Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

Did you know that William Shakespeare was born on this day (April 23) in 1564 and died on the same date in 1616? In honor of his birthday, check out the following resources from your library. Clicking on this link will take you to a sampling of books either about Shakespeare and his works or inspired by them.

Library Week Door Prize Winners

Stop by the Main Service Desk at Stoxen Library to claim your prize!

Ipod Accessories
Jeremy Walston
Jesse Tallmon
Shaina Dolechek
Vicky Gullickson

Desk Accessory Set
Presley Meade
Rayma Figuerva

Common Grounds Coffee Cup Thermos
Dawn Anton
Jeremy Messer

Books
Deepak Gurung
Kevin Moberg
Dana Hillius
Shanna Thompson

Gate counts continue to increase!

Here is today’s update on Stoxen Library’s gate count statistics as of April 19, 2007.

Stoxen Library Gate Counter Statistics

Year Number
1998-99 119864
1999-00 115760
2000-01 111043
2001-02 110645
2002-03 115367
2003-04 128325
2004-05 145863
2005-06 164019
2006-07 155950 as of April 19, 2007

On Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2007 - 1077 people entered the Library.
Same Wednesday in 2006 – 965
Same Wednesday 2005 – 899

Check out the new acquisitions

A National Library week moment:

Check out the latest listings of new acquisitions.

Featured here is Ms. Rita Ennen, Assistant Director/Head of Technical Services, and team leader of the acquisitions department. Rita, in close collaboration with the faculty and other librarians, makes the acquisitions selections and works with others in the department to process the materials, and to make the Listing of New Library purchases available on the Library web page for all patrons.

Record turn-out for National Library Week book discussion

Dickinson State University's Theodore Roosevelt Scholar-in-Residence Clay Jenkinson leads today's Latte & Literature book discussion focusing on The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.

JSTOR enhancement!

JSTOR, the scholarly journal archival database, has just added a new feature. The terms you searched with will now be highlighted within the article, allowing you to quickly find the relevant sections. This is especially nice for those 20-30 page articles!