You're invited

Helmke Library De-Construction Party

Thursday, December 10, 2015, noon-2:00 pm

Helmke Library First Floor

Pet-a-Pup and Relax
Therapy Dogs will be onsite!  To alleviate some of the stress associated with this time of year, the Helmke Library, with the generous help of Pets Assisting Well-Being and Success (PAWS), is happy to host trained therapy dogs in the Learning Commons from 11am-1pm, Monday-Wednesday, December 14-16, 2015. Take a furry furlough from your studies.

Coloring Your Way to Zen
Coloring is not just for kids anymore.  It has become one of the newest ways to de-stress. According to psychologists such as Gary Fitzgibbon: "When people are under stress, they want to put their head in a place that reminds them of a time they had no pressures and an environment in which everything was provided for them. For the majority of people, that place is their childhood."  "The new relaxation craze: Can staying between the lines keep us on track?" The Telegraph, 4 June 2014. Studies have found that coloring can relieve stress, calm nerves, produce peacefulness, and create a quiet zen experience.  (See Adult coloring books topping bestseller lists, CNN.com, 24 April 2015.)

The library will host a table in the Learning Commons with a variety of intricate coloring designs and colored pencils during study (dead) and finals week. Check it out.

Get a Java Jumpstart!
Give your brain a jumpstart by stopping by the Coffee/Study Break Table in the Helmke Library Learning Commons. Helmke Library and Student Affairs will be serving up FREE coffee and snacks between 5:00-8:00 p.m. each night from Monday, December 14, through Wednesday, December 16. Good luck with finals!

Faculty and staff who would like to serve at the coffee table are encouraged to contact Tiff Adkins in the Library (481-6708 or adkinst@ipfw.edu). Come and join the fun in supporting our students!

Pssssssst, the Ps are on the Move 

  

When the library opened in 1972, reference books were on first floor.  Periodicals and government documents were on second.  Books with call numbers A - L were on third and books with call numbers M - Z were on fourth.  In the late 1990s, a decision was made that the periodicals should be interfiled with the books and that third floor would be for humanities and fourth floor would be for the sciences.  This massive shifting was done in stages.  The science periodicals went to fourth floor.  The empty second floor shelves where they had been were filled with P (literature) books.  The music and art books went to third floor.  It took until 2011, but eventually call numbers A - P ended up on third floor.  Call numbers Q - Z and the government documents were on fourth floor.

We are shifting books again, this time because of the building renovation.  Once again the P books will be on fourth floor, right back where they were originally shelved.

  

If you visit the library and cannot find a book, talk to the people at the Service Desk on the first floor.  We'll help you find it.

Think Spring!  Spring Reserves, that is 

  

Instructors may begin to fill out requests for spring course reserves.  During the renovation year of 2016, students may check out reserve material in the Library Services Center.  Due to the limited seating in this room, the "Not to Leave Library" option will not be available during 2016.