The 19th volume of the Elihu Burritt Library’s Newsletter, covering Fall 2015, is now available at http://library.ccsu.edu/newsletter/fall15_newsletter.pdf
This issue highlights:
- The library’s partnership with CCSU’s Institute for Technology and Business Development (at the New Britain downtown campus location) and its federally grant-funded TRiO Talent search program, supporting over 500 New Britain area high school students
- Events held at the library this fall, including:
- Trick-or-Treat Halloween-themed E-resources fair
- “Making Historians at CCSU” Friends of the Library fundraiser featuring CCSU alumni, faculty members, and writers
- Connecticut’s State Archaeology Fair
- Selling, reusing, and recycling book donations through Better World Books
- The newly-added Scopus abstract and index database of more than 22,000 peer-reviewed titles, covering sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts & the humanities
- Library website redesign
- iPad Lending program for students
- The Robot in the Library
- Better know a member of the library’s support staff – Alberto Cifuentes, Jr.
- Donations made to the Friends of the Burritt Library
- Thank you to the Connecticut Italian Caucus