USC Libraries Wonderland Award

Are you a fan of Lewis Carroll? If you are, you may want to take note of the USC Libraries Wonderland Award.

The award is is an annual multidisciplinary competition that encourages new scholarship and creative work related to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the English logician, mathematician, photographer, and nonsense poet who authored Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1871). The contest is open to graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines at all Southern California universities. Previous winners have included creative writing, journalism, fine art, and biomedical engineering students.

The CSUDH Library has put together a page with available resources on Lewis Carroll and the Alice stories and poems to assist entrants from Dominguez Hills. You can view the page by clicking here: http://library.csudh.edu/info/guides/wonderland/

The deadline for entry is April 1st, and the first prize is $2,000 with a second place prize of $1,500. If you enter and win, let us know so we can feature you on the library page!

Explore the New Library

Haven't made it over to the new library building yet? Have, but still aren't sure where everything is?

Check out our brief web-based presentation, available on the library's website, to get your bearings.

Mac Lab Now Open

The library's new Mac Lab is now open for student use. This lab contains 12 apple computers loaded with Mac OS X and is located just behind the reference desk on the second floor of the library's south wing.

Lab hours are the same as the library's hours of operation.

Library Hours: Winter and Spring 2011

The library hours for Winter and Spring semesters for 2011 are posted in the "library hours" section of the library website. Hours will be as follows:

Winter Semester hours: January 3rd through January 22nd.

• Monday through Friday - 8AM to 5PM
• Saturday - 10AM to 5PM
• Sunday - Closed
  
• Library closed Monday, January 17th in observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  

Spring Semester hours: January 24th through the end of the Spring semester.

• Monday through Thursday - 8AM to 8PM
• Friday - 8AM to 5PM
• Saturday - 10AM to 5PM
• Sunday - Closed

Spring Semester closures will be announced as the semester advances.

Laptop Loan and Group Study Rooms

The last day to use the library's Laptop Loan and Group Study Room programs will be December 17th, 2010.

After this time, both programs will be closed to student use for maintenance during the winter break.

Group Study Room checkouts will resume the first day of the winter 2011 session, January 3, 2011.

Laptop checkouts will resume the first day of the spring 2011 semester, January 18, 2011.

Thank you for your understanding.

Finals Hours

The library will be open late starting Wednesday, Dec. 8th for Finals.

Our Hours will be as follows:

Wednesday, December 8th: 8am-11pm

Thursday, December 9th: 8am-11pm

Friday, December 10th: 8am-5pm

Saturday, December 11th: 10am-5pm

Sunday, December 12th: CLOSED

Monday, December 13th: 8am-11pm

Tuesday, December 14th: 8am-11pm

Wednesday, December 15th: 8am-11pm

Thursday, December 16th: 8am-11pm

Friday, December 17th: 8am-5pm

Jimi Hendrix exhibition

CSUDH Archives and Special Collections in the University Library presents Jimi Hendrix: “I’ll Meet You in the Next World. Don’t Be Late.” An Exhibition on the life and after-life of Jimi Hendrix.

Perhaps the greatest guitarist in the history of popular music, Hendrix died 40 years ago this September 18.

Including material collected by South Bay Historian James Osborne, as well as materials from the CSUDH Archives, the exhibition will run from August 24 through the December 17, 2010. Included will be vintage posters, magazines, newspapers, programs, and single covers as well as several album covers documenting Hendrix’s career in England, the U.S. and throughout the world.

The Archives is open from 10 to 4 Monday-Friday. Osborne will present a talk on his collection tentatively on September 16 at 3:30 pm and November 17 at 4:30 pm.