Library hours during Spring Break

Photo by John-Morgan

Happy Spring Break! We hope you enjoy your vacation, whether you're staying in the Boise area or headed off to warmer climes.

For those sticking around the library will have the following hours: 

Sunday 3/24: CLOSED

Monday-Thursday 3/25-3/28: 8AM - 6PM

Friday 3/29: 8AM - 5PM

Saturday 3/30:CLOSED

Regular library hours resume Sunday, 3/31. 

Enjoy the break!

Library student selected for prestigious internship

Library Lab Assistant Helena Mallonee has been selected to be a Keck Geology Consortium summer intern. This means that this summer, instead of helping Boise State students navigate computers and printing in the library, Helena, along with five other Keck students, will spend 10 days mapping basaltic lava flow features in the Zuni-Bandera Volcanic Field in New Mexico. From New Mexico, Helena will continue on to Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she will work with Chris Hamilton and Jake Bleacher of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. While there, she will learn to work with Martian remote sensing datasets in an effort to understand lava flow emplacement on Mars.

This isn’t the first time Helena has spent her summer out of doors. She has previously worked as an Interpretive Park Ranger at Craters of the Moon National Monument, as well as working as an intern Cave Technician and Speleologist with the GeoCorps of America & BLM’s Shoshone Field Office. She will return in to the fall as she begins work on her senior thesis.

Charge and sanitize!

In case you haven't noticed we've made incremental changes to the library, all to make your research time valuable and healthy.

 

For starters you can charge your device with our charging station, located next to Starbucks. Let your device take a breather and recharge while you do the same.

 

The awesome folks at Heath Services provided us with 6 hand sanitizer stations. These units are located throughout the building: 2 on the 1st floor and 2nd floor and 1 each on the 3rd and 4th floor.

Have ideas or suggestions to make your library stay better? Let us know!

Copies of "The Idea of Nature" Public Lecture Series Available Through ScholarWorks

In spring 2012, a new public lecture series, Ideas of Nature, began at Boise State University. The goal of the series is to promote interdisciplinary inquiry and to foster dialogue across the campus and community, based on the premise that big questions need interdisciplinary answers.

How are conceptions of nature expressed in literature, art, philosophy, music, and other humanities disciplines? How did ideas of nature change from 1660 to the present, a period of radical change and revolution?

The lecture series is continuing on March 12th when Dr. Dan Philippon, University of Montana, will
lecture on the “Slow Food” movement in Europe. Although Slow Food is often portrayed as a contrast to fast food, it is less about speed than scale. Visits with artisan food producers in Italy's Piedmont region, where Slow Food was born, illustrate the weaknesses in the romantic understanding of nature as "other" and confirm that scale is the key variable in the search for sustainability.

All lectures are free and open to the public and videos of past presentations can be downloaded from ScholarWorks:

• Robert Frost and the Forests of Vermont – John Elder
• Romanticism, Blake, and the Politics of Nature - Kevin Hutchings
• Henry David Thoreau and Health in Nature - James Engell
• On Metaphor and Progress: Nature in Literature and Landscape Painting in 19th Century America - Rochelle Johnson
• The Poetics of Nature - James McKusick

Each video is made available with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Michelle Armstrong,
Librarian / Asst. Professor

Celebrate National Criminal Justice Month

In 2009 the U.S. Congress established March as National Criminal Justice Month.The National Criminal Justice Month is designed to focus attention on the importance of societal awareness regarding the causes and consequences of crime, as well as strategies for preventing and responding to crime.

To promote this education and information campaign, and to support the curricular and research needs of BSU criminal justice students, faculty, and staff, the Albertsons Library is focusing attention on Criminal Justice resources.

Specialized resources relevant to Criminal Justice are available at the Albertsons Library Criminal Justice Subject Guide: http://guides.boisestate.edu/CriminalJustice

For more details about the National Criminal Justice Month, visit www.acjs.org/pubs/167_2138_14507.cfm

Marilia Y. Antunez,
Assistant Professor/Librarian

Special Collections and Archives collaborates with Idaho History Museum

Last night was the opening of the Idaho History Museum's new exhibit, http://history.idaho.gov/museum-exhibits. Special Collections and Archives collaborated and provided a few photographs and other items to help with the exhibit. Attached are a photos showing some of our contributions. The exhibit is up through December.

Cheryl Oestreicher,
Head, Special Collections and Archives/Assistant Professor

March is National Professional Social Work Month

Social work professionals continue to influence and improve services in hospitals, schools, businesses, military branches, government, and thousands of non-profit and community organizations across the country.

This year’s theme, “Weaving Threads of Resilience and Advocacy,” emphasizes the value of using personal strengths and self-advocacy to manage serious life challenges.

In honor of this annual celebration of one of the country’s top growth professions, and to support the curricular and research needs of BSU social work students, faculty, and staff, the Albertsons Library is focusing attention on social work resources.

Licensed databases with the best coverage for Social Work include:

• Family & Society Studies Worldwide
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Work Abstracts
• Criminal Justice Abstracts

Additional specialized resources relevant to Social Work are available at the Albertsons Library Social Work Subject Guide: http://guides.boisestate.edu/socialwork

For more information about Social Work Month 2013 or the social work profession, visit SocialWorkMonth.org. 

Marilia Y. Antunez,
Assistant Professor/Librarian