Library Summer Hours

The Lewis J. Ort will be open the following hours during the summer:

• Monday - Friday: 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
• Closed: Saturday
• Sunday: 1:00 - 6:00 pm

Library resources can still be accessed through OneSearch (on the library's home page) and through our subject specific databases (http://libguides.frostburg.edu/az.php) even when the library is closed.

If you need reference assistance, you can contact help through Maryland AskUsNow, our 24/7 chat reference service.

Congratulations Graduates!

Public notice: MD Dept of Housing & Community Development annual plan

The Maryland Dept. of Housing and Community Development has announced a series of public hearings to develop its new draft Annual Plan of the State's Consolidated Plan.


In Western Maryland, the meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 26.

Friday, May 24, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

Allegany County Office Complex

701 Kelly Road

Potomac Room 230

Cumberland, MD 21502

Please see the original notice here: DHCD Annual Draft Plan notice

The Lewis J Ort library is a depository for Maryland State Documents as well as a selective depository in the Federal Depository Library Program.  As a Maryland depository, we receive public notices such as the one featured above.  If you would also like to be added to an e-mail distribution list in order to receive information about future public notices, please contact Lisa Hartman, Government Documents Coordinator at lahartman@frostburg.edu or (301) 687-4734.

Spring Library Extended Hours

As we do every semester, the Library will extend our hours for the last week of classes and final exam week. This will include nine nights of being open until 2:00 a.m. and 42 extra hours that we are not normally open! Extended hours will begin on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. See the entire schedule below.

Tuesday - Thursday, May 7 - 9 || 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Friday, May 10 || 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 11 || 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 12 || 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Monday - Thursday, May 13 - 16 || 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Friday, May 17 || 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 18 || 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 19 || 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Monday - Tuesday, May 20 - 21 || 7:30 a.m. to Midnight
Wednesday - Friday, May 22 - 24 || 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The Library will close for the Memorial Day holiday weekend Saturday, May 25 through Monday, May 27. Summer hours will begin on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. The Library will be open throughout the summer Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Library is closed on Saturdays during the summer.

Library hours are posted on the hours page of the library website: http://libguides.frostburg.edu/libhours.

If you have questions, please contact the Circulation Desk during our open hours at 301-687-4395 or by email at circulation@frostburg.edu. You can also contact the Reference Desk at 301-687-4424. Online resources remain accessible via the library’s website www.frostburg.edu/library, and online chat reference and research help is available 24/7 through Ask Us Now even when the library is closed.

Also, Library staff would like to remind everyone not to leave belongings unattended during this busy time. Please also observe the study space and noise policies for each of the Library's four public floors:

Second Floor:   Group Study / Individual Computer Stations

Third Floor (Main Floor):   Quiet Study / Individual Computer Stations

Fourth Floor:   Individual Silent Study

Fifth Floor:   Group Study / Group Computer Stations / Group Study Rooms / Individual Study Rooms

 

More information about the library’s study spaces, collections, and policies can be found on our website www.frostburg.edu/library and our full Library Code of Conduct is available here: http://libguides.frostburg.edu/circulation/conduct.

On behalf of the library, we wish you all the best in finishing out the semester!

New Library Displays for May 2019

The Lewis J. Ort Library is pleased to present five new displays for May 2019.

The first display, located on the 3rd floor of the library, celebrates National Teacher Week (May 5-11). This display has been developed to accompany the Thank a Gram campaign that is being held May 6-10 to thank a FSU teacher. There are postcards and a box to put them in at the Circulation Desk.

The second display, also located on the 3rd floor of the library, celebrates National Nurses Week (May 6-12). The display provides some information on what nurses do and some of the resources the library offers on nursing.

The third display, located on the 2nd floor of the library, is a remembrance of the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square. The display provides some background and timeline of the event as well as some of the resources the library offers on the topic.

The fourth display, located on the 4th floor of the library, is a remembrance of the 130th Anniversary of the Johnstown, PA flood. The display provides information about the flood as well as some of the resources the library offers on the topic.

The fifth display, located on the 5th floor of the library, celebrates the 65th Anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision on school segregation. The display provides background information that led to the Supreme Court's decision and well as some of the resources the library offers on the topic.

The displays will be up through the end of May.