During the summer, the library will be open from 8AM to 9 PM Monday through Thursday, 8AM to 6PM on Fridays, 9AM to 6PM on Saturdays and 1PM to 9PM on Sundays. Please refer to our complete list of Library Hours for exceptions.

• Ektrom Library's Summer Schedule

Beginning Monday, May 16, UofL will start an intensive renovation project on The Oval in front of Grawemeyer Hall.  This project will necessitate significant changes to traffic patterns and to parking in this area. 

Beginning May 17, The Oval will become a two-way street, and signs will be posted to direct traffic to the Natural Sciences and Law lots. Traffic patterns will change several times before the project's expected completion on Aug. 15.

The law library is open from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday, May 9 - Friday, May 13. It will be closed Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15. The library will return to its normal schedule on Monday, May 16.

• Law Library Hours
• Ekstrom Library Hours

 

Access to Belknap Campus will be limited until 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, because of street closures for the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon and Mini-Marathon.

Major road closures include:

•     Third and Fourth streets
•     Central Avenue between Fourth and Floyd streets
•     Southern Parkway
•     Floyd Street between Central and Eastern Parkway
•     Hahn Street between Floyd and Eastern Parkway
•     Eastern Parkway between Crittenden Drive and Third

Anyone coming to campus that day should arrive from the east. Access to campus will be via Warnock Street, which should be reached via Eastern Parkway, Crittenden Drive or I-65. (See map)

More resources:

• Derby Festival Street Closures 
• "Street closures will hinder April 30 final exam parking on Belknap" (UofL Today, April 20, 2011)

The law library is offering extended hours during the final exam period April 21-May 6.

Thursday, April 21	7:00 AM - Midnight
Friday, April 22	7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 23	8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 24	Noon - Midnight
Monday, April 25 – Thursday, April 28	7:00 AM - Midnight
Friday, April 29	7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 30	8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 1	Noon - Midnight
Monday, May 2 – Thursday, May 5	7:00 AM - Midnight
Friday, May 6	7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

 

• Law Library Hours
• Ekstrom Library Hours

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center is currently accepting applications from alums and graduating U of L students interested in social and economic justice issues for the DART Organizers Institute, a paid four month training program and career placement.

The DART Center has built non-partisan community organizations throughout the country that have won important improvements on a broad set of issues affecting low-moderate income people including:

• Education reform in low-performing public schools
• Job Training
• Drugs and Violence
• Affordable Housing
• Criminal Recidivism
• Neighborhood Revitalization, etc.

The DART Organizers Institute starts July 10, 2011 and combines a 7-day classroom with 15-week field training. Organizer Trainees will learn such things as:

• Entering a community
• Identifying and training local leaders
• Strategic planning and issue cutting
• Relationship and community building
• Direct Action on community issues
• Fundraising

This is a paid training program designed to place successful graduates into permanent salaried positions making up to $35,000/year in starting salaries, plus benefits. Graduates from the DART Organizers Institute have gone on to build powerful community organizations throughout the country. We continue to train the best of those working to build the power of low-moderate income neighborhoods to win victories on important issues in their community.

To apply, send an updated resume and completed application to: Hannah Wittmer before midnight on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.  To find out more about the DART Center or to download the application, visit our website.