Need a quiet place to study or pound out that paper into the wee hours during finals week? Irwin Library will be open for a 24-hour period beginning at 7:30 am on Tuesday, April 28 through Wednesday morning, the 29th. There will be light refreshments and plenty of coffee available in the later evening of the 28th. Check out additional extended hours during finals week at: www.butler.edu/library/?pg=524
Bring your coffee cup, wear your house slippers, and bring your laptop and/or study materials and hole up for a night of studying!
| FINALS WEEK |
IRWIN |
SCIENCE |
| Apr. 29- April 30 (Wed. – Thur.) |
7 a.m. – 2 a.m. |
8 a.m. – 1 a.m. |
| May 1 (Friday) |
7:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
8 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
| May 2 (Saturday) |
10 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
10 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
| May 3 (Sunday) |
10 a.m. – 2 a.m. |
10 a.m. – Midnight |
| May 4 (Monday) |
7:30 a.m. – 1 a.m. |
8 a.m. – Midnight |
| May 5 (Tuesday) |
7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
Students are now being hired for Fall 2009 employment in the new Information Commons which is being developed. Any students interested in emerging technologies, rich media, research skills, and excellent customer service are encouraged to visit http://www.butler.edu/infocommons
for more information and to apply. (Copy and paste the link into your browser.)
Mission
The mission of the Information Commons is to provide support for Butler University students in the discovery and creation of information, especially focusing on rich media creation, technology assistance and training, and research assistance.
Description
The Information Commons is both a physical space and virtual space. It comprises the Reference area and Education Commons in Irwin Library, the Instructional Technology Commons in Jordan Hall, and the online environment of information technology and knowledge media. The Information Commons is a place for Butler students, faculty, and staff to get access to information, knowledge, technology, and research assistance to aid them in their pursuits of discovering and creating information.
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has launched a new
website, called the Federal Digital System (FDsys) where they will be storing
all government documents produced. The strength of FDsys is that documents will
not be replaced by newer versions, but will instead keep everything, so there
is a digital “paper trail” as it were with copies preserved and archived continually. Visit http://fdsys.gpo.gov
to check it out.
<pI’ve already updated the links on our website and in the
Quick Reference LibGuide. If you have any LibGuides that link to the GPO Access site,
you will want to update those links.
If you want more information about FDsys, visit http://www.gpo.gov/projects/fdsys.htm
Scott
The Butler Libraries have just subscribed to a new database called Literary Criticism Online. This database indexes the Gale sets of Literary Criticism books (the large sets of brown or blue books in the Irwin Library Reference collection), including the following titles:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism (all volumes)
- Drama Criticism (all volumes)
- Children’s Literature Review (volumes 141+, from June 2009 forward)
For other areas of literature and literary criticism, we recommend the Literature Resource Center, also from Gale, which contain much of the content of all the Literary Criticism sets owned by the libraries.
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