»Spring Semester Hours for the library are here.

»For Faculty: Advancing Student Research

As you plan for your spring semester courses, remember that the librarians of the Lauinger and Blommer Science Libraries can be your partners in introducing research methods and resources to your students. Here’s how:

• Link to Library Guides to Research by Subject, which point students in the direction of major resources in 60 topic areas. These can be linked from a course Web site or Blackboard site. We can even create a guide just for your course.
  
• Schedule a library research instruction session with a librarian.

  --Sessions are tailored to class assignments
  --Sessions can focus on particular research issues, e.g., primary sources, statistics, government documents
  --Librarians introduce relevant periodical indexes, specialized databases, reference books, and Web sites and strategies for using them
  --Students have hands-on practice with research materials using the computers in Dubin Classroom, first floor of Lauinger
  --Request online

For more information about library research instruction, contact Sandy Hussey at 687-8689 or visit the Library Research Instruction page.

»Browse The Hoya (1959-1980), now available in digital form.

»Francis Biddle Exhibit

A new exhibit in Lauinger Library, Francis Biddle: A Man of Authority, features manuscripts, printed items, and books highlighting the career of Francis Biddle, best known as the U.S. attorney general under Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II and subsequently as a judge on the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Some aspects of Biddle’s career touched on in the exhibit include his service as private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; counsel investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority; and judge on the International Military Tribunal. The exhibit, housed in the Kerbs Exhibit Area on the third floor, runs through January 2006.

Ford's Theatre recently used materials from the Francis Biddle Papers and the Katherine Biddle Papers in Lauinger Library's Special Collections to aid in its production of the play Trying, by Joanna McClelland Glass, which opens on January 20, 2006. The play is about the last year of Francis Biddle's life. Trying runs at Ford's Theatre from January 20, 2006 to February 26, 2006.