Check out the Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Collection
The library has been working steadily on digitizing our GLBTQ Archives. You can view the digital collection which contains past years of the CT Gay and Lesbian Film Festival materials including posters, photos, and trailers of the films! The 2011 festival begins May 26th and runs until June 4th. For more information on the festival and showtimes, please visit http://www.outfilmct.org/.
Also available in the collection are interviews with some of Connecticut’s prominent activists in gay and lesbian rights. All films and interviews are part of our Gender Equity Collection in the Special Collections section of the library. Please check back, we are adding new material all the time!
If you haven’t yet had a chance to check out the Marie Curie exhibit on the 2nd floor of the library, there is still time. The exhibit will run until May 16th and commemorates the 100th anniversary of Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 90th anniversary of her first U.S. visit. The exhibit was prepared by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw will be on display at the Elihu Burritt Library from May 9 until May 16 and is available for viewing during library hours.
All photos of the exhibit and lecture courtesy of Norm Ferriere.
100th Anniversary of Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 90th anniversary of her first U.S. visit.
Marie Curie’s legacy is immense. She broke scientific barriers and become brilliant female scientist. She was the 1st female professor at Sorbonne, 1st female Nobel Prize winner, first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, and first female to be buried in the Pantheon in Paris.
An exhibit on Maria Sklodowska-Curie, prepared by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw will be on display at the Elihu Burritt Library from May 9 until May 16 and is available for viewing during library hours. Lecture by Guy Crundwell, Ph.D.,
the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CCSU
Tuesday, May 10th at 12:30 PM
Special Collections reading room, Elihu Burritt Library, CCSU.
