Writing Contest Winners Announced!

Yesterday we announced the winners of the National Library Week Writing Contest.  We celebrated with delicious cake and a festive party.

All of the winning pieces can be read on the library's web site over here.  A special thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to all the winners!  They certainly did a fantastic job. 

Have a fantastic spring break next week and good luck on the upcoming exams!

New! Lunch @ the Library!

Have you ever wanted to just grab something to eat quickly on campus?  Is the vending machine not quite satisfying enough, and the nearest fast food too slow for your mid-marathon study session mini-meal?

The library is working for a solution to this serious lack of food problem by inviting local food trucks to come serve in the Library Commons parking lot.

The first food truck day is April 25th, and they'll be in the parking lot serving food at 11:00am.  They will not be here after the spring semester ends, and will most likely be coming back when the fall semester starts in a few months.
The current schedule is:

• April 25: Taco de Paco
• April 28: Curbside
• May 2: Taco de Paco
• May 3: Salivation Station

Keep watching here, and our shiny new Twitter feed for updates on when your favorite food truck will be rolling in to make your lunchtime more delicious with less travel time.  :)

Library Resource Training Session April 14, 2-3pm

Thursday April 14 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. the College Library will offer a hands-on overview of the new Library electronic resource:


Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC) is a comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. This database offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents.

Nancy Taylor an EBSCO representative will lead this session. Thursday, April 14, from 2 – 3 Nursing building, 7500 Hennessy Blvd., St. Dymphna computer lab.

Win a Nook Color or Amazon Gift Card!!

Click here for complete information and guidelines.

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Library Hours Change

Starting next week the library commons hours will change.

Monday through Thursday the commons will be open from 7:30am to 9:00pm.
Friday the commons will be open from 7:30am to 4:30pm.

The hours on Saturday and Sunday will not change, neither will the hours for the main building.  Just as a reminder, those hours are:

Saturday: 10:00am to 6:00pm in both buildings
Sunday: 2:00pm to 10:00pm in the main library and 2:00pm to 9:30pm in the commons.
Monday - Thursday: 7:30am to 11:00pm in the main library and 7:30am to 9:00pm in the commons.
Friday: 7:30am to 4:30pm in both buildings.

The library hopes that students will enjoy this extension of our hours of operation.  :)

Pictures from the Valentine's party

The Valentine's Day party at the library was a huge success! Thanks everyone who came out to visit and eat cookies and drink hot chocolate at the library for making everything so wonderful. You're what we do this for! :)

This week is National Catholic Colleges Week, and today's celebration will include jambalaya served at the library commons with talks to follow. Thursday will be similar, with pizza and another presentation. Hopefully the weather will hold out and we'll have more fantastic photos to share next week.

Thank you all for reading. Have a great day. :)

For Fiction Fans!

There's a really unique new way to search for new authors to read.  If you check out this spiffy new link you'll find a map of literary similarities.  Searching for an author on the Literature-Map will bring up a diagram showing links to other authors.  How close they are to the author in the center will show you how likely it is for someone who likes the center author to also like the linked author.

It's simple, fun, and a handy way to find new fun things to read.  :)