July 1, 2009

Our starting rate is $7.25 an hour. We typically offer raises to students who return to work for us each academic year.

Successful candidates should:

• Be eligible for the Federal Work/Study program
• Have Library or related experience (retail, office, bookstore, or food service)
• Pay close attention to detail
• Deal effectively and courteously with the public
• Be able to lift, reach, grasp, kneel, climb on step stools, bend, and push/pull possible heavy (up to 325lbs) book carts to move items around the various library buildings
• Complete all pages of the application thoroughly and accurately

The UNH Library has positions for student employment in various departments within the library. In addition to Dimond, the Main Library, there are four branch libraries located on campus and a Library storage building located on the outskirts of campus.

Fill out an online application, or find out more.

June 26, 2009

Kelp Rockfish from Montrey Bay

Take a look at the new featured resource, The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library. This site is an online “vault” where a comprehensive collection of select video clips and high-resolution still images from America’s underwater treasures are securely stored and available for searchable access and download.

June 25, 2009

The Virtual Catalog provides a single, searchable catalog of books owned by participating libraries of the Boston Library Consortium.

The Virtual Catalog is being taken down for upgrades and will be unavailable until it returns on July 15. This upgrade should provide a much improved search interface and requesting system.

In the meantime, please use Interlibrary Loan. Manchester students should request using the UNH-M Library website.

We do apologize for the disruption and are hopeful you will like the improvements in July. If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Loan Desk at 862-3125.

Gwynne H. Daggett (1907- 1969), University of New Hampshire English professor and lifelong champion of intellectual freedom, was honored on June 12, 2009. Friends and colleagues gathered at the UNH Library to for the dedication of the Daggett Instruction Room.

Professor Daggett was a popular and controversial teacher at UNH from 1942 until his death. He gained notoriety during the McCarthy era as a leader in the liberal Progressive Citizens of America.

June 24, 2009

We’ve completed the conversion of library systems to use the new UNH ID numbers for students.

Students should now use their new UNH ID number when renewing or requesting items, logging into the Virtual Catalog, and creating new accounts for interlibrary loan. To find out your UNH ID number, please login to Blackboard, and use the UNH ID Lookup.

If you have any problems using your new student ID to access library resources, please contact the Loan Desk at 862-3125.

Faculty and staff should continue to use their social security number. Those who have selected an alternate ID number can continue to use this. To request an alternate ID number, please contact the Loan Desk or at the number above.

All UNH faculty, staff, and students will be issued new UNH ID cards in mid-July. These cards will be necessary for accessing university facilities and services. For the library however, these new cards are not required to check out materials, as the barcode on the card back will remain the same.

As always, definitive information on the conversion process can be found at the site for the University of New Hampshire Student ID Replacement Project.