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SAGE Publications TOC RSS Feeds
SAGE Publications has announced that all of its journals now offer tables of contents RSS feeds on the SAGE Journals Online platform. The roll out of this new feature ensures SAGE remains at the forefront of electronic publishing by offering the most flexible routes to the online content of the company’s 400+ journals. SAGE Journals Online already provides advanced alerting services with tables of contents, keyword, author and citation alerts available alongside the new RSS option.
Source: RSS Compendium Blog
Library Usage Survey Deadline Extended
The Library User Survey deadline has been extended until April 28th in the interest of gathering as many responses from faculty and students as possible.
The University of Connecticut Libraries continuously strive to improve the quality of our library and information services. As part of this commitment we are conducting a Web-based user survey to assess your satisfaction with the Libraries’ resources, services, collections facilities, and staff. The information you provide will assist the Libraries in identifying strengths and weaknesses and to plan for the future.
The survey was sent to your UConn email. Please check there if you routinely use other email providers.
Thank you for your assistance. We need and appreciate your input and comments. Survey results will be published in the UConn Libraries newsletter and posted on the Libraries’ Web page. We appreciate your taking the time to complete this survey.
Senior Reception, 4/28/06
Please join the UConn Stamford Campus Staff & Faculty for a special evening honoring the graduating seniors of the University of Connecticut~Stamford!
Friday, April 28, 2006
5:00-7:00PM
Location: General Re Auditorium
Please RSVP by Friday, April 21, 2006 to Student Life at 203-251-8484 or Gayle. Riquier@uconn.edu.
Gale databases are currently not available
Currently the UConn Libraries Gale Literary Databases are not available due to technical difficulties at Thomson/Gale. We will notify you when the problem has been resolved.
UPDATE 4/19/06 9:30PM : Gale Databases are up and running!
Trip to The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A Trip to The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sunday April 30, 2006
You are invited to join Professor Frederick Roden’s medieval literature class on a field trip to
The Cloisters, the medieval division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Set on a palisade in Fort Tryon Park overlooking the Hudson River, The Cloisters is constructed from
various European medieval sites imported in the early 20th century. The collection includes works of art, sculpture, manuscripts — set in a lovely garden environment.
For more information, go to
www.metmuseum.org for great pictures!
We will meet as a group in the waiting room of the Stamford train station at approximately 11:30 a.m. You
will be accompanied to and from NYC, which will include traveling on NYC subways and buses (please be
aware that this trip involves considerable walking and not all spaces are fully accessible). At The Cloisters,
you will receive an hour lecture by an art historian and then have free time to explore the museum and
gardens. We will return to Stamford by the early evening. You may wish to pack a lunch or snacks.
If you are interested in joining the trip, please contact Professor Roden at 203-251-8559 or fsroden@aol.com
You MUST RSVP by Friday April 28 because space is limited for our group.
Reading & Disccusion by Irena Klepfisz
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)
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
Check it out! Our online video list has been updated to include Women’s Studies videos and other related fields.
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
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