1913 weather disaster

Yesterday [March 23] marked the 98^th anniversary of the beginning of Terre Haute’s biggest weather disaster – the 1913 tornado, followed by a flood, that killed 21 persons on a path stretching from Prairieton through Terre Haute to near Brazil.   Wabash Valley Visions and Voices has a nice digital collection of photos of the damage.  Also, Archives hosts a rather compelling account of the disaster compiled by an ISU history student. [content supplied by S. Hardin]

Annual Booksale: All Set up and Ready to Go! See You March 21-23

Annual Booksale, 3 days, 8am – 8pm – March 21-23, Library Events Area – see our promo video!

Watch NCAA games in Library – During Normal Library Hours

Find our largest plasma TV on the 1st floor, outside the Events area. Since there are concurrent games during March Madness, we will put the channel on that we think the most people are interested in. If  you’re watching and want another channel, please go to the Circulation Desk. 

GoTrees from the Cunningham Memorial Library

 

GO Trees – Library

Go Trees - Electronic Resources down approx. 9pm - 11pm Friday

 

Electronic Resources will be down from approximately 9pm – 11pm, Friday March 18  due to our vendor needing to do maintenance. So, at 10pm, turn on truTV and watch the ISU-Syracuse game! In Terre Haute channel 47 on cable.

Electronic Resources & Libraries Presentation

George Stachokas, Electronic Resources Librarian, presented a new schema for classifying free electronic resources at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2011 Conference in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, March 1. His presentation was the first part of the “The Necessity, Challenge, and Opportunity of Managing Free Electronic Resources” session. Stephanie Braunstein of the Louisiana State University Libraries spoke about managing electronic government information in the second part.

Special Collections News Items

Books Donated and Upcoming Publication

Dr. David Vancil spent much of Thursday February 24 with Clarence Major, Schick lecturer and artist.  Major is a poet, novelist, and visual artist.  Two books inscribed by him will donated will be to Special Collections after the renovation has been completed and the collections are redistributed.  

Dictionaries has asked Dr. Vancil to write an article on the public dictionary collections in North America. This will appear in Dictionaries #32, 2011.

changing CHANGE MACHINES

Cash Machine

During Spring Break a cash machine that dispenses only bills (no coinage) was installed on the first floor by the south wall.

The coin machine that is current there will be removed. After Friday, March 4, the Circulation Desk will no longer be making change for patrons.

LIBRARY CELEBRATES NCAA! on BLUE FRIDAY

In support of the ISU men’s basketball team who will be appearing in their first NCAA appearance in 10 years, I encourage everyone to wear ISU apparel on Friday. In addition, we will place posters around the library that cheer on the team, and we’ll offer blue cookies at the circ desk to our library users and staff.

Go Trees!

Alberta Davis Comer, Dean of Library Services  812-237-2649

Texting and Social Media Help for Japan Earthquake

list from e-IndyStar:

Several non­profit agencies providing disaster relief to victims have set up text donation options.

» American Red Cross Relief: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to do­nate $10 or redcross.org.

» The Salvation Army: Text JAPAN or QUAKE to 80888 to make a $10 donation or salvation armyindiana.org.

» Convoy of Hope: Text TSU­NAMI to 50555 to donate $10 or convoyofhope.org.

» World Relief Corp. of the National Association of Evangel­icals: Text WAVE to 50555 to donate $10 or worldrelief.org.

» GlobalGiving: Text JAPAN to 50555 to donate $10 or global giving.org.

Google is using its People Finder to help assist victims in touching base with family and friends. It allows users to look for victims or post information about people in five languages.

Go to google.com/crisisresponse/ japanquake2011.html for more information.

Completed: Student Printer Configurations

Completed today:

Reported earlier: Printers have been re-named so that the desired printer (BW for Black and White) will be easier to find on the Printing list. The final/new list should look like this:

Library_Student_BW_1^st floor

Library_Student_BW_2^ndfloor

Library_Student_BW_3^rdfloor

Library_Student_BW_Lower Level

Library_Student_BW_Basement

Library_Student_Color_1^stfloor