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FFA April 28-30

By Amy Lewis on April 26, 2013 12:55 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Over 3,000 high school students will attend the Minnesota State FFA Convention. The convention begins Sunday, April 28 and will run through April 30. Students sometimes need to use computers to work on their presentations, and if they need printing you might want to recommend they visit the Copy Centers on campus (St. Paul Student Center, Coffman), as they can pay cash for their copies, rather than pay for a Gopher GoldPass.

Feel free to contact me with an additional questions or concerns.

Respectfully,
Kristen Mastel

Daylight Savings Time Ends

By Amy Lewis on November 3, 2012 2:53 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Daylight Savings Time Ends Sunday at 2:00 AM. Don't forget to turn your clocks back!

Open Access Week

By Amy Lewis on October 22, 2012 11:03 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Open Access Week is an annual international celebration and awareness event. This year, for Open Access Week, the Libraries are working to spread awareness and information about Open Access (free online access to published scholarly research).

There are Open Access bookmarks at the Basement and 2nd Floor desks. While you are working the desks please place a bookmark in checked-out materials to help spread the word about Open Access.

More information can be found HERE

Thank you!

Register to Vote

By Amy Lewis on September 25, 2012 1:24 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The University Libraries are providing Voter Registration Applications to the campus community at service desks throughout the library system till October 16th, the last day you can register early.

In Walter the applications are at the 2nd Floor Desk and on a table near the Basement Desk.

Further information can be found HERE!

Printing Unavailable on the 2nd Floor in Walter Wednesday, Sept. 19

By Amy Lewis on September 19, 2012 10:46 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

During the week of September 17, 2012, the Libraries Information Technology (IT) department along with the Office of Information Technology (OIT) will continue their work transferring the management of the public printing software and print release stations over to OIT. Public printing will be unavailable at these locations during the week.

- Wilson Library: sporadic unavailability beginning Monday, September 17 and into Tuesday, September 18, 2012

- Walter library: unavailability Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - Refer students to the Computer Lab in Rm. 103 Walter

- Magrath Library: unavailability Thursday, September 20, 2012

- Music Library: unavailability Thursday, September 20, 2012

During the outages, please direct students to other libraries or computer labs in your area for printing.

- Amy Boemer

Peer Tutoring Available at the Libraries

By Amy Lewis on September 13, 2012 12:21 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Peer tutoring is available at Walter, Wilson and Magrath Libraries.

Walk-In Hours are Available:

--No appointment necessary.
--Unless otherwise noted, all shifts posted recur on a weekly basis while classes are in session.
--Call 612-625-6508 or email walters@umn.edu if a consultant is not present as scheduled.

For a current tutoring schedule at Walter Library, click HERE!

Students can check out what computers are available in the Libraries

By Amy Lewis on September 12, 2012 11:40 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Mobile Web Site: Locating open public computers

Ever wonder if there is an open public computer available at Wilson, Walter, or Magrath? Well, students may wonder and now they can find out if the Libraries have any open public computers on the mobile web site.

Check it out here!

Walter Lighting Upgrade

By Amy Lewis on July 23, 2012 7:29 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Please read Kristia's message regarding the lights:

The lighting control system in Walter Library will be ungraded over the next month prior to school start. This is being done to upgrade away from a system that is over 15 years old and that has failed in the past. Once I have a schedule for the upgrades I will send a follow up email.

The electrical contractor will be testing the existing lighting system. To do this they will be turning lights off in areas periodically for short periods of time.

What to expect:

--Lights will be off from 10-15 minutes at a time.
--Only part of a floor will be off at any time, at no time will an entire floor be dark.
--Lights will be the only thing affected, power to outlets/computers should not be affected.
--Signs will be posted to alert patrons of the outages.

Areas and the days they will be affected this week:

Sub-Basement Level: Tuesday, 7/24
Basement Level: Wednesday, 7/25
4th Floor: Thursday, 7/26
5th Floor: Friday, 7/27

Thank you all for your help and patience through this process. Please contact me with any questions or concerns. Kristia

New Pick Up Slip

By Mary Blissenbach on June 28, 2012 9:57 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Today you will notice a new slip for Pick Up. With the Journal Shifting project complete and journals no longer in Room 208 some edits have been made to the Pick Up Slip.

There is now only one slip that will be used all the time. Currently when you are assigned to Pick Up both 2nd Floor and Basement levels it will be much easier with just one slip to deal with. If you are assigned to just Pick Up 2 or just Pick Up B,S,F you will only fill out the needed information and leave the rest blank. There is no need to write a zero or dash in the space when you don't find any items for that section or are not assigned to pick up on that area.

If you have any questions, please ask.

CybraryN working again

By Mary Blissenbach on June 11, 2012 1:04 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The problem that we encountered last week with CybraryN has been fixed. There should be no problems creating guest cards now. If you have any problems, please let a supervisor know.

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