Our newest furniture has arrived, AND the older new furniture is now all connected to power! Visit our Facebook page for more pictures, or simply come see for yourself.

We’re back! The carpet installation was completed today – a day earlier than expected – so we are reopening our doors for the last couple of hours today (closing at 5), and we’ll be open tomorrow from 8-5. We’ll hold off posting the final pictures so that you’ll all feel compelled to stop in and see the new carpet for yourself, but you can see the process on our Facebook page.  Thanks so much for everyone’s patience this week.

We’ve just refilled the free bins, so come find some gems. This week’s stockpile includes lots of 12-inch singles, lots of polka, and lots of poetry. Plus some Herb Alpert, because there’s always some Herb Alpert. Come stock up on some vinyl for your valentine, because nothing says, “I love you,” like a free poetry record.

(image from Etude, August 1913)

If you’re looking for the posters from the Libraries’ Poster Yourself event at last Friday’s ArtsX, head on over to Flickr or Pinterest to check them out. We’d like to thank all of our willing models for their enthusiasm and imagination. Plus, we’d like to extend a big thanks to the library volunteers who worked so hard to make it happen: Nancy Down, Amy Fry, Stefanie Hunker, Vera Lux, Liz Tousey, and Kathy Yoder.

Naxos Music Library has announced the addition of three new labels to its online streaming database:

Give them a listen when you get the chance!

Yet again, we have refilled the free LP bins with fresh discards. Come check it out and claim your dream records.

If you’re curious about what our College of Musical Arts faculty have been publishing and recording, check out our newest display of recent additions to our collections.

Titles highlighted include:

• The Auction Project (David Bixler, Music CD 12844)
• Toledo Clarinets (Christopher Dietz, Music CD 13166)
• Entre Espaces (Elainie Lillios, Music CD 13162)
• The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan (Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu, Music CD 13148)
• Reaching for the Moon (Morgen Stiegler and Chris Buzzelli, Music CD 13112)
• Music from Bowling Green (Music CD 13165)
• Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol (Katherine Meizel, ML76.A54 M45 2010)
• Music: A Social Experience (Mary Natvig, MT 90 .C69 2012)
• Michael Praetorius: Vermittler europäischer Musiktraditionen um 1600 (Arne Spohr, ML410.P79 M539 2011)

We’re a little late getting the news to you here, but in case you hadn’t noticed, there is now a box in my.bgsu.edu that provides a list of the materials you currently have checked out, along with due dates. You’ll still need to go to My Library Account to renew materials, but this is a handy way to see what you have when you’re logging in to check on classes.

Read more about this on the University Libraries’ blog.

You might have noticed that our online catalog got a new look today, but did you also notice that you can now send call numbers and locations to your phone as a text message? Simply click on the “Text” icon, choose your carrier and enter your phone number, and within a few seconds, you’ll get a text message with call number, location, and author’s name. No more scrap paper necessary! But text rates do apply.