Cookie Break at the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering branch libraries is today, Tuesday, December 18 at 2pm! Take a break from studying and enjoy coffee and home-baked cookies from your university branch library.

Find out where the branch libraries are located.

Cookie Break is sponsored by UNH Library faculty and staff, Computing and Information Services, and the Parents Association.

Dimond Library and Physics Library will be closed Sunday, Dec. 16, due to the winter storm. The Chemistry Library, however, will be open from 2 pm-6 pm. The Engineering/Math/CS Library is also open from 2 pm-8 pm.

The University of New Hampshire has curtailed operations as of 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16, until Monday, Dec. 17, at 5 pm in order to be open for the start of final exams on Monday evening.

Update– Even though Curtailed Operations extends until 5 pm, Dimond Library will be opening Monday, Dec. 17 at 12 noon. The Chemistry and Physics Libraries will be open Monday from 5:30 pm-10 pm. The Engineering/Math/CS Library will be open from 12 noon-11 pm.

Dimond Library will be closed today, Sunday, December 16, due to the winter storm.

The Friends of the Library at UNH continues its series of one-on-one conversations with authors who have ties to the Granite State Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, at 2 p.m. when local author Rebecca Rule interviews bestselling author and UNH professor of English Meredith Hall before a live audience in Dimond Library’s 5th Floor Reading Room.

The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Reservations may be made online, via email to nh.authors@unh.edu, or by calling 862-1541.

Hall’s first book, a memoir titled “Without a Map”, was included on the New York Times Extended Bestseller List. She was the 2005 recipient of the Gift of Freedom Award, a $50,000 writing grant from A Room of Her Own Foundation. She also received the Maine Arts Commission’s 2005 Individual Artist Fellowship, and is a MacDowell fellow.

Hall won the 2005 Pushcart Prize with her first essay, which was also a “Notable Essay” in “The Best American Essays 2005.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Southern Review, Fourth Genre, Five Points and many other journals and anthologies.

Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors’ Studio, Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author Rebecca Rule invites poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, and journalists with a connection to New Hampshire to share their insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing.

These one-on-one interviews are conducted in front of a live audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast. There will be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions, light refreshments will be served after the interview and both authors will be available to sign their books.

To learn more about the series or to receive updates, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call 862-1540.

Coming soon to a library near you, Cookie Break is Monday, December 17 at 2pm in Dimond Library and all the branches! Take a break from studying and enjoy coffee and home-baked cookies from your university library.

Cookie Break is sponsored by UNH Library faculty and staff, Computing and Information Services, and the Parents Association.