Studying for the Praxis Series teacher certification exams? The library has test prep books both online and in print, both include practice tests. Online books are available to allstduenuts from anywhere! The library has created a list of all … Continue reading
March 27, 2013
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Today marks the 102nd International Women’s Day worldwide. March is Women’s History Month. You can find many resources in our library catalog. Try searching on Feminism or Women’s Rights for books and media. For journal articles, search our Gender Studies … Continue reading
March 8, 2013
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Faculty and Staff- Get your books for the Faculty Book Colloquium now, either in print or online from the Library! Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant. Available ONLINE and in print. Discussion -Tuesday, February … Continue reading
February 12, 2013
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Holiday Greetings from DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University
December 18, 2012
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Check out a comedy DVD from the library’s collection. Click here to see a list of our film collection sorted by laughter. Or find a comic book or strip from our print book collection.
December 6, 2012
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Due to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath, the due dates for items originally due back from Oct. 26 – Nov 5, 2012 will be extended to Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. Did you know you can renew online? To renew library … Continue reading
November 2, 2012
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Check out a book from our popular reading collection on the main level of the library. Or take home a DVD or CD from our new acquisitions area near Circulation. We have feature film, television shows, and music new releases. … Continue reading
October 31, 2012
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from The Chronicle of Higher Education By Prof. Hacker Ah, summer. A few months in the middle of the year when a reader’s thoughts turn to. . . well,. . . reading. The rest of the academic year may be … Continue reading
June 15, 2012
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Sister Margaret Farley, ethicist and professor emerita at Yale Divinity School and a member of the Sisters of Mercy religious order, has been accused by the Vatican of publishing a book Just love : a framework for Christian sexual ethics … Continue reading
June 6, 2012
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December 1st is World AIDS Day. 2011 is the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. We have a display in the library commemorating World AIDS Day. You can also access information on HIV and … Continue reading
November 28, 2011
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Congratulations to Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa for winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature for “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”. The Library has a large collection of … Continue reading
October 7, 2010
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The peer review process has been regarded as sacrosant in scholarly circles. Read this Aug 23, 2010 New York Times front page article which details how the prestigious Shakespeare Quarterly is opening its review to the World Wide Web. Excerpt … Continue reading
August 25, 2010
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The goal is to provide Free public access for a month to 2 Million eBooks, including books read on mobile devices. Check it out at http://worldebookfair.org/
July 19, 2010
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William Pannapacker, an associate professor of English at Hope College, in Holland, Mich writing under his pen name Thomas H. Benton, writes what might be called an “ode to librarians” in the May 20, 2010 edition of the Chronicle of … Continue reading
May 24, 2010
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Library material can be used in unusual ways. Meet Phil Levin, a biologist at Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, who scoured libraries in the Pacific Northwest for local cookbooks to determine the changes in rockfish availability over the past … Continue reading
May 20, 2010
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