Welcome to the Wizarding World of the Dewitt Wallace Library! Join the Library staff and the Mac @ Nite team this Saturday from 10:00pm to 1:00am in the Library for a Harry Potter themed party!
There will be games, music, button making, and plenty of butterbeer and snacks to satisfy those late night cravings! Come dressed as your favorite Harry Potter character to enter the costume contest for the chance to win the Chromebook grand prize!
If you have questions, please contact Katie Brown.
Ebooks Minnesota is a collection of ebooks available to anyone living in Minnesota, with a focus on local, independent publishers. Want to find a great local read? Just create an account with Ebooks Minnesota.
If you have questions about accessing the collection, please contact Katie Witzig.
Ebooks Minnesota is a collection of ebooks available to anyone living in Minnesota, with a focus on local, independent publishers. Want to find a great local read? Just create an account with Ebooks Minnesota.
If you have questions about accessing the collection, please contact Katie Witzig.
Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Director of Michigan Press, will be speaking about the Lever Press on Wednesday, March 2nd at 3:30pm in the Harmon Room. This new open access book publishing press focuses on works in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Unique among open-access publishing initiatives, Lever Press is conceived, governed, and funded by a consortium of liberal arts college libraries. A complete description of his talk can be found on the events calendar. Charles will also be meeting with interested faculty during the day. If interested in meeting with Charles during one of the open discussion times, please contact Terri Fishel.
Curious about Lever Press? Read more about the launch now.
The DeWitt Wallace Library is proud to announce it has received the 2016 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award for the "college" category. The award recognizes the staff of a college, university, and community college library for programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational mission of the institution.
"I was absolutely thrilled when ACRL President Ann Campion Riley called me with the news," Terri Fishel, library director, said. "I have the pleasure of working with extremely talented, creative, and dedicated people, and this is affirmation for every one of them because each and every one contributes so much every day. I am delighted to have their work recognized by receiving this distinguished award. Thanks so much to the members of the selection committee."
Congratulations are also in order for the other two recipients: The Hudson County Community College Library in Jersey City, New Jersey, which won the community college category, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, Georgia, which won in the university category.
Read more about the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award including a list of past winners as well as Macalester College's announcement.
The DeWitt Wallace Library is proud to be a member of the group launching Lever Press. Lever Press is an exciting new open access initiative and aims to acquire, develop, produce and disseminate a total of 60 new open-access scholarly titles by the end of 2020.
Terri Fishel, the Library Director, is a member of the Lever Press Oversight Committee. This group will begin work to assemble an Editorial Board that will be responsible for approving Lever Press publications.
Read the announcement from Lever Press now or the news from Inside Higher Ed.
Everyone at the DeWitt Wallace Library would like to say thank you to the people who made this semester great, especially our student employees who work so hard keeping everything in the Library working smoothly.
