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NOTE: Fall 2009:

Business Reference collections and services are now located on first floor at the Wilson Reference desk.

Reserve readings are now located on first floor at the Circulation desk.

 

NORTH: Periodicals, Newspapers, Microforms, Copiers

CENTER LOBBY: Coffee shop, Circulation/Copy Service /Information, Value Port, Uniprint, Entrance/Exit

SOUTH: Government Publications and Information

 

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PERIODICALS
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PERIODICALS COLLECTIONS

Periodicals include:
- scholarly journals
- popular magazines
- trade publications
- newspapers

The Periodicals room also houses microforms that can be copied, e-mailed, or saved to disk or flash drive.

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Newspaper Collection

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Newspaper Collection is in this room on the east edge of the Periodicals room

 

Visit our online guide: News Sources

Computers

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Computers and study tables are in the Periodical Room

Current and bound periodicals

current periodicals    newsweek old

Current issues lie flat on open shelving

 

Once a journal or magazine has accumulated, issues are bound with a hard cover

 

Microfilm

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Wilson Periodicals also houses many materials (not just periodicals) that are in microfilm format

Reading, printing, and scanning from microforms

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There are microform readers from which you can print, e-mail, and burn to CD or scan to flash drive

Photocopying

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Self service copiers are located on most floors in Wilson, and most are in the basement near the entrance to Periodicals

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CENTER LOBBY

 

Service Desk: Circulation, Copying, Information

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The Basement Service Desk offers checkout, copy service and information.

 

Self-service copy machines and microfilm/fiche copiers are also in the basement near the Periodical Room.

 

See Uniprint for printing out from computers

U students, staff, faculty: See Value Port for adding value to your U Card

Visitors see Value Port for purchasing a Gopher Gold card

 

 

Academic Blend Coffee Shop

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Academic Blend Coffee Shop

Gopher Way TUNNEL

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The basement entrance/exit also connects you to the Gopher Way tunnels to West Bank buildings, including Blegen Hall, the Music Library in Ferguson Hall.

 

Head over to to your left and you'll see an ATM machine.

 

 

 

 

 

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Value Port

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Value Port machine

Learn about Value Port and Gopher Gold on the Copy service page.

 

A change machine is also nearby

Printing from Computers in Wilson

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Print from Library Computers

 

Pick up your print job at the Uniprint station near the Basement service desk

(There is another Uniprint station on 1st floor in the Reference room)

 

 

SOUTH

Government Publications and Information

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Government Publications

For current Government Publications call number information, please consult

the Government Publications' What Shelf is My Book On? page.

The Government Publications collection is the Regional Federal Depository Library and provides a complete collection of depository U.S. government publications, along with depository publications of Minnesota, Canada, the United Nations, and the European Union, and collections from some other official foreign and intergovernmental organizations. See also: Magrath Library (St. Paul) and the Law Library.

 

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In 1969 the 8 foot giant in light green on a blue wall suddenly appeared in what was then being used as the Reserve Room. The space became unofficially "the Green Giant Room". Staff and students are still protecting its existence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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