We finished moving the bound periodicals from Coe Library to the Library Annex last week. See below for more details from Access Services about what this means for you. And a huge thank you to our staff for all their hard work moving the collections!

Friday morning we moved the last book truck of pre-2005 bound journal volumes from Coe Library to the Library Annex. This project to make space in Coe to accommodate renovation began in May 2006 with the conversion of the Science Library to the Library Annex. With today’s shipment, Coe and Annex staff have relocated approximately 450,000 volumes by loading them onto book trucks, driving the carts to the Annex, unloading them onto the movable shelving and returning book trucks back to Coe so the process can start all over. Another way of thinking about this 28 month project is that it filled approximately 7 miles of shelving in the Library Annex.

For library users the major consequence of this project is that, except for the Geology collection, all 2005 and earlier volumes are now in the Library Annex. They are available for use there or may be obtained electronically through the Libraries’ Request It service. Another result was to create space in Coe for the growing book collections and to allow the Libraries to clear spaces within the building so renovation was possible. The physical move of materials was accomplished by Coe and Annex shelving staff, ably assisted by Technical Services staff identification of titles to be moved and changing locations of moved volumes to the Annex.

You can make your own READ poster with a quick and easy tool from the American Library Association. This tool is perfect for a) everyone in the library with built in Photo Booth cameras and b) taking a little break on a quiet summer day.

Send me your READ image if you want to see it on the blog or the library’s flickr photostream!

Today, the last day of the summer session, also marks the last day of our regular summer hours. The UW Libraries will now move into our late summer hours, leaving plenty of evening time open for barbeques and frisbee and horseshoe tournaments. Enjoy these last weeks!

Late summer hours August 9 (Saturday) - August 23 (Saturday)

Monday-Friday

• Coe 7:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m.
• Annex/Geology 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• LRC 7:30 a.m. - noon and 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
• Reference & A/V 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday: All closed

August 24 (Sunday): Coe noon - 4 p.m., all others closed

Come check out our extra furniture and take your new favorite chair/desk/filing cabinet home today!

August 7
10:30am – 11:30am IDR’S Only
12:30pm – 1:30pm Public Sales

• Computer Tables:
• (13) 4′ x 2′6″ $5.00 each
• (26) 5′ & 6′ x 2′6″ $10.00 each
• (60) Birch Chairs: $2.00 each
• Rectangular Birch Tables:(6) (Graffiti) 3’6” x 5’ $5.00 each
  (7) (Clean) 3’6” x 5’ $10.00 each
• (5) Retro Style Chairs: $10.00 each
• Wooden Desk w/ Side table: $25.00
• (20) File Cabinets: “Half Price” $20.00 each
• (33) Assorted Rolling Office Chairs: $5.00 each
• (2) Square Birch Tables 3’8” x 3’8” $5.00 each

… what would it be?

A British website asked creative artists and designers that question and they produced some beautiful results. Jason Munn would stay in and draw, while Tom Gauld would go to space.

I’ll pose the same question to our blog readers on this hot summer day: if you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?

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The following class meets in Coe Library Wednesday:

• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. ENGL 1010 (Elliot)

Did you miss the 2008 Undergraduate Research Day? Or perhaps you want to revisit the more compelling student projects? Good news! Research Day projects are now archived online by the UW Libraries. Visit them and learn more.

Undergraduate Research Day 2008 is our newest digital collection. We are also adding a collection entitled Architecture of Saratov, Russia that was translated from Russian. Eventually we will add content from the Annals of Wyoming, first as digital PDFs (digital microfiche), then as full text readable and searchable content.

Further details can be found at: http://digital.uwyo.edu/

The following class meets in the Coe Library Electronic Classroom Monday:

• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. ENGL 1010 (Elliot)

I thought I was reading a headline in The Onion when I first learned that Wikipedia was going into print. I checked the dateline, too, but no April Fool’s joke here.

According to The Guardian, encyclopedia publisher Bertelsmann will print a one volume edition of the German Wikipedia in September. The 50,00 entries will be based on popularity. Bertelsmann’s Beate Varnhorn remains optimistic about print resources:

“We think the market for print reference books remains positive,” said Varnhorn. “The book is highly flexible, I can use it on the sofa while watching television, at the desk, in the garden or in bed, without having to turn on the computer.”

Google, it seems, would disagree. The search giant unleashes its own user-generated encyclopedia, Google Knol, this week. The content and structure will differ from Wikipedia:

“The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content,” the company wrote on its blog Wednesday. “It’s their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.”

I get the feeling that the world of encyclopedias is circling in on itself these days, trying to find the best model. Do you prefer to use encyclopedias online or in print? Does Wikipedia meet your needs?

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The following classes meet in the Coe Library Electronic Classroom Wednesday:

• 9:40 - 10:40 a.m. COJO 1010 (Hucke)
• 1:20 - 2:35 p.m. COJO 1010 (Hettgar)