Category Archives: News

Library Acquires Oxford UP Journals Archive

We are pleased to announce the addition of the 2010 Oxford Journals Archive. The Archive includes over 150 titles, with the oldest material dating back to the middle of the 19th century. Journals included cover subjects as diverse as biology, medicine, and physics, through to law, economics, and theology. A complete list of titles is available at the following URL: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/complete_archive_2010.html

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Trial Subsciption Now Available

Trial Access to the AAS Historical Periodicals Collections is available until June 30th. Series 1 covers the period 1693-1820, and Series 2 covers 1821-1837.

The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection presents over 1,500 titles. The collection represents over two centuries of print culture, ranging from early works imported by the colonists to later titles published on American soil on the eve of the Revolution and during the early republic. These periodical collections are the first two in a series of five created from periodical holdings belonging to one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society.

“When Humanity Fails” Exhibit April 19-23, 2010

When Humanity Fails

The exhibit “When Humanity Fails”, brought to campus by the Hillel Jewish Student Organization, fills the growing schism that is arising between the dying generation of survivors and the new generation of youth that is struggling to comprehend the depths of evil that abounded in the Holocaust. While Holocaust education has certainly grown in importance, the method by which it is taught focuses on the death and destruction without teaching students about the lessons that can be learned and how their emotional and intellectual responses can be channeled into constructive action and awareness.

When humanity fails exhibit photoWe hope bringing this exhibit to campus will create a more open, informed and tolerant community. More information can be found by contacting Pam Majify at ccsuhillel@hotmail.com or on the exhibits website www.whenhumanityfails.com.

We hope to see you there and at future Hillel programming.

Celebrate National Library Week!

ng_nlw_button_stacklogo1Gale and Proquest have both announced complimentary access to selected databases during National Library week, April 11-17, 2010.  Information and links to access are included below.

Gale: http://www.gale.cengage.com/NLW2010/?grid=10ALL053

Some good stuff here:

  • Archives Unbound — a vast new resource of topically-focused, cross-searchable digital collections of historical documents
  • Career Transitions — a new electronic resource offering a comprehensive guide to career change
  • Global Issues in Context — this online resource offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance
  • GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) — a new electronic resource offering authoritative reference content on the environment, energy, economic development and natural resources
  • Grzimek’s Animal Life — an interactive, media-rich online resource, with information on more than 4,000 species

Proquest: http://proquest.com/en-US/promos/celebrate.shtml

  • CultureGramsTM explore the world’s cultures with local experts that document the history, customs, government, and daily life in multimedia reports on over 200 countries.
  • eLibrary(R) this easy to use resource brings together content about in-demand subjects from millions of multimedia-rich, global resources.
  • ProQuest(R) African American Heritage brings together records critical to African American family history research and connects users to a community of research experts.
  • ProQuest Historical NewspapersTM – Black Newspapers experience history firsthand via continuous runs of the following full-image titles: The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, and New York Amsterdam News.

Lecture by Dr. Vijay Prashad on March 17th

Dr. Vijay Prashad will present a lecture entitled “Politics, Natural Disasters, and Reconstruction” on Wednesday, March 17th. Dr. Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History as well as Director and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. The event will be held in the Burritt Library Special Collections Reading Room (Main Level) at Noon. Light refreshments will be served.

The lecture is sponsored by The Office of the Provost and International and Area Studies.

Not Your Mother’s WorldCat!

logo_wcmasthead_enWe’re happy to announce the launch of WorldCat Local Quickstart at CCSU. The new service can be accessed at the URL http://burrittlibrary.worldcat.org or from the library home page (under worldcat). Remote authentication is not required. The new interface replaces the version on the FirstSearch platform and includes over 60 million article citations from ArticleFirst, the British Library, ERIC, JSTOR and others.

The WorldCat database has grown tremendously in recent years with the addition of bibliographic data from the RLIN database, harvesting of digital collections, and the inclusion of article citations. Our implementation of WorldCat is similar to the worldcat.org website but customized for CCSU with the addition of real-time item availability from CONSULS, the ability to place holds, and links to services such as ILL and full-text article availability. We hope you like the new version!

Sage Education and Criminology E-Journal Packages Now Available in Sage Premier

crime-media-culture_cover“To date, the SAGE Full-Text Collections have been available on both the ProQuest CSA Illumina platform and the SAGE Journals Online platform. After December 31, 2009, the SAGE Full-Text Collections will be available exclusively on SAGE Journals Online.” -Sage Library Newsletter, July 2009

The library is pleased to offer the SAGE Premier collection with full-text access to over 400 journals published by SAGE and a deep backfile extending to volume 1, issue 1 for most titles. The “Find It @ CCSU” service will continue to provide article linking from our research databases to material published in SAGE journals.

The Handheld Library

Optimizing library services for mobility is the new frontier in libraries! As the number of  smart phone and iPod users increases, libraries, library vendors, and publishers are developing mobile interfaces for their products. We’ve collected as many of these as we were able to find in a new LibGuide devoted to mobile apps, widgets & tools. The guide also features library Facebook applications and widgets.

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If you discover a cool new mobile library tool, please let us know!