Here are the top 5 things you should know about the Park Library:

5. All are welcome to study here: undergraduates, grad students, non-majors. Even faculty!

 W00t!  The Park Library website has been redesigned! It's designed to make essential library resources easier to find. 

The UNC Libraries has subscribed to three new newspaper databases online: America's Historical Imprints, Irish Newspaper Archives, and the Pravda Digital Archive.

The UNC Libraries recently licensed online access to ProQuest Digital Microfilm. This is a digitized version of microfilm -- it looks just like microfilm but is available online.

We now have online access to the 2010 edition of the Market Share Reporter. This is an annual compilation of reported market share data on companies, products, and services.  Both the Park and Davis Libraries have earlier editions in print as well; more information is in the catalog.

Did you leave something in the Park Library?  We might still have it!  We keep lost & found items for at least 30 days, after which we send items to campus-wide Lost and Found, Room 3512 of the Student Union. 

We have a trial to NBC News Archives.

It contains over 10,000 NBC News video clips in all areas & time periods. It includes newsreels from the 1940s, coverage of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, coverage of the first day of school in Little Rock in 1957, an interview with Eleanor Roosevelt from 1959 ... and so much more.

The Park Library is tweeting as @JoMCParkLib. Follow us to find out what's new in the library! We also tweet library and other items of interest to current & former patrons of the Park Library.

Back by popular demand: a “Taste of Twitter” class! I offered a few sessions last summer on Twitter which covered everything from how to create an account to a group discussion of some of the larger implications of communicating via Twitter.  I’m planning to offer this popular session again this summer, starting with one on Thursday, May 20.  

What will we cover?

Looking for a good book this summer?  Want a beach read? Or maybe something for your ongoing research?!

The UNC Libraries has you covered. There are over 7 million books waiting to be read -- free to UNC ONYEN-holders.

You can find them pretty easily in the Libraries' catalog (which I call a "search engine for books") at http://search.lib.unc.edu/.

Want to learn some searching tips & tricks? Want to know how to have books delivered to the Park Library? Want to know how to borrow books from the Duke, NC State, and NC Central libraries - through the same catalog?

Come to the Park Library's "Check It Out" program to learn how to make the most of this terrific resource!