Whew! Finals are over!

The Alexandria Campus Library once again provided extended hours to accommodate student research, final assignment & research needs through the last week of classes and final exams (April 28 - May 9).

The library opened early at 8am and closed late at 11pm, and served study-break snacks after 9pm to all those burning the midnight oil.

128 students came to the Library before 8.30am and 381 stayed past 10pm, for a grand total of 509 students who took advantage of the early opening and late closing to conquer the end-of-term.

Many thanks to Student Activities who provided a banquet of snacks and drinks as part of their "Stress Relief Week" for Finals.  And thanks to all the Library Staff who voluntarily re-arranged their schedules to come in early to get the doors open by 8am (or sometimes earlier!) and to keep the doors open all the way until 11pm.

Summer classes begin May 19th, when the Library's Summer Schedule will take effect:

Monday - Thursday 8.30am - 9.00pm
Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm
Saturday: closed

Congratulations Anne!

Instruction Librarian Anne Anderson was the 2014 Administrative/Professional Faculty winner of the Jean C. Netherton Award.

Named after a former provost, the award recognizes employees for outstanding service to the Alexandria Campus community, and is bestowed by the faculty and staff through Campus Council.

The Alexandria Campus Library boasts five Netherton winners on the current staff (l-r: Matt Todd, Anne Anderson, Kevin O'Hagan, Kim Gross, Bruce Carroll):

Congratulations Anne!

In Focus: Photography Month at YOUR Alexandria Campus Library

May is National Photography Month and YOUR Alexandria Campus Library is celebrating with a display of the photography books held in the circulating collection. Our photography-focused volumes span the entire history of the photographic enterprise, from the first crude daguerreotypes to the modern digital born image.

Patrons can come browse the books in our display to learn more about photography's place in American art, culture, and politics. Titles featured focus on the body of work or process of notable, and sometimes controversial, American photographers.

So come to the library and check out the exquisite, challenging, and arresting work of American photographers at YOUR Alexandria Campus Library.

Readers who are especially interested in the social and documentary powers of news photography might also enjoy a tumblr produced by the New York Times, The Lively Morgue. The blog features digitized copies of print images taken for the newspaper between 1896 and the widespread use of digital photograph. Click here to access the Morgue, and here to read more about the lone archivist involved in the project.

Notes and Noise: A Musical Event in YOUR Alexandria Library

Rock steady and be ready!

Just another relaxing, fun, and interactive community event brought to you by community members and YOUR Alexandria Campus Library.

Fast Five Friday: Finals Week Magazine Edition

It's finally here: finals week. YOUR Alexandria Campus Library Staff knows how busy our patrons are with final projects and exam preparation. Might we suggest some respite in the form of glossy magazines? These popular reading resources are perfect for a brief break as are they image heavy and designed to entertain.

Your Alexandria Campus library maintains subscriptions to popular magazines of many types. These titles can be found in plastic organizers on the shelves nearest the group study rooms.

Here is a brief highlight of some magazine titles perfect for curling up and escaping with:

Men of style (and their fans), take note. Gentlemen's Quarterly is your go-to resource for fashion and life-style advice.

Want to imagine a world in which wearing a sculptural couture doily is a valid and celebrated choice? Then Harper's Bazaar is your jam.

People magazine will satisfy if keeping up with celebrities is your guilty pleasure, but you need some human interest stories in the mix to assuage your guilt.

Rolling Stone is one of the most enduring veterans of the music and entertainment genre for a reason: the wonderful photography, the detailed artists’ profiles, and the quality of its investigative journalism.

Sports Illustrated is the premier American source for smart sports journalism and pushing the definition of swimwear passed its logical boundary.

So weary patrons, come take refuge in YOUR Alexandria campus library and check out our magazine offerings.