MLK Holiday Hours

Saturday, January 14: open 8 am-5 pm
Sunday, January 15: closed
Monday, January 16: closed

Regular hours resume on Tuesday.

image: Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Betsy G. Reyneau; Donated Collections; Record Group 200; National Archives and Records Administration

Faculty and Staff: Logging in to your Library Account

You may renew books and pay fines and fees through your Library Account. Normally, you can sign in with your Pipeline username and password OR your name and ID barcode.

For the time being, faculty and staff need to use the name and barcode option. Students may still use their Pipeline logins.

To find your barcode, look on the back of your MTSU ID. You library barcode is the one in the middle, beginning with 23082

Welcome Back!

Welcome back for the spring semester. We hope you all had a restful break and are ready for some new challenges.

Don't forget, the library has many services and facilities to assist you. Here's a rundown of the highlights.

Find books, articles, and more on the library website. Come see us at the 1st floor reference desk if you have questions or need help finding something.

Building Directory

1st Floor (Group Zone)
Adaptive Technology
Circulation/Reserves
Copy Center and Vending
Interlibrary Loan
The Lounge (Popular Reading)
Periodicals
Reference Collection
Research Commons
Service Desk (Lost and Found)
Starbucks
TeamSpot (Coming Soon!)
Tech Services

2nd Floor (Group Zone)
Call Numbers 000-399
Digital Media Studio (DMS)
DMS Training Room
Group Study Rooms
Library Instruction Rooms (264A and 272)
Microtext Collection
User Services Offices
The Meeting Place in 248 (Coming Soon!)
Presentation Practice Rooms -- 248B and 262B (Coming Soon!)

3rd Floor (Quiet Zone)
Call Numbers 400-799
Curriculum Collection
Collection Management
LT&ITC
Writing Center
Group Study Rooms
Classroom 387 (in back of Curriculum)

4th Floor (Quiet Zone)
Call Numbers 800-999
Special Collections
Library Administration
Reservable Group Study Rooms
The Meeting Place in 464 (Coming Soon!)
Library Conference Room

Laptop check out suspended over winter break

Laptop check out will be suspended between semesters.  

The last day to check out a laptop will be Dec. 16, and the first day to start up again is Jan. 9.

On display in the Library...Holiday Reading

Happy Holidays! Going home for the break? Take one of our Popular Reading books home with you. They are on display next to our tree made of old stock reports that are now available online.

Popular Reading books are the "fun books". We have the latest from the New York Times Bestseller list. You can check these books out for up to 2 weeks.

Students can check out up to 20 books for up to 4 weeks (Popular Reading Books are for 2 weeks). And you can check out books over the break as long as you are a current student.

Poster Printer in the Library!!!!

The Walker Library Technology Services Desk (LTS) now has available a large format printer that students and faculty can use to print poster size. Come to the LTS desk on the 1st floor and check it out.

• Students, faculty, and staff will need a valid MTSU ID.


• Files should be brought to the LTS Desk on a USB drive.


• Only JPEG, TIFF, PDF, PPT, or Word files are accepted.


• Posters will be printed within one (1) hour.
  


• Charges will be added to your My Library Account and the fee can be paid online.

Prices:
$7 per linear foot
$14 for a 2x3 standard poster
$35 for a 3x5 poster

For more info contact the Library Technology Services Desk at 615-898-5666.

Time and Sanity Saving Tips in the Library

The crazy making time known as exams is upon us and we at the Walker Library want to help keep you sane and happy. Here are two tips that should help.

1. Computer Availability Maps- Have you noticed a similarity between trying to find a parking space on campus and trying to find a computer in the library? You circle and circle and pray and swear until you finally find an opening, and when you do, you hope not to have a head on collision or get into an altercation with another seeker. We can't do anything about parking, unfortunately, but now you can determine where the open computers are before you start roaming.

Simply point your smartphone or other mobile device to http://libstats.mtsu.edu:8080/ to see a listing of the computer labs in the library and the available numbers of machines. You can also click on a map of the lab to see exactly where the open computers are.

2. Express Printing. Stop competing with everyone else trolling for computers (see above). Save yourself the shoe leather and go straight to the express printing station located on the first floor in the atrium. Just make sure your document is on a jump drive. Plug it in and print. Then leave. Easy as pie. One note- all documents are two sided.


image from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print