Library Hacks: Text LNDL!

We're rolling out a new service on December 1 -- send your questions to the reference desk by text message! Here's how it works:

• Address your text message to 246246
• Start off the body of the message with send textlndl
  
• Add your message

We're providing this service by taking advantage of AOL's Mobile AIM Service. That means that the librarian at the reference desk will receive an IM with your text message. Our response back to you will still be sent to your phone like any other text. (We'll do our best to keep it under 160 characters!)

This service should work with most major carriers (we've tested it on Verizon and T-Mobile), but if you try it and find it doesn't work for you, please send us an email (askemail@loyola.edu) and let us know who your cell carrier is. That way we can update our information about the service. We'd also like to hear from you if you experience any problems using this service.

Please remember that your cell phone carrier may charge you for each text message sent and received. The library is not responsible for these charges.

EDIT 2/3: It has come to our attention that AOL has changed the process for sending IMs via text message. The instructions above have been updated to reflect this change. We apologize for any inconvenience.

FREE Film Screening: Outsourced

Join us for a free screening of "Outsourced," an award-winning film by John Jeffcoat. Films are open to students, faculty and staff of Loyola College and College of Notre Dame.

Thursday, December 4
7pm
LNDL Auditorium (Lower Level)
Enjoy FREE soda and popcorn, courtesy of Loyola's Student Activities office.

Thirty-two-year-old Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) manages the order filling call center of Western Novelty: "We sell kitsch to rednecks," he explains, with typical efficiency. Abruptly told by boss Dave (Matt Smith) that his entire department is being outsourced to India, the Seattlite finds himself persuaded to travel there and train his replacement.
--Cockrell, Eddie. "Outsourced." Variety, October 2, 2006.

Starring Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker and Asif Basra. View a trailer on Hollywood.com.

Thanksgiving Hours

In the area over Thanksgiving break and need to get some work done? Be sure to double-check the library's hours before you head over to finish up that paper:

• Tuesday, Nov. 25: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
• Wednesday, Nov. 26 through Friday, Nov. 28 - Closed
• Saturday, Nov. 29 - 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Regular library hours resume on Sunday, Nov. 30., at 10 a.m.

Library Hacks: 24/7 help

As you work on your final papers and projects for the semester, you might find yourself pulling an all-nighter or two to get things done. While the library closes at 2 a.m. most nights, the reference librarians who staff the Research Assistance desk go home long before that. So what can you do if you need help while we're asleep?

Try our 24/7 chat service! Clicking the 24/7 chat button on the library homepage will connect you to a librarian somewhere else. They'll be able to help you navigate LNDL's resources to find the information you need.

You might also find this service handy when the library is closed for Thanksgiving. Take a look at the library hours to see when we're open. You can also look up the hours for the Research Assistance Desk.

Limited Hours for Library Guests

Beginning on Sunday, November 30, 2008, and continuing through December 21, 2008, the Loyola/Notre Dame Library will be limiting access to the library. After 2:00 p.m. each day only students, faculty, and staff from the College of Notre Dame and Loyola College will be admitted.

Students from other institutions as well as the general public will be admitted only before 2:00 p.m. each day. In addition, priority use of library computers and study rooms will be given to students from Loyola College and College of Notre Dame.

These restrictions do not apply to students, faculty and staff of Loyola College and College of Notre Dame.

FREE Film Screening: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Join us for a free screening of "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," a film by Ken Loach that won the Palme D'or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Films are open to students, faculty and staff of Loyola College and College of Notre Dame.

Thursday, November 20
7pm
LNDL Auditorium (Lower Level)
Enjoy FREE soda and popcorn, courtesy of Loyola's Student Activities office.

Two Irish brothers are torn apart by the anti-Brit rebellion of the '20s in "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," a studiously sincere film by veteran helmer Ken Loach and scripter Paul Laverty in which the human drama increasingly gets lost in the political.
--Elley, Derek. "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." Variety, May 22, 2006.

Starring Cillian Murphy and Padraic Dellaney. View a trailer on IMDB.

FREE Film Screening: Cool Hand Luke

Join us for a free screening of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film by Stuart Rosenberg. Films are open to students, faculty and staff of Loyola College and College of Notre Dame.

Thursday, November 13
7pm
LNDL Auditorium (Lower Level)

Enjoy FREE soda and popcorn, courtesy of Loyola's Student Activities office.
Now in his latest film, "Cool Hand Luke," Newman . . . [plays] a hero who becomes an anti-hero because he despises the slobs who worship him. Luke is on a Southern chain gang. He's the only prisoner with guts enough to talk back to the bosses and the only one with nerve enough to escape.
--From Roger Ebert's original review

Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy and Dennis Hopper. View a trailer on IMDB.

FREE Film Screening: The Visitor

Join us for a free screening of "The Visitor," a film by Thomas McCarthy. Films are open to students, faculty and staff of Loyola College and College of Notre Dame.

Thursday, November 6 at 8pm*
Sunday, November 9 at 6pm
LNDL Auditorium (Lower Level)

*On Thursday, enjoy FREE soda and popcorn, courtesy of Loyola's Student Activities office. (Snacks will also be available on Sunday.)

Walter Vale [(Richard Jenkins) is a] widower, economics professor and the ne plus ultra of boring white men. When he reluctantly returns to Gotham to give a talk at NYU, he finds two immigrants living in his little-used Manhattan apartment: Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and his girlfriend, Zainab (Danai Gurira), illegals who were scammed into renting Walter's usually vacant pad. We half expect a grand gesture from Walter, but McCarthy makes us wait: It isn't until Tarek and Zainab are packed and on the street that Walter tells them to return and stay. And so begins an ostensibly short-term, ad hoc family, with the gregarious Tarek acting as bridge between the taciturn Walter and the always wary Zainab.

--Anderson, John. "The Visitor." Variety, October 3, 2007.

Starring Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira. View a trailer on IMDB.