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Due to hardware upgrades connected to the new campus building access system, After-Hours will be unavailable from 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 8/15, until Monday, 8/18. We regret any inconvenience.

InterLibrary Loan services will be down during a scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, July 26, from 9:00 P.M. to 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 27.

UPDATED: (1:20 PM) – Maintenance has been completed and all Interlibrary Loan services are available.
Our vendor is talking our Interlibrary Loan system down for one hour this afternoon, June 16, 2014, beginning at 1:00 p.m. to correct a misconfiguration following a software update. This means you will not be able to request Interlibrary Loans or view electronic deliveries during the shutdown. We regret any inconvenience. Full service will be restored by 2:00 p.m.

15,903 books were stored in the Morehouse Ballroom during the Archives/Special Collections construction project in Summer 2013. It’s been a year and now they are coming back to the Library. Catch some photos in our Facebook album! Here’s a sample:

15,900 books stored on temporary stacks in the Morehouse Ballroom.

Juneteenth is coming.  Here are three youtube videos from the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture that describe the origins of Juneteenth, the celebration’s spread throughout Texas and the rest of the country, and its continuing significance. The first is embedded below.

Part 2 is here.

And here is Part 3.

Library faculty have had a busy week presenting at two Iowa Library Conferences, the Iowa Private Academic Libraries (IPAL) and ILA/ACRL (Iowa Library Association / Association of College Research Libraries) Spring Conferences.

Professor Bruce Gilbert presented on Experiential Learning and Info Lit: Bridging the Gap at IPAL.

Dean Rod Henshaw presented with Richard Fyffe of Grinnell College on Learning from Leading: the Central Iowa Collaborative Experience at IPAL.

Professor Teri Koch, Cyd Dyer and Pam Rees presented at Friday’s (May 2, 2014) Iowa Library Association – Association of College & Research Libraries Annual Conference in a session entitled: CI-CCI: A New Model for Shared Print Collections Develops in Iowa.

Teri Koch, Collection Development Coordinator, Drake University; Cyd Dyer, College Librarian/Archivist, Simpson College; and Pam Rees, Library Director, Grand View University.

It’s the end of semester crunch time and seating — especially in our quiet study areas — is at a premium. We’ve allocated additional quiet study space (100+ seats) for the next two weeks. Here’s where!

Room 201 (the fishbowl) is dedicated to quiet study at the end of the semester. There are more than 60 seats — all of which have great access to electrical power and a nice view of campus.

The Reading Room is always a great spot to study! We’ve added 10 tables and an additional 40 seats. Not all have good access to power, but many do.

Taylor & Francis journals will be unavailable from March 1 at 10AM to March 2 at 2PM due to scheduled maintenance.

Cowles Library is one of the 200 founding libraries of Knowledge Unlatched: “a collaborative initiative enabling open access books. Knowledge Unlatched is helping stakeholders to work together for a sustainable open future for specialist scholarly books. Our vision is a healthy market that includes free access for end users.”

“The current system for publishing scholarly books is not working for anyone. Monographs in the humanities and social sciences, in particular, are in crisis.

“Knowledge Unlatched is committed to changing this. We believe that by working together libraries can create a sustainable route to Open Access for scholarly books and secure long-term cost savings for their own institutions by sharing the costs of making HSS monographs available on a Creative Commons licence. Supporting Open Access through Knowledge Unlatched will not cost more than simply purchasing a more traditionally published title.”