WorldCat's New CiteMe Facebook App

The LSU Libraries Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/lsulibraries) now comes with a built-in citation generator.  Thanks to WorldCat, the world’s largest library catalog, researchers can now create customized citations with the click of a mouse, and right inside Facebook.   The CiteMe App offers citation help in five different styles:  APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard.   For more information, check out the WorldCat blog post about the Facebook app:  http://www.worldcat.org/blogs/archives/2008/06/citeme-on-facebook.htm.

By logging into WorldCat via the LSU Libraries Indexes & Databases page, researchers can also create entire bibliographies quickly and easily.  Questions about these tools?  Simply contact one of LSU Libraries’ reference librarians by Reference Chat or Email!  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/readyref.html

Happy Citing!

Middleton Library will be closed this Saturday, November 14, for the home football game against Louisiana Tech.  The library will reopen Sunday at 12 PM. Hill Memorial Library will be open Saturday, November 14, from 9AM to 1PM.

This Fall, Middleton Library will close for every Saturday home football game.  Hill Memorial Library will close for every Saturday home football game that begins earlier than 4PM.

Because of suspended shipping by LSU and most major universities during the Christmas holiday period, December 21, 2009, to January 4, 2010, Interlibrary Borrowing is advising patrons to place ILLiad requests as early as possible before the holidays.  Loans requested after December 7, 2009, may not be shipped before January 4, 2010.  Articles requested after December 18, 2009, may not be delivered before January 4, 2010.

We will resume processing all ILLiad requests on January 4, 2010.

Middleton Library will be closed this Saturday, October 31, for the home football game against Tulane.  The library will reopen Sunday at 12 PM. Hill Memorial Library will be open Saturday, October 31, from 9AM to 1PM.

This Fall, Middleton Library will close for every Saturday home football game.  Hill Memorial Library will close for every Saturday home football game that begins earlier than 4PM.

Trick or treat! LSU Libraries gives you something good to READ!

Need some sweet reads to get you through those dark and stormy nights?  LSU Libraries recommends the following books for particularly spine-tingling experiences.  Each book is available (until it’s checked out!) from Middleton Library, and the call number for each book is listed in parentheses beside the book.  Click the hyperlinked title to view the LSU Libraries catalog record for each book.

The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman (813 G141G)

Something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury (PS3503 .R164 S6)

The damnation game by Clive Barker (PR6052 .A6475 D36 1995)

Needful things by Stephen King (PS3561 .I483 N4 1991)

It by Stephen King (PS3561 .I483 I8 1986)

Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice (PS3568 .I265 I5)

The mummy, or, Ramses the damned by Anne Rice (PS3568 .I265 M86 1989)

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (PS3565 .A8 Z43 1995)

The portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (PS2602 .K46 2006)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (PR5397 .F7 1983)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (PR6037 .T617 D7 2001)

Ghost stories of Louisiana by Dan Asfar (GR110 .L5 A84 2007)

The sugar witch by Nathan Sanders (PS3619 .A5273 S86 2008)

The heretic’s daughter:  a novel by Kathleen Kent (PS3611 .E674 H47 2008)

Bonechiller by Graham McNamee (813 M1682B)

The terror: a novel by Dan Simmons (PS3569 .I47292 T47 2007)

The year of past things:  a New Orleans ghost story by M. A. Harper (PS3558 .A6247937 Y43 2004)

Hannibal by Thomas Harris (PS3558 .A6558 H36 1999)

The sound of building coffins by Louis Maistros (PS3613 .A3545 S68 2009)

Relic by Douglas J. Preston (813 P9376R)

Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories by Robert Louis Stevenson (PR5485 .A1 1963)

Tales by H. P. Lovecraft (PS3523 .O833 A6 2005)

Special thanks to Alice Daugherty for compiling this list of terrifying tomes. Watch for more recommendations from LSU Libraries in the future!

Middleton Library will be closed this Saturday, October 24, for the home football game against Auburn.  The library will reopen Monday at 7:15 AM. Hill Memorial Library will be open Saturday, October 24, from 9AM to 1PM.

This Fall, Middleton Library will close for every Saturday home football game.  Hill Memorial Library will close for every Saturday home football game that begins earlier than 4PM.

Open Access Week 2009, organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries, is a week-long event held during the week of October 19-23, 2009. Participants at locations around the world have scheduled activities that will help to publicize open access as the principle of free access to knowledge and information generated by publicly-funded research. In observance of International Open Access Week, the LSU Libraries is scheduling several events to promote awareness and understanding of Open Access.

There will be information available for in the Middleton Library and Librarians will answer questions and engage discussions about open access. OnTuesday, October 20 there will be a short video showing of “Open Access – 101″ at 1:00 p.m. in Room 241A of the Middleton Library. On Wednesday, October 21 there will be a panel discussion at 1:00 p.m. in Room 241A of the Middleton Library featuring distinguished speakers from the LSU campus addressing the issue of open access at LSU. On Friday, October 23 there will be a presentation at 1:00 p.m. in Room 241A, Middleton Library, featuring openly accessible databases and resources that are freely available to anyone through the Library’s webpage.

These events are open to everyone and everyone is invited.  Open Access is important and it is our desire that everyone has unfettered access to public information.

We hope you will join us in celebration of
fifty years of Middleton Library

Friday, October 23, 2009
2:00 pm in the afternoon
Take a tour and see special exhibits on display.

For more information, see
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/admin/dev/midl50index.html

There will be extended hours from Sunday, October 11 until Thursday, October 15 for Middleton Library. The first floor of Middleton Library will remain until 2:00 am, allowing extended access to the reference department, circulation, the current periodicals room and the computer lab.

Other floors and areas will close at their regularly scheduled close time.

For more information on library hours, visit our hours page.

“Energy and persistence conquer all things”
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

Middleton Library will be closed this Saturday, October 10, for the home football game against UL-Lafayette.  The library will reopen Monday at 7:15 AM. Hill Memorial Library will be open Saturday, October 10, from 9AM to 1PM.

This Fall, Middleton Library will close for every Saturday home football game.  Hill Memorial Library will close for every Saturday home football game that begins earlier than 4PM.