These hours will be in effect from March 26th through May 19th, 2010:

The new hours will be as follows:
Monday-Thursday: 8 am – 11 pm
Friday: 8 am – 8 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday: 12 noon- 11 pm

Located on the second floor of Kingsbury Hall (S236), the Engineering, Math, and Computer Science Library offers a variety of seating, meeting rooms, both desktop and laptop computers, and wireless access. Services also include scanning, copying and color printing. Library staff with special expertise will help you find online and print course reserves, books, journals, proceedings, codes and standards, both online and in print.

To find us, take the stairs by the large mural in Kingsbury’s South wing — we’ll be just along the corridor on your left.

Individual research consultations and group instruction are available on request.

The opening reception will be Wednesday, March 31st 4:30-7:00 PM in Special Collections on Level 1. Area poets will be reading Donald Hall poems as well as their own work.

The UNH Museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. during the semester. The UNH Museum is closed until March 22, 2010 due to damage related to a burst water pipe in Dimond Library.

The Museum is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library. For more information visit the University Museum website or call 2-1081.

With staff to help you as you navigate the galaxies of information available from around the world (or just help you find extra practice problems), the Physics Library offers a wide variety of print and online material, including course reserves, journals and books — and yes, star atlases — from our location on the ground floor of DeMeritt Hall, opposite the Handly Auditorium.

Services also include wireless access, desktop and laptop computers, scanning, printing, and copying.

Individual research consultations and group instruction are available on request.

For your participation, you will receive a Dining Services card with a value of $15, good at any Dining location on campus.

If you’re interested and available on March 23, please contact Kevin Roddy using this form or send email to Kevin.Roddy@unh.edu. Include your name, phone number, and a good time to reach you.

Some bound journals in the Level 2 stacks on the bottom shelves in areas affected by the flood are still out of place. Library staff are working to return these materials to their correct places. As always, if you have trouble finding any materials in Dimond Library, please contact a service desk for help.

Areas not publicly accessible will be cordoned off with caution tape. For your safety and the safety of UNH Facilities workers, please observe these cordoned areas.

The general stacks on Level 2 remain closed. Current Periodicals is open and is accessible only via the North stairwell. The Multimedia Center and the Parker Media Lab are also open and accessible only via the West stairwell.

Until Level 2 opens, bound journals can be paged from the Circulation Desk.

The Faculty Lounge will continue to be available for group study.

Thanks for your continued patience as Dimond Library returns to full operation.

Due to the quick action of UNH Facilities, ServPro professionals, and Library Faculty and Staff during the recent flood, Dimond Library is open normal hours in limited areas this week. Levels 3, 4 and 5 are available. We expect to be fully operational by the end of the week.

The Parker Media Lab and the Multimedia Center on Level 2 sustained no damage and are now open. They must be accessed via the West stairwell. If you need to use the elevator, please contact the Circulation Desk.

Otherwise, Levels 1 and 2 are closed to the public. Microforms can only be accessed with staff assistance. If your research can’t wait, please see someone at the Circulation Desk. Books and other materials on affected floors can be requested.

Today is the last day to use MUB rooms scheduled to replace Dimond group study rooms. We are working to get group study rooms on Level 1 opened as soon as possible. In the meantime, the Faculty Lounge on Level 5 in Dimond Library can be reserved for group study.

For Tuesday, March 2, current major newspapers will be temporarily available in the Multimedia Center.

Special Collections and Archives is scheduled to be closed through March 19 and is expected to reopen on March 22.

Update I: The Current Periodicals and Microforms Rooms on Level 2 are now open, accessible only through the North Stairwell. (Access to Multimedia and the Parker Media Lab is available only through the West Stairwell.) The Level 2 book stacks, as well as the Current Periodicals Annex room, remain closed. We will continue to page needed materials from the stacks upon request.

Owing to a burst water pipe in the library over the weekend of February 27-28, the Milne Special Collections and University Archives department will be closed to the public until March 22, the Monday after Spring Break.

Beale books, archives theses and dissertations can be requested for In-Library Use only through the Circulation Desk. Due to the conditions in Special Collections and Archives, our other collections are closed. Access is being assessed daily.

Our department phone is working and we are checking it for messages. Please contact us at 862-2714.

We regret the lack of access and hope to be open soon.

Update I: We are paging Special materials from storage and non-rare items for in-Library use. In addition, researchers who want to use rare materials, archives, and manuscripts can make an appointment — we’ll do our best to be accommodating as conditions allow.

Extra laptops will be circulating from the branch libraries until further notice.

Please check the Library hours page to determine branch library hours as they are adding hours to help us through this current situation.

Extended branch library hours for Sunday, February 28 are:

• Biological Sciences Library, 10 am to 11 pm
• Engineering/Math/CS, 11 am to 11 pm
• Chemistry, 10:30 am to 10 pm
• Physics, 10 am to 10 pm

Special Collections and Archives will be tentatively closed until the week after Spring Break.

We are still in the midst of drafting contingency plans to provide as many services as we can as soon as possible.

Update I: Further information for Library Staff.

Update II: While Dimond Library is closed, books and other materials may be returned to the branch libraries. Also, additional rooms have been reserved in the MUB to replace group study rooms unavailable in Dimond Library. These can be scheduled for use at the Circulation Desk in Dimond Library starting Monday, March 1, or by calling 862-3125.

Update III: Dimond Library will be open normal hours on Monday, March 1 with reduced service and study areas. Only Levels 3, 4, and 5 will be publicly accessible.

More information will be forthcoming as it becomes available.