Two study rooms were built last spring up on the 4th floor of Burritt Library. Each room can be used by two to ten people for up to two hours. Reservations are being taken on a first come first serve basis by using the reservation form on the web, under Services/Request Forms. Check the availability of the rooms from the reservation form and then fill it out and send the request to us. We ask that reservations be made 24 hours in advance this will allow us to send a confirmation email. When you arrive at the library to use the room, stop by the Circulation desk on the 2nd floor and check out the key using your BlueNet ID.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Burritt Bicentennial & Library Research Awards
Elihu Burritt Bicentennial Competition
Elihu Burritt Library is pleased to announce the Elihu Burritt Bicentennial competition. This award will recognize excellence in research and/or creativity related to Elihu Burritt and his lifelong interest in many important topics, including abolitionism, international peace, linguistics, and ocean penny postage. Applicants are invited to submit essays, papers, short stories, plays, historical fiction, poems, descriptive prose, video documentaries, etc. for consideration.
Two prizes of $200 will be awarded in this competition during the Elihu Burritt Birthday Party on December 8, 2010 at 2 p.m. in the Special Collections department at Burritt Library. For more information about Elihu Burritt and list of the material available in the Elihu Burritt Collection, please go to http://library.ccsu.edu/help/spcoll/burritt/
For more information, criteria, and the application form, please go to:
http://library.ccsu.edu/services/award/burritt_award.php
2011 Undergraduate Library Research Award
Students can also apply for the 2011 Undergraduate Library Research award. This award will recognize excellence in undergraduate research papers/projects as well as skill and creativity in the application of library services, resources and collections. Two prizes of $350 will be awarded during the spring 2011 semester at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). One prize will be award to a senior thesis (if applicable) and the other will be awarded to a paper/project from any class/year if applicable.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIBRARY RESEARCH AWARD IS A SEPARATE PRIZE FROM THE OTHERS PRESENTED AT URCAD. For more information about URCAD, please go to http://www.ccsu.edu/urcad/
Eligibility:
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be enrolled during the spring 2011 semester as a Central Connecticut State University undergraduate at any class level or discipline/major.
- Have completed their research paper or project for a credit course during the spring, summer, or fall semesters in 2010.
- Agree that the paper or project and application materials will become property of Elihu Burritt Library and may be publicly displayed in the library and/or library website.
For more information, criteria, and the application form, please go to:
Burritt Library Adventures in Research Podcast/Vidcast series
The “Adventures in Research” podcast series started last week, but you can view episodes anytime after they’ve been aired. We created some new and updated episodes.
If you or your students would like to become a little more familiar with the library, some of its sources and enhance your information literacy skills, then tune in each week (most of the videos are short). You can access them through our LibGuides @
http://libguides.ccsu.edu/index.php
Here is the schedule:
Week 1 – New Burritt Library website and “Sisterhood of the Lost Girls” (ghost story library tour)
Week 2 – “Consuls and You” (Keyword search and finding books in the stacks) and CONSULS 2 (Title search)
Week 3 – Setting up a PIN and CONSULS 3 (Author search and requesting books from other CSU libraries)
Week 4 – Types of Sources and Academic Search Premier
Week 5 – Scholarly vs. Popular sources and Proquest Newspapers
Week 6 – Evaluating websites
Week 7 – Primary Sources and Requesting items through ILL
Elihu Burritt Bicentennial Celebration
Elihu Burritt, also known as “The Learned Blacksmith”, is New Britain’s most famous son. The Elihu Burritt Library is spearheading the celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth and is planning several events for this fall semester.
Elihu Burritt was born in New Britain on December 8, 1810. He became a world citizen, linguist, abolitionist, reformer, peace activist and penny postage advocate. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him a Consular Agent to Birmingham, England. Elihu Burritt stayed attached to his hometown, and during his last years of his life become an active citizen. He died on March 6, 1879 and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery.
The library was named after Elihu Burritt in 1959. The choice of name was supported by many local organizations and Robert C. Vance, the publisher and editor of The Herald.
For more information on Elihu Burritt please see the Special Collections/Archives website: http://www.library.ccsu.edu/help/spcoll/burritt/
The opening event for the Burritt Bicentennial will take place on Wednesday, September 22 at 11:45 in the Special Collections reading room in the library.
“Elihu Burritt: Nineteenth-Century Pioneer for Transatlantic Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights” a lecture by Dr. Wendy Chmielewski.
Wendy Chmielewski is the George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. The Peace Collection holds a significant set of materials on Elihu Burritt. Chmielewski’s work on the role of women in the U.S. and British nineteenth century peace movements has included exploring the participation of Elihu Burritt as well. She has published several works on the role of women in the peace movement and in intentional/utopian communities form the nineteenth century to the present. Her most recent publication (2009) is a co-edited collection of scholarly essays on Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, titled Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy.
Library Adds Cambridge Histories Online
Over the summer, the library purchased Cambridge Histories Online, an e-book collection containing 250 volumes of the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series published since 1960. The collection can be found at the following URL: http://library.ccsu.edu/find/finddb.php?searchtitle=cambridge. We hope you enjoy the new addition!
