Mardigian Library News

After nearly a decade of service to the campus, ERes, the library's electronic reserves system, will be decommissioned on May 31, 2008. No new account requests will be accepted after December 31, 2006.

We encourage faculty members currently using ERes to move their course materials to:

• CTools
• VLT
• WebCT (School of Management)

The Faculty Lounge is closed due to water damage. It will reopen when the damage is repaired; we do not yet know when the repairs will be complete. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The library news blog has moved to a new location. The new address is:

http://library.umd.umich.edu/news/

If you use an RSS reader such as Bloglines or read blogs through Thunderbird, you should now use our new rss feed address. Additional feeds, including feeds for individual news categories, are available on the right-hand side of the news pages.

Not familiar with RSS? How to explain RSS the Oprah way offers a clear explanation of how you can use RSS to keep up-to-date on blogs and web sites.

Faculty members: to guarantee that your reserve materials are available for the first
day of the Winter 2007 semester please submit no later than December 4, 2006:

1. your list of items that you wish placed on course reserve
2. any photopcopies or personal copies of books you wish to have placed on reserve

Requests for reserve items that are received after this date will be processed on a first come, first served basis. We cannot guarantee that items requested after December 4, 2006 will be available at the start of classes.

Reserve forms are available at the Circulation Desk or the library web site.

Next R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat, Discuss) Meeting

• Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Date: Wednesday, November 8
• Time: Noon to 1 pm
• Location: 1210 ML