OK- summer is almost here! Do you have your summer job lined up yet? For all you procrastinators (and who isn’t?), the library has some great resources to help!
A special note to seniors- we know the job market can be tough. We invite you to come back to the library to use our resources after you graduate. Learn more about the Alumni Connection with the Library for Life.
Librarians at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library collaborated with the Media Center at Fairfield University to create a movie, Fairfield Beach: the Library , a fun, “choose your own adventure” tour of the library and its services, a la “Laguna Beach,” where viewers vote to steer the protagonist (Julie, played by Fairfield University alumna, Tess Brown) through a humorous and engaging narrative.
Taking a lighthearted approach, this 15 minute movie showcases our library services, emphasizing the importance of students’ voices and students’ choices at the library. Watch it to see what happens as you decide what Julie should do next, and enjoy the alternate endings. Maybe you’ll learn about a service you didn’t know we offered!
Credits: Directed, produced, and edited by Fairfield University student, Bob Cammisa (’10); written by librarians Leslie Porter and Ramona Islam; starring Tess Brown, Kira Gustafson, Jared Mezzocchi, Brad Martocello, Devin Hagan, and Leslie Porter. Flash created by Steve Evans. For more credits, view the movie using the link above, and click on “Scene Selection.”
Last week, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Sage Publications, backed by the Association of American Publishers, sued Georgia State University, alleging that it systematically allowed access to a large volume of copyrighted works online without paying the proper licensing fees.
To read more about the lawsuit and learn what implications it may have for higher education, read A Press Revolt Against E-Packet Practices by Andy Guess @ http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/17/gsu.
We’ve just added two new science databases to our collection: AccessScience and GreenFile.
AccessScience features fully searchable content from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Yearbook of Science & Technology, and the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Contains both scholarly and general interest articles.
These, as well as our other databases, can be accessed from our database page:
During National Library Week, April 13-19 2008, Fairfield U students contributed to grafitti boards shouting out their favorite books, music and films.
Some of the more popular book entries were the classics Pride and Prejudice, Catcher in the Rye, as well as Lord of the Rings.
We still have a place in our heart for children’s books though. Students noted their love of Dr. Seuss’s Go, Dog, Go, and also Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and, not surprisingly, Harry Potter (a book for young and old).
Students’ musical taste run the gamut: King Crimson, Johnny Cash, Third Eye Blind and Mariah Carey were some of the artists scribbled on the boards.
This encyclopedia, the first of its kind, comprehensively overviews various aspects of privacy throughout U.S. history, including significant legal cases, events, laws, organizations, individuals, technology, and terms.
To learn how to find this and other e-books, watch this video on how to search for e-books in the catalog:
Spanning three volumes, this comprehensive encyclopedia of over six hundred entries covers the full range of civil rights and liberties in America from the antecedents of the Bill of Rights through the most recent controversies over political and social issues, including abortion, free speech, religious liberty, voting rights, and the guarantees of equality. It also addresses the civil rights and liberties issues stemming from America’s ongoing “war on terrorism.”
To learn how to find this and other e-books, watch this video on how to search for e-books in the catalog:
. . . the most current and comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period. It features an abundance of in-depth articles on this field of enduring importance—from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture. The resource provides fascinating and authoritative art historical and cultural information about art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, renowned works of art, archaeological sites and stylistic developments.
To learn how to find this and other e-books, watch this video on how to search for e-books in the catalog:
This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.
The library is pleased to announce that we have added International Political Science Abstracts(IPSA) to our list of databases. Produced by the International Political Science Association, it includes current indexing and abstracts of the world’s leading journals in political science.
This, as well as all of our other databases, can be found on our database page.
, a fun, “choose your own adventure” tour of the library and its services, a la “Laguna Beach,” where viewers vote to steer the protagonist (Julie, played by Fairfield University alumna, Tess Brown) through a humorous and engaging narrative.