Comments Off on Grant Helps CCOM Students Gain Professional Experience

By Scott Pfitzinger, September 21, 2011 2:34 pm

Thanks to the  Dean of Libraries, Lewis Miller, and Butler grant writer Dana Ohren, Butler has received a grant from the Indiana State Library to allow some students in our College of Communication to develop & implement a plan to promote INSPIRE, Indiana’s Virtual Library, to the entire state of Indiana.

Read the entire press release here.

Comments Off on Early JSTOR content and Indianapolis Recorder now available

By rsreed, September 9, 2011 10:55 am

JSTOR, an online subscription database of scholarly journal content, has announced that all journal  content published prior to 1923 in the U.S. and prior to 1870 elsewhere will now be freely available to anyone.  Locally, IUPUI has digitized the Indianapolis Recorder, a newspaper that has covered the Indianapolis black community for more than a century.  The digital archive of the Recorder covers 1899-2005.  Recorder issues for 1912-1925 and January-April of 1932 are missing, so if you have preserved any of these print issues, please contact the IUPUI library if you would be willing to share them for digitization.

Comments Off on Library Hours for Labor Day Weekend (Sept. 3-5)

By Laina Ridenour, September 2, 2011 2:02 pm

Butler University Libraries will be open the following hours over Labor Day Weekend.

Saturday Sept. 3 Irwin and Science: 10 am – 8 pm

Sunday Sept. 4 Irwin and Science: Noon – 8 pm

Monday Sept. 5 Irwin: Noon – 8 pm Science: 10 am – Midnight

For a full listing of Library Hours including upcoming breaks and holidays, please click here.

Comments Off on Duck Drop Winners

By Scott Pfitzinger, August 22, 2011 8:24 am

During Saturday’s Library Open House, we had about 100 students participate in the Duck Drop, along with their families, for a total of over 500 people. Participants went up to the third floor of the library and threw rubber ducks at targets floating in the fountain. A total of 61 students were successful with 82 ducks that hit their targets.

Four of the students won a $50 gift certificate to the Butler University Bookstore:

• Lauren Allen
• Brooke Benesh
• Taylor Clark
• Mike Murtaugh

Congratulations to each of you!

We also had several students who actually got ALL THREE of their ducks into the targets:

• Mary Donnell
• Trevor Phenis
• Emily Mago
• Molly Swigart
• Lauren Verner

Great effort to you five and thanks to everyone who participated!

Comments Off on Color Printer in Irwin Library

By Scott Pfitzinger, August 17, 2011 9:14 am

Color printing is now available  in Irwin Library! The printer name is IL_Color and anyone can print to it.

The cost is 50 cents per page (single-sided only), which must be paid in cash at the Information Commons Desk before your print job can be released to the printer.

Procedure:

1. Send your print job to IL_Color.
2. The print job is held in the printer queue.
3. Go to the Information Commons Desk and pay 50 cents per page, cash only.
4. The Information Commons Assistant collects your money and releases the print job to the color printer.