New summer hours!

Through mid-August we will have extended hours as follows:

Monday-Thursday: 8am-7pm

Friday: 8am-4pm

Saturday-Sunday: 9am-5pm

Open this Saturday 9-4

Adrian College is hosting the annual meeting of the Detroit Conference of the United Methodist church this weekend. In addition to our regular summer hours, the library will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 17.

Summer hours

Now that the spring semester is over we have switched to our normal summer schedule:

Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

We are closed on the weekends.

All our online resources are available 24/7 through our website.

End of semester wrap-up

We have almost reached the finish line of another semester. Congratulations to all the graduates and everyone else for a great year. As usual, all library materials are due back to the library by 5pm on Friday, April 25. We will bill through the College Business Office the following week for unreturned items and/or unpaid fines.

Please return everything by Friday and save yourself the hassle of dealing with the fines! Thank you!

Thinking about grad school?

We have access to FREE practice exams for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT through an online source called Learn-a-Test from Learning Express Library. There are lots of expensive test prep materials and courses out there for these exams; do yourself a favor and take advantage of these free library resources!

Here’s a link to the site

In the Heritage Room: April, 2008

This month we are pleased to host the 2008 Adrian College Art Department’s Outstanding Senior exhibit. Two students have been selected for this year’s show. Kara Pieracini paints watercolors and Laura VanCamp creates kiln-fired pottery. They were selected by the directors of the Chelsea Gallery during the Student Juried Exhibition last fall.

The exhibit will be up through April, 25 during regular library hours.

Adrian College archival photos on Flickr

We have started to post selected photos from the Adrian College archive on Flickr, a public photo hosting website and social network. So far our online collection contains 29 photos, with many more to come.

Adrian College - Shipman Library photo archive

You are able to view the photos, tag them with keywords and make comments. Or you can view the entire collection as a slideshow.

All these photos were scanned by students from the AC History Department and were part of our February Heritage Room exhibit.

In the Heritage Room: March 2008

This month we have an exhibit by Michigan artist Sharon Scochin. Twenty years into her art career she suffered a stroke and had to learn to paint with her opposite hand. She explains it this way, “Since painting was the essence of life for me, I had to go on. I had to retool. All the artistic training was still there in my head, I just had to redirect it to my left hand.”

The exhibit is one of many events on campus during Disabilities Awareness Week. Please stop by when you have a moment. The exhibit will be up through March during regular library hours.

Spring break schedule

Here’s the library schedule over spring break:

Feb. 23-24: closed

Feb.25-29: open 8am - 4pm

March 1: closed

March 2: open 7pm - 11pm

We will resume our regular schedule on Monday, March 2.

In the Heritage Room: February 2008

This month we have a great exhibit about the history of student life at Adrian College. The Heritage Room is filled with photos, articles and other items from the college archives. The material was selected and organized by students from our history department.

There is a lot to see and read, so set aside a little time and be sure to see this exhibit. It will be running through February during normal library hours. Please note that the library will be closed February 23-24 and we will be open from 8am to 4pm daily from February 25-29 during spring break.

There will be a reception at 3pm on Friday, February 15 in the Heritage Room. All are welcome to attend and light refreshments will be served.