The Kindles are here!

The library has just obtained four Kindles to lend to students, faculty, and staff.  They should be available for checkout within the next few weeks and we couldn’t be more excited!  And we’d love to know what you want to read on them!

So please let us know in the comments any titles that you’ve been dying to read, or anything (fiction or non-fiction) that you’ve read in the last few years that would make a great addition to our Kindle Library.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Stitch N’ Bitch is back for the Fall semester

Join us this Fall on the first floor of the library to knit, crochet, and craft from 1-2 p.m. on Thursdays.  We will be stitching scarves for the Red Scarf Project (see details) this fall and hope to send in lots of scarves by December.  We will provide instruction, patterns, and red yarn!  Just bring your needles or hook.

Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there!

INFERNO

Inferno Cover from 1977INFERNO : the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s in the eyes of engaged Central students.

For fifteen years – between 1970 and 1985 – students at Central Connecticut State College published an independent magazine called INFERNO. The magazine reported on many issues important to CCSC students, from tuition, living conditions, academic affairs, political activities to athletic events. It covered state and national politics, with special attention to policies related to higher education. The young editors and journalists followed political, social and cultural trends, as well as providing a forum for discussions on hot topics of the times. The Vietnam War, feminism, and environmental problems were all debated in Inferno’s articles. Inferno attracted a group of talented artists who created a series of vivid and striking covers. Through the end of September some of them will be on display on the 2nd floor at the Elihu Burritt Library. The whole set of Inferno has been digitized and is accessible in Student Publications section of our Digital Collections (content.library.ccsu.edu). Check it out!

Face To Face Exhibit of Photographs

Face to Face, an exhibit of photographs by Czesław Czapliński, will be on display on the 2nd floor of the Burritt library until the end of September.
Czesław Czapliński, an artistic photographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker, was born in 1953 in Łódź (Poland). Since 1979 he has divided his time between homes in New York and Warsaw. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 albums and books, whose photographs and articles have been published all over the world.
Czapliński’s works are in the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, The New York Public Library, The Museum of Art in Łódź, The National Museum in Warsaw and Wroclaw, and The National Library in Warsaw as well as in numerous private collections worldwide.
The Face to Face exhibit consists of original photographs by Czesław Czapliński, including portraits of Czesław Miłosz, Joseph Brodsky, Umberto Eco, Andy Warhol, Walter Cronkite, Wisława Szymborska, Susan Sontag, Michael Jackson and many others.
The exhibit will be on display until the end of September. It is located on the 2nd floor of the library and can be viewed during library opening hours.
For more information please contact Special Collections department at 860 832-2085 and 860 832-2086.

New Library Video

Just added to Burritt Library’s video collection is our new introductory library video entitled Library Order:  Burritt Library.  Join library staff and detectives as they sort out the mystery of the missing book!  Will everyone find what they need for their term papers? Will there be enough sources to go around?  Find out the answers to these questions and tour the library in our fun new video!

This video was produced by Susan Slaga with assistance from the Media Center.  Many thanks to the students and staff that appear in the video!

Library order: Burritt Unit

Get ILL Notifications Via Text

Now you can get your Interlibrary Loan notifications sent right to your phone.  Simply follow the steps below to begin receiving your text alerts!

To start the service for existing accounts:

Access your ILLiad account, under Tools, click on ‘Change User Information’, add your phone number to the email that is already on file so that it looks like this sample: johndoe@ccsu.edu,8605555555@messaging.sprintpcs.com2012-08-03 09.27.04

To find out what your phone carrier’s email extension is visit:

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=details
or
http://www.emailtextmessages.com/

If you are a new patron, simply add this information when you create your new ILLiad account.

 

**please check with your carrier and your personal contract as charges may incur**

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