• Mondays through Thursdays – 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Fridays – 5:00-7:00 p.m.
• Saturdays and Sundays – Noon to 9:00 p.m.

Faculty members and graduate students may also request passes at the Learning Commons Library Services desk for access to the rest of the building during these hours.

Normal hours of operation will resume on Monday, January 4, 2010. For all library hours, see our Hours page.

Update: as of 11 am on November 19, the problem has been repaired.

Alden Library will keep later hours on all floors during final exam week.

Monday – Thursday,  Nov 16, 17, 18, & 19 All floors will remain open until 2 AM.  The second floor will be open its usual 24 hours.

Friday, Nov 20 All floors will remain open until midnight.  The second floor will continue to remain open until 2 AM.

Saturday, Nov 21 All floors will remain open until midnight.  The second floor will continue to remain open until 2 AM.

Sunday, Nov 22 The second floor will open early at 10 AM and remain open until Tuesday evening at 9 PM.  All other floors will keep their usual hours of 12 noon – midnight.

Alden Library formed a Veterans’ Committee last year to review the library needs of veterans at Ohio University.  We have established two literature racks, one on each entry floor.  We also have a representative on the university-wide Veterans’ Committee.  We would appreciate any input from veterans on how to better serve them, and for any additional resources they would like to see at the library.

Veterans,  please feel free to contact anyone one the Committee with any type of question.  The library committee member are Kevin Angel, Joyce Douglas, Teresa Nelson, Sherri Saines, Sandra Seeley and Jason Whited.  Their contact information can be found in the Libraries’ staff directory.

The Cion Fall Festival of Events kicks off next Wednesday, October 21 with the first of three Common Reader Project sponsored activities.

Cion Connections in Film: Screenings of Illusions and Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed,
a two-film back-to-back mini-series, will take place on Wednesday, October 21 from 7:10-8:30 p.m. in Alden’s Friends of the Library room on the third floor. Julie Dash directs Illusions, a 1982 film about how Hollywood filmmaking intersects with race relations (34 minutes), Blue Eyed, Jane Elliot demonstrates her blue eyed/brown eyed exercise in discrimination (30 minutes).

How to Read Cion: True Stories from Instructors & Their Classes, part of Alden Library’s Brown Bag Lunch Series, takes place Friday, October 23 from 1 – 2 p.m. in Alden’s Friends of the Library room on the third floor. Join Paul Shovlin and Wendy VanDellon for this entertaining, informative, and lively discussion. Bring your lunch – light refreshments will be served.

Zakes Mda: A Reading from and Discussion of Cion, will feature Cion’s internationally famous author and Ohio University English Professor, Zakes Mda, reading excerpts from his book and dialoguing with his audience on Tuesday, October 27 from 7 – 9 p.m. in Baker Center Theater. Refreshments will be served following Zakes’ reading and discussion at a book signing and reception just out side the theater.

READ THE CION BLOG – A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE NOVEL!

Consciousness: Films to change the World

Sunday: Oct 18, Nov 1 and Nov 15
Alden Library, Friends of the Library Room
Refreshments and Discussion after!

Oct 18 @ 6 pm “American Outrage”
A documentary of the 35-year fight of Carrie
Dann and Mary Dann against the U.S. government’s attempts to take over traditional Shoshone land in Nevada, part of 60 million acres guaranteed to them in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.

Nov 1 @ 6 pm “The Story of Stuff”
“A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the under side of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in
our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to make it, through its production, sale, use and disposal, affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/media.html

Nov 15 @ 6 pm “Life Running out of Control”
A film showing problems with genetic modifications, and unethical uses of genetic studies. Justice and control issues surrounding genetically modified
organisms is spotlighted. This “genetic pollution” is different than chemical pollution. Genetic modifications replicate themselves, and so over time the contamination becomes greater rather than dissipating.

On Tuesday, November 10 Deanda Johnson, Coordinator of the African American Research and Service Institute and a Visiting Instructor in the Department of African American Studies at Ohio University, will speak on “Freedom Denied: African American Prison Literature and Other Stories of Confinement.” Her presentation is part of the Libraries’ Culture Showcase series.

Ms. Johnson’s presentation will be from 3:00 – 4:00 pm in the Friends of the Library Room (Alden 319). Refreshments will be available.

On Tuesday, October 20 Dr. Akil Houston, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department, will speak on “Re-Membering African American Studies at Ohio University.” His presentation, part of the Culture Showcase series, will focus on a film he is doing about the department’s history.

Dr. Houston’s presentation will be from 2:00 – 3:00 pm in the Friends of the Library Room. Refreshments will be available.

The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will hold a book sale from October 22-24, 2009 in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge.

The hours are:

• Thursday, Oct. 22, 7-9pm
• Friday, Oct. 23, 10-6pm
• Saturday, Oct. 24. 10-4pm

“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University-every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”