belklibrary | The Latest Info About Belk

Sunday, July 1^st, the library will be open in the evening only from 6 pm to 11 pm.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm; Elon students and employees should use the card swipe to enter the library from 9 to 11 pm.

Monday, July 2^nd, the library will be open 8 am to 11 pm.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm; Elon students and employees should use the card swipe to enter the library from 9 to 11 pm.

Tuesday, July 3^rd, the library will be open 8 am to 5 pm.  The library will close to all patrons at 5 pm.

Belk Library will be closed on Wednesday, July 4^th, in observance of Independence Day.

Thursday, July 5^th, the library will open at 8 am, and will resume regular summer hours.

Here is the library’s summer schedule:

Monday through Thursday, the library is open 8 am until 11 pm each day.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm; Elon students and employees should use the card swipe to enter the library from 9 to 11 pm each night.

Friday, the library is open 8 am to 5 pm.

Saturday, the library is open 9 am to 5 pm.

Sunday, the library is open in the evening only from 6 pm to 11 pm.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm; Elon students and employees should use the card swipe to enter the library from 9 to 11 pm.

24 hour access for Elon students will resume in the fall.

Now that summer has begun Belk is celebrating with a display of amazing fiction for summer reading.

Visit the library to check out our display and enter your name into our drawing for a FREE Nook ebook reader!

Belk Library’s latest podcast features an interview with Elon’s retiring Dean and University Librarian, Kate Hickey.  Kate came to Elon in 1996, and has played an important role in the building of the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, as well as the tremendous growth in the library’s online and print information sources.  In this interview, Kate talks with librarian Randall Bowman about the building of Belk Library, her career, and what she’s looking forward to in retirement.  Check out the interview at: http://belklibrarypodcast.blogspot.com/

Get started with your summer reading even before summer officially starts!  We’ve added 33 new titles to the Belk Library Kindles, bringing our total up to 126 books.  That’s one of the great things about e-book readers – all those books, and it still only weighs about 10 ounces.  Some highlights from this new collection include:

–Eight of the hardcover fiction and seven of the hardcover nonfiction bestsellers from the New York Times list And four books from our last round are still on the bestseller list, in case you missed them.

–A mix of genres: romances, mysteries, thrillers, humor, fantasy.  And what’s summer without a good baseball novel?  We’ve got Calico Joe by John Grisham.

–Why not get ready for Fall Convocation by reading or re-reading  Maya Angelou’s classic I know why the caged bird sings.  And we have next year’s Common Reading, Zeitoun by Dave Eggars.

–If you like Scandinavian mysteries, I recommend Misterioso, a great new Swedish police procedural.

–Did you see the movie?  Why not read Nicholas Sparks’ The Lucky One, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, or the orginal Sherlock Holmes stories?  And yes, we have all three volumes of the Hunger Games.

–We’ve added some more classics, all those books you think you read (or should have read) in school.  To name a few: Les Miserables, the complete works of Mark Twain, and one of the first detective novels ever written, Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White.

For a complete list of all titles, check out our guide at http://elon.libguides.com/kindle For a list of titles by genre, select the “Kindle Titles” tab.  And click the link in the middle of the home screen to get in line for a Kindle today!

Are you going on an international vacation this summer?  Planning to study abroad this fall or winter term?  Why not get a jump on learning the language?  Belk Library offers you access to the Mango program for Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.  You can do it on your computer, or there’s now an app for your Android or iPhone.  Click here first to create an account and get started today!

We also have language CDs and software.  Both can be used on any MP3 player or iPod.  Visit our Language Learning Resources page for the complete selection.

If you are visiting for graduation or just planning a day trip stop by Belk Library to see our display of information about exploring North Carolina.

For more info on travel in NC go to visitnc.com.

Here are the library’s hours for the end of May and Memorial Day weekend:

Monday, May 14, to Thursday, May 17, the library will be open 7:30 am to 11 pm each day.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm each night.  Phoenix card holders should use the card swipe to enter the library from 9 to 11 pm. 

Friday, May 18, the library will be open 7:30 am to 9 pm.  The library will close to community patrons at 5 pm.  Phoenix card holders should use the card swipe to enter the library from 5 to 9 pm.

Saturday, May 19, is Commencement day at Elon.  Belk Library will be open 9 am to 5 pm.  Please be aware that due to graduation exercises, parking will be very limited on campus in the morning and early afternoon.

Sunday, May 20, the library will be open in evening only, from 6 pm to 11 pm.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm.

Monday, May 21, to Wednesday, May 23, the library will be open 8 am to 11 pm each day; the library will close to community patrons at 9 pm each night.

Thursday, May 24, the library will be open from 8 am to 5 pm.

Belk Library will be closed for Staff Appreciation Day on Friday, May 25.

Saturday, May 26, the library will be open noon to 5 pm.

Belk Library will be closed in observance of Memorial Day on Sunday, May 27.

Monday, May 28, the library will be open in the evening, 6 pm to 11 pm.  The library will close to community patrons at 9 pm.

Belk Library will begin regular summer hours on Tuesday, May 29.

When you are in Belk this week studying for exams stop by our display of books from the library’s poetry collection.  You might find some inspiration!

This week Belk Library is hosting a display of images created by the group Accessibilty@elon, the result of a student-led activist project created in the course “Current Controversies in Feminism” taught by Dr. Stephen Block-Schulman.  This display and others across campus were created by the students in an effort to raise awareness of disability, accessibility, and Disability Services on campus.

Accessibility@elon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/246389922121538/