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The LibX library toolbar is a plugin for Internet Explorer or Firefox that puts library resources in your browser no matter what site you’re looking at.

LibX adds a library search bar to your browser, adds library tools to your right-click context menus, and inserts GSU Library links into book sites like Amazon.com and the New York Times Book Reviews.

Best of all, it’s free!  Get it on our LibX guide.

Questions?  Contact Jason Puckett, Instruction Librarian, at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

Frustrated when you go to the bank or the post office, only to find that they are closed for the day? Just so you won’t be frustrated with us, we at the Georgia State University Library want to understand your need for hours of operation that will coincide with your busy schedules.

The Library and the Student Government Association have partnered and are asking for your assistance in evaluating our hours.  There are now two ways you can cooperate with us:

First, if you go to http://tinyurl.com/b7xvsb you can fill out a quick survey about the library’s hours.

Second, the library will be hosting several focus groups this semester to hear your voices directly. To participate in one of these groups, please contact Jennifer Jones at jlink@gsu.edu.

It is the library’s mission to ensure that we meet the needs of the university community. We hope that with your cooperation we can identify ways that we may be able to better serve you.

Georgia State students–do you have a research paper to write, but you’re not sure where to begin?  Attend one of these basic library resource sessions to save yourself time and frustration. There are two remaining online drop-in sessions scheduled for Spring semester 2009.

ESL Tutoring will begin Monday, January 26, 2009 and run through April 30, 2009.

Hours for this semester:

Mondays, 1:30-4:00
Tuesdays, 12:30-4:00
Wednesdays, CLOSED
Thursdays, 11:30-4:00
Fridays, 1:30-3:00

Beginning on Thursday, January 22, current issues of the science journals on Library South 3 will be moving to Library North 1 and will be integrated with the rest of the current periodical issues. This project will take several weeks. The space created on LS3 will allow for all of the bound Q periodicals to fit on that floor.

Watch online or download podcasts of President Eisenhower’s 1957 swearing-in, President Kennedy’s swearing-in, President Reagan’s 1981 swearing-in, and President Clinton’s 1993 swearing-in. Also watch or download a podcast of “So Help Me God,” a historical look at the inauguration.

The library will be closed Monday January 19th for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday but will reopen Tuesday January 20th. Please see the hours page for the complete semester schedule.

The Student Government Association will host a viewing of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. All students, faculty, and staff are invited to experience this historic moment together.

Tuesday, January 20
11am - 1pm

Location Information:
Main Campus - Student Center
Room: Student Center Ballroom

Contact Information:
Name: Office of Student Life and Leadership
Phone: 404-413-1580

Admission Information
Free

Live stream also available here.

Other Viewing Sites on Campus:
The University Commons
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, 7th Floor
The African-American Studies Department, the 9th Floor of Park Place

Learn how to use EndNote at a free library workshop on Tuesday, January 20, 12:30-1:30 in Classroom 1, Library North.  EndNote is a program that helps you save, organize and format citations.  It can save you hours creating your bibliography!  GSU users can download EndNote for free.

For more information about using EndNote, check out our new EndNote web guide.   To register for the workshop, e-mail Jason Puckett.

(Want to try a different citation manager?  A workshop on Zotero for Firefox is coming later this semester.)

The GIL error report form on the OPAC bib display is now working again.