Coe Library welcomes you to enjoy food and drink in the library. In fact, our Book and Bean coffee shop just added Sunday hours (yay!) and will be adding new menu items this fall like fresh-baked cookies and soups! We do need to protect our book collection, so please keep drinks in spill-proof cups throughout the building and limit snacking to levels 1, 2, 3, and 5 of the new Coe Library addition.

Book and Bean hours, Fall semester 2009:

• Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Friday: 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
• Sunday: 3:00 -9:00 p.m.

The libraries are already bustling with students and instructors back from summer break. Stop by to see the new Coe Library, check out a book or a movie, or use the computer lab.  Reference librarians are available to help you locate the books you need, find things in the new building, or navigate the brand-new library catalog.

Fall semester hours for all library branches follow:

Monday – Thursday:

• Coe Library 7:30 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. (closes at 10:00 p.m. Thursdays)
• Library Annex, LRC & Herbarium 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Brinkerhoff Geology Library 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m

Friday:

• Coe Library 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• all others 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Saturday:

• Coe Library noon – 5:00 p.m.
• all others closed

Sunday:

• Coe Library noon – 11:00 p.m.
• Library Annex & Geology Library noon – 5:00 p.m.
• LRC & Herbarium closed

Have you read a great book lately? Coe Library is hosting a “Read-In” as part of Summit 2009, the new orientation for first-year students at UW. We would love to share some personal recommendations from UW staff and faculty in special book display for the event. The book you suggest will be displayed with your name, department, and any personal remarks you share about why you loved it.

Read more about Summit here: http://www.uwyo.edu/summit/

If you have a book suggestion to share, you can comment on this post or send it to kcalkins@uwyo.edu. Thank you!

The summer-long nightmare is over… Prospector (the unified catalog of Colorado libraries) is back up and you can once again order materials to be delivered to UW at no cost! Just in time for the last days of summer, get your books, DVDs, CDs… let your imagination be your guide. One quick note: Prospector now requires you to enter your WyoOne username and password or your name (First and Last) and library barcode to make a request. Questions? Just ask us: 1-800-442-6757.

The summer session ends August 8th and the libraries will move to shortened late summer hours. We will resume normal semester hours with the beginning of the fall session on August 24th. Enjoy these last summer weekends while you can, the library will be open when the chill comes.

From August 8th – August 23nd, the following hours will be in effect for the libraries:

Monday – Friday:
Coe Library 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Geology Library & Herbarium 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
LRC 7:30 a.m. – noon and 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday: All closed

August 23rd (Sunday)
Coe Library noon – 4:30 p.m.
all others closed

Users of the library catalog probably noticed something different this week as we unveiled our new, improved, extremely fancy library catalog at http://uwcatalog.uwyo.edu/ and the extra-fancy search at http://encore.uwyo.edu.

A few cool features of the new catalog:

• Single search for  UW Libraries, the Law Library and American Heritage Center materials.
• Fully integrated with Prospector so you will be able to request materials easily.
• Spell-checking (“did you mean?”) and tag clouds.
• Course Reserves remain the same but the bookmark has changed.
• Request It service remains unchanged.

Have you played it with it yet? Do you like it better than the old catalog? Let us know of any issues or problems that you see!

[post edited to include super-fancy new link to encore.uwyo.edu]