Alan Virta, Library Professor Emeritus, Receives Award

Alan Virta, professor emeritus and former head of special collections at Albertsons Library, received the Life-Time Achievement Award at the annual Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists meeting in Mesa, Arizona. The prestigious CIMA Life-Time Achievement Award acknowledges and demonstrates appreciation for a life of service and leadership in the archival profession, by the peers and colleagues of the recipient. The award is given based on nominations, and this was only the third time the award has been given in CIMA’s nearly 40-year history.

Welcome, Summer Session Students!

Now that Summer is just around the corner, let us welcome you to a new and improved Albertsons Library. We spent Spring break making the library your go-to place for your research and academic needs. These are a few of the things you can enjoy at the library:

• New carpeting on the entire first floor
• Over 110 computers with Microsoft Office 2010
• Mac and PC laptops for checkout, scanners, and multiple BroncoPrint stations, including wireless printing from your laptop.
• Access the library from your phone via our mobile website.
• Check out an iPad, laptop, netbook, or portable battery chargers
• Bring your mobile device--the whole building is Wi-Fi enabled
• A large collection of eBooks, available via the catalog
• A Starbucks coffee shop on the first floor
• Extensive subject guides in fields such as Public Administration, Radiologic Sciences, Educational Technology and many more, via the library's LibGuides system
• A growing collection of streaming video databases on a wide range of subjects--watch online or on your portable device.
• Access thousands of articles from journals and magazines from the A-Z list of databases. You will find that more and more of our databases are mobile-friendly, too.
• Have questions about research, campus, or anything at all? We’re available to help you via our reference chat, on Facebook, and on Twitter. Or you can text us your questions at (208) 546-9982.

We hope you have a fantastic Summer session at Boise State University!

Library Summer Hours

The Albertsons Library will begin Summer semester hours on Monday, May 14th. To prepare for the new semester the library will be closed Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 13.

Starting May 14th the library will be open:

• Monday thru Thursday: 7AM - 7PM
• Fridays: 7AM - 6PM
• Saturdays & Sundays: 10AM - 6PM
  

Find library hours at http://library.boisestate.edu/calendar/main.php . Our online resources are available 24/7 at http://library.boisestate.edu/, or on your mobile device at http://library.boisestate.edu/m

Have a great Summer!