Michael Schwartz Library Summer Hours

The Michael Schwartz Library will be open the following hours during the summer semester(s), May 18 - August 9, 2013:

• Monday-Thursday
  7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Friday
  7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday
  CLOSED

Exceptional Days:
The MS Library will be CLOSED on Monday, May 27th and Thursday, July 4th. The Library will be OPEN from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 27th and August 3rd.

Alternative Weekend Locations:

• Law Library (E. 18th between Chester and Euclid) May 20-July 21, 2013
  • Saturday-9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Sunday-Noon to 8 p.m.
• Cleveland Public Library (Superior Ave. between E. 3rd and E. 6th)
  • Saturday-10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • Sunday-CLOSED

Computer Labs on Campus:

	BU023	FT103	MC120	SC126
Monday	7:30am-10pm	8am-8pm	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9pm
Tuesday	7:30am-10pm	8am-8pm	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9pm
Wednesday	7:30am-10pm	8am-8pm	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9pm
Thursday	7:30am-10pm	8am-8pm	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9pm
Friday	7:30am-5:30pm	8am-8pm	7:30am-5pm	7:30am-5pm
Saturday	9am-5:30pm	8am-8pm	7:30am-5pm	7:30am-5pm
Sunday	9am-5:30pm	8am-8pm	Closed	Closed

	SC128	SH128	UR39/40
Monday	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9:30pm	8am-10pm
Tuesday	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9:30pm	8am-10pm
Wednesday	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9:30pm	8am-10pm
Thursday	7:30am-9pm	7:30am-9:30pm	8am-10pm
Friday	7:30am-5pm	7:30am-5:30pm	8am-6pm
Saturday	7:30am-5pm	Closed	8am-6pm
Sunday	Closed	Closed	Closed

• Mobile Campus -- Borrow a laptop or iPad (SC 128)
  • Saturday - 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Sunday - Closed

Access the Library's resources online 24/7 at http://library.csuohio.edu.

Regular Library hours will resume on August 24, 2013.

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Celebrate National Library Week with a book sale, local author book talk and more.

National Library Week will be observed April 14-20, 2013. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support.

The Michael Schwartz Library will host the following events in honor of National Library Week:
National Library Workers Day
Tuesday, April 16th
National Library Workers Day is a time to honor the contributions of all library workers, librarians, support staff, and others who make library services possible.

Explore Library Career Opportunities
Tuesday, April 16th 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
1st floor of the Library
Explore career opportunities in Library and Information Science and Information Architecture and Knowledge Management. A representative from Kent State University will be at the Michael Schwartz Library to answer your questions. Stop by!

Banned Books Reading
Tuesday, April 16th 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
1st floor of the Library
Join us for short passages from books that have been banned or challenged. Exercise your right to free speech.

Book Sale
Wednesday, April 17th 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
1st floor of the Library
Get great deals on hardbacks and paperbacks at the Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library book sale.

Friends of the Library Annual Local Authors Book Talk
Thursday, April 18th 12:00 p.m.
MC 304
New York Times bestselling author Mary Doria Russell will be here to discuss her book Doc.

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Banned Books Reading

What's your favorite book? Has it ever been publicly challenged?

Come and read an excerpt of it at the
Banned Books Reading
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
CSU Michael Schwartz Library
1st floor, east
Sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the CSU Michael Schwartz Library in support of freedom of speech and National Library Week
Brown Bag Event

How to Participate
Submit your chosen literary passage in advance of the event to schedule your time on the microphone. Or, just come to 1 st floor of the Michael Schwartz Library on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 during the common hour to hear the readings.

Interested in doing a reading, but not sure that you have ever read a banned book? Visit the Library's Intellectual Freedom web page for recent examples. Choose a short passage to read (or consider briefly discussing why a certain book or author was censored) then send your idea to Victoria Jarufe, Cleveland State student and member of Honors and Scholars Student Association at clevelandstateHSSA@gmail.com.

Exercise your right of free speech!

This event is open to all faculty, staff, and students.

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Library Events for CSU Spring Open House 2013

Coming to the big spring Open House at Cleveland State University on Saturday, April 6th? Be sure to include the Michael Schwartz Library as one of your must-see destinations.

In addition to guided and self-guided tours of our fantastic library, we will be holding a book sale from 10 am until 2 pm.

Register now to attend the Spring Open House, and we look forward to seeing you in the Michael Schwartz Library on April 6th!

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Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Present Author Mary Doria Russell on April 18th

VENUE CHANGED TO MAIN CLASSROOM (MC) 304

Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library
Annual Local Authors Book Talk Series
Featuring Mary Doria Russell
April 18, 2013, 12:00 pm
MC 304

Free and open to the public

Meet Mary Doria Russell, winner of numerous national and international literary awards, on April 18, 2013 at Noon in the MAIN CLASSROOM ROOM 304. Her visit will include a discussion of her new fiction, Doc , which examines the Old West of Doc Holliday and Dodge City, followed by a question-and-answer session, and a book signing. Doc will be available for purchase directly before and after the event, courtesy of the CSU Bookstore. The event is free, but please call 216.875.9734 or email b.i.loomis@csuohio.edu to register. Refreshments will be served.

Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins -- before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology -- when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.

A national best seller! "A magnificent read ... filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply moving ... more realistic yet more riveting than any movie or TV western ... Doc Holliday is the tragic hero in this terrific bio-epic." - - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [review from Amazon.com]

About the Author
Mary Doria Russell is a New York Times bestselling author and has been called one of the most versatile writers in contemporary American literature. Her novels, which include of The Sparrow, Children of God, A Thread of Grace, and Dreamers of the Day are critically acclaimed, commercial successes. They are also studied in literature, theology.

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37th Cleveland International Film Festival

Cleveland International Film Festival
April 3-14, 2013
At Tower City Cinemas

Check out the 37th Annual Cleveland International Film Festival. This year's festival is bigger and better than ever. With over 180 features and over 165 short films, there's something for everyone.

Tickets are $14, Students and Seniors are $12 with ID. Receive $2 off the ticket price by using your college discount code=CSU.

FREE College Day is April 9, 2013 for selected films (College ID required).

For more information, visit http://www.clevelandfilm.org/

Cleveland State University is a platinum sponsor.

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Book discussion of Rachel Maddow's book Drift, April 4 at noon

Join the Friends of the Library Brown Bag Book Discussion of Rachel Maddow's book Drift:The Unmooring of American Military Power on April 4 at noonin RT 503. Discussion will be led by Barbara Strauss, Assistant Director, Discovery Support Services, Michael Schwartz Library.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse.

Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state {Amazon.com).

Join the conversation! Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 for more information.

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Extended Hours for the Michael Schwartz Library

Beginning Sunday, March 24, 2013, the Michael Schwartz Library will have NEW hours.

The NEW hours will be as follows:

• Sunday - 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Monday through Thursday - 7:30 a.m. to Midnight
• Friday - 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Late Night Study will be available until 3 a.m. starting the week of May 5, 2013.

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Major Change in Access to Photographs in Special Collections at the Michael Schwartz Library

This spring, Special Collections will be starting a major conservation project of its photograph collections in order to preserve them for use by future generations. Beginning May 12, 2013, the end of Spring Semester, Special Collections will discontinue the practice of allowing users direct use of the photographs in our collections. This is a fundamental change from our present practice of allowing users ready access to these prints.

To view images not yet available on our Cleveland Memory Project, Special Collections users will need to fill out a request for a specific list of folders. Special Collections staff will make contact sheets (in PDF format) of requested images. These will be distributed at no cost on a first come, first served basis, with expedited service to students and faculty.

Our goal is that eventually access to all our images will be provided via our Cleveland Memory Project website, where 50,000 of our popular images already reside. As we work our way through the hundreds of thousands of images that are not yet in Cleveland Memory, we thank you for your patience and continued interest in our collections. If you have any questions, please ask!

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Read-In Day to Celebrate Writing by and about Women, March 20th--Invitation and Call for Reader

>>THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.<<
In celebration of Women's History Month, the Michael Schwartz Library, in conjunction with the English Department, the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, is hosting a Read-In Day from 2:30 to 3:30 on Wednesday, March 20th.

The campus community is invited to hear fellow faculty, staff, and students read aloud both fiction and non-fiction prose and poetry by and about women that is significant to them. This event is free and open to the campus community.

CSU students, in particular, are encouraged to not only attend the event for their enjoyment, but also for the opportunity to make the most of Women's History Month by learning about and sharing literary works by and about women. There is also the possibility that said works will foster among the attendees further interest and education about women's literature and history.

If you would like to participate as a reader contact Professor Barbara Walker, English, at 216-687-2563 to discuss your selection and to schedule a time (limited to 5 minutes). Sign up today!

Read-In Day is a national initiative that is sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English that focuses on literacy by encouraging reading.

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