All items due back today - Wednesday, April 23

Students must return all library items by today, Wednesday, April 23. Outstanding items or fines over $10 may result in being placed on the hard block list, which affects transcripts, diplomas, and IQweb.

DVDs and CDs will be available for 2 day checkouts April 24 - May 2.

Regular circulation rules will resume in May 5.

Happy Earth Day

April 22 is Earth Day. Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. It was originally designed as a day to protest for environmental issues on a national level. College and university students made up a large proportion of the roughly 20 million people who attended demonstrations on that first Earth Day. Earth Day 1990 was another important milestone with nearly 200 million people in 141 country rallying to support issues like recycling. This directly lead to the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit. Earth Day even has its own flag, seen above, created by Ron Cobb in 1969.

April 22 is also the birth date of Julius Sterling Morton, who founded Arbor Day in 1872.

Find more information, volunteer opportunities, and ecologically friendly living tips at the official U.S. Earth Day site.

Also, while supplies last, Memorial Library has free Earth Day foot bags. They are perfect for going outside and spending some downtime with your friends while contemplating the environment.

Get your tough theological questions answered by SC's own E-team Discipleship

Southwestern's E-team Discipleship have started a TuffQuestions blog to facilitate discussions between Christians and non-Christians. So far they have only one question, so do some navel-gazing and through a few quandaries their way.

Food for Fines to benefit the Food Bank

Got library fines? Got some extra canned food? Get double the karma! Pay off your library fines cheap and help those in need. Between Monday, April 14 and Friday, April 18 each can of food you give to Memorial Library will reduce your library fines by $1. All donations go to The Food Bank. Start clipping those coupons!

Short videos that explain blogs, RSS, zombies, social networking and more

The CommonCraft Show is a series of short animated videos that explain all sorts of technological concepts. If you are not sure about the difference between a twitter and a wiki, or if you just want to have a better understanding of how a site like Facebook works, this is a great resource to get some basic explanations.

All items muste be returned to the library by April 23, end of 24/7 lobby May 2

We hope you had a great year at Southwestern! As we approach the end there are a couple of things you should be aware of.

All items must be returned to the library by Wednesday, April 23. Any book you you check out from now until the end of the school year will have less than three weeks remaining until it is due. After April 16 you will have less than one full week on CDs, DVDs, and any other seven day items you check out. You will be charged late fines and lost item fees over the summer so it is important that you remember to bring everything back. Outstanding fines and unreturned items may result in a Hard Block being put on your account, which will affect your ability to receive transcripts, diplomas, and use IQWeb.

Starting on April 24th CDs and DVDs may be checked out for 48 hours. Starting on May 5 regular circulation policies resume. However, everything must still be returned by April 23 and then re-checked out later. We apologize for any inconveinence this may cause.

Finally, beginning Friday, May 2 the lobby will no longer be open 24 hours. This is for your safety as the library undergoes renovations. We expect that this will continue through the 2008-2009 school year.