Equipment loans in the Learning Commons are available only during the semester. Loans will resume on Saturday, January 12 when the Spring semester begins.

Come to the Perry Library to enjoy A LEGO Winterland!! Our new exhibit will be up through the end of January. It features a fun winter display and information about LEGO Mindstorms. Contact Valentina Neblitt-Jones vneblitt@odu.edu for more information.

The PERRY LIBRARY and LEARNING COMMONS hours for the holidays are:

December 21 (Fri): 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
    (ODU ID required; services limited to Learning Commons, 1st floor & 2nd floor loft; upper floors closed)
December 22-25 (Sat-Tues): CLOSED
December 26-28 (Wed-Fri): 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
    (ODU ID required; services limited to Learning Commons, 1st floor & 2nd floor loft; upper floors closed)
December 29-January 1 (Sat-Tues): CLOSED

January 2-4 (Wed-Fri): 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
January 5-6 (Sat-Sun): Closed
January 7-11 (Mon-Fri): 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

The DIEHN COMPOSERS ROOM & HOFHEIMER ART LIBRARY holiday hours are:

December 21-January 1: CLOSED
January 2-4 (Wed-Fri): 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 5-6 (Sat-Sun): Closed
January 7-11 (Mon-Fri): 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Regular hours resume on Saturday, January 12 (See Library Hours)

The PERRY LIBRARY and LEARNING COMMONS hours for the holidays are:

     December 14 (Fri): close at 7:30 pm
     December 15-16 (Sat-Sun): CLOSED

     December 17-20 (Mon-Thurs): 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
     December 21 (Fri): 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (ODU ID required; services limited to Learning Commons, 1st floor & 2nd floor loft; upper floors closed)
     December 22-25 (Sat-Tues): CLOSED

     December 26-28 (Wed-Fri): 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (ODU ID required; services limited to Learning Commons, 1st floor & 2nd floor loft; upper floors closed)
     December 29-January 1 (Sat-Tues): CLOSED

     January 2-4 (Wed-Fri): 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
     January 5-6 (Sat-Sun): Closed
     January 7-11 (Mon-Fri): 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

The DIEHN COMPOSERS ROOM & HOFHEIMER ART LIBRARY holiday hours are:
     December 15-16 (Sat-Sun): CLOSED
     December 17-20 (Mon-Thu): 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
     December 21-January 1: CLOSED
     January 2-4 (Wed-Fri): 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
     January 5-6 (Sat-Sun): Closed
     January 7-11 (Mon-Fri): 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Regular hours resume on Saturday, January 12 (See Library Hours)

EndNote Users: You can now update your EndNote program to X6. Go to the library's How-To Guide for Using EndNote for installation instructions.

Some of the new features are:

    * Direct export from PubMed into EndNote
    * Easily change capitalization errors in references
    * Change layout options to match your monitor and preferences
    * Apply a rating to each of your references
    * Apply a Read or Unread tag to your references in order to track which references you have reviewed during your research
    * E-mail a selected reference with or without file attachments to your colleagues
    * Update and synchronize your references in EndNote desktop and EndNote Web
    * Improved pdf imports to create references

Watch this video for more information...

If you've watched "The Big Bang Theory" on television, you're probably wondering what our real physicists do.

Come to the Learning Commons @ Perry Library to view an exhibit of the current research of ODU Physics faculty as part of our Spotlight on Scholarship series. Their research programs are diverse and include theoretical and experimental work in nuclear and particle physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, materials science, solid state physics, plasma physics, accelerator physics, and geophysics. ODU physicists work in labs on and around the Norfolk campus in addition to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) and the NASA Langley Research Center on the peninsula.

In addition to the scholarship exhibit, two display cases feature demonstrations of lasers and magnets. The exhitit will be available through December 15. More information at: http://www.lib.odu.edu/exhibits/spotlight/fall2012/index.htm