New rules on Copyright

Librarian of congress announces DMCA 1201 Rules for Exemptions regarding circumvention of Access control technologies.

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-169.html

Here is the whole web site from the Library of Congress

http://www.copyright.gov/1201

Summer Session Hours

During Summer Sessions, the Library is open for college business hours:

Monday - Thursday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Friday: 7:45 a/m/ to 3:00 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Saturday Hours at the Library

Final Exam week is coming up for NDSCS, and we will be open from 1:00 - 5:00 on Saturday May 8. Stop in to complete your projects and study for those upcoming finals.

It's National Library Week

Every year, libraries join in National Library Week to celebrate our work and our belief in the importance of libraries to their local community, public, academic, or any other sort of library community. At MJ Library we are noting our connection to the LIFE values of North Dakota State College of Science, our home institution. Today the value is LEARNING. We believe that libraries, in many new changing forms, will always be a part of the collegiate experience.

Join us also to "Guess the Staff" - which favorite book belongs with each staff member.

ENG 292 now ENG 278

Are you interested in the Alternative Literature course? It has received final approval status and is now listed as ENG 278 for registration. We need a couple more students to sign up for the class to take place. Think of the fun of reading and discussing the kinds of books you like to read for your own, and getting a chance to learn about some areas of literature that are not mainstream literary works! Deb Dusek and Karen Chobot will lead the class into discoveries about new books and genres. We think you'll love it!

ENGL 292: Alternative Literature

Announcing a NEW literature course, a humanities elective, for Spring Semester 2010. Deborah Dusek and Karen Chobot will be teaching a class that centers on literature that falls outside the established, mainstream literature. We'll look at genres such as Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, regional literature, graphic novels of many forms, and others. We'll examine short stories, plays, poems, non-fiction and others. And there will be some interesting projects for groups and individuals.

The class meets Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 - 9:50 am.

Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and Fahrenheit 451

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is more than science fiction. It is a comment on how Bradbury sees possibilities in the future. He says, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

This issue will be discussed at a forum in the Fireside Lounge at the MSCTC campus in Fergus Falls, 7:30 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 6. It is an event of The NEA Big Read and Fergus Reads, that the Mildred Johnson Library is participating with.

Join a panel of experts who discuss the issues presented in the book, join in the discussion or just listen. There will be a drawing for free books and refreshments.