Extended hours for reading period

Mudd will be open continuously from 8 a.m. Friday, December 14 - 2 a.m. Monday, December 17 (that's late night Sunday). Please note that no service points are extending hours -- for example, the information desk still closes at 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and the circulation desk still closes at 10 p.m. Here's complete information about our end of semester hours.

What do you mean, my books are overdue?!?

The due date for books, scores, and government documents checked out to students for the semester was yesterday -- December 13. We know that many of you are still using these materials, and you should feel free to keep using your material through reading period and exams. If you wish to keep library materials during the holiday shutdown or beyond, please renew them. Remember that special due dates still apply to reserve materials, periodicals, recalled items, interlibrary loans, OhioLINK materials and other short-term loan items, and you will be responsible for fines if the items are returned overdue.

Many materials are renewable; please read our advice about renewing materials.

Do you want to check on what you currently have checked out and when it's due? Just access your account at http://obis.oberlin.edu/patroninfo/
While you're there, try out the online renewal feature. Any renewals that are denied will have to be brought to the circulation desk for processing.

Do you have other questions about end-of-semester policies and procedures? Check out our FAQ, or contact any circulation supervisor for advice.

Best of luck in the final days of the semester!

Allison Gallaher
Head of Circulation

End of Semester Circulation reminders

Library materials that students have been using for the semester are officially due on December 13, 2007. These do not include shorter-term loan materials such as OhioLINK, ILL, reserve, periodicals, and recordings which have their own specific due dates. You can see everything you have checked out to you, and when it is due, by viewing your library record.

We recognize that some of you need to keep using your material through reading period and exams -- if this is the case, you may keep your semester-loan materials (books and scores due on December 13) until you have finished with them.

Many materials are renewable; please read our advice about renewing materials.

Do you have other questions about end-of-semester policies and procedures? Check out our FAQ, or contact any circulation supervisor for advice.

All the best at this busy time!

Allison Gallaher
Head of Circulation

Spotlight on the Collections: AIDS Awareness

In recognition of AIDS Awareness Month we are featuring books in the main library collection that relate to AIDS in the hope of raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and extending our genuine care to the 38.6 million people living with HIV.

The Spotlight showcases selected titles covering general AIDS education, social concepts of AIDS, AIDS and women, AIDS and sex, AIDS in a global context, memoirs, and literature dedicated to AIDS victims. In addtion to what we have in Mudd, there is a great variety of AIDS related material in Science, Art and Conservatory Libraries. Although they are not part of this exhibit, we encourage you to seek them out.

Selected titles are now on display outside Azariah’s Café. You are welcome to browse this collection and feel free to check titles out for further reading.

We don't know everything, just where to find it.

Ever thrown up your hands in frustration, and declared to everyone in your corner of the library," There's nothing on my topic!"? Ask us.

Think you've found everything you need for your FYS paper on "The Significance of Brian De Palma's Scarface in Hip-Hop Culture" or that honors thesis on "Compositional Strategies of Max Ernst and Einstürzende Neubauten" ?

Ask us--we may know of some additional sources to check that you didn't find on your own.

Not sure how to cite that great website you used for your project

(or if it was even okay to use it)?

Ask us.

Sign up for a research appointment online.

We're here to help.