It’s a brand new month and this month has a holiday in it. Maybe while you are off enjoying your Thanksgiving Break you can relax with a good book.
Check out some new additions to our Popular Reading and Audiobook collection.
The Book Sale is going on right now!
Stop reading this blog and go buy some books. All the proceeds from the sale go to purchase new materials for the Libraries.
The Tiger will be visiting at lunch time!
And don’t forget, the new Thomas Green Clemson biography is on sale at a table near the book sale area.
At 3:00pm prices will be $5.00 per bag or box full. At 5:00pm all the leftovers will be free!
Don’t forget the library book sale is tomorrow. It starts at 9am (Clemson only! Must present your ID to get in.) and will last until 5pm.
Come check out all the great stuff we have. The money you spend at the Book Sale goes to purchase new materials for the library.
Read more about the sale here.
1 week until the Book Sale…
The Book Sale is Friday, September 25. 9am until 10am is Clemson only. You’ll have to show your university ID to get in. At 10am we open to the public.
Our pricing has changed a bit:
Hardcover books – $2.00
DVDs, Videos, Music CDs, Records – $2.00
Paperback books – $1.00
Magazines – 25 ¢(Children’s books will be priced as hardback or paperback. There will be no special pricing this year.)
At 3:00pm, prices will go to $5.00 per box or bag.
At 5:00pm, all remaining items will be free.
Lots more information can be found here.
Also, at the Book Sale the Alumni Association will be selling copies of the new Thomas Green Clemson biography. They will have a table set up near the Book Sale from 9am until 4pm. You can purchase a copy of the book for $29.95.
Thomas Green Clemson — a new biography of the University’s founder — is a must-read for students, staff, and alumni. This is the first biography on Mr. Clemson since 1937. The 400 page book includes one 16-page color signature of historical portraits and selections from Mr. Clemson’s art collection. In addition to each chapter’s illustrations, the biography features genealogy charts of the Clemson and Calhoun families dating from the 1600s to the 1970s.
Half of the left side (east) of the 1st floor is now closed to the public. This includes call numbers A-D1.L62.
If you need books or journals, please go to the Circulation Desk for assistance. They can retrieve the materials for you.
We have closed that area because we’ve begun putting up the new compact shelving and the books are being placed on it. Please see today’s Daily Photo to see how it looks.
It’s very cool! And the new lights down there are awesome! So bright!
Books with call numbers beginning with M (just plain M, not ML or MT) have been moved out of the oversize section in Room 201 and are now in the place you would expect to find them in the regular stacks. Most of these books are scores.
They had been moved into the oversize section because we mistakenly thought that most of them were oversize. However, a second measuring found that most of them actually will fit on regular shelves.
Almost all the M’s are now on the regular shelves; the small number of M’s that are truly oversize are still in the oversize section. The catch is that most of the M’s in the oversize area are NOT labeled oversize in the catalog yet. There are plans for this to be done but with all the activity that’s going on to prepare the collection for compact shelving, it may be a while.
So if you can’t find an M book in the regular area, please check the oversize section, come talk with us at the Reference Desk or the Circulation Desk and we’ll try to track it down.
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday and I’m pleased to say that we have almost all of those that are books:
Biography winner: American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House / Jon Meacham. New York : Random House, c2008. Popular Reading E382 .M43 2008
History winner: The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. Popular Reading E332.74 .G67 2008
General Non Fiction winner: Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon. New York : Doubleday, c2008. E185.2 .B545 2008
Fiction winner: Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout. New York : Random House, c2008. Popular Reading PS3569.T736 O5 2008
We also hope to purchase the Drama and Poetry winners as well.
but how about tape on books? That’s what we’ve got in Cooper Library.
Let me tell you why:
Remember when we told you we were putting all those shelves in the old Media Room? A bunch of books that are “oversized” will be moving to Rm 201 (former Media Room). Oversized means “too big to fit correctly on any of our normal shelves”.
Blue tape has been placed on books that need to be moved, to make it easier to find them. Please don’t move the blue tape.
We are working to have the catalog records say that the books are in Room 201; if they are, indeed, in that room.
If you have any questions about what is being moved or if you can’t find something, please come and ask us about it. We don’t want you to be frustrated.