Listen to lit--free online

Books Personally recently hosted the Spoken Freely project::

This June, the audiobook community is giving back! Spoken Freely, a group of 30+ professional narrators, has teamed with Going Public to celebrate June as Audiobook Month (JIAM) 2013 by offering a serialized audio story collection: Going Public…in Shorts. Each narrator has recorded a short piece from the public domain, including the work of Chekhov, Twain, Chopin, Poe, Lovecraft, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Wilde and many others, even Lincoln’s pivotal Second Inaugural Address. 

Throughout June, 1-2 stories will be released online each day via Going Public, as well as on various author and book blogs. Each participating narrator will be hosted by a different blog. As a “Thank you!” to listeners, stories will be available to listen to for free, for one week (online only – no downloads).

  Recent posts include:
"Death of a Government Clerk" by Anton Chehov read by David Drummond
"Beyond Lies the Wub" by Philip K. Dick read by Mark Turetsky
"Death of a Soldier" by Louisa May Alcott read by Karen White
"Skip Tracer Bullets" by Joe Archibald read by Johnny Heller

Hours for Memorial Day Weekend

Hours for Lane Library and the Learning Commons over the Memorial Day weekend are as follows:

Lane Library

Saturday, May 25: 12:00 Noon - 5:00 PM

Sunday, May 26: 2:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Monday, May 27: CLOSED

Learning Commons

Saturday, May 25: 12:00 Noon - 6:00 PM

Sunday, May 26: CLOSED

Monday, May 27: CLOSED

Video Tutorials from Live Oak Public Library

If you want to learn how to use new software programs or popular web tools, the Live Oak Public Libraries now offer a brilliant set of online video tutorials. With your public library card, you can access the tutorials on-demand from home via the Atomic Training resource. A lot of people pay good money to take classes on some of this software, but the library offers it for free. Check out what is available:

Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Dreamweaver and more!
Apple: Operating Systems, iTunes, iPad, iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, Garage Band, Pages, Safari and more!
Microsoft: Access, Entourage, Excel, One Note, Internet Explorer, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows Live Movie Maker, Word and more!
Plus:Auto CAD, Firefox, HTML5 & CSS3, jQuery & JavaScript, Gliffy, Gmail, Google +, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more!

If you've always wanted to discover how to use some new software or find out what all the fuss is about with some of those social media sites, this is the perfect way to learn at your own pace in the comfort of your own home. What program will you try first?

Popular Reading for May

Now that the semester has ended, it is a great time to enjoy some reading just for yourself. New Popular Reading titles have arrived, so stop by the library to check out a book to read over the break.

• Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
• Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis, reviewed by our own Jewell Anderson here
• The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Update May 21st: World War Z by Max Brooks is now in the Popular Reading section


We also have plenty of other current Popular Reading selections. To browse other titles in the library catalog, use the drop down menu to select "tag" and type popular reading in the search box.

Summer Hours

Intersession and Summer Semester Hours

Closed Summer Holidays: Memorial Day (May 27th) and July 4th

Tuesday, May 7th:  7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8th to Friday, May 10th: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 11th & Sunday, May 12th: CLOSED

Monday, May 13th to Friday, May 17th: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 18th & Sunday, May 19th: CLOSED

Summer Hours Begin Monday, May 20th

Mondays - Thursdays: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Fridays: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays: 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.

Sundays: 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

July 30th to August 12th: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Learning Commons Ribbon Cutting

Here are a few photos from today's Ribbon Cutting at the Learning Commons. Thank you everyone for joining us at the first peek into the space - we look forward to opening soon!

The Learning Commons features:

• 300 seats with two-person consultation rooms; four-and six-person study rooms with internet capabilities and wide screen video monitors
• A 10 person presentation practice room
• Audio/visual editing room
• Wi-Fi throughout, with 50 Mac and PC computers
• Interactive learning tables with large format integrated touch screens, allowing four students to collaborate digitally. A secondary group of up to six students can view the exchange on large screen monitors mounted at the end of each table
• Directional speakers mounted in the ceiling isolate sound within specific areas and allow additional groups to work a few feet away without disturbance
• "Pink" noise sound for acoustic buffering
• Moveable furniture so you can customize your learning and study space

New GALILEO Database

GALILEO has added a new full-text database to its collection, and we think you are going to like it. The Bepress Digital Commons contains peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings and other original scholarly work that has been curated by university librarians and academic subject specialists. The Bepress Digital Commons covers thousands of academic disciplines and stems from a belief in open access to scholarship.

You can reach this database directly from the Databases A-Z list in GALILEO, then use the color-coded wheel interface (as seen above) to browse for subjects. Subjects on the outer edge of the wheel are very specific, and subjects near the center are broad. Once you select a subject to explore, you can either search within that subject, browse recent articles in that subject, browse popular articles, or look at content via the lists of popular authors, institutions and publications within that subject.

Thesis Binding

Graduate Students - to ensure the quickest turnaround on binding your thesis, please submit all required copies by May 14th, 2013. Thesis copies sent in for binding by May 14th will be returned the week of June 24th, 2013.

What do you need to do? It's simple! Submit the following to Rob Jones at Lane Library:

• Four required copies of your thesis 
• Any additional desired personal copies of your thesis
• Completed and signed thesis information form
• Payment in the form of cash or a check for your personal copies, at a cost of $14.25 per copy, made out to AASU

The four required copies are bound at no charge to you. When your personal thesis copies return from the bindery, you will be contacted to pick them up from the library or make arrangements for them to be mailed. If you have questions, please see our Thesis Bindery Information page or contact Rob Jones at (912) 344-3016.