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  • Open Access Week

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    fister

    We’re coming to the end of the now-annual celebration of the Open Access movement. The idea of open access is that knowledge is most useful when it can be shared and is not behind barriers. As anyone who has done research in our library knows, there are limits to our collection, both print and online.…

  • Library Hours – Fall Break 2010

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    jay

    Library hours for Reading Days:Friday Oct. 22: 8:00am-4:45pm;Saturday, Oct. 23: 10:00am – 5:00pm;Sunday, Oct. 24: 12:00pm – 6:00pm;Monday, Oct. 25: 8:00am – 4:45pm;Tuesday, Oct. 26: 8:00am – 1:00am

  • Used Book and VHS Sale

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    mperron

    Stop by the library this week for our used books and VHS sale. Everything is only 50 cents! With a clearance sale on Friday, everything you can fit in a bag for $2.00.

  • Libraries can be dangerous places.

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    stimmer2

    The American Library Association (and freedom-lovers everywhere) are celebrating Banned Books Week September 25 – October 2, 2010. Did you know The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are all books that have been banned or challenged? Exercise your freedom…

  • Constitution Day talk – ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

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    fister

    Join us in the library’s GLA Reading Room on Friday, September 17th at 2:30, when Associate Professor Alisa Rosenthal of the Political Science department will give a talk on the constitutional issues raised by the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan. Come and discuss an issue that offers a topical take on a document…

  • What’s new? Library e-resources updates

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    ahulsebe

    As you get ready for fall term, visit the library’s E-resources Informer site for updates on our e-resources collection. Some highlights from this fall’s E-Resources Informer: Not so trivial trivia: selected statistics on the databases and online journals used most frequently by the Gustavus community Tips and tools: find out how the Assignment Calculator can…

  • Author Tea! Join us this Thursday, May 6th

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    fister

    The Book Mark and the library host an annual author tea for Gustavus authors who have published books within the past year. Join us this Thursday, May 6th, at 3:30 in the Courtyard Cafe to hear a bit about the books and enjoy refreshments. Here is this year’s bookshelf: Sidonia Alenuma (Education) Race and Educational…

  • We Need You!

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    ahulsebe

    Want to improve the library? We need students to participate in our library study. Your participation could win you 100 pages of free printing or pizza! Your role may include any of the following: Designer Photographer Web Consultant When do we need you? And for how long? Sometime between now and the end of April…

  • New Catalog Arrival

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    jgilber2

    MnPALS Plus, our new catalog, is up and running! You can access it directly from the search box on the library’s homepage. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new interface. Please click here to send us comments and questions. (Fans of the old catalog, Classic MnPALS, can still access it from the library’s…

  • The catalogs they are a changin’…

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    jgilber2

    We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new library catalog. It’s the same great data with a bold new look. MnPALS Plus, which was developed locally by our library consortium, boasts improved location information, sophisticated ways to refine searches and a number of other features that make it more user-friendly and in line with…