UConn Library
Jeremy Richard Library, Stamford
***December 20, 2010 – January 17, 2011***
Reminder: Sat. December 18th the library will be open from 8:30am-2:30pm
Exceptions:
Regular Academic Hours resume on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Spring Semester Begins. [http://www.lib.uconn.edu/libraries/stamford/about/hours.html ]
A New Issue of the UCONN Health Center Library’s consumer health newsletter is available on the website of Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network at http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/
The issue describes websites that help individuals select health insurance plans, a website that explains the Health Care Reform Act in Spanish, new medical treatment guidelines in consumer friendly language, health information available in Asian languages, and a parents’ guide to educational terms they may in encounter in planning meetings for their child.
The issue also includes reviews of new consumer health books for public libraries.
The newsletter is published especially for public librarians and others interested in consumer health information services.
Judith Kronick, Reference Librarian
Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/
Lyman Maynard Stowe Library
University of Connecticut Health Center
Check out Grammer Girl’s podcast about Plagiarism. What is Plagiarism?
We’ve also got the Grammar Girl’s book: Grammar Girl’s quick and dirty tips for better writing / Mignon Fogarty
UConn Faculty & Students – Please take a few minutes and help the UConn Libraries help you
From: Brinley Franklin
Vice Provost, University Libraries
The University of Connecticut Libraries needs your help and participation in the Fall 2010 LibQUAL+TM Survey.
The LibQual+TM Survey has been used by more than 1,200 libraries internationally to periodically and consistently track, understand, and act upon their users’ opinions of library service quality.
As in the past, the LibQual+TM Survey results will inform our Libraries’ planning on how to best provide library services to the UConn community. This survey process has been reviewed by UConn’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) and all responses are confidential and will not be associated with a respondent’s e-mail address or other personal information.
One participating student* (grad or undergrad) will win a $500 GIFT CARD from the UConn Co-op!
The link to the survey can be found in your e-mail. If you missed the e-mail, have questions, or need assistance in any way, please contact librarysurveys@uconn.edu
Look in your E-mail for Subject: Please Take Our Survey to Help The Libraries Help You and You May Win $500!
Please complete the survey by: December 10, 2010
Thanks for participating!
* Participation in the drawing is optional. Eligible students must be registered to take classes at the University of Connecticut during the Fall, 2010 semester; have completed no more than one online survey; have entered an optional “uconn.edu” e-mail address at the time the online survey form is completed; not be an employee of the State of Connecticut, including student employees of the University, or of the UConn Co-op; permit the University of Connecticut to make public a photograph, name, home town, academic year and major of the winning entrant; agree to any rules and restrictions placed upon the use of the gift certificate by the UConn Co-op.
December 20, 2010-January 17, 2011
Monday-Thursday 8:00 AM-4 PM
Friday 8:30 AM-4 PM
Saturdays & Sundays CLOSED
In each W forum listed below, a video related to writing pedagogy will be shown; the screening will be followed by an open discussion about the topic portrayed, as well as any related concerns the participants might have. The forums will be held in the library’s Thomson Reuters eclassroom.
In addition, this forum will serve as an ongoing Writing Center open house for faculty who wish to incorporate the Writing Center tutoring in their curriculum for the rest of this semester and in spring 2011.
Comments? Suggestions for future topics, please contact:
Serkan Gorkemli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Writing Coordinator
203-251-9585
The UConn Libraries offers eBooks from several datatabases! Access 24/7!
Join UConn Stamford’s Michael J. Marotto, Ph.D., adjunct professor of English at the Ferguson Library for several discussions on great American writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Nanthaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.
The seminars will be held Thursday evenings at 6:30pm, at The Ferguson Library, third floor auditorium. For more information, call 203-351-8231.
A bibliography of readings about and by Edgar Allan Poe is available at the the Ferguson Library and also by searching their library catalog.
More suggested readings for Edgar Allen Poe available at the Universty of Connecticut is below:
This fall the Ferguson Library and the Jeremy Richard Library at University of Connecticut Stamford will come together once again to share some of the most exciting international films of recent years.
“Our World of Film” will spotlight four notable films from Germany, Italy, Sweden and France. The programs will be held on Wednesday evenings @ 6:30 at the UCONN Stamford campus in the Multi-Purpose Room #108.
Wednesday October 13, 2010
Coco Before Chanel
With Audrey Tautou and Benoit Poelvoorde. Directed by Anne Fontaine.2009. 110 min. France.
This biopic details the rise of legendary fashion designer Coco Avanti .Chanel.
Wednesday October 20, 2010
Vincere
With Fabrizio Costella and Giovannia Mezzogiorno. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. 2009.128 min. Italy.
This unusual and offbeat historical drama resst on a little known fact. Though seldom discussed in history books and undisclosed for half a century, fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had a son with a woman named Ida Dalser. A son he allowed to be born , acknowledged, and then promptly denied for the duration of his life.
Wednesday November 3, 2010
The Girl Who Played with Fire
With Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. 2009 130 minutes. Sweden/Denmark/Germany.
The second installment of Steig Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy comes to the big screen with this tale of a prominent magazine publisher who launches an investigation into Swedish sex trafficking and political corruption.
Wednesday November 17, 2010
The White Ribbon
With Christian Freidel and Leonie Benesch. Directed by Michael Haneke. 2009, 144 min. Germany/Austria.
In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village school teacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. This film won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film festival this year.