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April 20, 2007

Google Scholar

From now on whenever you search Google Scholar from campus, a link will appear when the library can provide access to an article.

The link appears as "Get it at WU."

You can also configure your Scholar preferences to get this same feature when you are working from off-campus.

Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions on this new feature.

April 18, 2007

Finals Hours

With finals approaching, the Hatfield Library will have extended hours starting April 26. Here are the upcoming hours:

April 26-27 (Thu. - Fri.): 7:45 a.m. - 3 a.m.

April 28-29 (Sat. - Sun.): 9 a.m. - 3 a.m.

April 30 - May 4 (Mon. - Fri.): 7:45 a.m. - 3 a.m.

May 5-6 (Sat. - Sun.): 9 a.m. - 3 a.m.

May 7-8 (Mon. - Tue.): 7:45 a.m. - 3 a.m.

May 9 (Wed. Exams): 7:45 a.m. - 7 p.m.

May 10-11 (Thu. - Fri.): 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

May 12 (Sat.): Noon - 4 p.m.

May 13 (Sun. Commencement): 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Summer hours begin May 14. During the summer, the library will be open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. and will be closed on the weekends.

Second Floor Displays

The Hatfield Library currently has two displays in its display area on the second floor.

One is a display of "Images of Chinese Women," organized by Professor Xijuan Zhou.

The other is "Arts and Artifacts in Chinese Folklore and Folklife," organized by Professor Juwen Zhang

They are scheduled to be up through the end of April.

April 13, 2007

Student Scholarship Recognition Day

The Seventh Annual Student Scholarship Recognition Day will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007.

Student Scholarship Recognition Day is a day set aside at Willamette to celebrate some of the exemplary scholarship and performance work of Willamette University students. It provides a venue for students to share with the campus community, their families and others the extraordinary range of interests they pursue in and beyond the classroom.

Student Scholarship Recognition Day is a mix of oral presentations, performance presentations, and artistic presentations held throughout the campus.

SSRD activities begin at 9:00 a.m. and extend into the evening. Please visit the SSRD website for more information and the detailed schedule of the day's events: www.willamette.edu/cla/ssrd.

April 04, 2007

An Evening with Martin Pousson

Martin Pousson will read from Sugar, his poetry collection, and his debut novel, No Place, Louisiana on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in the Hatfield Room in the Hatfield Library. The event is free and open to the public.

Pousson was born and raised in Louisiana’s Acadiana, often referred to as Cajun Country. No Place, Louisiana was published in 2002. His publisher wrote that the book is an “unflinching vision of family reationships pushed to the breaking point, conveyed with a rare empathy and understanding” and praised Pousson’s “ability to peer into the secret hearts of its misfit characters.”

“Louisiana-born Pousson debuts with a tightly wound novel about a claustrophobic Cajun marriage,” wrote Publishers Weekly, and Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham wrote that Pousson “has given us a book of startling complexity, originality and power.”

No Place, Louisiana was a finalist for the John Gardner Award in Fiction, and it will soon be translated for publication in France.

Sugar, Pousson’s first collection of poems, was published in 2005 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, an award that celebrates books with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes. His prose and poetry have also appeared in The Louisiana Review; Cimarron Review; Epoch; Icon; Transfer; Intersection and Love, Bourbon Street.

Pousson is the writer-in-residence at Loyola University in New Orleans.