Government Information’s On Call hours today will be from 2-4 (normally on Thursday they are from 1-3). We apologize for any inconvenience.

Join local humorist Rebecca Rule and former Poet Laurete and Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin for an engaging afternoon of discussion and laughter on the subject of writing. The event is on Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 2pm in the Dimond Library 5th Floor reading room. The program is free and open to all, but seating is limited. Please register online or call 862-1541.

The author of 16 books of poems, Maxine Kumin has written 3 essay collections, a collection of short stories, 4 novels and an animal rights murder mystery, Quit Monks or Die!. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets’ Prize and the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a National Council on the Arts fellowship. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994.

In the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, Rule serves as host and interviewer for The New Hampshire Authors’ Series from Dimond Library. Three times a year, the Authors’ Series features an author who lives, summers, teaches or was born in New Hampshire.

Interviews are conducted in front of a live audience (with an opportunity for questions from the audience) and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast.

As a member of the Boston Library Consortium, the University of New Hampshire Library is participating in the Internet Archive’s Open Content Alliance (OCA) book digitization project by contributing public domain materials from its collection.

Since scanning began in January, the Library has contributed more than 126,454 pages to the OCA Northeast Regional Scanning Center at the Boston Public Library. This represents 711 items with an average page count of 178 per item, including the Granite Monthly magazine, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins, the Manual for the General Court (the “red books”), and selected New Hampshire local history monographs.

For a brief description of the OCA project, selection criteria, and links to books we’ve already scanned, visit the Digital Collections page on the Library Website and select Open Content Alliance from the right side menu: http://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/.

Due to the sprinkler replacement project in Dimond Library, the fire alarm in the Hubbard Room has been disabled and therefore the room will be closed until Friday the 21st at 3pm.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

What should you do when you find something in the UNH Library Catalog you want borrow, but it’s located at UNH Manchester? Contact the UNH Library Loan Department and request it!

You may visit the Loan desk in person in Dimond Library, contact the department by phone (603-862-3125), or use our new request form.

You can also find a link to this form, along with information about other borrowing options, on the If We Don’t Have It… page found under the Get Help! tab on the Library Website.

Note: Only patrons eligible to borrow materials from the UNH Library may request items from UNH Manchester.