The University and Science Libraries will offer the following extended hours from 9am on Sunday, December 6th through 8pm on Wednesday, December 16th. 

Circulation Services will be operating during all hours the libraries are open and will be staffed by at least one full-time staff member and student assistants.

The University Library - Including Periodicals and the IMC will be open:
Sunday                                 9:00am - 24 Hours
Monday–Thursday             --- 24 Hours ---
Friday                                  24 Hours - 1:00am
Saturday                              9:00am - 1:00am

The Science Library will be open:
Sunday                            Noon - 1:00am 
Monday–Thursday          8:00am - 1:00am 
Friday                             8:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday                         9:00am - 8:00pm

The hours are also posted on the library hours page: http://library.albany.edu/about/hours/

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LexisNexis will be doing maintenance related to the end of Daylight Savings Time. As a result LexisNexis Academic, Congressional, and Statistical will be unavailable to users from October 31, 9:00 p.m. through November 01, 2009, 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time.


If users try to access the service during that time, they will receive a message, “service unavailable, please try again later.”


We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Catherine M. Dwyer, Head of Reference and Government Documents Librarian at University at Albany Libraries, is the 2009 recipient of the New York Library Association, Government Information Round Table Mildred Lowe Award for outstanding contributions to government information librarianship.

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Interactive Media Center offers free classes, open to the public. Topics include Photoshop, Web design, PowerPoint, audio and video applications. Walk-Ins welcome.  See: http://library.albany.edu/imc/signup_form.htm
Highlights of some of the classes follow:

Adobe Photoshop: Fliers, Announcements & Collages  Learn how to create colorful high quality print documents. Students who never used Photoshop will learn how to add graphics, logos, and photos to a canvas. Resolution, file size and file type are discussed. Use text layers to re-use and update meeting announcements, invitations and publication dates.

Getting Started with PowerPoint  Discover how to make dynamic presentations with PowerPoint.  Learn how to create legible text, install images, embed sound, and place video.  Find out how to use transitions and animations. 

Introduction to Making Movies from Pre-recorded Film and Creating DVDs Learn how to import video from many sources including your camcorder into a video editing application (iMovie will be used). Learn how to cut, move, and crop video clips; add transitions, sound files, special effects and titles.  Export the final project to AVI, WMV or QuickTime format, DVD, VHS tape or add to a PowerPoint presentation.

The Special Web Development Sequence is an opportunity to design and build a Web site in a manner that replicates the steps a professional Web developer follows. Over the course of four sessions participants will take a Web site home page from basic concept to finished page. Software tools are primarily Studio 8 Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

Introduction to Audacity, Free Audio Editing Software Import audio from any source.  Conduct interviews and create Podcast files. Import into the computer and combine audio tracks and edit to create a new audio file.  Export to an MP3 player, CD or tape, include in a movie, on the Web or in a PowerPoint presentation.

Register at the University Library Interactive Media Center desk, basement floor, tele. 442-3607, or on the web: http://library.albany.edu/imc/signup_form.htm.  Walk-Ins welcome.

For more information contact: Regina Conboy, 442-3608 rconboy@uamail.albany.edu

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Carol Anne has been awarded the annual Ingenta Research Award from the American Library
Association’s Library Research Round Table. The award recognizes the significance and quality of Carol Anne’s doctoral research in “Maintaining persistent scholarship: an analysis of the accessibility rate of cited
electronic resources within doctoral dissertations” and provides funding support. Congratulations, Carol Anne!

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Check the New Titles list in Minerva, a recently added feature. The list is available by clicking on the last tab on the main Minerva search screen, labeled 'New Titles'. The list is in call number order, and will be available monthly. The previous month's list will also be available. Clicking on an individual title will take you to the Minerva record.

Minerva - Library Catalog

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