Celebrate National Library Week, April 7-13, with your friends in the Mudd Library!
Tuesday, April 9th: Say thanks to our amazing student workers on National Library Workers Day!
Wednesday, April 10: Ask a question at the reference desk between 6-9 pm, get a cookie! Planning on attending? Invite a friend with our Facebook event!
All Week: Tell us what you love about the Mudd Library, or all libraries! We’ll have a National Library Week Notes box set out for your library love notes.
Want to learn answers to important questions like,
If so, come to the Academic Citation Workshop, co-hosted by your friends from the Mudd Library and the Center for Academic Success. Gretchen Revie, Julie Haurykiewicz, and Nicole Crashell will guide you through the art and science of academic citations.
The workshop will take place on the first floor of the Mudd Library at 4:30 on Tuesday, April 23rd. Hope to see you there!
By Jill Thomas, Director of Technical Services
Do you know the name Tim Berners-Lee? Well, the idea that he came up with 30 years ago on March 12 touches us almost every minute of every day – he invented the internet!
Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research/Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) and thought it would be great if he could link and access information across computers. By November 1990, his idea had become, “[a] web of information nodes in which the user can browse at will” as he stated in his formal proposal written with his CERN colleague, Robert Cailliau, titled World Wide Web: Proposal for a Hyper Text Project. By Christmas of 1990, Berners-Lee and Cailliau had implemented key components such as html, http, and URL, and created the first Web server, browser, and editor.
On April 30, 1990, CERN released the first version of the WWW software into the public domain and made it freely available to anyone to use and improve. Today, half of the world’s population is online and there are close to 2 billion websites. Openness has always been a part of CERN’s culture. Today CERN continues to promote open sharing of software, technology, publications and data through initiatives such as open source software, open hardware, open access publishing, and CERN’s Open Data Portal.
Today take a moment to thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau for their imagination and their drive to communicate just a little easier with their colleagues.
Want to learn answers to important questions like,
If so, come to the Academic Citation Workshop, co-hosted by your friends from the Mudd Library and the Center for Academic Success. Gretchen Revie, Julie Haurykiewicz, and Nicole Crashell will guide you through the art and science of academic citations.
The workshop will take place on the first floor of the Mudd Library at 4:30 on Tuesday, February 12th. Hope to see you there!
The Mudd Library isn’t just a place to study, or to search for and gather materials.
Libraries offer so much more, and the Mudd is no different!
We have everything you need to put the finishing touches on your papers and projects. Make copies, print your paper, or use the scanner. We have a universal phone charging station if you’re running low. We have staplers, tape, paper clips, rulers, and all kinds of other accoutrements to help you polish your assignments and hand them in with pride.
Do you need another primary or secondary source to support your argument? Looking for an open-source photo to add to your slides or for the proper citation for your paper? The reference librarians are here to help you find what you need and engage in the best and most thorough research possible. We aim to help you feel confident and supported as a student researcher.
Curious about what’s happening on campus? Looking to find local thrift stores, coffee shops, or parks? Not sure when that concert starts tonight? Stop by, we’ll help you find out!
All of your friends are here! Hang out on the first or second floor to discuss, debate, and collaborate. Chat, vent, laugh, share. Sometimes just sitting next to someone who is working as hard as you are can be the most valuable resource. Snap some pics or make a vid! Then get back to that group project! Pull up a whiteboard and teach each other what you’ve learned. Ask someone out on a study date. The options are endless.
The third and fourth floors are meant for quiet study. They also make a great place to read, reflect, daydream, or nap. Write that paper! No one will barge in just as you get in your groove. Or, if you’ve been in your groove and need a little break, stop down to the first floor to nurture yourself with a cup of tea. Text your mom and then get back at it. The library is for everyone, and everyone is welcome here and treated with respect and dignity!
What do you need?
Academic support?
A quiet place to get some work done?
A place to belong?
We’re here for you!
Now that fall term is wrapping up, it’s time to start thinking about special D-Term and winter break hours.
Academic year library hours will resume on Thursday, January 3.
Your friends in the Mudd will be here to help you prepare for next term (we’re talking to you faculty, students, and staff) or to catch up on some books and movies.
Taking a D-Term class? Our reference librarians are on call from 8:30 am through 4:30 p.m. to support any D-Term reference needs. You’re also welcome to check out some movies, CDs, video games (and a Nintendo Wii system), board games, musical scores, and of course, books.
Off campus? Most of our databases can be access from off campus! You can continue to do research, or enjoy some great plays, operas, documentaries, and much more from our streaming media databases. Interlibrary loan articles may also be requested over breaks, even if you’re off campus.
As always, we’re here to help- so if there are any ways your friends in the Mudd Library can help you, just ask!
Welcome Week, one of our favorite weeks of the year, is coming up soon! We’re hosting or taking part in all kinds of events to welcome new students along with families and friends to campus.
Below is a lineup of the major events! In addition to these, we’ll also be meeting with sports teams and Waseda students!
Tuesday, September 4th
Resources Fair, 11:30 am to 1 pm (Campus Center): Be sure to visit your soon-to-be friends from the Mudd Library at our table.
Parents, Family & Friends Library Drop-In, 1 pm to 3 pm: While new students are off doing activities, come to the library and make yourselves comfortable, wander around, grab a magazine or newspaper, relax in the Milwaukee-Downer Room, use our wireless, and sip some coffee or tea. Enjoy our library!
Thursday, September 6th
Welcome to the Mudd Open House, 9 am to 12 pm: Stop by the Mudd and meet the people who can help you succeed. Not only can you find out about the library (both online and offline), take a tour, and enjoy some food—you can build with Legos, make origami bookmarks, play on the Wii, and more! It’s both fun and educational—and you can’t beat that.
Friday, September 7th
Getting to know the library presentations and tours, beginning at 1:30. Get off to the best start by learning all about what the Mudd Library can do to help you succeed. Each session will last approximately 20 minutes. Come to as many as you’d like!
Read the whole schedule on the Welcome Week events page. Want to know more about the library, visit our welcome students page.
Welcome the Lawrence University, new students! We’re looking forward to meeting you!
Your friends in the Mudd Library will be here for you all summer! How can we help?
Need a space to get some work done?
The library will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s especially quiet in here over the summer if you’re looking for a quiet place to get work done. Take a look at the many types of spaces in the library to find your favorite.
Need something to read/watch/listen to/play?
We have lots of popular novels, interesting non-fiction books, movies, documentaries, theatrical productions, CDs, musical scores, etc, that can be checked out! Off campus? Use your Lawrence login to access one of our many streaming media databases to watch opera from the Met, movies, documentaries, and more!
Doing research?
Our friendly reference librarians are on call and ready to help Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. through 4 p.m all summer long! Off campus? Call, email, or chat!
Want to make something?
Our makerspace is available during all library hours to those who’ve been trained, and those who haven’t can contact makerspace@lawrence.edu to set up a training session. It’s available to all Lawrence faculty, staff, and students to enhance the creativity of their work here.
Want to learn something?
We have a great lineup in our annual summer coffeehouse series! This summer, we’re calling it Mudd and Friends, as we’ll also be joined by faculty from around campus who’ll share some of their lesser-known expertise.
Here’s a sneak peek:
Here at The Mudd we love books – we acquire them, we organize them, we help students engage with them everyday – but it’s rare that we get the chance to truly reflect on how books have shaped and been shaped by the course of history. However, we are lucky enough to host an exhibit created entirely by Lawrence students as apart of Prof. Garth Bond’s class “History of the Book”. Under the guidance of Professor Bond and librarian Jill Thomas, several Lawrence student’s engaged critically with selections from our special collection to examine how the role of books have changed throughout time and suggest perhaps how we have changed with them.
Topics range from Catherine Stowe and Harriet Beecher Stowes’ 1869 guide The American Woman’s Home: or Principles of Domestic Science to Artist Books to an analysis of 15th century Christian books. The exhibit, featuring the work of students Sara Armstrong, Allison Brooks-Conrad, Rufino C. Cacho, Anna Cohen, Yarely Covarrubias, and Hanwenheng (Billy) Liu will be up until January 15th. This exhibit is a special opportunity to view some pieces from our special collections in person outside of the Milwaukee Downer room, so be sure to stop by the Mudd before then. For those of you who want to spend some more time with these pieces, selections are digitized in the database Artstor under Selections from Special Collections, Seeley G, Mudd Library. Photographs of the exhibit are available in the History of the Books album.
These precious books alongside the work of our students provide great insight into the lasting impact books have not only in our own lives but also in the lives of those who lived long before us and surely those who will live long after we’re gone.
The annual winter break closure is quickly approaching, so be sure to get to the Mudd Library to pick up your books, movies, music, and scores to help you prepare for winter term (or catch up on the fun stuff).
The Mudd Library will be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Friday, December 22nd. We’ll be closed from December 23rd through January 1st. We look forward to seeing everyone in the library again on January 2nd when we reopen from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Regular academic year hours resume on January 3rd (the first day of winter term).
We hope everyone is enjoying the winter holidays and having a safe and relaxing winter break.
