You'll see some changes in Hagerty Library as we prepare for the renovations that will be going on over the summer.

• Reserve books and other materials can now be checked out from the main circulation desk.
  
• Current periodicals have been moved to the Reference shelves.
  
• On of the coin-operated copiers has been moved to the right end of the DVD racks; the other is near the Reference Area printer. The DragonCard operated copiers are now in room.138 -- also to the left of the printer.
  
• The popular magazine rack is now at the left end of the long DVD racks, and the microfilm readers have been moved in to the Circulation Desk area where assistance can be provided by library staff.

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The libraries extend their warmest congratulations to all of the students who graduated last week, and in May.

But you don't have to say "good-bye" to us! Your Drexel alumni benefits include continued use of the libraries (in person), and the ability to borrow books and other materials from the libraries. We regret that, at the current time, we are unable to offer Interlibrary Loan services or off-campus use of our electronic resources (e-journals, e-books and databases) to alumni.

Please see "Library Services for Alumni/ae" for further information.

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The Drexel College of Law Library is hiring work-study students for the summer quarter and possibly beyond. Job duties include assisting library patrons at the Access Services desk and on the phone as well as stack maintenance duties, which include shelving, shelf-reading and shifting library collections. Applicants must be customer service-oriented with basic computer skills. Dependability, punctuality, good communication skills and the ability to lift heavy books are also musts.

We have openings before noon on Monday through Thursday and throughout the day on Friday. If interested, or for more information, please contact Mike Mellor at mbm53@drexel.edu or Katie Bray at knb29@drexel.edu. Unfortunately, only students with federal work-study grants can be accepted.

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And the question is . . . . "How many continuous hours is Hagerty Library open for exams?"

Our all-night library access continues this week through Thursday night, with the library building closing at 11:00 pm on Friday.

Enjoy our midnight movie series, with this week's features including Spaceballs, Them (giant mutant ants!), Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation, and for the finale on Thursday night, The Wizard of Oz.

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Several thefts have been reported in Hagerty Library this week; items lost include a wallet, a laptop and a jacket.

PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE YOUR BELONGINGS UNATTENDED! We realize that students are distracted and under stress at this time of year; unfortunately, those looking for easy targets know this as well. If you're taking a restroom break, getting a cup of coffee, or just going to talk to a friend for awhile, take your laptop, your backpack, your cell phone, etc. with you, or ask a trusted friend to watch them.

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Posters for the Mandell Theaters Professionals In Residency Project By Students Printmakers, on display in the lounge on the lower level of Hagerty Library through September 2007.

This exhibition features the work of students in the Printmaking Area of the Antionette Westphal College of Media Art and Design.

On the back wall are posters by printmaking students made in collaboration with Drexel’s Theater Departments –
Mandell Theaters Professionals In Residency Project. The students designed posters for the following resident theater professional and their productions at Mandell Theater:

• Pig Iron Theatre: Mission to Mercury, Love Meets Henry Halfway, Gentleman Volunteers, Cabaret at the Rotunda and Love Unpunished
  
• Commonwealth Classic Theater Company: Batch: An American Batchelor/ette Party in Six Rounds
  
• New Paradise Laboratories: Loves Labors Lost

The other prints in the exhibition are selected from classes in Printmaking and Screen-Printing. They represent student's unique responses to different printmaking processes and ideas.

Printmaking and Screen-Printing is taught at Drexel by Jennifer Blazina. For more information about printmaking you can contact Professor Blazina at: jennifer.a.blazina@drexel.edu.

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At midnight on Wednesday, June 6th, Hagerty Library begins its Midnight Movie Series. Take a study break and catch a movie in the Mary E. Hagerty Learning Lab (Room L33) on the Lower Level of the library. Midnight Movie selections will include Dune, Cabaret, Spaceballs and Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation and other classic choices.

Tonight also begins Hagerty Library's 24/7 library access for the exam period. Circulation and Reserve Desk services will be closed (all laptops and reserve books must be returned by 1:45), but study space, computers and printing via DragonCard funds -- and, of course, all of our electronic books, journals, etc. -- will be available. To enter the Library after 2:00 am, swipe your ID card at the card reader next to the front door (see below).

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Okay, we don't either -- in fact, we don't know anyone who does!

Tim Siftar, our IST/Education Librarian has just updated his very helpful PowerPoint overview of RefWorks, the powerful web-based bibliographic management software offered the by the libraries. You can learn how to download and save citations from library databases and other sources, and use them to create bibliographies in all of the standard academic formats.

Find Tim's "Using RefWorks" on our tutorials page, http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/tutorials.html#citing.

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Summer (reduced) hours at the Queen Lane Library began on Friday, June 1st; the Library will have reduced hours during the week, and will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays through the beginning of August. Summer hours at the Hahnemann Library will begin the week of June 17th. Please see http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/hours/index.html for details.

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