The class below will meet in the Coe Library Electronic Classroom on Friday:

9:00 – 9:50 ANTH 1000 (Renaud)

Which is your favorite color? I prefer brown myself, but real gold certainly has its charms.

Don’t Forget – Friday, August 31st is National College Colors Day!

Tomorrow is National College Colors Day. Support the Pokes by encouragaing your co-workers to wear UW Cowboy colors to work. Host a staff appreciation tailgating event to get your crew excited for the College Football Season and the cowboy’s home opener vs. Virginia! Or just tell every Pokes fan you see to sport their team colors this Friday. We’re counting on you to show your Cowboy spirit in celebration of this national event!

The following classes will meet in the Coe Library Electronic Classroom Thursday:

• 8:00 – 8:50 a.m. CNSL 1000 (McGriff)
• 2:45 – 4:00 p.m. BADM 4570 (Valentine)
• 4:10 – 5:25 p.m. MGT 4410 (Valentine)

Interested in automatic notification of new articles by your favorite authors, in your favorite journals, on your research topics? EbscoHost databases just made it easier to subscribe to RSS updates for all of those searches. (For a quick refresher on making the most of RSS feeds and feed readers, click here.)

After you enter your search in an Ebsco database, you will see the following screen:

After you click on “create alert for this search” you will see the following screen which offers a link to the RSS feed and options to enable email delivery:

Questions about using RSS to automate your searches? We are happy to help you at the reference desk.

Welcome back to campus everyone!

In good news, the Library Annex re-opens to the public today. Come visit your favorite journals and scientific books! The Annex is located underground between the Biological and Physical Sciences buildings.

Library Annex Hours:

• 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday – Thursday
• 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday
• noon – 5 p.m. Saturday – Sunday

August saw two Coe Library veterans retire, Lois Berry and Lloyd Hashimoto. A big thank you to Lois and Lloyd for their service, and a thank you to the musical entertainment at their retirement parties, Matt, the Cupcake and the Sprinkles!

Lois left the UW Libraries after 35 years of service. A recent winner of the Outstanding Service Award and all around awesome worker, we will miss her!

Lois Berry wins Outstanding Service Award.

Lois listens to the sweet sounds of “Catalogerville”.

Lloyd Hashimoto offered 36 years of excellent service to the UW Libraries. We will miss his hard work and his great stories!

Lloyd enjoys his spoof song “Crazy Little Thing Called Lloyd”.

Lloyd and his dislike of squirrels get the spoof treatment.

This week marks the 50 anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.

Written in three weeks on a single roll of paper, the beat classic has received retrospective treatment all over the web.

I remember reading On the Road in high school as a sort of rite of passage, but it never really resonated with me. When did you read it? And what do you remember about it?

I could not resist another literary quiz during these long quiet August days at the library. Of course, I may have been less likely to post it if I did not get a pleasing result. What character are you?

Take the Quiz here!