borrowing can be ordered using Interlibrary Loan.

McIntyre Library seeks Periodicals and Electronic Resources Librarian

McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has a probationary tenure track faculty vacancy available at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor to serve as Periodicals and Electronic Resources Librarian with an anticipated start date of winter 2010/11. This is a 12-month, position reporting to the Director of Libraries. For complete job announcement, see http://www.uwec.edu/Employment/faculty.htm .

Summer Session Hrs-Cool Off in the Library

Welcome, summer school students. We'll be here for you during the 8-week session. Check out our hours at: http://www.uwec.edu/Library/aboutus/hours.htm

The reference desk hours can be found at: http://www.uwec.edu/Library/reference/index.htm

Google Scholar now links to McIntyre Library articles

In ongoing efforts to make your research easier, McIntyre Library now provides access to some of its resources through Google Scholar. Run a search in Google Scholar, and results that are available in McIntyre Library will display a link to library holdings. Searches run from computers on campus will provide the McIntyre Library availability link automatically. If you are searching from off campus, you must log into Google Scholar (this requires a Google account), click on "scholar preferences," and select up to three libraries for which you'd like availability information displayed. (Please note that this convenient search option will not provide access to all 200+ library databases)

Summer Entertainment

Check out the popular reading titles on display in the library. The new acquisitions shelf near the entrance is the place to look for your summer reading materials, new DVDs, etc.

Keep checking back for new items.

Toothpick Holders on Display in Library Entrance

Marvin Larson, a UW-Eau Claire alumni, has donated a collection of over 450 toothpick holders to the university. Check out the exhibit case in the library and enjoy examples of the many colors and glass designs, the animal-themed holders, and those collected while traveling.

McIntyre Library Honors Student Workers

McIntyre Library could not run without our student assistants. John Pollitz, library director, thanked the graduating students at a reception held in their honor. Books were donated to the library collection in recognition of the work each of the students does for us.

Bean Bag Chairs and Civility

People sleeping on bean bag chairs in the book stacks has become a problem. See my response to a student's suggestion at the McIntyre Library Suggestion Box Blog.

Sleeping in the stacks keeps other students from getting to the books they need and keeps our student workers from doing their jobs.

Be considerate, think of others not just yourself and find somewhere else to take a nap on a bean bag. There are plenty of other cozy places in the library to take a bean bag chair. If this continues to be a problem next year we will have to reevaluate having bean bag chairs. They seem very popular but they cannot be used in a way the keeps other students from getting the books they need.

John Pollitz
Director of Libraries

What is FREE at 1 a.m. in the library during finals week?

Coffee!!!

Fortune cookies!!!

Students who study in McIntyre Library during the wee hours of the morning during finals week will find FREE coffee after Library Grounds closes, from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m., Sunday night thru Thursday night, May 16-20.

The free coffee is sponsored by Sodexho and the library. Be green and bring your own cup.

McIntyre staff predict that you will enjoy the fortune cookies available during finals week. We wish you good fortune on those exams.

The library will be open continuously from 7:30 a.m. Sunday, May 16

to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 21.

The library will be closed Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23.

May 10-20 The Library (Almost) Never Closes

McIntyre Library will be open 24 hours/day beginning Monday, May 10 at 7 a.m. and ending Friday, May 21, at 7 p.m.

Exceptions: the library is closed:

*Friday, May 14, at midnight until Saturday, May 15, at 7:30 a.m.

*Saturday, May 15, at midnight until Sunday, May 16, 7:30 a.m.

Library Grounds will be open extra hours through finals week.

It's your move! Ongoing chess game in the Library

Take a break in your studies to make the next move in an ongoing chess game in the Library. Find the game near the elevators on the 1st floor. A marker indicates whose move it is (black pieces or white pieces). Make a move, change the marker, and check back later to see how your color is doing. Stay tuned for more game events in the Library!

Secret Posts Move to EC Regional Arts Center

Creative, scary, funny, thoughtful, angry, happy, profane...

The Eau Claire Regional Arts Center will house the exhibit from May 5-30.

Welcome, Blugold Beginnings students!

McIntyre Library extends a warm welcome to area 5th graders who will be visiting campus this week as part of the Blugold Beginnings program. We look forward to seeing you in the Library, and we hope to see many of you as freshmen Blugolds in 8 years!

Writing Center Mon & Wed nites

The University Writing Center has opened a satellite center in the library. Walk-ins are welcome to stop for assistance on Monday and Wednesday nights, from 5-9 p.m.

We're conveniently located near the Reference Desk in L1024.

We hope to see you soon.

University Writing Center
Old Library 1142
WritingCenter@uwec.edu
www.uwec.edu/writing

English Fest this week

Check out the great activities planned for the 2010 English Fest. Activities are held during the week of April 26-30. The theme is "Expose Yourself to the World of Literature" and the event will highlight many cultures of the world through poetry, presentations, plays, skits, music, and more.

Highlighted event:

Wednesday, April 28 at 11:00 a.m. Davies Center-Arrowhead Room

Librarian Dr. Janice Bogstad and Phil Kaveny will be presenting Tolkien Embodied: Jackson's Cinematic Realization of Lord of the Rings.

Check out this website for the calendar of events: http://www.uwec.edu/engfest/

Celebrate National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, and McIntyre Library is celebrating with a display of recently-acquired books of poetry, and books about poetry. Check out a book from the Recent Acquistions display case inside the library gates.

April 29 is POEM IN YOUR POCKET day. Check out the Web site http://www.poets.org/ for ideas on how you can share poetry on that day.

Films on Demand -- now available through McIntyre Library

Films on Demand is a subscription service providing online streamed access to thousands of academic films, and it is now available to all UWEC students, faculty and staff through McIntyre Library!

Films on Demand provides the University with unlimited online access to the films and film clips in the following categories:

• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Business & Economics
• Science and Mathematics
• Health and Medicine

Consider using the films for classes, for research, for presentations or for personal interest.

It's National Library Week

Join us for Jazz in the Grand Corridor.

Wednesday, April 14, noon.

The Jazz Avengers will entertain you.

From the ALA Web site:

"At our library, people from all backgrounds come together...

to do research with the assistance of a trained professional."

See you in the library!

Live Jazz @ your library!

Meet us in the library entrance lounge for live jazz music on Wednesday, Apr. 14, at noon, to celebrate Jazz Fest, Jazz Appreciation Month and National Library Week all at once! Bring a lunch or grab a bite at the Library Grounds. Music will be provided by UWEC students, the Jazz Avengers.

This is a no-shushing library event. If you desire a quiet space to study during this hour, please visit the 4th or 5th floor of the Library.