This month the Central Reading Room is providing patrons with fun distractions and a chance at prizes, just for using our services.
Library Galleria Music Performance
This Wednesday, April 17th, Bryan Lu, a music student who works in the Music Library, and the members of a String Quartet will perform Mendelssohn’s 2nd String Quartet in A minor. Their wish is to share their music with the…
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New for Sustainability Studies: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
Available now online, the 10 volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. This interdisciplinary publication draws from the natural, physical, and social sciences – geophysics, engineering, and resource management, to name a few – and from philosophy and religion. The result is…
Posted in Sustainability
Michael Huang Presents at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Michael Huang, Librarian of the Health Sciences Library, presented “Open access to research literature in the humanities and social sciences” at the College of Foreign Languages of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, on April 24, 2013.
Posted in Global Initiatives
DATABASE TRIAL: New-York Historical Society Digital Archives
EBSCO has released two new Digital Archive Databases from Collections at the New-York Historical Society. Trials of the two databases are available through June 9, 2013. Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York Collection of…
Conference: “The Italian Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century England”
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4 p.m. Center for Italian Studies Conference: “The Italian Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century England” Organized by Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University, with presentations by Professors Anthony Oldcorn, Brown University, Giuseppe Gazzola and Robert Viscusi, CUNY/Brooklyn. The…
Special Event: “Chinese Food and Herbs: Available, Fresh, Healthy, Natural, and Sustainable”
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:45 p.m. “Chinese Food and Herbs: Available, Fresh, Healthy, Natural, and Sustainable” A lecture by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman, with a food tasting to follow. This talk will explore the terms Available, Fresh, Healthy, Natural, and…
Michael Huang Presents at Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Health Sciences Librarian Michael Huang presented “The future of academic libraries and academic librarians” at the Capital Medical University Library, Beijing, China, on April 24, 2013.
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DATABASE TRIALS: Three Streaming Drama Collections
Routledge Performance Archive includes interviews with key figures in theatre history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; unique footage direct from the legendary practitioners themselves; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries previously unavailable…
DATABASE TRIAL: ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier’s medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, delivering access to over 900 books, over 500 journals, thousands of videos, and millions of images. This is an enhanced version of MD Consult with a proprietary…
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