| The fall issue of the Elihu Burritt Library Newsletter is available. The new issue profiles LSC 150, the 1-credit library research skills course taught by Burritt librarians, the National Library of Medicine’s traveling Harry Potter exhibit now on display through November 14, 2009, as well as much more news and opinion! |  |
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On Friday, 10/23 the CONSULS System will be down for approximately three hours for emergency maintenance. Downtime will be from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. During that time the CONSULS catalog, digital course reserves and off-campus database access will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. Rex Brasher’s Birds and Trees of North America is currently on display on the main level of the Burritt Library. Rex Brasher was an American artist who produced a set of books entitled The Birds and Trees of North America in the 1930’s. Brasher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1869, and by the age of 16 he started painting birds in their natural surroundings. He traveled to every corner of the North American continent and by 1924, after painting thousands of birds, considered his task done. Mr. Brasher purchased a farm in Kent, Connecticut in 1911, where he continued to work. When his eyesight failed him, two years before his death in 1960, he stopped painting. Brasher’s work contains 875 painted prints of over 1200 species and subspecies of North American birds. Brasher could not afford to print his work in color, therefore he ordered black and white prints and then, using an airbrush and a stencil, hand colored each plate. There were 100 sets of 12 volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America produced, including almost 90,000 hand colored reproductions. Burritt library currently exhibits volume 1 out of 12 volumes which are housed at the Special Collections department. The first phase of the long-awaited renovation of the first floor of Burritt Library has begun. During this time only certain areas of the first floor will be accessible while asbestos abatement is ongoing. The main level of the library can be accessed by the interior and exterior stairways located at the front of the building. Restrooms can be accessed only by the southernmost interior or exterior stairways (the side toward Copernicus). Those who require elevator access from the first floor may enter the building through the side door adjacent to the parking lot, and then use the phone across from the elevators for access. We thank you for your patience as we undergo an exciting transformation! When completed the first floor of Burritt will be the main entry to the Library.
Exhibit panels feature the works of 15th- and 16th-century thinkers, such as naturalist Konrad Gesner, alchemist Nicolas Flamel and occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, and explore their understandings of natural philosophy, medicine and magic. The panels also highlight illustrations from Renaissance texts of some of the fantastic creatures and plants featured in “Harry Potter,” including basilisks, dragons, merpeople and mandrakes, and use them to explore the intersection between the novels and Renaissance thinkers, lore and practices. For more information and a schedule of events, please visit the exhibit website.
This Friday, August 21st, we will be changing the address of our proxy server in order to implement SSL on CONSULS. This change will enable the secure authentication of our library users as well as extend remote access to vendor sites that use SSL. The work is scheduled to begin at 8AM and should not take more than a few hours to complete. There will be intermittent interruptions in off-campus access to databases and e-journals while the updates to the CONSULS catalog and library website are being completed The Burritt Library would like to introduce our three (3) new online journal packages. The Freedom Collection from ScienceDirect, the JSTOR Life Sciences Collection and the Sage Premier Deep Back file collection. Each of these packages are listed on the library’s website under “Database Finder”. JSTOR Life Sciences Collection Life Sciences Collection, which combines the Biological Sciences (BioSci) and Health & General Sciences Collections (HGS) to form our largest multi-disciplinary collection Freedom Collection from ScienceDirect The ScienceDirect Freedom Collection provides access to virtually all of the journals published by Elsevier, with strong content in the health, life, physical, and social sciences. Over 2000 titles are now available beginning with 1995 content. Sage Premier Deep Back file To complement the Sage Premier package the library purchased the SAGE Deep Back file Package that includes the content of a journal from its first issue through the last issue of 1998. The Sage Premier package content is from 1999 thru the present. We will be closed Friday, July 3rd through Monday, July 6th for the Fourth of July weekend. On Monday (7/6) the library will be closed due to a furlough of state employees. The library will reopen on Tuesday, July 7th at 8am. |
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“Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine,” a traveling exhibition opening at on October 6, 2009, uses materials from the National Library of Medicine to explore Harry Potter’s magical world and its roots in Renaissance traditions.