The library will be open for winter break / intersession hours beginning on Sunday, December 18, 2022.
The library will be open Mon-Friday, 8am-4:45pm.
The library will be closed on weekends and for observed holidays, such as:
Regular hours will return for the spring semester on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 (M-Th: 8am-10:45pm; Fri: 8-4:45pm; Sat: 9-3:45pm; Sun: 2-9:45pm).
As we close up the semester and head toward winter break, it’s a great time to reflect on the library’s work, say thank you to our supporters & talk about our plans for 2023! Please feel free to read and share either the PDF (below) or the “flipbook” version of our library newsletter.
Take a break and spend some time with an adorable, friendly therapy dog on the library’s first floor, Wednesday, December 7th, from 5-6pm.
The Elihu Burritt Library will be open for extended hours for finals from Sunday, December 4 through Wednesday, December 14th:
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays remain the same as normal semester hours: 8am-10:45pm, 8am-4:45pm, and 9am-3:45pm, respectively.
The library will return to normal hours on Thursday, December 15th. Review the library’s schedule of open hours.
Runs and Dashes are held simultaneously in the Library (EB 30201) & on Webex, so you can attend in-person or online! You will be sent a link when you register.
Please register at tinyurl.com/rotrregister
Each Run or Dash attended = an entry into a grand prize drawing for an Amazon gift card!
An introduction to the library’s website, resources and services. Learn how to find reliable information for papers and other assignments.
Find out how Zotero can help you organize and keep track of your sources, collaborate with others, and create citations in any format. This workshop will demonstrate how to use Zotero online and in the Zotero app, and will show how it can integrate with Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
We’ll provide a refresher and answer questions on both MLA and APA citation formats. The first half of the session (3:05-3:20) will cover MLA and the second half (3:20-3:35) will cover APA.
Short videos you can watch at your convenience on topics such as evaluating your sources, how algorithms and filter bubbles affect your Internet searches, who decides authority, identifying disinformation, and more. Check availability here: tinyurl.com/rotrevents
Questions? 860-832-2060 (Library Reference Desk)
The Elihu Burritt Library at Central Connecticut State University will close early on Wednesday, November 23rd (at 4:45pm) and remain closed through Sunday, November 27th for Thanksgiving break.
Regular hours will resume at 8am on Monday, November 28th. See our online calendar for a full listing of library hours.
We wish you a peaceful holiday !
The library’s OER (Open Educational Resources) team is happy to share their fall OER Newsletter, featuring:
Nov 9, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
CCSU alumna-librarian reads from her debut novel, On Good Authority, a Victorian-era romantic suspense story. Briana will also talk about the writing process and her path from first draft to publication. Q&A will follow!
Elihu Burritt Library – 2nd Floor, Special Collections
Information is everywhere, bombarding us from all angles. With that influx of information comes great responsibility to weed out the good from the bad, to consume and share information responsibly and ethically. But it’s not always easy! This week is the United States Media Literacy Week (https://medialiteracyweek.us/about/theme/evaluate/) and the focus of today is Evaluation. Evaluation of information is a key component in both media and information literacy, and one that grows in importance as misinformation finds its way to our screens. The Elihu Burritt Library is doing a lot to help students learn how to evaluate the barrage of information that greets them each day. Libraries are wonderful places to go for access to reliable, credible information through sources that have already been vetted by professionals in the field, as well as librarians who work hard to help patrons navigate a tricky information landscape to find what they need. Libraries provide access to information; librarians provide the knowledge needed to critique and use that information.
In addition to reference help, our one-shot, and our embedded information literacy sessions with classes, where we teach students how to be critical of information they find, we are also running our second annual “Research on the Run” workshops throughout the fall semester, with an emphasis on finding and evaluating credible material. Our “Database Dashes” provide quick, 15-minute overviews of some popular databases that provide vetted material and get students off Google and into the databases. Our Evaluation Events focus on different aspects of evaluation through short video tutorials, including one on Lateral Reading, a newer technique used to evaluate websites. Lateral reading gets the user to verify a source by getting them off the website in question, evaluating its credibility by looking at what other sources say about the website itself. Through these different offerings, we hope to continue providing tools to students to help them escape the trap of misinformation and give them confidence to find sources that are trustworthy and appropriate for research. To learn more about our Research on the Run events, visit our guide at https://libguides.ccsu.edu/ResearchOnTheRun.
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.
