Contact:
Elizabeth Blevins, Director, Office of Communications
Phyllis Noah, Communications Coordinator
Office: (740) 351-3810; FAX: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 464-4854
940 Second Street – Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
E-mail: eblevins@shawnee.edu or pnoah@shawnee.edu
Web site: www.shawnee.edu

             Games, music, food and more will be on hand at the Welcome to Shawnee State party at Clark Memorial Library on campus from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22.
Wii and guitar hero are among several games offered at the party. A fortune teller and two bands will be entertaining the students. A photo booth will be set up for the students. T-shirts, notebooks, flash drives and candy are a few of the door prizes that will be given out during the evening.
            “Students come to the library for many different reasons, not necessarily to study,” said Ann Marie Short, associate director. “They come to work on projects with other students. They come to work on the computers, check out Facebook and to study. Libraries are not the traditional places that we had when we went to college.”
            The library has eight group study rooms equipped with a whiteboard that are available on a first come, first served basis.
More than 40 computers are available – both PC and Mac, along with scanners, colored printers and 15 laptops for use in the library. The library has 150 databases and holds more than 180,000 catalogued items to use.
            The library contains catalog records of art books at the Southern Ohio Museum, of juvenile literature at the Children's Learning Center, and of books, e-books, periodicals, e-journals, videos, including online videos, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, microforms, realia, etc., available within or via the Clark Memorial Library.
The Clark Memorial Library Catalog is interactive with the OhioLINK Library Catalog, containing catalog records representing the holdings of 89 of Ohio's college and university libraries.
            Through OhioLINK, users may directly request virtually any of the 50 million items owned by OhioLINK libraries, such as research databases, online reference resources, e-journals, e-books and online audio-visual resources off-campus.
A courier service assures delivery of OhioLINK materials to Clark Memorial Library within 3 working days. There is no charge for this service; however, users must have a current SSU ID.
            For more information, call (740) 351-3323.