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We now have four ways to a print at Tufts:

At long last, the print subsidy has arrived. $10 was automatically added to all Tufts students’ JumboCash accounts in January. The $10 can only be used for printing; it cannot be used for food purchases. The subsidy was requested by Tufts undergraduate students and is a service provided by the Tufts Libraries.  

A book from the Veterinary Library’s John A. Seaverns Equine Collection is on display at the Directed Looking Gallery at the Tufts University Art Gallery, part of their Spring 2017 exhibits.

Ordini di cavalcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de' caualli, di emendare i lor vitij, & d'ammaestrargli per l'uso della guerra, & giouamento de gli huomini (1571) by Federico Grisone.

Ordini di cavalcare is sharing the exhibit case with 5 books from Tisch Library Special Collections:

The JAVMA instructions for authors have just been updated, the first time since 2004. Since many of you publish in JAVMA,  Here is the JAVMA editorial announcing the update. 

AVMA resources for authors include:

We gave away tomato plants in the Library this week and spawned a feeding frenzy. John Mapel of Mapel Nurseries and Steve Libuda gave us 56 tomato seedling 4-packs on Thursday. They were all claimed within 45 minutes of the email broadcast to the campus! So on Friday, John and Steve brought us another 50 or so seedling 4-packs. These were all claimed within one hour of the email broadcast to the campus and we could have given away even more. John got the seeds from Johnny’s Selected Seeds; they were organically grown.

Tufts Libraries have all kinds of things in our collections. In addition to the thousands of electronic journals, books and databases, here are a few of our other online resources that you might enjoy checking out.

Mango Languages

The work is progressing. I don't have any details to share, but here are some more pictures (thank you Keith). I know it looks bad, but for any of you looking for a quiet study space, the construction folks leave at 2pm. Luckily the weather has been pretty nice, so the lack of air conditioning hasn't been a problem - we have open windows and fans. They've cut a trench along the west wall in the Loew basement lab. Duct work waiting to be installed on the first floor of the library.

We are open and we can get to most of our journals and books, but... the demolition has begun, HVAC is turned off and it's a little bit noisy for short periods of time. Here are some pictures. First floor reference area First floor south wall (Rt.

The maintenance work finally really got started this week with power washing the exterior of the building. It's relatively quiet today, but will probably be noisy next Friday 6/12. The work scheduled for the next couple of weeks includes: power washing the building in preparation to repairing the bricks and mortar, HVAC work, some demolition on the first floor of the library. The Library is open, but we have rearranged furniture and computers in preparation for the work to come. Here is a quick summary of what is happening: