On Wednesday, July 23, the IWU campus website will change over to its new design.  We will be working on the Ames Library site to ensure all information and links to library resources are correct after the transition.  If you are looking for a link and cannot find it, please email Stephanie Davis-Kahl.

You can also use these direct links to resources and services:

Research Guides
MegaSearch
Ames Catalog
I-Share
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan)
RefWorks
Digital Commons

Thanks for your patience!

FYI: the BioOne website will be undergoing maintenance starting Friday, June 20. Scheduled downtime will begin at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time and may last up to 4 hours. During this time content and services on bioone.org will be unavailable.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be working to update our website to prepare for the launch of our redesigned campus website.  If you are looking for something and can’t find it, please call Help@Ames at x3900 or email Stephanie Davis-Kahl for assistance.

Thanks in advance for your patience!

Our academic library consortium CARLI has negotiated a multi-publisher program that allows e-books to be shared among all CARLI library users in Illinois. The program provides over 29,000 titles in all disciplines; the publisher list is included at the end of this message.

Catalog records for these titles are available in our local catalog and the I-Share catalog. You may also visit the CARLI eBook website to access the titles directly. You will be prompted to authenticate, whether or not you are on campus, to enable tracking of circulations. These e-books have a 7 day loan period and users can view content online, download and print. Once a title has been used 9 times, it is purchased by CARLI for permanent use by all libraries.

This pilot program comes as part of our CARLI governing library membership and follows months of negotiations by the CARLI staff. Shared consortial e-book programs are still quite unusual, as publishers are leery of this changing marketplace. The library faculty look forward to your feedback on this program.  If  you have comments to share, please contact Karen Schmidt, University Librarian.

Publishers include:

· Bloomsbury Academic
· CABI
· Diplomica
· Edinburgh University Press
· Guilford Publications
· Indiana University Press
· Jessica Kingsley Publishers
· John Benjamins Publishing
· McGraw-Hill International UK
· Morgan & Claypool
· Princeton University Press
· Sage Publications
· University of California Press
· University of North Carolina Press
· Zed Books

Holidays Organized Neatly, by Lauren Manning, CC BY 2.0

Wishing all in our community a safe and happy holiday break!

Holiday Break Hours for The Ames Library:

Friday, December 13th:
7:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 14th & Sunday, December 15th:
CLOSED
Monday, December 16th – Friday, December 20th :
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 21st – Wednesday, January 1st :
CLOSED
Thursday, January 2nd & Friday, January 3rd :
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 4th & Sunday, January 5th: :
CLOSED
Monday, January 6th & Tuesday, January 7th :
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.