LIBNEWS-L: New Resources and Services at Old Dominion University Libraries April 17, 2007 * Library Items on Semester Loan Are Due May 18 for Renewal or Return * Make Your Reservation for FOL Annual Author Dinner: April 24 * Allan Blank Exhibit in Diehn Composers Room Through April 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ==> LIBRARY ITEMS ON SEMESTER LOAN ARE DUE MAY 18 FOR RENEWAL OR RETURN At the end of the spring semester, the University Libraries ask that all term-loan material (checked out for the entire semester) be returned or renewed in person. The due date for term loan items is May 18, 2007 and material renewed at this time will have a new due date of January 18, 2008. Items that have not been returned or renewed by the end of May 18 will accrue fines at the rate of .10/day per item. Online renewals are not available at this time. This year, any material checked out from the Perry Library may be taken to either the Hofheimer Art Library (109 Diehn FPA Center; ext. 34059) or to the Diehn Composers Room Library (189 Diehn FPA Center; ext. 34173) to renew or return. Please call Robert Stone, Circulation Services Supervisor at 3-5543 if you have any questions, or call the main Circulation desk at 3-4154 or send your question via e-mail to circ1@libstaff.lib.odu.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------- * MAKE YOUR RESERVATION FOR FOL ANNUAL AUTHOR DINNER: APRIL 24 There is still time to purchase your ticket to the Friends of the Old Dominion University Library Annual Author Dinner. Janet Peery, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at ODU and author of the newly released novel, What the Thunder Said, will speak on "Making It Up As You Go Along: The Writing Life." The Friends of the Library Outstanding Achievement Award will be presented to Dr. Douglas Ziegenfuss, Professor of Accounting at ODU. The dinner will be held in the River Rooms of Webb Center on the ODU campus. The reception will begin at 6:00 pm, and dinner will be served at 6:30 pm. A vegetarian entrée is available upon request. Tickets for the dinner are $30 (Life Members’ tickets are $25); checks made payable to Friends of the Library should be mailed to: Friends of the Library - Author Dinner / 229 Perry Library / Old Dominion University / Norfolk VA 23529-0256. Reservations must be received by Wednesday, April 18. For more information, please call Fern McDougal at 683-4141, or e-mail her at: fmcdouga@odu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> ALLAN BLANK EXHIBIT IN DIEHN COMPOSERS ROOM THROUGH APRIL 30 The Diehn Composers Room of the University Libraries presents "Allan Blank: The Sonic Possibilities of Words," focusing on the texts that composer Allan Blank has set to music in songs and operas. The exhibit examines in particular the two kinds of literary texts Blank most favors: poetic works that are demonstrably cyclical and echo and draw upon the cycles of life; and playful texts from the realm of absurdist literature and early modernism. Photographs and drawings of the poets and the composer, sketchbooks, letters, recordings, published and manuscript works are all featured. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at the Diehn Composers Room, 189 Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center until April 30, 2007. The Diehn Composers Room is open from 8 am until 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Funding for this exhibit is provided by a grant from the Norfolk Foundation. For more information, please contact Jay Moore, Diehn Librarian Archivist, at 683-4175 ------------------------------- Next Issue: April 24, 2007 ------------------------------- Find the Libnews-L archives at: http://www.lib.odu.edu/libinfo/publications/libnews