Welcome to the 30 students involved with SCI-BLAST! SCI-BLAST activities will take place in the A101 Multipurpose Room of the Veterinary Medicine Library on Friday, October 30th from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Visit the renovated William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine during our open house on Thursday, October 29 from 4 PM - 6 PM.

Stop by and see the new spaces in and outside of the library. Come enjoy light refreshments with us in the library. Mingle with NCSU colleagues. Now is a great time to follow up on library resources you need.

The main entrance is still closed for construction, so visitors will be escorted from the IAMS entrance to the library for the open house. This event is open to all so please share with colleagues who might enjoy seeing the library.

Directions are available at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/vetmed/about/location.html. Contact us at libraryvetmed@ncsu.edu or 919-513-6218 if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you!

These are the Veterinary Medicine Library hours for Fall Break:

• Oct 17-18 (Sat-Sun): 1pm - 5pm
• Oct 19-23 (Mon-Fri): 8am - 5pm
• Oct 24 (Sat): 1pm-5pm
• Oct 25 (Sun): 1pm-10pm - Regular Hours Resume

The IVSA photo contest entries are currently on display as a continuous slide show on the Vet Med Library's digital sign outside the A-109 conference room. So if you need a mini-vacation or just want to take another look at the favorites that you voted for, stop by.

Thank you to the photographers and to Monica Morgado and Amy Lehman for making the display possible.

Fields Virology (5th ed., 2007) is now available online. The electronic version of this authoritative resource is both browsable and searchable and allows customizable printing and exporting of chapters, sections, and individual images. The print version of Fields Virology is also available in the Vet Med Library.

The Veterinary Medicine Library honors veterinary technicians and their tremendous contributions to care during National Veterinary Technicians Week. Check out our selection of veterinary technician-focused titles on display October 11-17th on the display shelves left of the V.E.T.S Collection of core textbooks.

Thanks to feedback from early morning users, we have installed blinds on the east wall of the Veterinary Medicine Library. In each window, you can choose to lower the blinds to reduce glare or raise the blinds to enjoy the bucolic view of grazing cattle. Keep the feedback coming--we want the Library to be as comfortable as possible. Email libraryvetmed@ncsu.edu, call us at 919-513-6218, or stop by the service desk.

Take a look at the CVM author publications for September 2009 courtesy of the NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository.

CVM and other NCSU authors are specifically highlighted with their department affiliation and links to their other publications in the repository. To access the full text of any of these articles, click on "Find Text (NCSU Only)" link.

If you have questions or would like information about the repository or NCSU publications, please contact us at libraryvetmed@ncsu.edu or 919-513-6218.

The Veterinary Medicine Library is featuring a display of our ophthalmology books, in conjunction with the AAEP’s Focus on Ophthalmology meeting taking place October 1-3 in Raleigh. The display includes veterinary ophthalmology titles on equines and other species, as well as some of our recent books from the human medical literature. The display runs October 1-10 and is located on the bookshelves to the left of the V.E.T.S Collection of core textbooks.

The NCSU Libraries offer many resources about shelter dog adoption. Several are on display at the Veterinary Medicine Library on the special display shelves to the left of the V.E.T.S Collection of core textbooks.