Archive for April, 2008

Wanted: Student Employee

As the semester winds down, the ACL finds itself losing a few of its valuable student workers. If you, or a student you know is interested in working here for approximately 10 – 15 hours per week, please submit an application at the ACL’s circulation desk. You can download it here, or follow this link [...]

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Where’s the nearest pay phone?

Lately, we’ve been noticing a trend in more patrons asking to use our phones to make personal phone calls. Since we generally prefer to have our phone lines open for library-related business, the standard answer was to simply direct patrons to the nearest pay phone in the building. However, since the pay phones in the [...]

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Gapminder.org

Gapminder.org a great resource for students and professors at our campus, and it’s free to the public, so no subscriptions for us to pay and no logins for you to remember!
In a nutshell, Gapminder is: “Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased [...]

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Printing Tips n’ Tricks

Lately the printing process here has been undergoing some slight changes in the last few weeks. We had previously announced the print server upgrade and wanted to clarify that the feature that had required users to enter a username and password before printing now only requires a username (the same set-up as before the changes [...]

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New Mason Money Machine Arrives!

In case you haven’t noticed yet, the broken Mason Money Machine in the ACL has finally been replaced with a new one! If you haven’t noticed, it might be due to the fact that this new machine looks exactly like the old, malfunctioning one. Since it arrived on Friday, the machine has been working normally [...]

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ITU Employee of the Month

It’s probably yesterday’s news by now, but last week our very own Jessica Montfort, our dedicated Document Delivery Coordinator was awarded the ITU Employee of the Month Award for April!!! Our full-time staff managed to travel out to Fairfax last Wednesday to attend the award ceremony outside Joy Hughes’ office, leaving the library in the [...]

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Construction junction

This photo was taken about a week ago, after the overhanging canopy outside the library and the former lounge, or annex, was removed. During this project, lots of strange noises and tremors disrupted the happy flow of learning in the library and caused many a headache. But thankfully this project was completed and it is [...]

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