Looking for a comfortable place to study in the Library?  Check out the new booth seating for your next group meeting or personal study time.  This seating area is found on the bottom floor of the building in the northeast corner, near the Current Periodicals.  The half-circle booths can accomodate as many as 7 or 8 people at one time.  This semester we hope to install more electrical outlets along this wall for laptops.  Give them a try and let us know what you think!

Summer session ends July 30th.  We'll have a few weeks of interim building hours before the fall semester begins August 23rd. 

July 31 - August 1, Saturday - Sunday, Closed
August 2 - 6, Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
August 7 - 8, Saturday - Sunday, Closed
August 9 - 13, Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
August 14 - 15, Saturday - Sunday, Closed
August 16 - 20, Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
August 21, Saturday, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
August 22, Sunday, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.
August 23, Monday, Fall Semester 2010 Commences

Next Tuesday the look of the Library's Web site will change slightly to take on a design that is more in line with the University's homepage.  No content will be moved; only the top of the pages and the menus will look different.  Click on the thumbnail to see a preview.

Work will begin in the Library May 20^th to reduce the level of lighting in specific parts of our building.  We'll be disabling some ceiling light panels, resulting in an alternating off/on pattern.  This on/off pattern has been in place for many, many years on most of the third floor and has been a great success.  Applying this pattern to the fourth floor, and a few other locations in the building, will save energy and reduce our energy costs.  

In addition, we'll be adding daylight sensors to the light fixtures around the perimeter of each floor.  These sensors will turn on the perimeter lights when it senses the light level coming through the windows has decreased and will turn off the lights when the light level outside is high.

We'll also be replacing some high-wattage fixtures on the second and third floors.

In order for this work to continue portions of our building will have reduced lighting at different times during the day.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  If you need assistance finding a different location to study, or if you need help locating materials in an affected area, please contact the Circulation Desk on the second floor.  The work should be completed by early July. 

Thank you for your patience!

The Library's Web site has gone mobile!  Check out our new beta mobile Web site on your mobile device.  We are in the beginning stages of developing the site.  If you have suggestions for content that you would like to be able to access with your mobile device let us know!

Watch for more information and another opportunity to share your ideas this summer!

Want to print out a page from Rod Library's Web site but don't want all the extra stuff, like menus, to appear on the printout?  Now you can!  On each Web page on our site, excluding the homepage, you'll now find a new feature called "Printer-Friendly Pages".   The link will appear on the right side of each page.

Clicking on that link will open a new window with a version of the Web page that is more printer-friendly.

An added feature is the ability to "Display link URLs as footnotes".  Click on that link to display the URLs of all the hyperlinks on the page as a footnote at the bottom.  This could come in mighty handy for content rich pages such as those in the Special Collections (for historical essays) and Library Instruction (for subject guides, etc.) sections.

Beginning Wednesday, April 28, Rod Library will offer extended building hours to accomodate students preparing for end of the semester tests and projects.  Good luck everyone!

The Panther Prowler and Find it! server has been repaired and access to these resources has been restored.  Please report any problems you experience.  Thank you again for your patience!

The Library will have different hours of operations during Spring Break.

• March 12, Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• March 13 - 14, Saturday - Sunday, Closed
• March 15 - 19, Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• March 20, Saturday, Closed
• March 21, Sunday, 12:00 noon - 12:00 midnight

Have a great week!  And don't forget to set your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed Saturday night!

The Library will be closed Monday, January 18^th, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.  We will return to our normal hours of operation on Tuesday the 19^th.  You'll find a complete list of building hours on our Web site.

Have a good weekend!