Attend a Cyber Security Information training session to help educate you on how to stay safe online. Topics include safe browsing tips and how to recognize phishing emails.

    Monday 2/6 @ 2pm
    Thursday 2/9 @ 11 am

Come to the Learning Commons Conference Room 1 (1310).

“Celebrating the History of Virginia Opera” is now on display in the Library Art Gallery on the first floor of Patricia W. and J. Douglas Perry Library.

The exhibit contains posters, programs, costume and wig designs, photographs and fliers from the Virginia Opera Papers, housed in Special Collections and University Archives of the University Libraries. A chronological listing, from 1975 to the present day, of the Virginia Opera’s repertoire is also on display. The exhibit will be on display until February 13th, when it will move to the Harrison Opera House.

For additional information, please contact Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist at 757-683-4483 or via e-mail at syaco@odu.edu.

"Get to know the Library"
Meet at the Help Desk in the Learning Commons to get a quick tour of all that’s new in the Perry Library.

   Tuesday, January 31: 12:45-1:15pm
   Wednesday, February 1: 3-3:30pm
   Thursday, February 2: 8:45-9:15am

Note: Undergraduate workshops are intended for individuals, not full classes.

Graduate students and faculty are invited to attend Using EndNote with Library Databases!

Saturday, February 4, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Learning Commons Instruction Room 1306

Learn how to collect citations from the library’s databases and export them into EndNote, a powerful tool for organizing and managing bibliographic citations. If you bring your own laptop, we ask that you already have EndNote downloaded. Contact Miriam Bridges at mbridges@odu.edu or 683-4169 to register.

Be sure to check the Workshops & Programs page on the library's web site to learn about more workshops.

Be sure to check the Workshops & Programs page on the library's web site and mark you calendar for a workshop that's right for you!

As you may know, many of our databases are available on the EBSCOhost system. Now there are even more since Ebsco purchased WilsonWeb databases.

The WilsonWeb databases include:
       Applied Science Full Text
       Art Full Text
       Biography Reference Bank
       Education Full Text
       ERIC
       Essay and General Literature Index
       Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
These databases can be cross-searched with other EBSCO databases.

WilsonWeb will remain active until February 1, 2012, after which all Wilson databases will be exclusively available on the EBSCOhost platform.

Work has been completed on the 4th floor, so all books are now accessible. Thanks to everyone for their patience last week.

This is a friendly reminder that materials due at the end of the Fall Semester (1/20/2012) must be renewed or returned to the library. You may renew items in any of the following ways:

• on line at http://iii.lib.odu.edu/patroninfo
• by contacting us via phone at 683-4154
• through email at circ1@libstaff.lib.odu.edu
• in person at the Circulation Desk on the 2nd floor of Perry Library

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us.

In observance of the Martin Luther King holiday, the University Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 16.

The Perry Library and Learning Commons will close at midnight on Sunday, January 15 and will reopen on Tuesday, January 17 at 8am.

Library hours are available from the Hours and Information link on the library web site.

However.... because of continued construction and clean-up work on the 4th floor of Perry Library, books with call numbers from TL through Z remain inaccessible.

Until the clean-up is completed, you may consider one of the following options:

» Use Interlibrary Loan to request these materials. Arrival time usually ranges from 3-10 days.
» Find out if the book you need is available through a Virginia Tidewater Consortium (VTC) library. If it is, you can obtain a Consortium card at the 2nd floor Circulation Desk which allows you to check materials out from these local area libraries (faster than using interlibrary loan).

Please contact staff at the Learning Commons Help Desk or Circulation Desk for assistance.

The water main is repaired, and the library is now open regular hours.

Regular Hours:

Learning Commons@Perry Library: open 24 hours from Sunday 9am through Friday 7:30pm; Saturday 9am-6pm.

Diehn Composers Room and Hofheimer Art Library: Monday-Thursday 8am-9pm; Friday 8am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday 1-5pm.

In observance of the Martin Luther King holiday, the Perry Library will close at midnight on Sunday, January 15 and will reopen on Tuesday, January 17 at 8am. The Diehn Composers Room and Hofheimer Art Library will be closed on Monday, January 16.

Library hours are available from the Hours and Information link on the library web site.

Because of construction and clean-up work that is underway on the 4th floor of Perry Library, books with call numbers from SH-Z are currently inaccessible.

Until the clean-up is completed, you may consider one of the following options:

• Use Interlibrary Loan to request these materials. Arrival time usually ranges from 3-10 days.
• Find out if the book you need is available through a Virginia Tidewater Consortium (VTC) library. If it is, you can obtain a Consortium card at the 2nd floor Circulation Desk which allows you to check materials out from these local area libraries (faster than using interlibrary loan).

Please contact staff at the Learning Commons Help Desk or Circulation Desk for assistance.