While these days a lot of journal articles can be found online through the UW Libraries’ many full-text databases, there are still quite a few journals, often older issues, that are still only available in print. Rather than having to come into the library to track down, check out and scan or photocopy a journal article you need, why not have us do it for you?
For the past year, the UW Libraries’ have been taking article requests from our print journal collections, scanning the articles, and delivering them as PDFs via our website to faculty, student and staff.
Interested in finding out more about the program or requesting and article right now? Check out our Document Delivery Services webpage.
This summer the first part of a renovation project was completed at the Foster Business Library. The goal is to re-orient the library and create a new entrance on the mezzanine level that opens into PACCAR Hall. Two sets of temporary construction walls were built on the mezzanine and ground levels to contain the loud noise and dust resulting from cutting through the concrete wall and mezzanine floor. These temporary walls will remain in place through the academic year and some library seating has been displaced. The contractors will continue working behind the construction walls during the school year, some days may be a little noisy. The contractors stop work at 3pm each weekday, so the late afternoons, evenings, and weekends should be relatively quiet.
The rest of the work will be completed during the summer of 2010. At that time we’ll close the BOAEEC side of the library for three months, turn it over to the contractors so they can complete their work, and operate library services temporarily out of the Balmer side. We’ll open the new renovated library space in time fall quarter 2010. The renovated space will include more seating, a new carpet, more group study rooms, and a new entrance and Circulation Desk.
If you have questions or concerns about the renovation project, please
contact buslib@uw.edu or 206-543-4360.
Lists for new books received in the Foster Business Library for September 2009 are available from the links below:
New Business Books – September 2009
New Business Reference Books – September 2009