The kindle e-readers are ready for check out! Each one comes loaded with a library of current, popular fiction and non-fiction as well as some classics. Current students, faculty and staff may borrow a kindle for 7 days and renew for an additional 7 days. More information about the Kindle loan program can be found at http://libguides.ccsu.edu/kindle. We hope you enjoy and take advantage of this new service!
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The Kindles are here!
The library has just obtained four Kindles to lend to students, faculty, and staff. They should be available for checkout within the next few weeks and we couldn’t be more excited! And we’d love to know what you want to read on them!
So please let us know in the comments any titles that you’ve been dying to read, or anything (fiction or non-fiction) that you’ve read in the last few years that would make a great addition to our Kindle Library.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Stitch N’ Bitch is back for the Fall semester
Join us this Fall on the first floor of the library to knit, crochet, and craft from 1-2 p.m. on Thursdays. We will be stitching scarves for the Red Scarf Project (see details) this fall and hope to send in lots of scarves by December. We will provide instruction, patterns, and red yarn! Just bring your needles or hook.
Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there!
Stitch N’ Bitch at Burritt Library!
Come on over to the 1st floor of the
Burritt Library every Thursday from
1-2 p.m. to knit, crochet, or any other
craft you can tote along.
Novices are welcome!
Library iPhone App Launches
The long-awaited Burritt Library iPhone app has arrived! Need to find a book, a quiet place to study, coffee? The app can help you locate all these things and more. Download it today from the iPhone app store.
Thanks to our good friend and maestro of mobile, Wit Meesangnil, for developing this app!
Gay Pulp Fiction – Novels from the GLBTQ Archives
Valentine’s Day is coming and all forms of love are celebrated everywhere.The “shocking”, “tormented”, “strange”, “wild”, “sinful”kind of love screams from vivid covers of the early lesbian and gay pulp fiction publications now on display at the Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU. Some 150 exquisite examples of this interesting genre from the university’s GLBTQ Archival Collections will be on display through March 15th 2012.
The exhibit is located on the second floor of the library and can be viewed during the library opening hours.
For more information please contact Special Collections and Archives at 860 832-2086 and 860 832-2085
Now on Display: Vintage Radio and Communication Exhibit
On loan from the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, the Burritt Library will display the tools of technologies past through the end of February on the 2nd floor.
The display shows us how communications have changed throughout the last century, and features technology from the 19th and 20th centuries. Featured items are vintage radios, telegraphs, telephones, and televisions.
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Check out Filmakers Library Online!
The Burritt Library has just added a new subscription to Filmakers Library Online provided by Alexander Street Press. The database provides instant access to over 900 full length titles including award winning documentaries, that cover a wide range of subjects. 
In addition to viewing films on topics such as race and gender studies, arts and literature, and political science, library users can make their own clips from films and embed them, or make their own playlists.
Filmakers Library Online can be accessed through the library website.
Try out the new scanner on the 1st Floor!
Have you ever needed to copy an article for a paper, but had no money for copies on your Blue chip?
Ever wished you could email yourself that article, or save it to a USB drive?
Would you have liked to have a copy of the photograph or image in that article?
Well now you can! The library has just acquired a Book Scan Station touch screen scanner for use on the 1st floor. This scanner uses touch screen technology to scan books, photos, journals, etc. right to your USB drive. You can also email the files to yourself. You can scan files into searchable pdf, jpeg, tiff, word, or excel documents. And save paper and money while you’re doing it! The scanner is very simple to use, and has screen by screen directions to follow.
Polish Movie Posters!
On display at the Burritt Library beginning October 5th, a collection of beautiful 20th century Polish movie posters:
Eleven beautiful 20th Century Polish Posters are on display in the 2nd floor exhibit cases facing the balcony on the 2nd floor of the library. The posters were selected from a large donation of Polish art posters which the Polish Heritage Collection had received last year from Mr. Alexander Koproski, Stamford based businessman, philanthropist, and a long-time supporter of Polish Studies at CCSU.
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