 Hi, we are Alden Library. Let us reintroduce ourselves. Welcome to University Library's new social media video series, This is Alden. We will be taking you through all seven floors of the library and sharing essential information you should know about each floor. Starting with the first. There are plenty of great study spaces students should take advantage of. Grab one of the group study rooms to work on a class project or, if you want to sit in the open space, grab a seat at one of the various oversized tables that easily accommodates four. Prefer to study by yourself? Sit at one of the soft seating chairs or one of the carols. The first floor has silent, quiet, and group study spaces, so you will be able to find the perfect spot for what you need. For me, it is very quiet. I only have to go down one flight of stairs and the men's restroom is down here. I always go right here because there's a bunch of books around me. I'm a big reader and I feel very in my academic element. It's cultural. Cool. It's cool statues. I kind of like the layout. I like that there's a lot of books and there's a lot of desks around books and there's never that many people, which I also like. How often would you say that you come down here to get work done? Every day. Usually Monday through Friday. Also on the first floor is Alden Library's Microforms Collection. A Microform is a scaled-down version of just about any kind of document you can think of. Photos, newspapers, books, etc. And Alden has thousands of them. Seen here is one of the Athens Mirror and Literary Register. It was a weekly paper created by Archibald Brown, an 1822 graduate of Ohio University. Hi, my name is Jeffrey Shane. I'm the Southeast Asia Reference Librarian at Ohio University. Today I'd like to talk a little bit about an exciting digital initiative simply known as the Thai Film Project. The project entails seeking out out-of-copyright films from Thailand, which of course are in Thai. And what we are doing is translating and subtitling these films so that they're more accessible to American audiences, especially those who do not speak or understand Thai. Thanks for checking out the first part of This Is Alden. Follow Ohio University Libraries on social media to make sure you don't miss the next part of the series all about the second floor of Alden, which is coming soon.