LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETINGFebruary 4, 2008, 9:15 a.m., HovdePresent: Chris, Andi, Ryan, John, Lindy, Germano, Rachel.John chaired, and will be chairing the spring se

A new exhibit from the Fine Arts Collection has been installed in the Wigley Gallery of the Center for the Arts. The exhibit, entitled “Looking Back: the Luther College Fine Arts Festivals,&

Here’s another LIS-related highlight from the Archives Flickr collection:Periodical Area in Preus Library

I attended two sessions at the Iowa Library Association annual meeting in Coralville in early October.  The first was by Christopher Merrill, director of the International Writers Workshop at the

This (Sept. 29-Oct. 6) is Banned Books Week. The folks at Google Book Search have put together a nice page to help "Celebrate Your Freedom to R

My article "Interlibrary Loan Staffing in Liberal Arts CollegeLibraries" has been published in the vol. 17, no. 4 (2007) issue of The Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and

On Tuesday, September 25th, a couple from Norway stopped into the library unexpectedly. Drude Koren Berntsen and her husband were visiting Decorah for the day as part of a longer two-week visit to

Those in libraries, and particularly academic libraries should think carefully about this piece by N

Twenty pieces of pottery and four drawings by Marguerite Wildenhain and one drawing by Gerhard Marcks have been borrowed by the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art for an exhibit entitled, "

The Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive seeking to provide an alternative way of representing books online. According to their website, their vision is to create free web access t

I've just added a link in the library catalog record for College Chips to the digital edition of Chips that Rachel demoed for us yesterday. Let me know if there's a problem with the catalog

ABC News: One in Four Read No Books Last Year: Perhaps another symptom of our infomania is the fact that we more and more can't seem to m