Get the latest updates on Open Educational Resources (OER) from the library’s OER team. This edition of Open@CCSU includes a brief explainer on Open Access publishing and predatory publishers, a report from the statewide OER council that identifies $2.8M saved by students in Connecticut last year due to OER adoption, along with a list of upcoming events to help you get up to speed with Open Educational Resources.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month and librarians have put together a guide to mental health resources at https://libguides.ccsu.edu/mentalhealth
A Week in Pictures at the Library – Spring Newsletter
A picture really is worth a thousand words, so please enjoy the library’s Spring Newsletter, featuring a week in pictures, taken during National Library Week, April 3-9!
See “A Week in Pictures” at the Elihu Burritt Library at https://heyzine.com/flip-book/8b9f1a826f.html
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Extended Hours for Finals
The Elihu Burritt Library will be opened for extended hours during finals weeks – Sunday, May 1 through Saturday, May 14, 2022.
Sunday through Wednesday, the library will offer extended hours:
- Sundays: 2pm-10:45pm
- Mondays: 8am-11:45pm
- Tuesdays: 8am-11:45pm
- Wednesdays: 8am-11:45pm
The library will be open regular Spring semester hours for the rest of the week:
- Thursdays: 8am-10:45pm
- Fridays: 8am-4:45pm
- Saturdays: 9am-3:45pm
The library will switch to reduced summer hours (closed on Saturdays & Sundays) after May 14th.
For the full schedule of hours, see our calendar at: https://library.ccsu.edu/calendar/month.php
Days of Reflection – Library Closed April 15-17
The Elihu Burritt Library will be closed for days of reflection / holiday weekend Friday, April 15th through Sunday, April 17th. We will reopen for normal hours on Monday, April 18th. Have a restful weekend!
Celebrate National Library Week at the Elihu Burritt Library!
April 4-8, 2022 is National Library Week! Visit the Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU to celebrate!
On Wednesday, April 6th, star in your very own library READ poster! Come to the library, 11-1:30 or 3-4:30.
During this time, the Elihu Burritt Library is also appealing for support of the Textbook Fund, which purchases reserve copies textbooks for students who can’t afford their own copy, and for the Digital Library Lab, a proposed new space for digital media creation.
Your donation, no matter the size, will help our library continue to provide outstanding service to all our students, while keeping pace with the changing times.
To make a gift, please direct it to one of the campaigns above or to support the Library more directly, use the Library’s main giving page.
The Elihu Burritt Library received grant for CCSU’s mural collection
A recent grant award received by Central Connecticut State University will help to preserve some of the university’s most colorful history in the Connecticut Digital Archive
The Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU received a $10,000 grant from CT Humanities to create a digital collection of artwork and murals by Professor Emeritus Mike Alewitz and his students.
The collection will feature work produced during Alewitz’s 16 years as director of the mural painting program at CCSU. Since the program’s launch in 2000, students have produced more than 100 murals on the CCSU campus; numerous murals in downtown New Britain; and several throughout the world as part of the program’s international mural slams, plus hundreds of smaller art pieces.
The contributions of these young muralists will be revealed with a permanent online collection in the Connecticut Digital Archive, a statewide digital repository at the University of Connecticut and a partner of the Digital Public Library of America. As part of the Burritt Library’s expanding digital collections, this archive will support teaching and research in art and art history, both for CCSU students and for artists and scholars around the world. The materials will be uploaded over the course of the year, culminating in an exhibit and symposium at the library.
Alewitz is a well-known as an activist and agitprop artist. He was a leading antiwar activist at Kent State University, an eyewitness to the massacre of May 1970, and a leader of the national student strike that followed. He has remained a lifelong labor and social justice activist. In 1999, Alewitz was named a Millennium Artist by the White House Millennium Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Alewitz’s students greatly expanded the boundaries of mural painting, grappling with issues in science, education, substance abuse, sexual assault, war, racism, climate change, 9-11, homelessness, censorship, popular culture, and many other topics. The collection demonstrates a genuine diversity of students’ perspectives, artistic styles, and political viewpoints informed by their unique backgrounds and experiences.
This project is made possible by a CT Humanities SHARP (Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan) capacity grant.
Professor Emeritus Mike Alewitz may be contacted at alewitz@gmail.com. Project manager and CCSU’s Digital Humanities Librarian Brian Matzke may be contacted at bmatzke@ccsu.edu.
Tame those citations!
We know that citations can be a bear! Our librarians have created guides to help you use management tools such as Zotero (https://libguides.ccsu.edu/zotero) & Mendeley (https://libguides.ccsu.edu/mendeley). Or, feel free to visit our librarians on-site, book a one-on-one online appointment, or use our live chat – Ask a Librarian service (https://libanswers.ccsu.edu)
Spring Break Library Hours – 3/13/22 to 3/20/22
The library will be open with reduced hours during CCSU’s Spring Break. We will be closed Saturdays & Sundays 3/13-3/20 & open 8am-4:45pm Monday-Friday. Enjoy your break!
Open Education Week – March 7-11
Global Open Education Week is happening March 7-11, with a rich schedule of events taking place at all hours! To learn more and register for sessions, go to: https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
