The libr
ary is pleased to provide access to State Stats from CQ Press. State Stats offers comprehensive data coverage of each state including health care, crime, education and more. You’ll find reliable, easy-to-use data from more than 80 different sources covering more than 15 years. When you find data you’re interested in explore it using the mapping and graphing tools, compare it with other data sets, or export it to Excel. You can find State Stats from the “Articles & Databases” tab on the library website.
Free Cookies, Coffee and Mugs – May 7, 2012
Take a study break! Free cookies, coffee and commuter mugs will be available at the Burritt Library circulation desk on the first floor on Monday May 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm. Get them while they last!
Exhibit recognizes Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on its 25th Season
The Elihu Burritt library at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain is a repository of the film festival records. To celebrate the 25th season of the festival, items from the collection will be on display in the Burritt library from May 7 until June 10, 2012. The exhibit will illustrate the history of the film festival with vibrant posters, programs, flyers, advertisements, and film covers. Some of the items from the collection are already digitized and can be viewed at: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/
The Gay & Lesbian Film Festival began in Hartford as a project of the cultural organization Alternatives. It was founded in 1988 to promote, encourage and provide a forum for lesbian and gay talent. The Hartford Lesbian and Gay Film Festival evolved into the Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
In 2007, when the festival celebrated its 20th year, the name of the organization was changed to Out Film CT to reflect its primary focus on film events. This year’s festival will take place at Cinestudio, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, from June 1 until June 9, and the full program can be accessed at: www.outfilmct.org.
The exhibit can be viewed during library opening hours and an opening reception is planned for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 6PM in the Elihu Burritt library, CCSU.
For more information about the exhibit please contact Special Collections at 860 832-2085.
An Evening with Guitars in Special Collections
Please come and enjoy an evening of music performed by students of Chris Ladd.
Tuesday – April 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM Elihu Burritt Library, Special Collections Reading, 2nd Floor.
2012 Undergraduate Research Awards Winners Announced
Elihu Burritt Library would like to congratulate Lori A. McDermott and Katherine J Johns-Galvin for winning the 2012 Undergraduate Research Awards. Both students will be awarded a $350 prize on May 4, 2012 at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day.
Lori McDermott is a senior and psychology major. He study is entitled, ‘Menu Labeling and College Students’ Purchasing Behaviors and Caloric Intake’. Katherine Johns-Gavin is a senior and anthropology major. Her thesis is entitled, ‘Green Oasis in a Food Desert: Increasing the Accessibility of Affordable Healthy Foods in an Urban Neighborhood in Hartford, CT’.
Both students did a fantastic job and demonstrated great skill and creativity in the application of library services, resources and collections. Please take time to congratulate them.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month exhibit now on display.
Faces of Survival was started in 2004 and is displayed throughout the state. The exhibit uses personal stories and pictures of sexual assault survivors to educate the public about the impact of sexual violence and to combat the stigma surrounding the issue. The Faces of Survival exhibit confronts viewers with the reality of sexual violence and brings to light the voices and faces of survivors, who are all too often kept silent.
Quilts from Central’s Take Back the Night event are on display and add greatly to the impact of the exhibit. Printed materials on campus area resources will be available at the display table.
Come to educate yourself. Come in solidarity. Come to see the truth. Come to witness. You Are Not Alone.
The exhibit is located on the second floor of the Elihu Burritt Library until April 23, 2012.
On Monday, April 23rd 1-3pm on 2nd floor of the Elihu Burritt Library there will be a lecture and activities.
Lecture will be presented by Liz Halla-Mattingly. Liz has previously presented at the True Colors Conference, Transgender Lives Conference, Trinity College and the University of Connecticut
For more information please contact Paula Broderick at 860-225-4681 x217. Paula is Prevention Education Coordinator at YWCA in New Britain.
Global Food, Agriculture and Sustainability – Books and Artwork
The exhibit features the work of CCSU art students in Adam Niklewicz’s Illustration 1 class. Students captured a range of complex issues including sustainability, contemporary farming, healthy foods, and the greedy, unsustainable practices of corporations. Please visit the library to see whose side the students take. The art work and books from the library’s collection related to the subject will be on display until April 15.
Occupy CCSU Rally, Wed. 4/4 at Noon
A rally to oppose tuition increases and the soaring costs of higher education will take place in front of the Library at noon on April 4th. The rally will be preceded by a march across campus at 11:30 The event is being sponsored by CCSU AAUP and supported by student groups and SUOAF. Follow @occupyccsu on Twitter for more information.
BrowZine iPad App
The Burritt Library is a beta partner for BrowZine, an app for iPad that lets you easily find, read, organize and share scholarly journals from Open Access publishers, including BioMed Central.
To download BrowZine to your iPad and to help ThirdIron develop what will become the final product – please go to http://itunes.com/apps/browzine. Or, visit the Apple App store and search for “BrowZine.”
During the beta period we will be dynamically updating features and adding new content. You may occasionally find software bugs, see design changes, and notice new content. If you find problems, have suggestions, or see something you like, we hope you will let us know by using the feedback button in BrowZine, visiting ThirdIron’s Contact Us page, or sending them an email at info@thirdiron.com.
Stitch N’ Bitch at Burritt Library!
Come on over to the 1st floor of the
Burritt Library every Thursday from
1-2 p.m. to knit, crochet, or any other
craft you can tote along.
Novices are welcome!
