Author: Josie Acevedo

The Well Fargo Financial Markets Lab, LL-261, is now called the Financial Markets Lab. Please be aware it may still be referred to as the Wells Fargo lab or the Bloomberg lab.

Josie

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Hello,

I hope you’re all doing well during this busy finals season. We wanted to notify everyone that the DH Center will be closed for the summer sessions starting May 17. The date for our summer closure has been updated on the library calendar hours website.

Please let me know if you any questions, thanks!

Jocelyn

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Hi LFolks,

Here is your official informational email about the SCUA move!

What’s going on? SCUA is moving from LA4410 to LL120

When is this happening?Our doors will be closed to the public starting Monday, May 20th. We are currently expecting to reopen on Monday, August 19th (the week before classes start). 

What’s moving? Just about everything! Our service point and processed collections will be relocating to LL120. The main entrance to the new SCUA is just around the corner from the Marsh Room and the Chicanx Collection. This is the only entrance to the new SCUA; there are now walls where there used to be various doors! Rob Ray, Adam Burkhart, Lucas Buresch and Dakota Greenwich will be relocated to the first floor within the next month or so, and we’ll send an update when that happens. Their contact info should remain the same. As you all probably know, Anna Culbertson, Pam Jackson and Amanda Lanthorne are already in the new area. We three are behind two locked doors, so if you need one of us, contact us in advance so we can let you in. We will continue to store archival collections in LA 72 and the eventual plan is to relocate all unprocessed materials in LA 42 up to LA 4410.

How can I access SCUA? Inconsistently! We apologize for the inconvenience. Our collections and services will be in various states of transition and accessibility during the next 1-2 months. To err on the safe side, please refer all inquiries to our main email contact (askscua@sdsu.edu) or our main phone line (4-6892). We will not be regularly able to answer this phone line, as we won’t be staffing a desk during the summer, but we will aim to check voicemail several times per day. Email is best. We will promptly respond to patron inquiries whether we can or can’t accommodate their requests! We also anticipate a brief period when our phone line is possibly disconnected for transfer and will send out a message to that effect once we know. 

What about SCUA on the library website?The locations for our materials in the library catalog and finding aid database will remain the same. We do need to update any references to physical locations on the library website and in the catalog, which we’ll be working on over the summer. We will also get website and digital signage notifications up asap.

Thank you all for your patience – we’ll do our best to communicate everything we know!

Any questions, send ’em my way.

Thanks, on behalf of SCUA,

Anna

Please see the email below about the recent move of government publications. Please refer people looking for government documents to the circulation desk for assistance retrieving material from this collection.

Colleagues,
Over the past two weeks, the U.S. Government Publications and the California Government Publications collections were relocated from the 3rd Floor of the Love Library to compact shelving in the Library Addition. While the movers have completed their work, we are still in the process of reviewing and labeling the collections. If you should have a patron looking for a government publication, feel free to refer them to either myself (Michael Howser) or Kate Holvoet as we work to reassemble this collection.

• Next Steps for the Government Documents Collection
• These collections are undergoing a comprehensive review, following the guidelines set forth by the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). This review began in January of 2019 and will continue as we review the collection over the next several months. 
• During the review process, items that have been identified for deaccessioning from the collections will be documented, offered to other FDLP libraries, and then removed from the collections at SDSU. This review is part of ensuring the overall usefulness and relevance of the U.S. government documents collections and is guided by the FDLP collection guidelines. 
• As this review will take several more months complete, if you are trying to locate a document and can’t find it, or if you have any questions about the collections, feel free to contact myself or Kate Holvoet. 

We are especially grateful to Lisa Lamont and Maureen Dotson and everyone else who assisted in every aspect of the logistics of this move! The collections are now in ideal conditions while also freeing up valuable floor space on the 3rd Floor of the Love Library to make more student-focused research space available. We also want to thank everyone in cataloging for your efforts with updating Alma records for all of the U.S. Government Publications being reviewed and on the future updates of records as the collection review continues. 
Thanks everyone, for making this a successful move!
Cheers,
michael