Ohio University Libraries News and Events

Alden Library will be open during Summer Session from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. The Learning Commons on the second floor will be open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday; from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; and from noon to midnight Sunday. These hours will start with the beginning of Summer Session on Monday, June 23, 2008 and run until Friday August 29, 2008.

Library patrons may request that books be retrieved from closed areas in Alden Library from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, from 12 to 5 p.m. Saturday; and from 12 to 9 p.m. Sunday. These requests can be made at the Library Services Desk in the Learning Commons. During the same hours, faculty and graduate students may request a pass for access to the rest of the building.

For more information on the library’s summer hours and for hours between the end of Summer Session and the beginning of Fall Quarter, visit our Hours page.

Our ALICE Online Catalog will be receiving a software upgrade starting around 5:00 PM on Monday, June 16. This means that the system will be unavailable for a period of time starting shortly after 5:00 PM. The system could remain down for as long as a few hours, although it will probably be considerably less than that.

The upgrade should not cause any major changes in the appearance and behavior of the public Web Alice interface.

The Library will have extended hours for the final exam period from Friday, June 6th through Wednesday, June 11th.

All floors except the 2nd floor:

• Friday 8AM to 9PM
• Saturday 10 AM to 9 PM
• Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday – Open until 2AM

Learning Commons (2nd floor):

• Friday and Saturday – open until 2 AM
• Sunday 9AM through Friday 9PM

Planet Panorama is an exhibit about the scale of our Solar System. It shows the Sun, the 8 planets, 3 dwarf planets as well as asteroids and comets, and their relative sizes and distances if the planetary orbits were shrunk to fit inside a football field. It will be on display in the Learning Commons during May and June of 2008.

Planet Panorama is funded by a grant from NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute to Mangala Sharma (Physics & Astronomy, Ohio University.) The artist who helped design and create the exhibit is John Sabraw (School of Art, Ohio University).