"School Desegregation: Learn, Preserve, and Empower" is a project to find, catalog, and encourage the preservation of records that tell the story of Virginia’s school desegregation. The project will include a traveling exhibit from April to June to gather personal accounts and artifacts from the 1940s to the 1980s. Locations include Hampton, Richmond, Farmville, Lynchburg, Alexandria and the Eastern Shore.

The project hopes to fill in "the missing piece of history’s puzzle ... the thousands of untold stories of the people who personally experienced integration. From segregation to massive resistance to desegregation, they bore witness to emerging social change. Their stories help us to understand the enormity of the struggle that brought about that change."

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, a news conference was held in Richmond to kick off the project which is a collaboration of the DOVE Project (Desegregation of Virginia Education), AARP Virginia, Virginia State Conference NAACP, and the Urban League of Hampton Roads.

The DOVE project was created nearly four years ago by Sonia Yaco, ODU's Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, as a collaboration among universities, libraries, and archives in Virginia to identify and preserve materials relating to school desegregation. A growing catalog and other information is available from the ODU Library Web site.

If you missed the all-day EndNote training sessions, you can still get help. EndNote offers video training, webinars, and they have a YouTube channel.

Go to http://www.endnote.com/training for many of your needs. Or, go to http://www.youtube.com/user/EndNoteTraining/videos for brief training on many EndNote features.

The Library also offers a page full of help. From the "Tutorials & How-tos" link, click "Use EndNote" under How-tos. We'll be offering another Grad/Faculty workshop on Saturday, April 7.

For undergraduate students, we have 3 EndNote Web workshops scheduled for March 27, 28, 29.

Books on the 4th floor east side are now accessible to all. Thanks for your patience!

Update: Books with call numbers L7.T37 to ML 410.B4L597 are now accessible. Books with call numbers from ML 410 .B4L597 to PA6217 remain inaccessible.

Perry Library book collections on the east side of the 4th floor are temporarily inaccessible because of construction and clean-up work currently underway. Books in call number areas L1 – PA6217 (including education, music and art subjects) are sealed off and inaccessible to both patrons and library staff. Paging materials for patrons is not currently an option.

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.

On Monday, March 5, 2012, from 12:30pm to approximately 3pm, the interlibrary loan system ILLiad will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. The Interlibrary Loan office will remain open for pick up and drop off of materials, but users will be unable to place requests for new materials or check the status of existing requests. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ILL office at 757-683-4170 or libill@odu.edu.

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

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.

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.

We'll see you in January!

The annual used booksale is going on right now.

Wednesday, November 9 – Friday, November 11: 9am - 7pm
Saturday, November 12: 9am – 4pm

Come to the Learning Commons Conference Room 1310 and get some good bargains!