With the mandatory change to using the Banner system I.D. numbers instead of social security numbers, all students, faculty, and staff must have new I.D. cards made.  University I.D. cards also serve as your library card!

The old I.D. cards will no longer work after August 29.  There is no charge for new I.D. cards made by August 29, but after that date, there will be a $25 charge for new cards.  Click on this link for information about locations, dates, and times for getting a new I.D. card made.

The Stacks Cafe, located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, has reopened under new management.  Summer Semester hours of operation are Monday – Thursday, 4:30 – 9:00 p.m.  Expanded hours for the Fall Semester will be announced here in August.

In conjunction with the expansion of the Digital Resources Lab, two additional microform reader printers are being converted from photocopying-only to digital reproduction to allow patrons to scan microform images.  This allows patrons to either send scanned images to their e-mail accounts or to save scanned images to digital storage devices.

In response to popular demand, the Digital Resources Lab, located on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library is expanding.  Construction work is underway to expand the lab into the area where some of the microform collections have been housed and the microform reading equipment has been located.  (Microform collections and reading equipment have been moved; see the First Floor Service Desk for assistance).

The Digital Resource Laboratory (DRL) at RBD Library is designed to help Auburn University students, faculty, and staff use multimedia materials in their class assignments and course projects. It does this by providing access to the latest multimedia hardware and software, together with the on-site technical expertise needed to use these resources to best advantage. The DRL is committed to serving the multimedia technology needs of Auburn University students and faculty in all academic disciplines.  See the DRL link for more information about the services offered, etc.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of 18 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research published by Thomson Gale.  These works fall under the subjects of Business, the Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, the Nation and the World, Science, and Social Science.  Individual works will be profiled in forthcoming What’s New library updates.

Edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 2006, this five-volume work is located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number D 299 .E735 2006.

Edited by Philip Mattar and published by Facts on File, this is the Revised Edition.  Located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number DS 113.6 .E53 2005.

Edited by Jonathan F. Vance and published by Grey Housing Publishing, this is the Second Edition.  Located on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number UB 800 .E53 2006.