It's that time of the year again. . .Tax Time!

Federal Taxes
The IRS no longer distributes tax information or forms in print. All information and forms can be found on the Internal Revenue website: http://www.irs.gov/

State of Iowa Taxes
A limited number of Iowa tax forms are available in paper. They are located on the wall between the main display case and the reference desk on the 2nd (main) floor of the library. You can also find information and forms on the Iowa Department of Revenue website: http://www.iowa.gov/tax/

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA)
The Department of Accounting offers a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) to assist people in preparing their tax forms as well as answer questions. The VITA program will be available every Monday and Wednesday evening from 5:00-7:00 pm in Curris Business Building (CBB) Room 223 starting on February 7th, 2011. The VITA program will end on April 13th, 2011. Please direct any questions about the VITA program to the Department of Accounting at 273-2394.

ProQuest will perform maintenance on January 29, 2011 from 9:00 p.m. CST to Sunday, January 30 at 9:00 a.m. CST. 

The following products will be unavailable at that time:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Chadwyck-Healey products only in North America (International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text, International Index to the Performing Arts)
• UMI products including ProQuest online dissertation products

Need a warm drink on a cold afternoon while studying but not a coffee drinker - then a nice cup of hot chocolate could be your answer!  We now have available for purchase cups of hot chocolate on the first floor of the library at the Multiservice Center service desk.  The cost is $1.00 (cash only, please) and our staff will assist you in brewing that warm drink. 

Jon Steward interviews Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on the 10th anniversary of the free, international encyclopedia. Wales explains how issues such as accuracy and bias are addressed.

Need a locker to store your belongings while you work on a group project or want to run over Maucker Union to eat a meal?  Well, Rod Library now has them.  Located on the first floor in the northeast corner is our newest seating unit ( and, yes, it looks like a spaceship) that includes lockers that you can have for 3 hours at a time.  The lockers can also be renewed for an additional hour if there are other lockers available.  Stop by the Multiservice Center desk to check out the key.

Rod Library's building hours for this weekend  are the following:

• Saturday, January 15, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Sunday, January 16, 12:00 noon - 12:00 midnight
• Monday, January 17, Closed

Current issues of periodicals, formerly on the east side of the first floor, have been moved to the west side of the first floor with the bound periodicals.  Current issues will be shelved next to the corresponding call numbers of the bound issues.