Subscription access to The Chronicle of Higher Ed is now available to members of the CCSU community through the Elihu Burritt Library at https://bit.ly/chroniclehe.
For details on how to find & use The Chronicle, see: https://libguides.ccsu.edu/2022-23/chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is provided as part of a shared subscription through the CSCU Library Consortium.
The Elihu Burritt Library @ CCSU will be closed for the Labor Day holiday Saturday, September 3rd through Monday, September 5th, 2022. The library will reopen for regular hours (8am-10:45pm) on Tuesday, September 6th, 2022.
Welcome to the Fall ’22 Semester at CCSU! We look forward to seeing you in-person or online. The library building will be open & library services will be available during these hours:
Adjustments to hours for holidays will be visible on the library’s calendar at: https://library.ccsu.edu/calendar/month.php
When the library is closed, our online databases, ejournals, articles, and media will still be available 24x7x365. You can find these research materials though CentralSearch and access them online with your Bluenet login.
The library will be closed for the Labor Day weekend – Saturday, September 3rd through Monday, September 5th.
Library hours for August (post summer sessions through beginning of Fall semester) will be: 8am-4:45pm, Monday through Friday. The library will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
The Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU will be closed on Saturday, July 2 through Monday, July 4 for the Independence Day holiday. We will be back on our regular summer hours schedule as of Tuesday, July 5th.
June is PRIDE month for the GLBTQ community. Each year the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan is being honored nationally. It is a special time for recognizing the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally, and for remembering those who paved the way and those who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The celebration includes pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia, and concerts.
The LGBTQ Archives in the Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU hold primary material related to the struggle for gay rights, and is particularly strong in Connecticut collections, offering comprehensive coverage of local political and cultural history from the 1960s to today.
Collections in the LGBTQ archives tell the stories of overturning the sodomy ban (1969); passing the hate crimes (1990), gay rights (1991) and marriage equality (2008) laws; fighting for progressive AIDS legislation (1980s-1990s); and securing transgender protections (2010s). The Archives hold many personal papers donated by people active in the community as well as records of organizations. Our students and history professors conducted oral history interviews which were also placed in the archives. They give an intimate insight into individual struggles. A wide collection of ephemera is also a part of the Archives. It includes photographs, books, buttons, T- shirts, videos, postcards, and flyers documenting campaigns and events.
Some of the key collections are the records of such organizations as Connecticut AIDS Action Council, Connecticut Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival/Out Film, Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival, Dignity Hartford, Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective, Metropolitan Community Church, Project 100/GLBT Community Center, and the Reader’s Feast bookstore.
Among the key leading figures of the local LGBTQ movement who have donated their papers were Richard Cardarelli, Carolyn and Lesley Gabel-Brett, Victor D’Lugin, Betty Gallo (longtime lobbyist for GLBTQ rights), George W. Henry/Canon Clinton Jones, Christine Pattee, Jerimarie Liesegang, Richard Nelson, and Donna Stimpson. The Archives also holds the papers of John Loughery and William J. Mann, nationally known authors.
Link to general information about the GLBTQ Archives: https://library.ccsu.edu/help/spcoll/index.php
Link to finding aids of some of the archival collections: https://archives-library.wcsu.edu/cao/
The library’s summer hours begin on Tuesday, May 31st:
The library is on a reduced schedule before CCSU’s summer session begins (open Monday-Friday: 8am-4:45pm; closed on weekends) & will be closed on Monday, May 30th, for the Memorial Day holiday.
Get the latest updates on Open Educational Resources (OER) from the library’s OER team. This edition of Open@CCSU includes a brief explainer on Open Access publishing and predatory publishers, a report from the statewide OER council that identifies $2.8M saved by students in Connecticut last year due to OER adoption, along with a list of upcoming events to help you get up to speed with Open Educational Resources.
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month and librarians have put together a guide to mental health resources at https://libguides.ccsu.edu/mentalhealth
