9/9 Athenaeum at 1pm -The Future of Media, Journalism, and Education by James Bowey

Join us on Wednesday, September 9, at 1pm for a presentation by James Bowey titled, "The Future of Media, Journalism, and Education."

The so-called Web 2.0 revolution of the last few years has dramatically reshaped the way we produce, distribute and consume information and entertainment of every stripe. The emerging Web 3.0 is changing the way we understand knowledge itself.

As part of the discussion, Professor Bowey will present Winona360.org, a new media platform he has been developing as a general interest multimedia news site and new media laboratory for the university.

Anyone who consumes information should be interested in this look at our media future.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public.

For the complete Fall 2009 Athenaeum schedule and for additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

9/3 - Labor Day Weekend Hours

The Krueger Library will be open:
Saturday, September 5, 2009, 10:00am-6:00pm
Sunday, September 6, 2009, 1:00pm-9:00pm

The Kruger Library will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2009.

For additional information about the library's hours: http://www.winona.edu/library/about/hours.html

8/28 - Library Catalog Upgrade & Downtime

PALS (http://www.mnpals.org/) is upgrading the online catalog for all MnPALS Libraries, including the Darrell W. Krueger Library, to improve database quality and search consistency. In order to accomplish this, portions of the online catalog will be down from 5:00 pm, Friday, August 28 until 8:00 am, Monday, August 31, 2009.

Although students, faculty, and staff will be able to search the catalog, some features and functionality will be unavailable during this time. Patrons will be unable to log-in to renew books, place holds, or view the current status of individual records. In order to make the catalog available during the upgrade, a snapshot of the catalog was taken on Friday, August 21, which means that items placed on Course Reserve since Friday, August 21, will not be reflected in the library online catalog. Circulation (item check-out) and Interlibrary Loan service will be available through alternate means. Interlibrary loan requests may be entered using the blank form. All requests will be forwarded to an email account. The requests will be on hold in that account until Monday morning after 8 am when the staff will manually input each request in the order in which it was received.

Thank you for your patience during this upgrade.