Monthly Archives: April 2006

Reading & Disccusion by Irena Klepfisz

Posted on by
Reply

Please come to a discussion and reading by Irena Klepfisz
11 am on Friday, April 21

UConn-Stamford’s Center for Women’s Studies (Rm. 311)

Irena Klepfisz is a poet, essayist, Yiddish translator, and political activist. She is a founder of the contemporary lesbian-feminist and Jewish feminist movements. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1941, Irena Klepfisz narrowly escaped Nazi persecution with her mother who was able to disguise them both as non-Jews.

Her father was a leader in the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis. She arrived in the United States when she was eight years old, speaking only Polish and Yiddish. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed Yiddish scholar, with an expertise in Jewish women writers. She has been teaching Jewish women’s courses at Barnard College for ten years.

Co-sponsored by Center for Women’s Studies and Faculty Program Committee
Supported by a grant from the Daniel Berdon Memorial Fund

Orangoo (online spell checker)

Posted on by
Reply

http://orangoo.com/spell/

This little application lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access.
Spell check in 28 languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, ελληνικά, English, Español, Eesti keel, Français, עִבְרִית, हिंदी, Hrvatski, Italiano, Latviešu, Lietuvių, kalba, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Română, Slovenščina, Slovenčina, Suomi, Svenska, Türkçe and РУССКИЙ!

JRL Videos in Women’s Studies Available

Posted on by
Reply

Check it out! Our online video list has been updated to include Women’s Studies videos and other related fields.

View Video Lists

For a complete listing and description of the video, search HOMER, the University of Connecticut Libraries’ Catalog. Use Advanced Search, Click Set More Limits. Set Limits to Medium: videorecording, Location: Stamford. Type search term: [videorecording] and use Type of Search: Keyword-Relevance. For descriptions, click Full Record.

Lecture, “Myths and Urban Legends about Immigration and Immigrant,” Tonite

Posted on by
Reply

Myths and Urban Legends about Immigration and Immigrants: Pretty Much Everything You Thought You Knew About Immigration is Totally Wrong

Guest Speaker: Philip Berns
Thursday, April 13
7:30 PM
Room 107
University of Connecticut at Stamford
Washington and Broad Street

Philip Berns, currently represents the 16th district on the City of Stamford Board of Representatives. In the early 1980s he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and in Haiti. After Law School, he worked with Bronx Legal Services to protect children from lead poisoning due to lead paint in old housing. Since opening his own law office in Stamford in 1996, he specializes in Immigration Law and also handles a large personal injury caseload. He has concentrated in some areas of immigration that many private attorneys avoid: family immigration, deportation, asylum, temporary protective status, NACARA, HRIFA, TPS, etc. He frequently gives presentations to immigrant groups in Spanish and Haitian Creole on ways to protect their legal rights in a complex immigration law system.

For more information contact: Mary.Cygan@uconn.edu
Co-sponsored by Amnesty International, USA, Group 13

Library wireless access ONLY available on the First Floor 4/13

Posted on by
Reply

ATTENTION STUDENTS:

UITS (University Information Technology Services) will be upgrading network equipment on campus on Thursday April 13th. The JRL library’s wireless access will be affected.

Please be aware that your laptops via wireless access will be down Thursday, April 13th from 9-12 on the SECOND FLOOR.

Your wireless access should work on the 1st floor in the library.

Thanks you,

Library Stafff

P.S.
There will be network outages in the designated areas anywhere from 1-3 hours. If you are in any of these areas and you need to be connected to the internet during the down time, you can use the Academic Computing Area (aka Microlab, Room 305). This upgrade is needed to improve the performance of our campus’ network. I thank you in advance for your patience during this time.

1.) 3rd Floor Northwest (Rooms 320-365) 9am-12pm
2.) 2nd Floor Northwest (Rooms 205-212, 235-245) 9am-12pm
3.) 2nd Floor Southeast (Rooms 216-234, 260-265) 9am-12pm
4.) 2nd Floor Northeast (Rooms 266-267, 257-259) 1pm-4pm

New & Improved UConn Links

Posted on by
Reply

updated!
UConn Links is all new and works much better! As of January 16, 2006, we are using a completely different product to link between a citation and the full-text. This new service is still called UConn Links, but it’s now provided by SFX (Ex Libris).

Q. What options does UConn Links provide?

A. The UConn Links button will link to one or more of the following:

* full-text of the journal article the University licenses
* an automatic search of Homer (Library Catalog)
* an automatic Google search
* a DD/ILL (Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan) request form
* a Citation Linker so you can enter details about an article (title, journal name, author, publication date) and find out if UConn has the article online.

Q. Why is the full text article not always available?

A. There are two possibilities:

1. there is no full-text version available (either for that journal or for specific [usually older] issues)
2. the University of Connecticut does not have a license to access full-text from that journal. In that case, you may request the article via DD/ILL.

Q. I clicked on “get full text” but I only get to the journal’s home page. Why?

A. The UConn Links linking service will get you as close to the full-text as it can, given the structure and quality of the data being passed by the database vendors. Sometimes you’ll go straight to the full-text; sometimes you’ll have to navigate the publisher’s site yourself after that to get to the full-text. Essentially, a full-text link means that full-text is available — but you may have to do some of the work of getting to it yourself.