Sunday, December 19, 2010

Holiday Break Information and Hours

Dec. 20-22: Open 10am-4:30pm, Mon-Wed.

Dec. 23-Jan. 2: CLOSED. On these dates, there will no CLIC book deliveries. Interlibrary loan arriving by mail will be available beginning Monday, Jan. 3, 2011.

Jan. 2-Jan. 21: Open M-F, 8am-4:30am. Closed Jan. 17th for MLK holiday.

Enjoy your winter break!

WorldCat Local Down Sunday 12/19

Please note that Macalester WorldCat Local will be unavailable due to maintenance on Sunday, December 19 from 12AM-6AM CST. All OCLC services will be unavailable at this time.

If you need to search for our printed resources during this time, please consider using CLICnet Classic.

Thank you for your patience while this maintenance occurs.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Story Time for Students

Come listen to President Rosenberg, Rabbi Barry, Jim Hoppe, your friendly library staff, RAs and others read children's stories in the DeWitt Wallace Library Harmon Reading Room.

Take a break from your studies and enjoy a cookie and a story with your friends from 3 to 5 p.m, Tuesday, December 14.

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Changes to Electronic Course Reserves

At the end of this academic year, the Library staff will discontinue its electronic course reserves service. Moodle and the increased availability of full text electronic content through library licensed databases have made this service redundant.

The library will continue its copyright management service for Moodle material, ascertaining the need for permission, and paying for it, when use of copyrighted materials exceeds the guidelines of Fair Use. Library staff will continue to provide traditional reserves services, processing library and personal books and CDs, and reprints that are not for electronic access.

The library staff will also continue to serve administrative departments who need to make material available electronically.


During the Spring term, the library staff can assist in scanning documents if department staff is unable to do so. Please consult with your Academic Information Associate if you have questions about uploading material to Moodle.

A letter has been distributed to all faculty and department administrators detailing this plan.

If you have any questions, please call (x6545) or email Janet Sietmann (sietmann@macalester).