Sunday, January 25, 2009

What are YOU reading?

The Baron Forness Library faculty and staff have been posting monthly the books they are reading (Books We Are Reading -- under What's New on the library home page). We would like to know what you are reading! We also want to publish that list under What's New. Use the Post Coments feature under this notice. If you would like your name attached to what you are reading add that to your post. We want anything you are reading, fiction and non-fiction, to share with our students, faculty, staff and the others who access our page. No prizes, just the satisfaction of sharing a good book.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Not For Sale -- Graphics Design Club -- 2nd Floor

The Edinboro University Graphics Design Club is holding an exhibit, "Not For Sale" on the second floor of the Baron Forness Library. The exhibit opens this Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 with a reception from 4 to 6.

Cameras and Photos from the Past -- Archives -- 7th floor

"Cameras and Photos from the Past" is the new display from the Edinboro University Archives. The display is on the 7th Floor of the Library. It was developed by University Archivist and Reference Librarian David Obringer.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Library service survey -- Next Week - Help us to Help you

Help us to help you. Starting on October 26th and ending on November 13th the library will be conducting a survey of its services. We ask you please to participate. Beginning Monday, you will be able to click the survey button on the Library Homepage to take the survey. Taking the survey will help us, the faculty and staff of the library, to serve you better.

We have a few prizes for those who take the survey. First prize is an Apple® - iPod nano® 8GB* MP3 Player. Other prizes include EUP merchandise, Pazzelli's Pizza coupons, and food coupons from McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Wendys.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

THIS TUESDAY! The White Tiger: A Novel, by Aravind Adiga to be discussed March 10th

The Book Discussion Group’s March meeting will be held at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10. It will take place in room 715 of the Baron-Forness Library. For its March reading the group selected the book The White Tiger: A Novel, by Aravind Adiga. The book is described as a “darkly comic debut novel set in India.” All are invited to attend.

Book Fair -- Books Are Fun -- Thursday March 19

Books Are Fun Book Fair will be at the Baron Forness Library! Come in on Thursday, March 19th, 2009! Look at some great books, buy some great books and help the Friends of the Library. Books Are Fun from 9 am to 3 pm.

Faculty, Graduate Students -- Training for Web of Knowledge Citation Indexes.

Don Sechler,Manager, Customer Education for Thompsonreuters will present two sessions on using the online ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Knowledge). These include the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. This resource was recently acquired for use by Edinboro University faculty, staff and students. Session one at 9:30 AM Thursday March 19th Baron-Forness Room 232. This session is geared to those faculty who will be instructing students and others how to use the resources.
The 2 PM session Thursday March 19th Baron-Forness Room 232 is for those faculty and graduate students who will be using this resource to conduct research and complete documentation for publications.
If you are planning to attend please respond to: eprandall@edinboro.edu