Laptop rentals and Group Study room checkouts will be unavailable from May 23rd through May 27th. However, the laptop loan office will still be open from the 23rd through the 25th for the return of equipment.
The office will be closed the 27th through the 30th, and will re-open for laptop and group study room checkouts throughout both summer sessions, from May 31st through August 19th.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
PICTURE Art Student Essay Contest - $500 Prize
The PICTURE Art Foundation maintains the PICTURE Cultural Art Center on the first floor of the new CSUDH Library. To celebrate the opening of their new exhibit, "On Being Human: Love, Faith, Shame and Hope," opening May 5th, the foundation is sponsoring a student essay contest with a $500 cash prize for the winning entry. The winning essay will also be featured on the foundation's website, http://www.pictureartfoundation.org.
Contest Details
Write an essay of any length on a piece of art found in the exhibit "On Being Human: Love, Faith, Shame and Hope." The essay should include at least one of the following angles: sociological, historical, cultural, art historical or art appreciation.
Students are required to visit the exhibit to choose a particular work. Outside research is strongly encouraged, especially if it relates to current classwork.
Submit your entries to James Scarborough, PICTURE Cultural Art Executive Director at jscarborough@pictureartfoundation.org.
Contest deadline is May 18th.
Contest Flyer
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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!
Monday, February 14, 2011
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.
Check out our brief web-based presentation, available on the library's website, to get your bearings.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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.
Lab hours are the same as the library's hours of operation.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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.
Spring Semester hours: January 24th through the end of the Spring semester.
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
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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.
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