Wireless Improvements Are Coming Soon!
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My Library Card
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Library Card
My Library Card allows students, faculty, and
staff to monitor their own due-dates and renew library materials without ever
having to visit the library.
To use this
feature click on the library catalog via our home page: http://www.butler.edu/library/. Then,
click on “My Library Card” at the top right side of the screen. Alternately, if
you frequently borrow materials from the library you can also access it from the library’s main page. Just look under “Library Information” for the My Library Card link.
Thanks to technology
you should never have to worry about late fees again!
Irwin Library Circulation Dept.
Banned Books Week: Sept. 27 – Oct. 4
Comments Off on Banned Books Week: Sept. 27 – Oct. 4 Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is
observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is
from Sept. 27 – Oct. 4. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds
Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the
freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be
considered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of
ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints
to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist
only where these two essential conditions are met.
Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:
- 1,607 were challenges to “sexually explicit” material (up 161 since 1999)
- 1,427 to material considered to use “offensive language” (up 165 since 1999)
- 1,256 to material considered “unsuited to age group” (up 89 since 1999)
- 842 to material with an “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism” (up 69 since 1999)
- 737 to material considered to be “violent” (up 107 since 1999)
- 515 to material with a homosexual theme or “promoting homosexuality” (up 18 since 1999)
- 419 to material “promoting a religious viewpoint” (up 22 since 1999)
- 317 to material involving “nudity” (up 20 since 1999)
- 267 to material involving “racism” (up 22 since 1999)
- 224 to material involving “sex education” (up 7 since 1999)
- 202 to material considered to be “anti-family” (up 9 since 1999)
Links
Proclamation from the Butler Libraries
Quotes relating to Banned Books Week
Scholars Resource Art Images now available
Comments Off on Scholars Resource Art Images now available Faculty, do you need an image for your in-class teaching? Students, would you like an example of a particular art form to go along with your class project or presentation? Then check out: Scholars Resource at: https://ezproxy.butler.edu:8443/login?url=https://content.butler.edu/index.php/
Butler Libraries, in partnership with the Global & Historical Studies core curriculum course and Information Resources, has made available a set of Scholars Resource images. The database of art images includes: painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts from various time periods. This resource also includes photos
taken by Butler faculty who have traveled to various countries for teaching
research in support of Butler’s Global and Historical Studies course.
Besides the above direct link, the database is also accessible by going to the Library’s homepage: www.butler.edu/library and selecting ‘Databases’ and the ‘Full Alphabetical Database List’ link Note too, via the Library’s listing, that there is a PDF of the Scholars Resource images that can be found in the database.
Peruse this image database. It is literally an ‘Introduction to the Visual Arts,’ the images coming from the published texts: Gilbert’s “Living with Art,” 6th ed., Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages,” 11th ed., and Hartt’s “History of Italian Renaissance Art,” 4th ed.
Placing Holds on Books
Comments Off on Placing Holds on Books The Butler Libraries’ Catalog allows you to place a hold on any book that is currently checked out. This means that as soon as the book is returned we will “hold” the book for you and you will receive an automatic notification telling you it’s ready for check-out.
To place a hold on a book, check your due-dates, etc., just click on Library Catalog from the Libraries’ website. Once in the catalog just click on the “My Library Card” button and enter the required information.
Alternately, you can also submit a hold request from within a catalog record. To do so follow these easy steps:
1. Conduct a search in our catalog for a particular book or topic.
2. From the list of results click on the “check for copies” link.
3. Under the action column (right side of screen) click on the “Request” link.
As always you can still call either library and have staff place a hold on a book for you as well.
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Thank you.
Themocracy