Get help from a reference librarian to figure out those tricky academic citations or last-minute research questions!
Need help with polishing your writing? You can request a meeting with a tutor from the Center for Academic Success (24 hours in advance, please!).
Did you know that the Mudd Library has an excellent and varied collection of DVDs? We have loads of popular movies, documentaries, musicals, stage productions, and even TV shows! To make it even better, we now have an easy way to search all of this great stuff! Introducing, Mudd Flix!
Mudd Flix is a special search tab in Library OneSearch that allows you to search just DVDs! Search all kinds of keywords to find your favorites: performer name, director name, genre, language, and many more!
Once you’ve discovered the title you’d like, all you have to do is request it! Here’s a helpful video that shows you how to do it: Requesting Materials in the Library Catalog. Or, if you’d prefer, the directions are written out in the Remote Library Services Guide (scroll down to the Requesting Items from the Collection section).
Request to have the video delivered to your campus mailbox, or to have it held for you so you can pick it up from the library circulation desk!
Need a DVD player for your laptop? We have those available to check out! Just fill out this form: Borrowing Equipment
Remember- if you’re on campus or in the Appleton area- try out our amazing new Mudd Flix search, find what you’d like, and submit a request! We’ll pull the movie, and have it delivered right to your mailbox or hold it for you at the circulation desk.
Even though things are different on campus fall term, your friends from the Mudd are still available to provide the services to help you succeed! We’ve put together this guide of instructional videos about library services and resources to help you out. Additionally, here’s a list of your favorite services, and how they’re a little different this term.
Circulation- Checking out library books & other stuff:
Reference- Research Help and Librarian Instruction
Interlibrary Loan
Makerspace
Archives
Access to the Building
We know many of you have been missing the Mudd Library building (we know- we have too)! To ensure the safety of everyone, we’ve had to make some temporary changes.
We know these changes will present a challenge to all of us- and we thank you ahead of time for working with us to keep all of us safe! We can’t wait until we can resume our regular hours and access to services! We’re doing all we can to ensure our students are still able to get all of the materials you’ll need to succeed while still keeping you safe! Please reach out to us with any questions! We’ll do all we can to accommodate!
We are so excited to welcome new students to Lawrence University! Even though things look a lot different than in previous years, we’re just as eager to meet our new Lawrentians!
The Mudd Library building isn’t open over welcome week, but your (soon-to-be) friends from the Mudd are available to help you learn about the library, university, and have some fun while you settle in!
Welcome Week Schedule:
Thursday, September 10, 4-5 pm: Game Time with the Mudd Library!
Join us for a Zoomified version of the super fun game Bring Your Own Book. All you need to do is bring a book and join us! This “game of borrowed phrases” asks you to “grab a book, and then quickly skim to satisfy the chosen prompt… with the most entertaining phrase” (from game box description).
Join the Zoom gathering here!
Friday, September 11, 3-4 pm: Book Chat and Fiber Arts with the Mudd Library
Join us to chat about a favorite book you’ve read recently, a favorite show you’ve binged (or responsibly watched), a movie you’ve loved, a game you’ve played- or share a fiber arts project you’re working on! Feel free to share, or just come to listen and learn about some fun new things!
Join the Zoom gathering here!
Available All Week!
Library Reference Chat 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday
Ask us anything! We can help you get a head start on how to access course reserves, request to have a book sent to you in campus mail, search the library catalog, browse databases, find streaming music, figure out whom to contact for what, and so much more!
Ask here!
BFFs: Students, Success, and the Seeley G. Mudd Library
This welcome video narrated by our library director Peter Gilbert is especially for parents of new Lawrentians. Learn about the many ways in which your friends in the Mudd Library provide the services and resources to help your students succeed!
You can view the video now!
Virtual Campus Resources Fair: The Mudd Library
Learn about the many ways the Mudd Library can help, and all the fun ways your new library is different from other libraries you’ve used in the past with this introduction video, narrated by reference librarian Gretchen Revie.
You can view the video now!
We also have a whole lot of introductory videos to help you get acquainted with the Mudd Library and the many helpful services we offer! To accommodate COVID-19 restrictions and safety precautions, we’ve made many of these services available remotely! Take a look at the Learning About the Library guide for this informative collection!
We’re excited to get to know all of our new students- and want you to get to know us! Helping you is why we’re here!
For our annual summer reads coffeehouse this year, we decided to focus on books that educate and explore Black American experiences. The books that we had discussed are available on our summer 2020 coffeehouse guide (linked below). Take a look to read about the wide range of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, film, and websites that were shared.
There are a variety of ways to get these materials!
Looking for even more resources? This guide contains a selection of diversity-related materials that are available in the Mudd Library, as well as related databases and other online resources.
Contact your friendly reference librarians if you need any assistance in locating these titles, or navigating the library resources. We’re here to help!
It’s time once again for the library’s summer coffeehouse series. We’re doing it virtually this year, but still welcome you to join us with your own cup of coffee, tea, or other favorite work-appropriate beverage. All are on Wednesdays, and will start at 10:00 a.m. (Central Time). All staff, faculty, and students are welcome to attend.
June 24: Summer Reads; Black Lives Matter
Are you reading works by Black authors? Have you been educating yourself about racism and social justice? Do you want to read more about this but aren’t sure where to start? Join us for a discussion of the books we are reading right now in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Share what you’ve been reading, too, or just listen and learn. (Click here to join this coffeehouse’s Zoom meeting.)
July 8: Let’s Meditate Together!
Meditation has been scientifically proven to shift the sympathetic nervous system response (fight or flight) into the parasympathetic response (calm, rest, digest). Join certified yoga instructor, meditation practitioner, and Mudd Library Administrative Assistant Holly Tuyls for a guided meditation practice. We’ll learn about and practice a basic meditation together. Simple breath-work instruction will also be provided and practiced. If you have any questions or challenges to practicing that you’d like to discuss, we’ll allow time and will provide tips for maintaining a regular practice, too. All experience levels welcome. (Click here to join this coffeehouse’s Zoom meeting.)
July 22: Pollinators
In these days of social distancing, you might find yourself spending more and more time in your garden. Join us in welcoming Assistant Professor of Biology Israel Del Toro as we learn a bit about the native bees in your backyard and what you can do to protect our native pollinators and the little things that often go unnoticed. (Click here to join this coffeehouse’s Zoom meeting.)
August 5: Remote Access, Anyone?
What can you use from the library when you can’t go to the library? How do you get access to resources for yourself, your work, your classes? Join the library staff as we explore ways to get you the things you need. (Click here to join this coffeehouse’s Zoom meeting.)
If you’re unfamiliar with the coffeehouses, they provide an opportunity socialize just a bit and to learn about resources and services available to help you with work, leisure interests, to be informed about important social literature.
While the Mudd Library building will remain closed for the summer, your friends from the Mudd are still here to help and bring you the resources you need!
We hope everyone is able to relax and rejuvenate as well as educate and enrich yourselves this summer. Be sure to let us know how we can help you!
Have materials that need to be returned to the Mudd Library? If you’re on campus, be sure to drop them in the return slot to the left of the front doors of the building. We’re regularly (and safely) checking in returned materials.
Off campus? If you’re able, please mail your items to the following address:
Lawrence University Library: Circulation
113 S. Lawe St.
Appleton, WI 54911
Questions or concerns? Email Cindy Patterson at cynthia.m.patterson@lawrence.edu
Questions about interlibrary loan materials? Email lucialib@lawrence.edu
Your friends from the Mudd Library are looking forward to when we can safely be together in the library again!
Need help navigating the library’s resources, but it’s outside of chat help hours? Not sure how to contact a librarian? Prefer to learn about library resources at your own pace through video? Your friends from the Mudd Library have been putting together a variety of videos to help you out! This list will update as more videos are made! (Updated 12/08/20)
Note: You may also select Lawrence University Library as the pickup location to retrieve your items from the library circulation desk when they’re ready.
In addition to creating these awesome videos about library resources, Andrew McSorley, Digital Liberal Arts Librarian, has also been putting together videos about using digital tools on the Mudd Library Digital Liberal Arts tools YouTube Channel.
You can also check out these useful videos made by Craig Thomas, Systems Librarian, about navigating Library OneSearch!
And, of course, there are plenty of ways to get in touch with your friends from the Mudd to get help with research assistance, interlibrary loan, circulation, off-campus access, or anything else!
It’s National Library Week! Even though your friends from the Mudd Library are not actually in the Mudd Library, we still want to celebrate with you!
Library Fun All Week Long!
Also, don’t forget that while we’re not in the library, we’re still here to help! Ask us!
