Please join us for a talk by Mary Ann Cherry

Morris Kight—One Man’s Road to the Gay Revolution and Beyond

Friday, September 28, at 10 AM

Room 162, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Mary Ann Cherry, recipient of the Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant awarded by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center to scholars conducting research in the Center’s unique collections, will read from her manuscript Morris Kight – The Authorized Biography of One Man’s Road to the Gay Revolution And Beyond on September 28, 10:00am, in Room 162 of the Dodd Center.  Cherry’s topic of study is the social activist and pacifist Morris Kight and his influence in the gay rights movement in the late1960s and early 1970s.  Through personal letters and records of the organizations that he helped to found, available in the Foster Gunnison Papers at the Dodd Center, as well as interviews conducted with his contemporaries, Cherry aims to explore the role of individual activists and the interplay of east coast and west coast organizations at a decisive time period in the movement’s evolution.  Questions and comments are welcome.  Refreshments will be served.

As many of you have noticed, UConn’s online library catalog, HOMER, has been having a number of issues lately.  We’re currently working to solve those problems.  One of the issues we’ve been having is that HOMER is not accurately reflecting the latest library holdings, and new additions to the library’s collections are not showing up in the catalog. 

Until we get HOMER back up and running 100%, there are a couple of other places that you can search for library holdings at UConn.

WorldCat is probably the best place to search, as it is a comprehensive listing of books, serials, films, and other items held in libraries around the world.  WorldCat’s listings are up to date, so if a recently acquired title doesn’t show up in HOMER, it will come up in WorldCat.  Once you’ve found an item in World Cat, if UConn doesn’t have it, you can request it via Inter Library Loan (ILL).

Another place to looks is ReQuest, a catalog of most public and publicly-funded academic libraries in Connecticut. 

Both WorldCat and ReQuest can be found on the library’s Research Database Locator, as well as on the list of Most Used Databases linked on the main library page. 

Hopefully, HOMER will be back up and running soon, but in the mean time, WorldCat and ReQuest are the best places to look. 

Please join us this evening (Tuesday, September 18) at 6 PM for the opening night of UConn’s Human Rights Film Series.  We’ll be showing, Goodbye, Hungaria, which will be followed by a reception and Q and A with the filmaker and director, Jon Nealon.  The film will be shown in Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, and is free and open to the public. 

Hope to see you all then! 

As part of the library’s continuing commitment to diversity and in celebration of Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month from Sept. 15- October 15, the Curator of Hispanic Collections and I have created a new webpage with library and archival resources for Latino Studies, as well as upcoming events on campus at the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC) located on the 4th floor of the Student Union.

UConn wil be kicking off its annual Human Rights Film series next week! 

The first film is Goodbye, Hungaria, directed by Jon Nealon, which will be shown on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 6 PM in Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.  Director Jon Nealon will join us for a discussion and reception after the film. 

“Both political tale and love story, Goodbye Hungaria begins in a refugee camp in Hungary, home to hundreds of men, women and children fleeing war and oppression from every corner of the globe. To the refugees, Eastern Hungary is a cold and unwelcoming place; Asylum is rarely granted, and there are few opportunities for work.  For most, the only way out of this legal limbo is through a thriving underground smuggling ring. Jon Nealon’s cinema verité documentary chronicles the lives of Abed Al-Sahli a Palestinian refugee who acts as advocate and de facto translator for the camp’s Arab population, and Charu Newhouse, an American volunteer. As both Abed and Charu struggle to make life better for the refugees caught in red tape and subject to the vagaries of international politics, their fates become connected. The film traces their unlikely love story from the hopelessness of the camp to a dramatic arrival in New York City where they come to start a new life, together.”

For more information about the film series and other human rights events at UConn, go to http://www.humanrights.uconn.edu

Happy first day of classes at UConn! 

A couple of quick things to note for returning students and faculty:

InfoTrac OneFile is now known as Academic OneFile.  If you search All Databases on the UConn Library’s website, make sure to search for it under the new name.

Vista, UConn’s course software has undergone yet another name change.  It’s now HuskyCT.  So far, the link is still the same:  http://vista.uconn.edu

Just a reminder:  The Research Database Locator is a great resource to help you find journals and articles on most academic subjects, including human rights. 

Thanks for your patience while I was away studying human rights violations and genocide– being in class 7 hours a day with 75 pages of reading each night doesn’t allow a lot of time left for updating!

Look for a new post on human rights research tools later today, or tomorrow at the very latest!

I’ll be participating in the Human Rights and Genocide Studies Program at the University of Toronto for the next two weeks, so I probably won’t be posting again until I return.

In the meantime, please check out some of the new human rights books at Babbidge Library!