The Hobson Science is closing for the Summer June 20 at 1:00pm.  It will not be be open on Friday June 21, the final day of the summer semester.  The Science Library will reopen Monday August 26 at 9:00am.  Items may be paged from the Science Library by contacting the circulation desk at Beeghly Library.  For reference help, contact refdesk@owu.edu or contact Deb Peoples at dapeople@owu.edu.

As one of the Ohio Five, the OWU Libraries received a $775,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to advance digital scholarship. Read more about our grant: Digital Capabilities Strengthened with New Mellon Grant

The OWU Libraries’ Special Collections department will be closed on Monday, June 10th and Tuesday, June 11th. Regular hours will resume on Wednesday, June 12th.

OWU Libraries’ Special Collections department will be closing at 12pm on Friday, May 24th and will resume regular hours on Tuesday, May 28th.

Summer school hours for the OWU Libraries can be viewed at http://library.owu.edu/hours-summerschool2013.pdf. Please note that afterhours access to the Internet Café/Bashford Lounge will be closed from May 13^th-May 19^th. Afterhours access will resume on May 20^th.

Seniors,

CONSORT will be unavailable for approximately 4-6 hours beginning at 11am on Tuesday, May 14th due to required maintenance. During this time, you can search the collection through the OhioLINK catalog by limiting the Location to “CONSORT Colleges”. However, you will not be able to request items from other CONSORT schools during this time.

Also, access to research databases from off-campus will be unavailable during the time. You will be able to continue to access research databases from on campus.

If you have any questions or concerns during this time, please contact the reference desk at refdesk@owu.edu.

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Hours for the OWU Libraries for the end of the semester can be viewed at http://library.owu.edu/hoursspringfinals2013.pdf. Please note that the Internet Café/Bashford Lounge will be open to students during the hours Beeghly Library is officially closed. Swipe your OWU ID at the outside entrance of the Internet Café to gain entry.

Last week’s Celebration of Scholarship yielded an impressive turnout from both students and faculty, despite the weather’s best efforts to keep us all indoors. Equally impressive was the sheer volume of faculty publications on display from a range of disciplines. Director of Libraries Cathi Cardwell individually acknowledged all faculty members who contributed their work for the event (it was a long list).

Congratulations are also in order to those students who submitted papers for the 2013 Library Research Award. The judges were sincerely impressed by the caliber of the work demonstrated in these projects. Ultimately, though, there had to be a winner. Kassel Galaty was awarded first place for her paper titled “The Infected Man Has Been Althogether Lost Sight Of”: Dr. William Budd, the Importance of Epidemiology, and the Propagation of Germ Theory. Megan Cook took second place with her paper titled Physiological and Psychosocial Effects of the Inclusiveness of Physicians’ Language on Heterosexual and Queer College Women.

Lastly, three new READ posters were unveiled during the event. Faculty members honored with posters this year were Michael Flamm, Nancy Gamso, and Danielle Hamill.

Photos from the event are available in the library’s Flickr stream.

Faculty members honored for their scholarship during the 2013 Celebration of Scholarship. Photo credit: John Holliger

Students who submitted papers for the 2013 Library Research Award. Photo credit: John Holliger

CONSORT downtime originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 30, has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. All library resources will be available with no interruption. Sorry for any inconvenience and best of luck with the end of semester!