Due to high demand for study rooms, a new policy will take effect on Monday, November  23rd. This new policy’s purpose is a fairer distribution of study room time among a greater number of users. The new policy entails:

• - You now must sign up to use the 4 person study rooms.
• - To sign up, stop at the Reference Desk. You will be asked for ID. If you are a Concordia student, make sure to show your Concordia ID instead of your government-issued ID.
• - Priority for the rooms will go to Concordia students. Check at the Ref Desk for the next available room.
• - You can sign up for 2 hours at a time per group.
• - Minimum group size is 2/Maximum group size is 4.
• - You can still reserve the rooms in advance; now this can be done at the Reference Desk.

We hope this will encourage people who have given up hope of getting access to a study room to give it another try.

If you’re reading (or planning on reading) the CSP Book of the Year, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, here are a few things you should know.

-There are 3 copies available on 2-hour reserve at the library.
-As of this writing, there are 5 copies available in CLICnet, one at CSP and 4 requestable from other CLIC libraries.
-The Book of the Year has a Website. Discussion this year is encouraged on the Team of Rivals One-Stop Blog, which is maintained by history and political science professor Dr. David Woodard

Dr. Woodard will be leading Convocation on Wednesday, October 21st, offering a primer in American History. There will be another Convocation on a date yet to be determined in March for a Team of Rivals inspired art show.

On Monday September 14, @ 4:00 pm in LTC 218 (upstairs from the library), CSP Librarians will be holding their first “Tech Talk” (formerly known as “Brown Bags”) of the year, talking about and giving tips on how to use the new CLICnet library catalog. We’ll be saying a few words about the catalog’s new look, how searching works, navigating and limiting your results, the tagging function, making requests, saving lists, the fate of the old CLICnet, and more. Bring your laptops and come with questions.

Are there any topics you’d like covered in a “TechTalk”? If so, let us know in the comments or email us at reference@csp.edu.

The newest editions (released in August) of the style manuals for both MLA (7th ed.) and APA (6th ed.) are now available On Reserve at the Reference Desk. If you’d like to see one of them, just ask a library staff member. They are filed under LIB001 on the Reserves shelf.

You can also access style and formatting guides on the new editions of the MLA and APA style manuals at the Purdue Online Writing Lab’s Website: MLA and APA

Library Hours for the academic year start Friday, August 28th at 7:45 AM. During weeks when there are no holidays or breaks, the schedule is as follows:

Monday – Thursday: 7:45 a.m. – 11:00 p.m
Friday: 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m
Saturday: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m
Sunday: 1:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m

The Reference Desk schedule during normal weeks is as follows:

Monday – Thursday: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Friday: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

See the schedule for the entire academic year at http://concordia.csp.edu/Library/about/hours.html