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Spring Break/Easter Recess Hours
Spring Break/Easter Recess Hours – Friday, March 30: 8:00 am – 4:45 pm; Sat. & Sun., March 31-April 1: CLOSED. Mon. -Thurs., April 2-5: 8:00 am – 4:45 pm; Fri. – Sun., April 6-8: CLOSED. Monday, April 9: 8:00 am – 1:00 am.
Steamed!
On Sunday night, just as many students were ready to start a marathon midterm study session and get serious work done on projects, something went wrong with the library’s heating and cooling system. It got hot. Really hot – and we weren’t able to get it fixed as quickly as we would have liked. Our […]
Hunger Games Trivia Night in the Library
Are you a fan of Suzanne Collin’s series The Hunger Games? Are you excited for the release of the movie? Come celebrate with Hunger Games Trivia Night at the library! Join us Wednesday, March 21st at 7:30pm on the first floor of the library. You and your friends will be forming Districts and fighting your […]
Library Star Students
Congratulations to Kexin Feng (Music Library) and Sam Opsahl (Circulation) on being chosen as the Library Star Students for spring semester! Star Students are library student employees who have demonstrated superior performance in their departments. The library depends heavily on student workers and wishes to recognize those that go above and beyond the call of […]
Stream music through our catalog
Did you know that you can stream music from anywhere on campus through links in the library catalog? There are over 3200 music CDs and LPs from our collection that we have digitized. To listen to the library’s digitized music in the catalog, click on the “Advanced Search” link and limit by “Digital Sound Online”. […]
Faculty: First Friday @ The Library
Faculty are invited to drop by for refreshments and conversation in the Gustavus Library Associates Reading Room (just past the reference desk on the main floor) this afternoon, March 2nd, between 1:30 and 3:30. The topic for this First Friday is Ebooks: what do you think of them? What impact might digital books have on […]
Dickens/Darwin Birthday Party
It’s not too late! Join us today, February 28th at 1:30 for birthday cake and conversation about two notable Victorians whose 200th and 2003rd birthdays are celebrated this month. Julie Bartley (Geology) and So Park (English) will have a few words to say. And yes . . . there will be cake.
Fun facts: Interlibrary Loan
Gustavus relies on the generosity of other libraries to sustain faculty and student research through Interlibrary Loan. Likewise, we share our collection with those same libraries for their faculty and student research. We participate in a regional sharing network to meet most of those needs, but we also borrow and lend nationwide. What kinds of […]
Blast from the Past: Civil War in the Eyes of Union Soldiers
As we celebrate the sesquicentennial of Gustavus Adolphus College, it is important to look back and discover the events that occurred as Gustavus began. One hundred and fifty years ago, our country was in the midst of a Civil War. Many interesting facts can be revealed by studying the conflict, and the archives can help! […]
Birthday Party for Charles
As we write this blog post, it’s Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. We are also approaching Charles Darwin’s 203rd birthday. We though we’d go ahead and have a birthday party for both of them. Please join us on February 28th at 1:30 in the GLA Reading Room of the library for cake and a conversation with […]