November 10, 2009

In time-honored library tradition, the UNH Library is offering a scavenger hunt in recognition of Geography Awareness Week. If you like maps and also like scavenger hunts, then you’ll love what we’re calling the UNH Library Geography Awareness Map Scavenger Hunt. There are prizes!

The list of scavenger hunt questions are available in the Map Room (Room 347 on Level 3, Dimond Library), the UNH Museum (Level 1, Dimond Library), and the Dimond Library Circulation Desk. All questions can be answered by visiting these places and using the Library Catalog and the Library’s online collection of maps.

Entries are due by Friday, November 13. Winners will be announced Tuesday, November 17.

October 8, 2009

Reference librarian David Severn is hosting a reference department outreach effort at the MUB during October and November.

Do you need help… Researching a topic? Locating library resources? Finding a book? A reference librarian is here for you!

From 12:00pm to 2:00pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, David will be available to answer your questions in Granite Square Station, Level 2, MUB.

September 22, 2009

The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) has responded to the recent Google Book Settlement [pdf].

The BLC is an association of 19 academic and research libraries located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire and includes the University of New Hampshire Library.

The BLC is the only academic library consortium that spoke out against the Google Book Settlement by sending a letter of concern to the Department of Justice, Antitrust division, noting that the Settlement will have a significant negative impact on libraries and to ask that the Settlement agreement be rejected. The letter notes that the Authors Guild, Inc and the Association of American Publishers, Inc., had opportunity to make significant contributions to the Settlement, but libraries did not.

From the letter:

The BLC believes that an educated society needs access to knowledge and that prices for that access must be reasonable. The Settlement Agreement as it currently stands does not adequately protect library purchasing of materials… [and] does not address the issue of open access, a priority for many academic institutions, especially with regard to materials that are out of print or “orphan” works.

For more information or to discuss this, please contact the Dean of the UNH Library, and Boston Library Consortium Executive Board Member, Sherry Vellucci.

September 17, 2009

Maps of the United States from the late 1700s and early 1800s will be on exhibit in the University Museum starting September 21, 2009. The exhibit runs through December 4.

“Mapping the Republic, 1790-1900″ features reproductions from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. There is surveying equipment, local maps from various eras, and atlas maps included in the exhibit. The compass belonging to Ben Thompson, the university’s benefactor, and a map of his 253 acre farm from 1891 is on display as well.

More information about the exhibit can be found in the Campus Journal.

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

September 16, 2009

The library was well represented at University Day 2009. If you missed the UNH Library Wildcarts Precision Book Cart Team or our table, here are some photos:

And for those of you posting photos or video to flickr, the University Library has a flickr pool you can join.