Constitution Day - September 17

Savage Library has created a Constitution Day exhibit and a web page with links to various resources on the U.S. Constitution. There is also a wiki page where you can comment about our efforts or add content yourself.

Gunnison Listed as Colorado's Top Adventure Town...

The latest issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine (September 2007) lists Gunnison as Colorado's top adventure town (page 88). Check out it in Savage Library's West Wing.

NYTimes article on librarians...(we're not boring...no really!)

New York Times article on different types of people who are becoming librarians.

Librarian ranked in top 25 jobs by U.S. News & World Report

Found this interesting link. Librarians are listed among the 25 top careers. The full list of careers are here.

Trial subscription for Lyell Collection of Geologic Journals

From now until June 18 you can access this trial from our articles web page or directly at http://www.lyellcollection.org/.

Some details about this trial:
The Lyell Collection has been launched to mark the 200^th Anniversary of the Geological Society of London in 2007. This completely new service will feature both Journal of the Geological Society and Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, each journal title having been captured back to its launch issue.

Journal of the Geological Society has been digitized back to 1845 and some 6000 peer reviewed articles on 100 000 pages will be available. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology will be available from its launch year in 1967, and feature some 1200 peer-reviewed articles over 15 000 pages.

Please e-mail at jnelson@western.edu if you have any questions or comments.

Information Commons

By now many people have heard about the new Information Commons to be built in the library. Here are some answers to questions we've been getting..


What is an information commons? It's a place for students to interact, get research assistance, and work in groups together or individually on course assignments. It will contain a range of study experiences, from individual computer carrels to small group study areas with internet access or without to individual work areas and comfy chairs to group areas where you can practice presentations.

Where will it be? In the quiet study area, behind the circulation desk?

When will it be ready? We hope it will be ready when classes start this Fall.

If you have any other questions, please ask us.

Web 2.0 bibliography generator

Here is a Web 2.0 site that creates a work cited/bibliography in MLA, APA, or Chicago styles that can be downloaded and inserted into an article or paper.