Tim O'Brien Tickets Available

Tim O'Brien, the author of this year's Kalamazoo community reading selection, "The Things They Carried," will give a reading and public talk entitled “Telling Stories” at WMU’s Miller Auditorium on March 21 at 7 pm. FREE tickets for this event are available at the Circulation Desk in the Library (limit of four per person). There are also discount admission tickets to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo Vietnam exhibits available. For more information about Reading Together events, see http://www.readingtogether.us/.

Trial of the Reference Suite@Facts.com

A free trial is available until 2/17/06 to the Reference Suite @ Facts.com:

http://www.facts.com/followrs

The Reference Suite @ Facts.com (from Facts on File News Services) includes these complete library reference databases:

• The Facts On File World News Digest ( includes Reuters, Special Features, Digest,Archives)
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (includes Encyclopedia)
• Issues and Controversies On File, and
  
• Today's Science On File

This trial is available on campus only. If you have questions or comments, please contact reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

The Return of "New Books" Shelves

The Library provides patrons with the opportunity to examine recently acquired books with the return of New Books shelves! These shelves are located behind the Reference Desk on the first floor of Upjohn Library Commons.

Patrons can browse through all the circulating books that have come into Upjohn Library Commons over the past week. The New Books shelves are updated continually. The books are displayed for approximately one week, then they are shelved in the regular stacks. They can be checked out, however, while they are still on the New Books shelves.