The long-awaited Burritt Library iPhone app has arrived! Need to find a book, a quiet place to study, coffee? The app can help you locate all these things and more. Download it today from the iPhone app store.
Thanks to our good friend and maestro of mobile, Wit Meesangnil, for developing this app!
Valentine’s Day is coming and all forms of love are celebrated everywhere.The “shocking”, “tormented”, “strange”, “wild”, “sinful”kind of love screams from vivid covers of the early lesbian and gay pulp fiction publications now on display at the Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU. Some 150 exquisite examples of this interesting genre from the university’s GLBTQ Archival Collections will be on display through March 15th 2012.
The exhibit is located on the second floor of the library and can be viewed during the library opening hours.
For more information please contact Special Collections and Archives at 860 832-2086 and 860 832-2085
February is the month of romance, and to show our affection for the CCSU community, we are pleased to offer trial access to some fabulous online collections through the beginning of March! Check out the Vogue Archive, which contains the full contents of 
Vogue magazine (US edition) with full color page images from the first issue in 1892 to the present. This month we’re also featuring trial access to two amazing collections from Alexander Street Press, VAST: Academic Video Online and Music Online. Finally, for lovers of our feathered friends, we’re delighted to offer trial access to Birds of North America Online, which provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.
Our trial offerings may be accessed from the library website: http://library.ccsu.edu/find/finddb.php?subj=Trial Databases
While it’s not Godiva, we hope you enjoy these just the same!
On loan from the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, the Burritt Library will display the tools of technologies past through the end of February on the 2nd floor.
The display shows us how communications have changed throughout the last century, and features technology from the 19th and 20th centuries. Featured items are vintage radios, telegraphs, telephones, and televisions.
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For those of you who had trouble logging into online resources over the weekend, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Access has been restored!
Please let us know if there is any further issues.
Please join us for a vibrant discussion of “The Future of Books in the Internet Age.” How will ascent of e-books and the proliferation of tablets and e-readers impact reading, scholarship and pedagogy? Who are the winners and losers? What are the opportunities for scholars, bookstores, and libraries? These are but a few of the questions that will be considered! The discussion will take place in the Marcus White Living Room at 12:15pm. Invited guests include Jack Dougherty, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Trinity College and co-editor of the web-book, Writing History in the Digital Age, and State Librarian Kendall Wiggin.
The program is sponsored by the Elihu Burritt Library in conjunction with the Arts & Public Policy Committee, Philosophy Department and Honors Program.
Graduate Thesis Workshop
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
7:15 pm – 8:15 pm
Elihu Burritt Library classroom (third floor, Curriculum Lab)
Presented by Paulette Lemma, Dean, School of Graduate Studies
and
Susan Slaga, MLIS, Reference Librarian, Elihu Burritt Library
The workshop will cover:
Selecting a topic
Steps in the thesis process
Oral presentation or defense
Library Research (including a brief overview of style requirements)
Refreshments will be served.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Susan Slaga
at
Phone: 860-832-2095
or
E-mail: slagas@ccsu.edu
Space is limited.
Brought to you by the Graduate Student Association (Like us on facebook:
Caitlin Lee will have an assortment of her ceramics on display through January 2012 on the 2nd floor of the Burritt Library. Caitlin is a 2008 graduate of CCSU, where she received her B.S. in Art Education.
A statement from the artist:
Throughout my education and career as an art teacher, I have experimented with a variety of media, but have always been drawn back to clay. Clay gives me the freedom to create with multiple techniques and play with the combination of functional and sculptural forms. My artwork is an expression of my emotions, ideas, and experiences. When I look at a piece of my artwork, it reminds of another time in my life. It is important for me to document these times as a way of speaking to the world and making myself heard. When others view my art, my hope is that they will be reminded of their own experiences and form a personal connection with the work.
My most recent work involves the human figure. I begin each sculpture with an emotion or attitude, and then design and create a figure to represent the feeling. The figures contain exaggerated proportions and abstracted features which aid in the overall expression. I intentionally omit specific details like facial features, in order to keep each figure more open to interpretation by the viewer. The sculptures represent my vision of specific experiences, yet they are created in a way that allows others to form personal relationships with the work.
In May 2008 Catlin Lee received BS in Art Education with a concentration in ceramics Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Magna Cum Laude; and currently is enrolled in the graduate program in Art Education with a concentration in ceramics at CCSU
Elihu Burritt Library is pleased to announce the 2012 Undergraduate Library Research award. This award will recognize excellence in undergraduate research papers/projects as well as skill and creativity in the application of library services, resources and collections. Two prizes of $350 will be awarded during the spring 2012 semester at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). One prize will be award to a senior thesis and the other will be awarded to a paper/project from any class/year if applicable.
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIBRARY RESEARCH AWARD IS A SEPARATE PRIZE FROM THE OTHERS PRESENTED AT URCAD**.
Eligibility:
To be eligible, applicants must:
To access the application please go to:
Great things are happening in your library! The latest issue features articles about the library renovation and its impact on attendance, the library’s Android app, CCSU University Archives, and the CT Gay & Lesbian Film Festival digitization project. Read about these things and more in the new issue!
