The Friends of the Library of North Carolina State University is holding its annual Book Sale from May 17 through May 20 on the Brickyard outside the D. H. Hill Library.


Select from an impressive array of books ranging from best-selling novels and fiction classics to engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences texts -- all donated by Friends, faculty, students, and other members of the community.


The Book Sale is open to the general public:

Sunday, May 18, 2008, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Monday, May 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The preview sale on Saturday, May 17, 2008, 2:00-5:00 p.m. is reserved for members of the Friends, with the first hour open to Life Members only.

Driving directions to the D. H. Hill Library.

Parking options for visitors. Note that on-campus parking (in designated areas) is free and open to the public all day on weekends and after 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.

Patrice Daniels of the NCSU Libraries' Metadata and Cataloging Department was recently honored at the University Awards for Excellence Luncheon as one of only four nominees from the Provost's Unit. This award recognizes excellence in the areas of outstanding state government service, innovations, public service, safety and heroism, and human relations.

Daniels was recognized for her outstanding work as a cataloger and as the training coordinator for her department. Her colleague, Anne Navarro, described the significance of her work in the nomination letter: "[A]lthough Patrice is very much a 'behind the scenes' worker, everyone who has used the NCSU Libraries catalog over the last 26.5 years has benefited from her knowledge, patience, and ability to train."

Media contact: Anna Dahlstein, (919) 515-3585

The work of pioneer ecologist and NC State professor B. W. Wells is the focus of the first exhibition to be featured in the D. H. Hill Library?s new exhibition gallery. The story is told by the wealth of excellent photographs that Wells took to document his research. He converted four-by-five-inch negatives to glass lantern slides and hand-tinted many of them with watercolors. Throughout his career, he used these images to enlighten everyone he encountered on the importance of appreciating nature. The NCSU Libraries and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have partnered to preserve, identify, digitize, and display these images.

Much of Wells? work focused on the ecologically unique Big Savannah located in Pender County, North Carolina. Although this landscape was forever lost to the plow in the late 1950s, the recent discovery of a similar site, dedicated as the B. W. Wells Savannah in 2002, created a renewed interest in the ecology of this region and the abundance of plants and flowers that are found there today. Photographer Freda Wilkins of Wilmington, North Carolina, has documented them for this exhibition.

The exhibition also displays Wells? publications, including his popular work, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina, which has been an invaluable resource for North Carolinians interested in the native flora of the state for over 75 years. Other highlights include his camera, botanical specimens, and original documents produced by Wells.

All of the photographs in the B. W. Wells Collection are available in the online exhibit on the NCSU Libraries? Web site. The images are also featured in the catalog that accompanies the exhibition, available for purchase from the NC State Bookstores.

This library?s new exhibit gallery is part of the recent renovations of the D. H. Hill Library, which now offers a state-of-the-art Learning Commons and a Special Collections Reading Room.

Please take note of the following information for Summer 2007:

-- I will be offering a RefWorks workshop on Wed. June 20 from 9-11 AM in ITTC Lab 2 at D.H. Hill Library. For more information and to register for the workshop, see http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/refworks/ .

-- I am available for research consultations and library instruction. For more information on library services available to faculty, see http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/faculty/.

-- The new Learning Commons in the East Wing of D.H. Hill Library is a wonderful space that I encourage you to see if you haven't already. For more information about the services and resources of the Learning Commons, see http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/learningcommons/.

If you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance, please let me know!

-- Katherine Dexter Willis, Reference Librarian for Management and Education (513-0304).

Please be aware that there is an important ERIC initiative underway: The ERIC contractor is working on digitizing all the old (1966-1992) microfiche (this refers to ERIC Documents, not journal articles). For more information, see http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Digitization.

It is important to note that the reproduction releases signed by authors/copyright holders during this period did not include electronic format. So, the ERIC contractor is currently attempting to contact all these authors to get a release for this additional format.

For many of these ERIC Documents, this will require locating each author individually. Most were affiliated with a college/university, either as faculty or as students. Please be aware that the requests are going to academic institutions because that is often the only contact information available. The specific office within an institution that receives the contact can vary. Some of the requests may come in the form of an email from "ERIC Permissions" while others are phone call contacts.

If you have questions about this, please feel free to contact Katherine Dexter Willis (513-0304), Librarian for Management and Education.