Unwind With a Game of Chess in the Library!

Need a diversion from your studies?  Blackwell Library now offers a chess table across from the Circulation Desk.  Check out the pieces for up to 3 hours and challenge a friend to a game!

Women's History Month Display at Blackwell

To celebrate Women's History Month, the University Archivist curated an exhibit in support of the numerous activities planned throughout the month. Highlighted are three Eastern Shore women from the Civil War Era, Clara Gunby Huffington, Harriet Ross Tubman and Anna Ella Carroll, along with mid to late 19th century publications, clothing, accessories and facsimiles of letters, journals and tintypes from the Wicomico Historical Society, Benjamin Lankford and Gunby Collections of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University. The display case is located next to the Leisure Collection on the first floor.

Government Document of the Month for March!

We're pleased to announce this month's government document:

Deep Water: the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling

(Report and Recommendations to the President)

The Government Documents Department is proud to showcase these documents, which describe and analyze a highly significant event in the environmental history of the United States.  “On May 22, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: an independent nonpartisan entity, directed to provide a thorough analysis and impartial judgment” (p.vi). This report and its accompanying recommendations are the result of the six-month investigation.  Fascinating? Disturbing? You decide.  Check them out at the Circulation Desk. SuDoc numbers are: PR 44.8:D36/G95 and PR44.8:D36/G95/RECOMM.

McNaughton Books in Leisure Reading Collection

Feedback from our 2010 Library User Satisfaction Survey suggested that we offer more popular books for recreational reading.  After investigating, we determined that a McNaughton Plan would be beneficial, which allows us to receive at least 10 of the latest popular titles at a time, keep them for as long as users want, and then we cab swap those titles out for newer ones! Currently, we have titles by Stephen King, Anita Shreve, Alice Hoffman, Jack McDevitt, and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.  These titles are shelved in the Leisure Reading collection (across from the popular magazines) and recognizable by the green stripe along the bottom of the book.  The loan period is four weeks for all SU borrowers.  Come check them out!

Government Document of the Month - February

Document of the Month: February 2011

On May 20, 2009, President Obama signed into law an Act that established the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to “examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.”  During the course of its investigation, the ten person bipartisan committee reviewed millions of pages of documents, interviewed more than 700 witnesses, and held 19 days of public hearings in New York, Washington, D.C., and communities across the country that were hit hard by the crisis.  (Announcement from the FDLP)

You can find the Commission’s final report on the Document of the Month display, call number: Y3.2:F49/2/C86. Please take all documents to the Circulation Desk to check out.

New at Blackwell!

We have recently upgraded our wireless ports in the library so you should notice faster wireless connections.  We are also in the process of adding 23 new PCs to the main floor for student use.  Please stop by and try out our improved computing services! 

Reminder: Changes To Fines start 1/24

Effective January 24th,  Blackwell Library will be changing the way it handles your library fines.  One option, which hasn’t changed, is to pay your fines immediately at the Library Circulation Desk.  What’s new is that after 30 days your fines will be transferred to the SU Cashier, and the Library will no longer be able to accept your payment.  The benefit of this change is that the Cashier will accept your credit card, as well as Gull Card or personal check, for payment.