Art on Park Unwrapped

New paintings were added to the...

Marcia Haffmans Exhibit 

Lines as a Continuum

Visit Twin Cities Library to see Art on Park unwrapped.
See additional images of her artwork here.

Taylor & Francis Downtime

TC Library subscribes to several journals through the publisher Taylor & Francis. On Wednesday evening T&F (as we insiders call them) will be performing some regularily scheduled maintenance, so if you are unable to access those specific journals (you'll know--Find it will lead you to a Taylor & Francis link), that's why. I win the award for longest sentence.
From their press release:

Taylor & Francis Online will be undergoing maintenance on Wednesday 22nd February 2012, starting at 6pm GMT and finishing by 10pm GMT. The platform will be unavailable for one hour from 6pm, and may be unavailable for a further three hours during the scheduled maintenance window. We will be doing all we can to minimize disruption to the service, and thank you for your patience whilst we perform essential work to keep things running smoothly.

Journals affected include:

• Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
• Journal of Education for Business
• Journal of In-Service Education

(This is not a comprehensive list. )

Closing @ 7:00pm

Due to staff illness, the Twin Cities Library will be closing at 7:00pm on Monday, February 13th.
Apologies for the inconvenience. 

"Linked Full Text" not Linking

2/21/12 update: EBSCO full text linking is working again! Hooray!

If while searching in an EBSCO database you encounter an option for full text called "Linked Full Text," chances are good that you'll get a dead end and be unable to access the full text of the article. This error seems to happen in the Internet browser Internet Explorer, but it has been occurring in Firefox and Chrome occasionally as well.

Workaround options:

• Try accessing the article in a different Internet browser.
• See a librarian if this happens--we can hopefully work around the error and get you your article.

EBSCO is aware of the issue and is working to fix it.

Images of the carnage:

Love in the Library

TC Library's February book display is all about love. 

Being the original people that we are, we thought that love would be a good theme to go with this month. And actually, since we don't have a bunch of books on love, the theme is more like marriage, couples, getting what you want out of a marriage, and that sort of thing. The assumption is there is love involved.

However, not to discriminate, we also have a lovely selection of materials for people who hate Valentine's Day. Totally cool with us, yo, totally cool.

But, back to love--we'd love if you'd check out our book display this month.

MLK Day Hours

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., TC Library will be closing at 5:00pm on Monday, January 16th.

In Memoriam

After a brief but courageous battle with the bird flu, W. T. (Wiggle Tail) l'Orange, the Twin Cities Library mascot, passed away during the winter holidays.

W. T. graced us with his presence for almost three years. He held court next to the reference desk and was always ready to lend a helping fin when the library was busy. W. T. l'Orange was a great proponent of Lasallifin education and worked diligently to further the mission of Saint Mary's and the Twin Cities Campus Library. He will be greatly missed.

Enjoy our memorial photo montage of our dear beta.

When we first got W. T., we had a Mascot Naming contest. Here he is encouraging people to vote for his name.	Mascot Naming contest continued. Here he is getting excited about announcing his new name.
One of W. T.'s first photo shoots. He was a bit shy with the camera at first, but he warmed up to the limelight right away.	Here W. T. is checking his reflection before greeting students on the first day of the semester.
W. T. is checking the other side of his reflection.	In this photo, W. T. looks like Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars.
Education was very important to W. T. l'Orange. He was also fluent in Spanish, due to Dora the Explorer.	W. T. l'Orange often assisted us with Library website updates. He was our chief programmer and taught Rachel most of which she knows.
Our mascot was always fun at a summertime BBQ. He'd often do the grilling for us. Salmon was his signature dish.	In addition to being a researcher, W. T. was a produce inspector for the USDA.
W. T. l'Orange was thought to be from Canada--Quebec to be more exact. Here he is on a recent vacation to his home.	W. T. l'Orange--the most interesting fish in the world.
W. T. often led scuba diving exhibitions in Cozumel, Mexico.	This is the last picture we have of W. T. l'Orange.