Graduate Students & Faculty: Come to the Learning Commons Instruction Room 1306 on Saturday, September 24, 10:30am–12:00pm, for a workshop on "Using EndNote with Library Databases."

Learn how to collect citations from the library’s database and export them into EndNote, a powerful tool for organizing and managing bibliographic citations. Both desktop and web versions will be included. 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.

Additional EndNote workshops are scheduled for:

    Thursday, October 13, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
    Saturday, October 22 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Faculty are invited to attend a workshop on "Learning Commons Services and Technologies" on Friday, September 23, 10:00am–11:00am in the Learning Commons Instruction Room 1306.

Come for this orientation and discover all the resources and services you and your students can use in the Learning Commons.

Contact Nancy Schafer at nschafer@odu.edu or 683-4183 for details.

In case you missed our BLTs (Brief Library Tours), the last one is Wednesday 9/14, 11:00-11:30am. Meet at the Learning Commons Help Desk on the first floor and join us for a brief tour of the Perry Library and Learning Commons spaces with one of the reference staff.

The Learning Commons @ Perry Library is now open, as of September 6, 2011, at 8:00 a.m.

Coming soon: The Multi-Media Innovation Lab, Writing Tutorial Services, the Math and Science Resource Center, and Einstein Bros. Café.

The Learning Commons will be open 24/5, Sunday through Thursday, after October 1, 2011, with Friday and Saturday hours remaining the same as for Perry Library.

For further information about the Learning Commons, please contact Kathryn Boone, Learning Commons Operations Manager at kboone@odu.edu.

For information about the Student Success Center, please contact David Metzger, Dean of the Honors College and Interim Dean of Academic Enhancement, at dmetzger@odu.edu.

If you've taught or are planning to teach information literacy & research as a general education requirement, please come to the Information Literacy Roundtable. We'd like to discuss what worked or didn't work in your info lit clases and what the library can do to help.

When: Friday, September 9, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
Where: Learning Commons Instruction Room 1306

Contact Joleen Westerdale at jwesterd@odu.edu or 683-4141 for details.

Join us for a brief tour of the Perry Library and Learning Commons spaces with one of the reference staff.

Meet at the Learning Commons Help Desk on the first floor:

     Tues. 9/6 and Thurs. 9/8 3:30-4pm
     Mon. 9/12 and Wed. 9/14 11:00-11:30am

Fall 2011 workshops for graduate students and faculty have been scheduled.

Gaduate workshops include:

     * Graduate Assistant Workshop
     * Using EndNote with Library Databases
     * An Introduction to Google Maps and Georeferencing
     * Revisiting Some Popular Databases in the Sciences & Engineering
     * Social Sciences & Business Literature Review & Introduction to EndNote

For faculty:

     * Information Literacy Roundtable at the Library
     * Learning Commons Services and Technologies
     * Using EndNote with Library Databases
     * Curating Your Scholarly Publications

For dates, times, locations, go to Workshops & Programs on the library's Web site.

The University Libraries are open Tuesday, August 30 from 8am-5pm. Regular library hours will resume on Wednesday, August 31: 8am - midnight.

Regular hours for the Perry Library:
     Monday - Thursday: 8am - midnight
     Friday: 8am - 7:30pm
     Saturday: 9am - 6pm
     Sunday: 9am - midnight

Regular hours for the Art Library and Diehn Composers Room:
     Monday - Thursday: 8am - 9pm
     Friday: 8am - 5pm
     Saturday - Sunday: 1pm - 5pm

The University Libraries will be closed for Labor Day, September 5, 2011.

Consult the Hours & Information page for more information.

Because of university closures due to Hurricane Irene, the opening of the Learning Commons has been delayed until Tuesday, September 6 at 8 am. Stay tuned...

Faculty are invited to find out "What’s new in the Library," a workshop which will include an introduction to the new Learning Commons. Come to the Perry Library, Room 1306 on Friday August 26 from 10-11am.