The library will be closed Monday, February 20th, for Presidents' Day. Any assignments you turn in on Sunday will be graded late Tuesday. Also, the library's catalog, Voyager, will be having upgrades on Monday morning but should be available later that day. Please e-mail or call me if you have any questions.
February 10th is the first target date for UNIV 106. What does this mean? It means that you should have finished assignments one through seven by this Friday. Do not worry if you are not through the first seven assignments yet; at the very least you should have completed the first four.
Now that most of you are comfortably going about completing the assignments you should start checking at the reference desk to see if you have any corrections to make. Just ask the person at the desk and they will check for you. If you have mistakes, do over the question with the mistake and put the assignment back in the wooden in-box by the reference desk. It usually takes us a few hours to check over your assignments, so your assignments should make their way back to your folders several hours after you turn them in.
The University 106 (UNIV106) class, also known as the Library Skills class, is now open for the Spring 2006 semester. If you signed up for the class please come in to Albertsons Library and stop by the Reference desk, where we will check your name on our class roster, explain the particulars of the class, and answer any questions you may have about the course or the Library.
UNIV 106, the Library Skills course for Fall semester 2005, is now officially over. Congratulations to everyone who finished the course. Grades should be posted by Tuesday, December 20th. If you would like to have your assignments back please pick them up by Friday, December 23rd, or they will be recycled.
You have until 6:00 pm Thursday, Dec. 15, to turn in all your corrected assignments. Check with the reference desk and correct any mistakes before this deadline as we will not accept any assignments after this date. 
Friday, Dec. 9th was the last day you could turn in all UNIV 106 Library Skills assignments. If you did, great! 
The deadline for submitting all remaining library skills assignments is this Friday, December 9th. The library closes at 6 pm on Fridays so you need to have everything turned in before that time.
Kudos to all of you for turning in loads of assignments; your swift response has inundated us with assignments to correct! This is both good and bad. The good is that you are working hard to successfully finish the course before the December 9th deadline. The bad is that by turning in assignments all at once there is a tendency to rush through the process and make mistakes.
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us it is time to continue the good fight of completing any leftover library skills assignments. We want you to succeed and gain useful library skills, so keep at it!
Memo Cordova
The library will open limited hours during the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will be open the following dates and times:
Monday & Tuesday, November 21 & 22, from 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 23, from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday & Friday, November 24 & 25 we will be closed
If you want to hit those Library Skills assignments during the holiday week, by all means do so before you enjoy a big meal. It will help your digestion.
Cheers,
Memo Cordova
In the spirit of keeping you informed, please be advised that November 11 would be the ideal date for you to have finished all of your assignments up to chapter 18. Some of you are finished with the course and are free to concentrate on other things, but most of you are still working on the assignments so keep at it!
They don't take long to finish and the upshot is that you will learn something new about the library, which in turn will help you in your research! When you finish an assignment and drop it off, remember to ask the person at the desk to check your folder for corrections.
Congratulations to those of you who have successfully completed the Library Skills course. You can have your assignments back to take home and cherish. If you are chugging merrily along with the course, keep up with it! You still have time, OK? 
Books sometimes take extended leave and go missing for a couple of hours (remember The Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics?) but eventually they find their way back to the shelves. In order to avoid the confusion of misplaced items, please keep in mind the following: if and when you are done using a book to complete your Library Skills assignments, remember to leave the book on the nearest table, or on one of our lovely red book carts, or by the Reference Desk. We will shelve the book for you. So, be kind to your fellow students and don’t take assignment books away from their natural nesting grounds. Leave the book on a table or red cart somewhere in the first floor so we can put it back where it belongs. It will save time and energy for everyone concerned.
Thanks!
Memo Cordova
Second, you will learn to use the library's resources at a measured and unhurried pace. So, keep October 14th in mind, for that's when you should have completed assignments 8 through 13. If you are somewhere in between, you are doing all right. 
It’s great to see most of you are completing the assignments in a copasetic manner. For those of you who run into snags with a question or two, I want to remind you there’s always someone at the reference desk to help you out the following hours:
A quick note to let you know that the book A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (ref QH540.4 .L56 1998), which was missing these past few days, has been found and put back where it belongs in the reference stacks. This book is one of the required resources necessary to complete assignment 13. 
Use the Due Dates listed on the Univ 106 website as guidelines to help you determine how many assignments you should complete by what date. 
