A virtual, 1:1 reproduction of the Learning Commons @ Perry Library has been constructed using Minecraft, a popular indie computer game. For information about how to access the Minecraft Learning Commons or to take a video tour, visit http://www.lib.odu.edu/minecraft/

If you are a Minecraft player and want to get involved in improving the Minecraft Learning Commons or want to help develop it into a zombie filled game for Halloween, contact Matt Jabaily at mjabaily@odu.edu

The ODU Libraries Mobile Website has been redesigned!! Check it out:

http://www.lib.odu.edu/mobile/

This is a friendly reminder that books and other items on loan from the University Libraries over the Spring Semester are due on May 20, 2011. These materials must be physically returned to the Libraries for check-in or for renewal.

Questions? Please call 683-4154 or email: circ1@libstaff.lib.odu.edu

Beginning this week, Perry Library will be moving all books with call numbers starting with L from the west side of the third floor to the east side of the fourth floor.

The L call number covers books related to education as well as ODU's theses and dissertations from all subjects (LD4331).

The shifting process is expected to take approximately three weeks. If you have trouble locating a book, ask for help at the circulation desk, located at the front of the second floor.

Thanks for your patience!

If you are using computers in the 3rd floor Research Commons, you can now print to the 2nd floor computer lab printers using your student account. The benefit: 2nd floor computers are $.05/page; 3rd floor are $.10/page. Instructions are posted on all workstations.

The library's Annual Used Booksale will be held Wednesday 11/3 through Thursday 11/4 from 9am - 7pm. A special Friends of the Libraries preview sale will be held on Tuesday 11/2 from 5-8pm. The book sale will be held on the 4th floor, rear of the Perry Library.

Note: We are accepting donations of books, magazines, DVDs and CDs at the 2nd floor Circulation Desk.

Hope you were able to attend some of the outstanding events at ODU's Annual Literary Festival. Access information about the festival, who's speaking, when and where by visiting the Annual Literary Festival Web Site.

On the "Participants" page, you will find a link to books in the ODU Libraries by this year's festival authors. Check some out and find out what these writers have to say.

The 2010 Nobel Prize® for Physics has been awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

IOP Publishing is congratulating these winners with a Web site: http://iopscience.iop.org/page/Nobel You'll find links to works published by the winners as well as links to articles about their work.

ODU's Annual Literary Festival is coming -- October 4-8, 2010. It's the 33rd annual festival. Access information about the festival, who's speaking, and when by visiting the Annual Literary Festival Web Site.

On the "Participants" page, you will find a link to books in the ODU Libraries by this year's festival authors. Check some out ahead of time and find out what these writers have to say.