Everything is blooming at the Sciences Library! Our feature exhibit this month is Flowers. In the case we cover everything from fossils, medicinal and pollinators. So please stop over to see the books we have on display. We would love to thank the Paleontology Repository for the donation of the frog hopper, insects in the DominicanContinue reading “Everything Blooming…”

Earth Day April 22, 2011 Sciences Library is celebrating Earth Day! Our display has some of the different issues that our Earth faces every day. We have actually taken over the whole library! The third floor covers the environment, second is animals and on first we have all of them.  Please join us!

Celebrating Pi Day! Monday, March 21 at 1:59 pm   Sciences Library – 120 Iowa Ave (across from Joe’s Place between Biology Building and Phillips Hall) Pi Day flyer This is your chance to see all that the Sciences Library has to offer, while enjoying a slice of pie and refreshments!  Pi, Greek letter (π),Continue reading “Celebrate Pi Day with the Sciences Library on March 21st!”

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. –Albert Eistein We have a new display with Albert Einstein and Pi Day! Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference  of a circle to its diamerter. Pi Day is celebrated by math entusiasts around the world on MarchContinue reading “Einstein and Pi Day at the Sciences Library!”

The Science’s libguides has a new link that is a wonderful addition we hope you will use. It is the ScienceCinema. The following is the offical description of it. Scientific videos highlighting the most exciting research and development sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are now available through ScienceCinema. The multimedia search toolContinue reading “ScienceCinema Gives You Searchable Videos”

The library is currently doing a trial of a database titled: “ProQuest Environmental Science Collection” This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.  It includes the subject areas of: Agriculture, AirContinue reading “Trial of ProQuest Environmental Science Collection”

Welcome back to school! Hope you had a wonderful break. We have been busy getting the websites updated and adding our new library guides. If you check out the Chemistry website for example you will find a new way to search and find out news happening in the Sciences Library. Please checkout our current displayContinue reading “Welcome back students, from the Sciences Library…”

The holidays are over but at the Sciences Library we have a snow display up. Avalanches, blizzards, and the physics of skiing we have it all . Come and check out our winter wonderland! If you have any suggestions for a displays please send them to us. We are always looking for new ideas.

The display has been changed to Hibernation and Migration. We have some beautiful wildlife that has been donated by the Museum of Natural History. We hope that you will enjoy the display. Feeling chilly?  We still have coffee so please help yourself when you are in.

The Science Libraries is celebrating Halloween! Come join us for coffee,  and if you fill out a word search and turn it in you will get a treat. Learn how to make fake blood. Come see bats from Museum of Natural History. Geoscience is lending us some bones. Kai brought in his pet cat Mitra exhumedContinue reading “Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble!”