August Displays at Rod Library

August exhibits at Rod Library include the following displays:

	Visions of Africa: Arts & Ritual - Sponsored by: UNI Museum - Main Floor Display Case located in the Library Lobby.
	Navigating Rod Library's Web Page - Sponsored by: Rod Library - First Floor Display Case located across from the MultiService Center near the main staircase.
	An Iowan Invented That?! - Sponsored by: Rod Library - Flat Display Case located in the Reference Area.

For more information about exhibits at Rod Library see our exhibits web page.

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Homeland Security Digital Library

Rod Library now has access to the Homeland Security Digital Library. The Homeland Security Digital Library is a database of over 50,000 non-classified Presidential directives, policy and national strategy documents, as well as specialized resources related to Homeland Security. It can be accessed at http://www.hsdl.org

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Academic OneFile Replaces Expanded Academic ASAP

Rod Library recently replaced Expanded Academic ASAP, also known as InfoTrac, with Academic OneFile, a larger database from the same company. Academic OneFile uses the same search interface and contains virtually all of the content in Expanded Academic plus additional journals, newspapers, public radio audio files with transcripts, podcasts and transcripts from other news sources, and medical videos.

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Curris Power Outage Will Affect Some Library Services

Electricity will be shut off in the Curris Business Building on Saturday, August 2, 2008, from 5:30 a.m. until mid-afternoon.

Some online library services will be affected by this outage: namely, Faculty Roster Database and Index UNI.

More information about this outage and the services affected is available at:

http://www.uni.edu/its/us/commcorner/announce/PowerOutage08022008.pdf

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Try It, You'll Like It! Course Reserves

Course reserves provides materials such as books, articles, sample tests, lecture notes, videotapes, DVD's and other items that UNI faculty wish their students to read or view. Thousands of items are placed on reserve every semester, throughout the semester.

UNI Faculty can request that the library place on electronic reserve chapters from books, articles, sample tests or papers, lecture notes, journal articles, and other items for their students to read or view. The Reserve Desk will place items on electronic reserve following the "fair use" provisions of Title 17, Section 107 of the Copyright Act. Rod Library reserves the right to have more restrictive guidelines than stated explicitly in the U.S. Code.

The Electronic Course Reserve service enhances the print course reserve service currently offered through the UNI Rod Library. Electronic Course Reserves allow UNI students access to scanned reserve materials through UNISTAR. Items can be viewed and printed by users, both on and off campus, 24 hours a day/7 days a week. What student wouldn't love that?

Submit your request by August 11 to have it available for the day of class at: http://www.uni.edu/library/reserverequest/.

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Same Book, Different Semester?

Want to keep the same book you had on course reserves this past summer semester on for the fall semester? -- That's easy!! -- Go to the course reserve reinstatement form and submit your request online at: http://www.uni.edu/library/reinstatement/. But be sure to submit your request by July 30, 2008 to make sure it gets transferred over before the end of the summer semester and everything is removed.

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Sidewalk Work Beginning Friday

The sidewalk reconstruction project will begin July 11th and should be completed early in the fall semester, weather permitting that is. This project will be similar to last year's project in that they will remove the concrete from the line of bricks just slightly south of our entrance to an area around the reflecting pool in front of Maucker Union and replacing it with bricks.

Friday they will begin erecting fencing around the reconstruction area and then will begin work on Monday, again weather permitting.

Possibly beginning as early as Friday this week access to the library's entrance from the south will not be possible. All entrances to the Union will remain open however. When approaching from the south...

1. Enter the Union through the southwest door, which is close to Essentials, and exit through the Union's northwest door, which is across from our entrance.

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2. Take the stairs beside the southwest door of the Union over the top of the Union and exit down the ramp across from the library's entrance.

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3. Go around the library to the west and approach the entrance from the north.

Thanks for your patience! This walkway will be very attractive once all parts of the project are complete.

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