Are you a Facebook user? Of course you are.
And that means you should read this New York Times article, “The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now.” Make sure you know “Who Can See The Things You Share,” “Who Can See Your Personal Info,” and “What Google Can See.”
The new Mudd Gallery show, “Down Will Come Baby, Cradle and All,” by artists Lauren Shorofsky, Yexue Li, and Allison Slowiak, runs Monday, January 25 through Sunday, January 31. The show includes photography and a sculpture installation about the lasting impact of child abuse.
Welcome to Winter Term!
A few notes to help you get started:
The Mudd Library (and the rest of campus) will be closed from Thursday, December 24 through Saturday, January 2.
The Library will be open on Sunday, January 3, from 11am-5pm and we go back to regular hours on Monday, January 4.
What does this mean for you?
Building Closed
As part of the University’s Winter Shutdown program, the Library will be closed during this period. There won’t be anyone working inside.
Remote Access to Online Resources
Online resources (LUCIA, databases, e-journals) will remain available. You will need to use the proxy server to access these resources.
Research Assistance
Reference librarians will not be available and the email Ask A Librarian service will not be staffed. Questions submitted will be answered when we re-open on January 4th.
All your friends at the Mudd wish you a safe and restful holiday and look forward to seeing you again in the new year!
Tuesday, 11/24: 8am-5pm
Wednesday, 11/25: 8am-5pm.
Thanksgiving Day: Closed
Friday, 11/27: Closed.
Saturday, 11/28: Closed
Sunday, 11/29: Closed
For future reference:
Starting Monday, November 30 and continuing through Wednesday, December 23, the Library will be open Monday-Thursday, 8am-5pm. We’re closed Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays during December. We will also be closed Thursday, December 24-Saturday, January 2.
Have a great break!
At the 60th annual National Book Awards last night:
The National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel, Let the Great World Spin
Keith Waldrop won the Poetry award for his book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
T.J. Stiles won the award for Nonfiction with The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Good reading for a long break. More good reading on the library’s Good Reading page.
The magical change from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time occurs on Sunday, November 1st at 2:00 a.m. local time. Turn your clocks BACK one hour.
Remember: it’s FALL back and SPRING forward.
And don’t forget to search LUCIA for clocks. You’ll find excellent stuff like the prize-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret and It’s About Time: Understanding Einstein’s Relativity. You could spend your extra hour reading. Or eating Halloween candy. Or sleeping. Whatever.
It’s official: The Seeley G. Mudd Library’s routine in the Wisconsin Library Association’s Book Cart Drill Team competition is the second best in the state! While we will not be going on to Washington D.C. to compete in the nationals, we are pleased as punch to have beaten last year’s winners.
In keeping with the “Reclaim the Magic” theme of the WLA conference, a full third of the Mudd’s staff participated in an extraordinary and physics-defying spectacle of prestidigitation. Amanda Beck, Cindy Patterson, Kate Moody, Antoinette Powell, Colette Lunday Brautigam and Kim Comerford (also known as ACK ACK) donned magician’s garb and wowed the packed house.
Observe the Amazing Muddinis (and their competition) in action on our local newscast.
Open Access Week, October 19-23, is an “opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of open access issues and express support for free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.” See http://www.openaccessweek.org/ for more information about this event.
For a good introduction to open access issues, watch this Open Access 101 video from SPARC or (for a longer, technical description of OA), read the Bethesda Statement on on Open Access Publishing.
Lawrence is supporting open access in a couple of ways:
