Access Services

Welcome to the New Academic Year!

Welcome to week two of the 2024-2025 academic year and boy are we busy! According to the Hunt Library gate count we went from 10,364 visitors in July to 24,596 in August! At Sorrells we went from 6,505 to 13,161. Basically doubling the volume of visitors in just a month's time. Our busiest days in August were Mondays at Hunt and Thursdays at Sorrells. Busiest times were 1pm at Hunt and 2pm at Sorrells. I guess we're high up there on the list of errands to run at lunch? For more Access Services stats, be sure to visit the stats tab on our LibGuide. 

In addition to the steady flow of visitors we've extended hours at Hunt; 8am-3am, Mon-Fri, 10am-3am Sat. and noon-3am on Sun. Access to nonaffiliates is limited to the hours of 8am-7pm (campus-wide) and the Circulation desk itself closes at midnight, Mon-Fri, 6pm on Sat and 8pm on Sun.

Other newsworthy items since I last wrote:

• We've resumed our Chat service for the Fall but reduced hours to 11am-3pm to better focus our energies on the times when we are the busiest. 
• We've hired on 32 new students working both at Hunt and Sorrells. 19 of them returning students and the rest new hires. We're going to have a nice mix of old and new faces. 
• The new elevator was installed at Offsite, we're anxiously awaiting the inspectors. Please send your best vibes. 
• Inventory completed at Sorrells. Thank you to Summer for your work in helping us tighten up our collection there. Setting our sights now on the third floor at Hunt.
• Course reserves torch has passed to Lauren, and she has been super busy. Thank you to all that have helped support this service (looking at you Joe, Anne Marie and Ruth Ann). We look forward to when the requests cool off, and we can work on improvements to this service to better support students in offering no cost alternative to course materials. So watch this space!
   

Lastly, be sure to mark your calendars for the following literary holidays:

• August 2nd, National Coloring Book Day 
• September 25th, National Comic Book Day
• October, National Cookbook Month
• October 23rd, National Horror Movie Day (come see Lauren for recs)
   

Happy Fall Ya'll!