Ball State University Libraries' News

Ball State students studying classical guitar now have greatly expanded access to repertoire due to a generous gift by Dr. Peter A. McAllist...

Students, faculty, and staff visiting the University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) on the second floor of Bracken Librar...

The Ball State Digital Media Repository ( http://libx.bsu.edu ), a project of the University Libraries, now has a new look. Students, facult...

Bracken Library will host a two-day marathon showing of The War, a film by Ken Burns, on January 30-31, 2010, as part of the Muncie Public L...

In an important time- and cost-savings initiative, the University Libraries are now using e-mail as the primary means of communicating with ...

When Muncie’s Friends Memorial Church celebrated their centennial in 2008 by removing the contents of a time capsule placed in the cornersto...

Ball State University students, faculty, staff, and guests using CardCat, the University Libraries’ online catalog, will notice a new look a...

On November 9, 2009, the University Libraries released an upgraded version of OpenRoom, an online Web-based reservation software utility des...

Brenda Yates Habich and Lisa Jarrell presented a workshop at Ball State’s first Diversity Research Symposium: Exploring Diversity Research a...

Recently, the Ball State University Libraries took part in the Honors College Peer Mentor’s Program by conducting 25 instructional sessions ...

Bracken Library hosted a glimpse of cultures from around the world on Friday, November 13, 2009. Booths spread across Bracken’s first floor,...

Three recent enhancements to the University Libraries’ public catalog, CardCat, dramatically enhance its power as a discovery tool for digit...

The Ball State University Libraries are now the proud home of a collection of more than 30,000 digital photographs and nearly 2,000 prints o...

At the beginning of fall semester 2009, the Ball State University Libraries unveiled two new Web applications that allow students and facult...

The University Libraries have launched an exciting new discovery tool that increases the scope of desktop, point-and-click digital informati...

Students and faculty returning to the Ball State campus this fall discovered a few changes to one of their favorite destinations, Bracken Li...

Beginning on the first day of fall semester classes, the University Libraries announced that we would continue to offer students and faculty...

The Helen B. and Martin D. Schwartz Special Collections and Digital Complex on the first floor of the Alexander M. Bracken Library was dedic...

Exploration of Narrative Art is on exhibit on Bracken’s first floor through fall semester 2009, thanks to Dr. Barbara Jo Giorgio-Booher, Ass...

When using the University Libraries, students, faculty, staff, and other users of netbooks, notebooks, laptops, MacBooks, and other wireless...