Relax and take a break before finals get here! Come visit Jesse the black lab on Wednesday, April 25 from 4:30-5:30 pm on the first floor or Elihu Burritt Library.

What’s happening with Open Educational Resources initiatives in Connecticut? Have an informal discussion with Kevin Corcoran this afternoon at 3pm at the CTFD classroom on the 3rd floor of the Elihu Burritt Library. Join us and bring your questions.

(Refreshments will be available!)

The CCSU Library is seeking volunteers for a usability test of its online “CentralSearch” tool. This is a study of the ease-of-use of the library’s primary “catalog” / “search engine”. Participants sign up for a 15-20 minute session during which they conduct searches using “CentralSearch” to answer several questions and explain their thoughts and feelings about the product while they use it. The test sessions will be conducted at the library.

The results of this work will be used as feedback for the CSCU

consortial library system to optimize the interface and/or report to the system’s vendor about issues that are found by our students.

We will offer “gift bags” for our test participants as a token of our gratitude for their time and willingness to help us improve our online offerings!

To sign up for a time, get a “ticket” through Eventbrite at http://bit.ly/libraryusability or contact Sharon Clapp, Digital Resources Librarian, at sclapp@ccsu.edu or 860-832-2059.  

Regular semester hours

• Monday               8am-10:45pm
• Tuesday               8am-10:45pm
• Wednesday        8am-10:45pm
• Thursday             8am-10:45pm
• Friday                    8am-4:45pm
• Saturday              9am-3:45pm
• Sunday                 2pm-9:45pm

Spring Break hours

• Saturday, March 10:        Closed
• Sunday:  March 11:          Closed
• Monday, March 12:         8am-4:45pm
• Tuesday, March 13:         8am-4:45pm
• Wednesday, March 14:  8am-4:45pm
• Thursday, March 15:       8am-4:45pm
• Friday, March 16:             8am-4:45pm
• Saturday,  March 17        Closed
• Sunday , March 18:          Closed

Easter Weekend

• Friday, March 30:             Closed
• Saturday,  March 31:       Closed
• Sunday , April 1:                Closed

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The Elihu Burritt Library is pleased to announce their OERs LCG pilot mini grant. The deadline for the $300 mini grant applications to be submitted for an OER-related project to be undertaken by a member of CCSU’s faculty is June 11*, 2017.
[*extended from June 1]

• Grant details & guidelines
• Grant application form ($300, due June 11, 2017)

Thanks to the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development for their underwriting of this grant program!

For more on OERs, see our research guide on open educational resources!

Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement, which seeks to open up students’ access to educational materials, reducing or eliminating the cost of textbooks and improving learning outcomes.

To celebrate and start this important discussion on Open Educational Resources at CCSU, the first of several Open Educational Resources Learning Community Group workshops will take place this Thursday afternoon in the CTFD classroom at the library.

• WHEN:          EVERY THURSDAY FROM MARCH 30 – APRIL 27, FROM 3 – 3:45PM
• WHERE:        BURRITTLIBRARY, 3RD FLOOR, CTFD CLASSROOM
• SIGN UP:      Google form at https://goo.gl/forms/pdQn7Sqry1Crsw6T2
• CONTACT      Digital Resources Librarian, Sharon Clapp sclapp@ccsu.edu and Information Literacy Instructional and Assessment Librarian, Martha Kruy mkruy@ccsu.edu .

The LCG includes a Blackboard shell and face-to-face meetings at the CTFD classroom on the library’s third floor on Thursdays from 3-3:45pm starting on March 30 through April 27th. Grants for conversion of courses to an OER basis will be available. To learn more, join us in the OER LCG.

There was an error in the overnight system-generated reports in our new library system and we have fixed it. We apologize for any confusion.  If you have any questions or need help, please contact the Circulation desk at 860-832-3410 or circulation@ccsu.edu. We thank you for your patience!