Final exam hours begin December 9

Swilley Library: Open Late During Final Exams

Each semester the Swilley Library increases hours to support students during final exam week. This year, the Library will be begin final exam hours December 9. That's an extra four days!

December 9 - 19
Sunday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. - Midnight
Friday : 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday : 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Pastries and coffee available for purchase during select times. All profits will benefit Mercer Atlanta Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Swilley Library Thanksgiving Hours

Library Hours for Thanksgiving 2009

Wednesday, November 25: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Thursday - Saturday, November 26 - 28: CLOSED

Sunday, November 29: 1 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Brown Art Gallery Presents: Ann Rhodes

Brown Art Gallery Presents: Ann Rhodes

Surface

October 29-December 10

Biographical Sketch
Ann Rhodes received a BA in painting from Queens College and an MA in Art History from Georgia State University. Enriched by teaching in colleges in the Atlanta area, she maintains a studio/gallery at the Tula Art Center. She is represented by 7 galleries in the southeast. Celebratory landscapes are the focus of Rhodes’ work. The painting is formed by personal response to nature’s light and color, underlying geometry and muscularity.

Artist Statement
The still water of a pond is a flat surface like the canvas, but there is action beneath the surface, reflection and shadow on the surface, buds and blossoms pushing up through the surface from the reeds and much below. Using oil sticks and layers of paint makes a vibrant, painterly surface.

You asked. We delivered. Scanner now available @ the Library!

You're going to love this news!

The library now provides a self-service scanner! It's located in the library copy room and it's easy to use.

Follow four basic steps:

1. Select the scan button

2. Choose your file type

3. Scan your document

4. Save it to your USB flash drive.

You can scan black and white or color photos, illustrations, or documents. It also has an automatic document feeder so you can scan multiple pages.

Make sure you bring a storage device or borrow one at the circulation desk.

Let us know what you think...

New Resource! Dissertations & Theses from ProQuest

Students, faculty, and staff can now view or download dissertations and theses from a new database, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 2.4 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Access off campus requires the GALILEO password. If you have questions, please contact a reference librarian.

Database and online forms disruption October 14-18, 2009

Disruption to database access, WilsonWeb Interlibrary Loan requests and other web-based services may occur from Wednesday, October 14th, through Sunday, October 18th, due to a server replacement.

New @ Swilley Library - Oxford English Dictionary Online

Resource Type: Dictionary

Title/Alternate Title: Oxford English Dictionary Online, OED Online.

Subjects Covered: A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Contains words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Contents: The online resource contains all the printed materials that appear in the complete 23 volumes.

Dates of Coverage: Current.

The Oxford English Dictionary Online is available on and off campus to Mercer University faculty, staff, and student.