Maymester and Summer Hours at CSU Libraries

During the month of May and summer months, CSU libraries will be open at a different time. Be sure to review the Maymester and summer hours to plan your next visit.

Maymester Hours

Monday - Thursday   8:00 am - 10:00 pm

Friday                         8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Saturday                     Closed

Sunday                        1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Summer Hours (Begins June 15th)

Monday - Thursday   8:00 am - 10:00 pm

Friday                         8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Saturday                     1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Sunday                        2:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Music Library Hours

Monday - Thursday   9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Friday                         9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday                     CLOSED

Sunday                        2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

*Exception: July 3rd & 4th Closed

For more information, browse CSU Libraries Official Page or CSU Music Library Page.

Book Scanner Provides Unique Service for Students and Patrons

Swing by the Simon Schwob Memorial Library and check out the latest electronic resource that is sure to better scholarship, productivity, and creativity on campus. Students and patrons are invited to use the service and resources provided.

Located near the Information Commons Area, the Scannx Book ScanCenter is the library’s most powerful and accessible self-service book scanner. With its user-friendly touchscreen monitor, the book scanner is easily able to produce seamless document duplicates. This feature improves the library experience for both library staff and patrons. 

Users are able to scan books and documents into searchable PDF, Word doc, JPEG, TIFF and PNG file formats with the click of a button. Along with other functions, users are able to send scanned files to email; to a smartphone/tablet; to document-storage systems like Google Drive, Dropbox, and network folders or to additional document-management devices like fax machines, USB flash drives and other multi-function devices.

Other benefits of the book scanner include less paper and waste, extends lifespan of books, increases accuracy, add-on features, and the scanner also provides a multi-language compatibility.

Be sure to properly utilize the newest gadget, responsibly. For more information, browse CSU Libraries or Scannx Product pages. 

5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Schwob Library

The CSU Libraries encourage scholastic integrity and studious work ethic both on campus and off-campus while students are away on spring break. For many students and patrons of the Simon Schwob Memorial library, it may become harder to him or her to find activities or things to do in the library. Here are a few suggestions that may interest all readers and visitors of the Schwob library.

5. Become a Film Buff
The main campus library, the Schwob Memorial Library, offers a wide variety of films, productions and television shows available to check out to use in the library. While many are away on spring break, the CSU libraries’ film collection might interest many, compared to reading a novel or article. CSU libraries also manage Films on Demand that consists of 7,000 video titles and includes the new collection of United Newsreels, an additional 260 titles to the film collection.

4. Get Ahead on Summer Reading

The summer season is often filled with sunscreen, planned vacations, and a “good read.” There are many databases, such as Galileo, Gil-Find, and others to help avid readers compile a summer reading list. Book clubs, English majors, and other avid readers are encouraged to use the services and databases to compose a summer reading list too cool for the summer heat ahead. For more information about finding aids and the library’s databases, be sure to see CSU libraries official website.

3.  Catch up on Current Events

It is often hard for students and educators to catch up on social and current events. While most of the campus will be away, reading the local, state and national major newspapers is always encouraged in the library. Not only are newspapers available but so are other publications, i.e., academic journals, government documents, and magazines.

2. Finish Assignments and Study

One of the most snubbed feature of the library is the consist quietness that many, if not most, students appreciate on the first floor of the Schwob library. With a large portion of CSU students away, the Schwob library is one of the best places on campus to study, meet up with classmates to commune, and study together.

1. Explore

Many people come in and out the library with set objectives. Instead of planning out a trip to the library, browse the three, different floors of the Schwob library. Near the Information Commons Area, various art pieces adorn the perimeter of the computer area; yet, there are numerous historical resources to read within the CSU Archives, located on the third floor. The CSU Archives serves as a repository documenting the history of Columbus State University, the city of Columbus, as well as, and the broader Chattahoochee Valley area. Whether you wish to inquire about the Columbus and Chattahoochee Valley area history or wish to observe eclectic art work— The Schwob Memorial has it.

For more information about other events, services, and activities to do within the Schwob library, visit the official website or social media pages of the library. 

ePress to Increase Research and Scholarship at CSU

There are many amenities and services within the Columbus State Libraries that help not only CSU students and faculty members but scholars everywhere. The CSU ePress, an Open Access digital archive, is an online service that preserves and collects various materials such as dissertations and theses, conference presentations, journal articles, student publications and poems.

Many scholars and students are presumed to use the CSU ePress because all works uploaded in the digital archive are accessible through Google Scholar and Google. Yet, one of the most significant and snubbed feature of the ePress is that all information provided is largely free.

This feature, and benefit, allows students to better conduct their research without the worry and burden of coming out of pocket. With the Open Access feature, scholars and students do not have to worry about certain copyright and licensing restrictions, as many scholars may have dealt with in the past.

The CSU ePress also offers search filter options and citations to better position patrons and scholars routing and conducting their research online. Many patrons of the Schwob Memorial Library are more than likely to conduct their research physically in a library; however, with the CSU ePress, finding a professor’s graduate dissertation or last winter’s issues of The Arden can be conducted from a home kitchen or in a dorm room.

The arrangement of resources available and benefit of the CSU ePress is far too accommodating for scholars and CSU students to not use. With the expansion of the CSU ePress, more and more works from faculty and staff members and students are becoming accessible; the CSU ePress helps students and scholars to conduct their research with ease, consistently.

The growing archive includes many student creative works and professional works from CSU faculty and staff that have and are presumed to improve visibility of scholarship and the rate of citations. Be sure to visit the CSU ePress and the CSU Libraries.