Join us, today, Monday, April 8th at the Elihu Burritt Library for these events celebrating your Right to Read Day & Eclipse Day!
Ready-Set-Read! – All Day – Celebrate Right to Read Day! Get caught reading in the library and you may be “gifted” a Starbucks gift card! To learn more about protecting your Right to Read, go to https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day
Ready-Set-Observe! – 2:30-4pm– Check out the partial solar eclipse with us in front of the library! A limited number of eclipse glasses will be available.
The Central Elihu Burritt Library would like to congratulate the winners of the 2024 Elihu Burritt Library Research Awards:
Haley M. Kolesnik (graduate student) for her thesis, “The Effects of a Classroom-Based Physical Activity Intervention on Attention in 6th Grade Students”.
and
Arianna L. DiNapoli (senior) for her paper, “Acne vulgaris and stress in adulthood”.
Congratulations to Haley and Arianna for their excellent research work using library resources!
The Elihu Burritt Library has a jam-packed schedule of events for National Library Week, so get ready to join us:
Monday, April 8th:
Ready-Set-Read! – All Day – Celebrate Right to Read Day! Get caught reading in the library and you may be “gifted” a Starbucks gift card!
Ready-Set-Observe! – 2:30-4pm – Check out the partial solar eclipse with us in front of the library! A limited number of eclipse glasses will be available.
Tuesday, April 9th:
Ready-Set-Play! – 9am-4pm – Game Day @ the Library – Come check out our games and resources!
Wednesday, April 10th:
Ready-Set-Smile! – 11:30am-1pm & 3-4:30pm – Bring your favorite book and picture yourself on a READ poster!
Thursday, April 11th:
Ready-Set-Connect! – 12-1:30pm – Faculty liaison meet-up in Special Collections on the 2nd floor. BYOLunch; dessert will be served.
Ready-Set-Advocate! 1-2:30pm – Tell us why you love your library!
Friday, April 12th:
Ready-Set-Refresh! – 10am-2pm – Enjoy a refreshing treat as you study, while supplies last.
A quick reminder that CCSU’s library will be closed on Friday, March 29, 2024 through Sunday, March 31st. We will reopen for regular hours at 8am on Monday, April 1st. We wish you a restful holiday weekend.
During CCSU’s Spring Break, March 9-17, the library will be open Monday-Friday, 8am-4:45pm. The library will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays during the break. Enjoy!
Interact each day with a new display about data and enter for a chance to win Valentine’s Day candy and a Starbuck’s gift card!
At the Burritt Library, we love data, and we have a number of resources to help students find, interpret, and visualize different kinds of data. All this week students can learn about those resources by visiting interactive displays located on the first floor of the library. Each day’s display includes a chance to win Valentine’s Day candy and a Starbuck’s gift card.
Students can also participate online. Just go to https://voyant-tools.org/ (an online tool for analyzing text as data) upload something you’ve written, like an old paper or story, and click “Reveal”. Voyant Tools will create a word cloud out of your text, which you can download and share with us over social media. Share your word cloud with the Burritt Library over Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly Twitter), using the hashtag #LoveData24 for a chance to win Valentine’s Day candy and a Starbuck’s Gift Card!
Welcome (or welcome back) to CCSU from the Elihu Burritt Library! If you’re new to the library, you might want to review the guide we designed for First Year (/Transfer) students or our New to the Library? brochure.
Spring hours are: Monday-Thursday 8am-10:45pm; Friday 8am-4:45pm; Saturday 9am-3:45pm; Sunday 2-9:45pm. The library will be closed on Spring Break weekends with limited hours M-F, March 9-17 & closed for the holiday weekend March 29-31. The library will be open for extended hours during the final weeks M-W, April 29-May 8. (See our full calendar/hours schedule at https://library.ccsu.edu/calendar/)
A list of library services and changes to those services for the 2023-24 academic year are highlighted at https://libguides.ccsu.edu/2023-24. (Note: Stack 1 will be closed throughout the construction project. Staff will be happy to retrieve materials from this section at your request. Some stacks may be closed intermittently during the construction process.)
The staff at the Elihu Burritt Library are here to support you in any way that we can, answering questions, helping you find books, and offering great places to study, in groups or individually. We have dedicated quiet spaces on the 4th floor andStack 7.
Be resourceful (& save money)
We can help you access course and research materials at no cost to you.
Course textbooks for free (in-library) use through reserves. Request from our staff at the 1st floor desk, they’ll want your professor’s name and course number, if you have it.
Some course readings are digital and will be available online through course reserves via CentralSearch (you may need your Bluenet ID to login).
We offer subscription databases that allow you to get access to high-quality scholarly journals and primary resources, avoiding paywalls by authenticating with your Bluenet ID. Even if you find it through another service, outside of CCSU, if you hit a paywall with a scholarly article that you may need, try searching our CentralSearch or individual databases.
Get materials from other libraries with the help of our interlibrary loan department. This includes many scholarly writings/materials to which the library does not subscribe, but which may be available through ILL (i.e., using the ILLiad system) or through Resource Sharing Services which are launched from CentralSearch.
Get help (& research better)
Librarians are here to help you with your research assignments.
Service desks on the first and second floors are staffed during the library’s open hours. Reference librarians are working the second floor information desk while the library is open.
Research librarians are also available by phone, text, or through our online “Ask a Librarian” service.
Get in-depth help with your research papers using our online “Book a Librarian” service.
Learn at the library (& have fun)
This spring at the library, you can:
Try out our newly refurbished MakerSpace with 3d printers and other equipment that any CCSU student can use.
Learn more about the Elihu Burritt Library’s support of CCSU’s teaching & learning mission in our Fall 2023 Newsletter (online Flipbook version or downloadable & accessible PDF)! So much is happening at the library — from faculty librarians’ scholarly work, instruction in research courses, workshops, and class visits, plus notes from the Archives, Makerspace, databases and ebooks that the library provides students and faculty, plus so much more…
In this time of giving, we are especially grateful to recognize the generous contributions that help support this important work.
DONORS TO THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FROM MAY 6 TO DECEMBER 8, 2023 INCLUDE:
The library will close early (at 4:45pm) on Wednesday, November 22nd & remain closed for the Thanksgiving Break – Thursday, November 23 through Sunday, November 26. The library will reopen on Monday, November 27.
Enjoy your holiday break!
Extended hours will begin on Monday, December 4th and end on Wednesday, December 13th. To see the schedule, visit https://library.ccsu.edu/calendar/
