Free Coffee and Lattes!
@ Jazzman’s Cafe, Burritt Library
Tuesday, December 8, 4:00 PM – ? (while supplies last)
The Handheld Library
Optimizing library services for mobility is the new frontier in libraries! As the number of smart phone and iPod users increases, libraries, library vendors, and publishers are developing mobile interfaces for their products. We’ve collected as many of these as we were able to find in a new LibGuide devoted to mobile apps, widgets & tools. The guide also features library Facebook applications and widgets.
If you discover a cool new mobile library tool, please let us know!
Library Newsletter Fall Issue Available
| The fall issue of the Elihu Burritt Library Newsletter is available. The new issue profiles LSC 150, the 1-credit library research skills course taught by Burritt librarians, the National Library of Medicine’s traveling Harry Potter exhibit now on display through November 14, 2009, as well as much more news and opinion! |  |
Rex Brasher’s Birds and Trees of North America
Rex Brasher’s Birds and Trees of North America is currently on display on the main level of the Burritt Library.
Rex Brasher was an American artist who produced a set of books entitled The Birds and Trees of North America in the 1930’s. Brasher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1869, and by the age of 16 he started painting birds in their natural surroundings. He traveled to every corner of the North American continent and by 1924, after painting thousands of birds, considered his task done.
Mr. Brasher purchased a farm in Kent, Connecticut in 1911, where he continued to work. When his eyesight failed him, two years before his death in 1960, he stopped painting. Brasher’s work contains 875 painted prints of over 1200 species and subspecies of North American birds. Brasher could not afford to print his work in color, therefore he ordered black and white prints and then, using an airbrush and a stencil, hand colored each plate.
There were 100 sets of 12 volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America produced, including almost 90,000 hand colored reproductions. Burritt library currently exhibits volume 1 out of 12 volumes which are housed at the Special Collections department.
Library Renovation and Asbestos Abatement
The first phase of the long-awaited renovation of the first floor of Burritt Library has begun. During this time only certain areas of the first floor will be accessible while asbestos abatement is ongoing.
The main level of the library can be accessed by the interior and exterior stairways located at the front of the building. Restrooms can be accessed only by the southernmost interior or exterior stairways (the side toward Copernicus). Those who require elevator access from the first floor may enter the building through the side door adjacent to the parking lot, and then use the phone across from the elevators for access.
We thank you for your patience as we undergo an exciting transformation! When completed the first floor of Burritt will be the main entry to the Library.
State Budget Holdbacks Prompt Database Cancelations
Due to recently announced holdbacks in the state budget, resulting in substantially decreased budget allocations for iCONN, the State Library is forced to discontinue the following resources effective October 1, 2009:
- AP Images
- Boston Globe
- CINAHL (Full text – CINAHL Index is retained)
- Westlaw Campus Research
The InfoAnytime (24/7) chat service is being discontinued due to lack of state funding.
At CCSU, we are hoping to continue our subscription to the full-text portion of CINAHL as well as the InfoAnytime service through a local library consortium. I will update this post when we confirm the continuation of access.
The majority of content provided by Campus Research is contained in our subscription to Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. We apologize for the short notice, but we only learned of this on Monday, 9/28.
Library Hosts Harry Potter Traveling Exhibit
“Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine,” a traveling exhibition opening at on October 6, 2009, uses materials from the National Library of Medicine to explore Harry Potter’s magical world and its roots in Renaissance traditions.
Exhibit panels feature the works of 15th- and 16th-century thinkers, such as naturalist Konrad Gesner, alchemist Nicolas Flamel and occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, and explore their understandings of natural philosophy, medicine and magic. The panels also highlight illustrations from Renaissance texts of some of the fantastic creatures and plants featured in “Harry Potter,” including basilisks, dragons, merpeople and mandrakes, and use them to explore the intersection between the novels and Renaissance thinkers, lore and practices.
For more information and a schedule of events, please visit the exhibit website.
LibGuides Connect You to Library Research Materials
| We are happy to announce the debut of LibGuides, a library content-management system designed as a user-friendly portal to library collections and services. LibGuides offers 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, RSS feeds, podcasts, and embedded media. We hope you like this new service! Please contact Debbie Herman (hermand@ccsu.edu) if you’re interested in a custom LibGuides widget for blogs, Vista, websites, etc. like the one shown above. |
July 4th Holiday Closure
We will be closed Friday, July 3rd through Monday, July 6th for the Fourth of July weekend. On Monday (7/6) the library will be closed due to a furlough of state employees. The library will reopen on Tuesday, July 7th at 8am.
Subscribe to ILLiad Notification RSS feed
Would you like immediate notification when the Interlibrary Loan book you really need has arrived? Are you waiting for that very important document that is the cornerstone of your paper? If you would like to receive notifications without the hassle of reading your email, ILLiad has another option for you!
The ILLiad software allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds for both ILLiad delivery notifications and System Alerts. Your cell phone will need a mobile RSS reader.
Subscribing is easy:
· Log in to your ILLiad account
· Click on the RSS feed icon in your browser
· Copy the link and paste into your favorite reader
From then on you will be able to receive all of your ILLiad notifications ‘on the go.’ If you have any questions or need help, contact the ILL office (832-3408). Learn how to do it… Watch the video below!
