Take a Trip Around Our Website
The Library observes the following holiday hours:
Thursday, December 24: Open 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Friday, December 25: Closed
Saturday, December 26: Closed
Thursday, December 31: Open 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Friday, January 1: Closed
Otherwise we're open normal hours.
There's plenty to see and read on our website from anywhere at any time. As we wrap up calendar year 2015, a few web highlights you may have missed:
Electronic Resources
- E-Books are now available! Beat the hold queue for popular new and classic titles, straight to your favorite device.
- Listen to a classic with our OneClickDigital audiobook offerings. Children's books and other titles too.
- 2015 also saw us add searchable full-text content to our database of Proquest Historical Newspapers:
- The Los Angeles Times (1881-1991)
- The Wall Street Journal (1889-1997)
- The Washington Post (1877-1998)
- The Christian Science Monitor (1908-2001)
On the Blog
- Our Rare Books Librarian, Erin Schreiner, discusses the legacy of annotated books in Readers Make Their Mark On You (August 11)
- Sara Holliday surveys labor history as seen through our collection in History in the Stacks: Labor Day (September 2)
- Cataloging Department intern Kathryn McNally reveals what she learned working with our early ledgers in Notes from an Intern: Developing Research Questions in Conversation with Librarians of the Past and Present (October 14)
- Professor Anthony Grafton leads us into the world, and the mind, of a 16th-century reader through a book from the Library's Special Collections in Konrad Peutinger Reads a History (November 2)
- An illustrated glance at early editions of Rudyard Kipling in time for his 150th birthday (December 14)
Book Recommendations
Our dozens of recommended book lists include
- Young Adult Reads (in honor of our new High School collection!)
- World Literature in Translation
- Hollywood Novels
Event Recordings
Live or relive one of our fun and informative 2015 events with video and/or audio recordings. These and others are now available:
- Janice P. Nimura on Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (October 15)
- Roger F. Pasquier on Painting Central Park (October 26)
- Andrew Oliver on American Travelers on the Nile: Early U.S. Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839 (October 28)
- How Great Biographies Get Made and Why They Matter: A Tribute to Jonathan Segal (November 4)
- Olivier Bernier on Sarah Parker Goodhue: Preserver and Collector (November 16) - in connection with our ongoing exhibition, Sarah Parker Goodhue: A Hidden Collection Comes to Light
A happy year's close and new year's beginning to all!
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