Library hours during Dead Week & Finals Week

"OPEN 24 HRS" by Tom Magliery is licensed under CC BY 2.0

It's about time! The Albertsons Library will be once again be open 24 hours a day for dead week AND Finals week starting on Monday, April 25. Here's the schedule (1st & 2nd floors only):

• Dead Week: 
• Monday, April 25 open 24 hours until Friday, April 29 when we close at 7 pm.
• Saturday, April 30: 10 am to 7 pm.

• Finals Week:
• Sunday, May 1: open 24 hours starting at 10 am until Thursday, May 5 when we close at midnight.
• Friday, May 6: 7 am to 5 pm
• Saturday & Sunday, May 7 & 8: Closed

During the late night hours staff will be on hand to answer questions and check out first-floor reserve materials. Our instruction classroom (L203) and its bank of computers will be open and available to students during dead and finals week.

Free coffee and treats will be provided each night (while supplies last!) by the Associated Students of Boise State University (ASBSU). An officer from the Boise Police Department will be on duty in the library all night and can provide escort service as needed.

Extended Library Hours for Dead Week & Finals

The Albertsons Library will be open 24 hours a day for dead week AND Finals week starting Monday, December 7. Here's the schedule for dead week & finals week (1st & 2nd floors only):

• Sunday 12/6: 10 am to midnight
• Dead Week: Monday 12/7: Open at 7 am and close at midnight on Friday, 12/11
• Saturday 12/12: Open 10 am to midnight
• Finals Week: Sunday 12/13: Open 10 am and close at 7 pm on Thursday, 12/17
• End of Semester: Friday 12/18: Open 8 am to 5 pm
• Saturday 12/19 & Sunday 12/20: Closed

During the late night hours staff will be on hand to answer questions and check out first-floor reserve materials. Our instruction classroom (L203) and its bank of computers will be available to students during dead and finals week.

Free coffee and treats will be provided each night (while supplies last!) by the Associated Students of Boise State University (ASBSU). An officer from the Boise Police Department will be on duty in the library all night and can provide escort service as needed.

Please refer to our calendar for a complete list of library hours. Of course, you can always access our online resources 24/7 at http://library.boisestate.edu/

Good luck, Broncos!
 

Library Hours During Finals

The Albertsons Library will be open 24 hours a day during Dead AND Finals week starting Monday, April 27th. The first and second floors will remain open too, which includes the library's computer classroom (L 203) and its 30 additional computers.

Library hours: 

• Monday, 4/27 : Open at 7 am and close at midnight on Friday, 5/1
• Saturday, 5/2: Open at 10 am to midnight
• Sunday, 5/3: Open at 10 am and close at 7 pm on Thursday, 5/7
• Friday, 5/8: Open 8 am to 5 pm
• CLOSED Saturday, 5/9 and Sunday 5/10

During the late night hours staff will be on hand to answer questions and check out first-floor reserve materials. Cram Snacks (free coffee and treats) will be provided each night (while supplies last!) by the Associated Students of Boise State University (ASBSU). An officer from the Boise Police Department will be on duty in the library all night and can provide escort service as needed.

Please refer to our calendar for the complete list of library hours. 

Best of luck on your finals!

Stress Relief at the Library

Comics courtesy of Special Collections and Archives

Albertsons Library is helping you squash the stress of final exams starting Dead Week with a collaboration with Advising & Academic Enhancement (AAE). Staff from AAE will have a table in the library to offer study assistance. You may also notice their study tips on bookmarks, slides and Toilet Talk flyers. Here’s what else we have planned during Finals Week:

• On Monday, 12/15, Special Collections will have comics from our collection on display as well as materials to do your own drawings, and local comics writer/illustrator Al Asker will be on hand to talk about comics from 1-4pm. 
• Monday at midnight the library will host a Zumba session in room 201C.
• Tuesday at midnight we will have a yoga session in room 201C.
• All week, indoor lawn games will be set up, and available for checkout. If you post a picture of your friends playing the lawn games to the library Facebook page, you’ll be automatically entered in a drawing to win a portable power pack!
  

As usual, Albertsons is also partnering with ASBSU to offer cram snacks Sunday-Wednesday of Finals Week. In addition, we’ll be hosting a knitting hour from 2-3pm Monday through Thursday in the niche where Starbucks’ door used to be. All are welcome, experienced or not. 

More information on knitting and other ways to relieve stress is available on our Stress Relief guide http://guides.boisestate.edu/stressrelief.

Best of luck on your exams and final projects!

Elizabeth Ramsey
Reference & Instruction Librarian

Yarn Bomb the Library!

Are you a knitter? Want to share your love of knitting with others? Maybe you're not a knitter, but inexplicably inherited your great aunt Sigrid's knitting stash. Want to learn to knit? Perfect, let's yarn bomb the library and relieve some stress! Drop-ins and all skill levels welcome, some supplies provided.

What’s yarn bombing? It’s a little bit renegade and a little bit grandma. From Mandy Moore’s book, "Yarn Bombing", it is defined as merging "the disciplines of installation art, needlework, and street art, yarn bombing takes many forms. It generally involves the act of attaching a handmade item to a street fixture." In our case, each participant will knit a square to be stitched together into a collaborative yarn bomb. It will be installed around one of the columns in the library’s lobby, in time to celebrate International Yarn Bombing Day, Saturday June 7th.

Can knitting really relieve stress? Yes, it can! According to a study published by Riley, Corkhill, and Morris in the February 2013 issue of The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, “The results [of the study] show a significant relationship between knitting frequency and feeling calm and happy. More frequent knitters also reported higher cognitive functioning.” I’m pretty sure you’d like to feel calm and have higher cognitive function during dead and finals weeks.

Knitting can also help you achieve what Csikszentmihalyi refers to as a state of “flow.” He found that people engrossed in activities, such as knitting, experienced a loss of fear and anxiety. This melting away of everyday worries is one of the characteristics of the “flow” state of mind.

Want to be a part of the yarn bomb? Stop by the Starbucks entrance in the library, Monday through Thursday of dead and finals week at 2pm. We’ll be knitting up a storm! Can’t make it to one of the sessions, but still want to participate? Just knit a square on your own time, and drop it off with me before the end of the semester. I’ll make sure it gets included in the finished collaborative piece! We've even created a guide with links to knitting videos, patterns, books, and articles on the connection between knitting and stress relief. Check it out here, http://guides.boisestate.edu/stressrelief.

Happy knitting!

Deana Brown,
Assistant professor/Librarian