Research Fellowships. Applications now available for Summer 2010 Research Fellowships at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students. The Library’s newly public collections, centered on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy and records documenting the history of Christian Science, offer scholars countless opportunities for original research. A select list of such resources includes: Mary Baker Eddy’s scrapbooks and copybooks; household account ledgers and receipts; a fully-indexed file of newspapers clippings that date to the late nineteenth century; Eddy’s sermons and lectures; an extensive historic photograph collection; architectural records; early histories of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist; and Eddy’s voluminous correspondence and manuscript material, which offer opportunities for new analyses of her life and ideas. Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) authored a ground-breaking book on science, theology, and healing titled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, a publishing society, and The Christian Science Monitor. Stipend provided. Application and supporting materials must be postmarked by February 8, 2010. For further information about the Library’s holdings and the fellowship program, including the application and instructions, please go to http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/collections/fellowshipsor contact 617-450-7316, fellowships@mbelibrary.org.

Mr. Nino Ricci, a renowned Canadian author and the Killam Professor of Canadian Studies, will read from his recent novel, The Origin of Species, which won the Governor General's Award. This program is sponsored by Maxwell Library and the Canadian Studies program. The event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

The Library is conducting an ILL/DDS online survey to measure the quality of our services and to learn how we can best serve you. Please help us to further improve Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Services (ILL/DDS).

The survey is designed for three user groups: undergraduates, graduates, and faculty/staff. Please click on the link below relevant to you to take the survey. Your help will be greatly appreciated!

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.

Read more at the American Library Association web site.

Find a list of banned books in the Library's general collection.

Find a list of banned books in the Educational Resource Center collection

This conference is three-day, free, education online conference taking place September 29 through October 1, 2009.

"Climate Change" sessions will be of special interest to educators, entire classrooms of engaged students, and to the general public. Throughout the conference, participants will explore Smithsonian research and collections related to the evidence, impact, and response to climate change. Alongside Smithsonian scientists and curators, you will look at the issues surrounding climate change from the perspectives of science, history, and art.

The conference will show the depth of research that the Smithsonian can bring to a current problem. Smithsonian scientists and other experts will lead participants in explorations of Smithsonian research on this important issue via live interactive presentations, moderated forums and demonstrations.

All of the conference sessions will be recorded for later viewing via the Web at: http://www.SmithsonianEducation.org/climate

Among the many presenters are:

* Bert Drake, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, who leads two major studies of the impact of atmospheric carbon dioxide on ecosystems
* Scott Wing, paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History, who specializes in prehistoric plant life and its reactions to climate change
* Charles Duncan, collections specialist at the Archives of American Art, who will explore the intersections of art, communications, and ecology.
* Tricia Edwards, educator at the Lemelson Center at the National Museum of American History, who will focus on the work of young inventors concerned with sustainability issues.

Registration is open to everyone at:

http://www.learningtimes.net/climatechange/

This is the first program of the Meet the Author Series at the Northeastern University.

Author Ellen Reeves
Wednesday, September 23 @ Noon
440 Egan Center

Reeves, a Northeastern alumnus and job hunting expert, shares her advice on finding, landing, and keeping your first 'real' job. She gives advice on: cleaning up your online act, using a professional email address, crafting your best resume, dressing your best for interviews, networking effectively, and avoiding emailing hundreds of resumes.

"If you're looking for a job, you need this book. And now for a confession: After reading it, I tweaked my own resume!"-Doug Hirschhorn, Ph.D., Executive Performance Coach and Author of Street Smarts

Sponsored by Northeastern University Libraries, Northeastern Career Services, and the Northeastern Bookstore.

We are pleased to invite you to attend a Panel Discussion on the issue of landmines in Cambodia. The panel is being organized in conjunction with an exhibit currently displayed in the Maxwell Library, "Living With Landmines: Portraits of Cambodians." This powerful exhibit (brought here with the great efforts of Mary Beth Alger and Michael Somers) includes images shot by acclaimed photographer Mr. Tony Hauser. Mr. Hauser will join a panel of BSC faculty, including Jabbar Al-Obaidi, Wing-kai To, and Jonathan White for a discussion of his photographs and the issue of landmines in Cambodia. Please join us in the Maxwell Library Lecture Hall at 4:00PM on Wednesday, Sept 16th and please encourage your students to attend.

More information can be found on Mr. Hauser's work and the library exhibit at the below links:

http://www.vtonyhauser.com
http://library.bridgew.edu/mt/max/2009/09/landmines_exhibit.html

The exhibit is entitled "Living With Landmines: Portraits of Cambodians." The photographer is V. Tony Hauser whose powerful social commentary photography has traveled the world and won many awards. There are two copies of the exhibit currently traveling across North America and Europe. Arranged by Dr. Jonathan White, we are fortunate to have one copy with us this month until September 24th. The exhibit is being housed on the 3rd Floor of the Maxwell Library (turn left at the top of the stairs and it is on the far wall in front of you). To learn more about the exhibit, you can view a description here and click on the top left where it says "Living with Land Mines Exhibition."

More about landmines

Thanks to all the students who stopped by the Opening Day information table yesterday, grabbed a cookie or filled out an entry form for the Library’s raffle. You made this a successful event and we appreciate your participation! There were more than 100 entry forms completed and the students who won prizes have been contacted. On behalf of the entire staff at Maxwell Library, we wish you success this semester. Remember to drop by and get smart at The Max!

Mike Somers
Director, Library Services

A show of new paintings by Providence-based artist Terry Rose opens at the Anderson Gallery on Wednesday, September 3 and remains open until Friday, October 2nd. This is the first time the works of this artist have been shown on a college campus. A reception for the artist is scheduled for Thursday, September 10 from 4:30 until 6:00 at the Anderson Gallery.

The magnificent paintings comprising "Beyond Possibilities" hover between abstraction and representation. On the one hand, the works are subtle and intricate arrangements of color, shape and nuanced manipulations of perceived space. But on the other, the paintings evoke such imagery as microscopic life, spores, clouds, dark voids and atmospheres. These images appear to morph before our eyes, to dissolve and reform, to come in and out of focus. To create his floating worlds, Rose coats an aluminum panel with wet varnish and then drips varnish oils, inks, micron pigments (solutions that contain suspended particulate matter), and enamel into it.

The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Questions, please call X2766.

July - August, 2009
2nd & 3rd Floors, Maxwell Library

Artist Statement:

I am inspired by how the natural environment affects me: its temperature, humidity and smells. In my work I attempt to resurrect, decipher, and represent these conditions. Rather than working from direct observation, my ink paintings are created from a sensual point of view, held in my memory. In these works I have focused on the mystery of night, representing the illusiveness of our natural environment, and as it turns out, the impermanent nature of my memory. -- Professor Mary Donderlo

This project was partly funded by a CART grant.

Bridgewater Students:

Want a chance to demonstrate your brilliance? Want a chance to test your knowledge of sustainability issues? Want an opportunity to win some cool prizes?

Take it to The Max and enter the Library's Sustainability Contest.

You must enter in order to win!

[All matriculated BSC students are eligible and contest winners will be notified by email.]

This special presentation of A Mercy will run in four installments from Oct. 27 thru Oct. 30. "Book Tour" is a weekly Web feature and podcast that presents leading authors as they read from and discuss their work.

In this special edition of Book Tour, NPR is honored to be the first to present Pulitzer Prize-winner and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison reading from her new novel, A Mercy. A stunning return to form for Morrison, A Mercy deserves to be counted alongside some of her most acclaimed novels, such as Sula and Beloved.

The stories in A Mercy are as layered and contested as the barely mapped topology traversed by its characters. Set in the 1680s, when this country's reliance on slavery as an economic engine was just beginning, A Mercy explores the repercussions of an enslaved mother's desperate act: She offers her small daughter to a stranger in payment for her master's debt.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95961382

Book Tour podcast link is also available on the library's Internet Podcasts Resources page.

From WhoFish.org

In 2006, Bostonians carved and lit 30,128 jack-o’-lanterns to shatter the Guinness World Record and most importantly to raise much needed awareness and funding for Camp Sunshine.

Last year’s Boston Pumpkin Festival moved to City Hall Plaza where we again attempted to smash our own Guinness World Record for the most lit jack-o-lanterns at one place, at one time. While we fell short, we still carved over 21,000 pumpkins and raised support for Camp Sunshine!

Gear up again this year to make another attempt at the World Record in Boston!

This year’s event promises to be just as exciting with live music, face painting, children’s activities, great food, and of course — pumpkin carving! Make this annual event a tradition for your family and friends. And don’t forget, all proceeds from the event will benefit Camp Sunshine, a national retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

Join us for a day of pumpkins, entertainment, and family fun on Boston City Hall Plaza!

Visit the event website for more information.

The Educational Resource Center celebrates Halloween with a display of children’s and young-adult books on the second floor of the Maxwell Library.

Halloween Jack-O’-Lanterns by Kathryn Stevens Describes the origin of Halloween and the meaning behind jack-o-lanterns and other customs connected to this holiday, as well as discussing the cultivation and uses of pumpkins.	Halloween Fun For Everyone by Ferida Wolff Provides instructions for making costumes, decorating, fixing fun foods, and playing games for a Halloween celebration.
Happy Halloween! by Phyllis Hoffman Traces the festivities connected with Halloween from its beginning as a Celtic festival to present day traditions. Includes instructions for making costumes, masks, jack o’lanterns, and simple treats.	Halloween Night by Arden Druce Halloween night visitors include a witch, a jack-o-lantern, an owl, a skeleton, and children.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email: erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

To honor and support this annual event, the Maxwell Events Planning Committee has designed a new online contest organized thematically around the book Fahrenheit 451. (One Book/One Community is currently reading this text.) The contest is open to all BSC students and contest gifts will be on display at the Reference desk.

The Committee also has organized a book give-away. Once each day, one customer will receive as our gift a book that has been removed from library bookshelves. To emphasize what it means to lose access to information, ideas and books, all of the items on the New Arrivals bookshelves and all of the books on display in the ERC will be removed. In their stead, there will be a poster created by one of Mary Dondero’s former students. We will have the posters on display throughout the library, as well. To help us all understand this problem of preventing ideas from being distributed or shared, Pam Hayes-Bohanan created an excellent site (http://webhost.bridgew.edu/phayesboh/banned_books_week.htm) devoted to the freedom to read. You may be surprised by some of the titles that have been frequently banned.

Celebrate the freedom to read!

September 27 - October 24, 2008

In the summer of 2008 Professor John Hooker led twelve Bridgewater State College Students to Tanzania in East Africa. The BSC students worked with Tanzania in English, computers and art classes in a community center outside the city of Arusha, Tanzania. The community center is operated by former Black Panthers from the United States. Pete and Charlotte O'Neil, the proprietors, sought to establish a community center in Tanzania that espoused the community service ideals of the Black Panther Party, developing education and food programs for students primarily in their teens. The community center has been running with the aid of student visitors since the mid 1970's. In addition to working in the community center, BSC students also worked with children in the nearby elementary school and orphanage.

Outside the classroom, BSC students experienced a walking safari in Arusha National Park with giraffes, buffalo and snakes (!). Traveling by Land Rover through Ngorongoro Crater, the students viewed hordes of elephants, zebras, gazelles, hipopotami and monkeys. They also hiked to 9,000 feet up Kilimanjaro. And everyone survived. They flew to the island in the Indian Ocean.

Likely one of the most memorable experiences was living with the Masai for two days. Students learned how the Masai live off the land in the plains between Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, how they create their bead adornments, the construction of their homes and food preparation. The cultural exchange of discussing the rituals of dating was especially enlightening. The memory of camping in the savannah still remains.

Students recorded the trip through photography, daily journal writing and drawings. Here in this exhibit are remnants of the study tour. It includes images of the people met, interviews with prominent community members, clothing sewn by BSC students and personal works made upon return.

Although the course is an arts credit, students were asked to keep their definition of art broad to include not only the creation of physical objects, but to view art as an experience that engages the senses. Students on the tour came from several different majors, from education to business management, but were able to find art in everyday of Tanzania.

For more information, contact Professor Hooker, Jhooker@bridgew.edu or International Studies Office.

Artists:

Date

Sept. 27 ~ Oct. 4

Maxwell Library will sponsor a BOOK GIVEAWAY. Books will be given away to 7 lucky library users at different service desks throughout the week.

Come check out books, ask reference questions, or request a document delivery service!

Semifinal showcases 3 & 4 , a Comedy All Stars Show and the Boston T party are 4 showcases brought to the area by the Boston Comedy Festival.

The Boston Arts Festival returns to Christopher Columbus Park for 3 days from September 12-14. This popular visual and performing arts showcase will feature performances on 2 stages and over 60 juried artists exhibiting and selling their original works.

The detailed schedule is available at http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D77600857.

The Big E is a New England autumn tradition and the ninth largest fair in North America. For 17 days each September, participants, vendors, entertainers and guests come from all over the eastern seaboard as well as throughout the country to enjoy this festive event.

There's no better place to enjoy the sights, sounds and taste tempting aromas of the fall season than at The Big E, New England's Autumn Tradition and the largest fair in the northeast. It's a New England extravaganza with top name entertainment, major exhibits, The Big E Super Circus, the Avenue of States, New England history and agriculture, animals, rides, shopping, crafts, a daily parade and a Mardi Gras parade and foods from around the world for 17 glorious days during New England's most colorful season.

For hours and ticket costs visit http://www.whofish.org/events/West%20Springfield/MA/The_Big_E/194472.aspx for details.

For event details, visit the Big E website and the Big E blog.

The Educational Resource Center celebrates Banned Books Week from September 27 – October 4, 2008 with a display of children’s and young-adult books on the second floor of the Maxwell Library.

“[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” — Judy Blume

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling A story based on Harry Potter and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. The Harry Potter series is on the 10 most challenged books of the 21st Century.	The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school’s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark By Alvin Schwartz Tales of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email: erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

The Library has trials of the following three EBSCOHost databases through October 3, 2008. Please try the databases and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu

Education Research Complete

Education Research Complete covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

Environment Complete

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.

International Bibliography of Theater and Dance with Full Text

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains more than 450 full-text titles, including more than 140 full-text journals, and more than 300 full-text books & monographs.

From WhoFish.org

Highlights for this weekend include:

. Marshfield, Marshfield Fair

. Boston, Sorrento Cheese Fisherman's Feast

. Gloucester, 2008 Gloucester Waterfront Festival

. Lowell, Southeast Asian Water Festival

. Boston, Restaurant Week Boston

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Strange Fruit is a Melbourne-based performing arts company that produces and performs a remarkable style of work that fuses theatre, dance and circus, using a unique elevated medium.

Perched atop 4 metre high flexible poles of original design, the troupe delivers a sublime performance, bending and swaying in the air, captivating and engaging the audience in absolute fascination. more. . .

DATE: 8/1/2008 - 8/3/2008
ADDRESS: Derby Whar , Salem Maitime Historic Site, Salem, MA
HOURS: Friday-5-9pm ,Saturday 10am-930pm,Sunday 9am-6pm
COST: free
WEB PAGE: Event Web Page
CONTACT INFO: 978-740-1660

DETAILS

Afterwards join Dance Etc. of Salem as they perform a variety of dances to live music performed by the Accel. Sunday youngsters get a chance to climb on a fire truck, explore the insides of an ambulance and see how it feels to sit behind the driver's seat of an 18-wheeler. Dog owners can enter your four legged friends in categories. This year will also be the first City-Wide, All-Ages Track Meet.

• Maxwell Library has a “recycle” book shelf located on the ground floor of the building for good quality used books and magazines.
• All of Maxwell Library’s handouts are NOW available electronically from the Library’s website.
• During inclement weather Maxwell Library’s circulation staff will protect the materials that you check out with a “recycled” plastic bag.

Click on the titles below to link to Maxwell Library’s online catalog. For information on recycling, environmentalism, and sustainability visit Maxwell Library’s databases. Off-campus users need to log in first.

Forging environmentalism Editor Joanne Bauer This is an examination of how environmental values are constructed and legitimized within the policy process. The text trains the spotlight on four environmentally significant countries - China, Japan, India and the USA - representing a wide diversity of cultural, social, economic and political characteristics.

Living Green: a practical guide to simple sustainability by Greg Horn Whether concerned about climate change, personal health, or living a little more lightly on the planet, this book helps inspire and direct positive action to improve both personal health and the health of the environment.

The Green Agenda in American Politics by Robert Duffy "The Green Agenda in American Politics” offers a new look at environmental advocacy that focuses on contemporary lobbying, electioneering, and agenda setting in this new context. Drawing on interviews with activists from a wide range of organizations, Robert Duffy describes what environmental groups actually do when lobbing officials or the public.

Environmentalism: A Global History by Ramachandra Guha This text provides a cross-cultural and global survey of environmental thinking and the movements it has spawned.

Book summaries are from Books In Print (A Maxwell Library research tool). Off campus users need to log in first.

CONTACT INFO: Clement C. Maxwell Library, mailto: libraryweb@bridgew.edu, Library Hours: (508) 531-1749

The Educational Resource Center, in recognition of Autism Awareness Month, highlights a sampling of the assortment of resources in the ERC on Autism. Autism Awareness Month is celebrated nationally every year in April. It is sponsored by the Autism Society of America. Click on the titles below to link to Maxwell Library’s online catalog. For information on Autism that includes classroom management, special education teaching methods, language development, and more … visit Maxwell Library’s database, Education Full Text and ERIC. Off-campus users need to log-in first.

Al Capone Does My Shirt by Gennifer Choldenko A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards’ families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.	Rules by Cynthia Lord Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
Educating Children and Youth With Autism: Strategies for Effective Practice by Richard L. Simpson and Brenda Smith Myles Current information and guidelines for the education of children with autism and pervasive developmental disorders.	Russell is Extra Special: A Book About Autism for Children by Charles A. Amenta Describes the daily life, likes and dislikes, and habits of Russell Amenta, who is a happy boy despite being severely autistic.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

The Educational Resource Center is celebrating National Poetry Month with a display of children’s and young adult poetry books. National Poetry Month is a celebration of poetry, first introduced in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. It is celebrated every April. For a complete guide to children’s and young adult poetry books in the ERC go to http://www.bridgew.edu/library/htm/pdf/poetry.pdf. Click on the titles below to link to Maxwell Library’s online catalog.

Animals Animals by Eric Carle An illustrated collection of poems by a variety of authors describing the peculiarities of pets and wild and domestic animals.	The Teddy Bears’ Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy Illus. Prue Theobalds Presents the text of the familiar song about the festivities at the teddy bears’ picnic, lavishly illustrated with pictures of teddies.
Cricket Never Does by Myra Cohn Livingston A collection of more than fifty original haiku and tanka verses about the four seasons.	Where the Sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author’s own drawings.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

On April 15, 2008 Clement C. Maxwell Library will celebrate National Library Workers Day! National Library Workers Day is a time to honor the contributions of all library workers, including librarians, support staff and others who make library services possible.

Click on this link to submit a STAR! Let everyone know about Maxwell Library’s stellar staff! Nominations may come from library users, students, children, colleagues, faculty, and management.

For a complete list of Maxwell Library’s staff visit http://www.bridgew.edu/library/stafdird.cfm.

CONTACT INFO:
Maxwell Library
10 Shaw Road
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA 02325
libraryweb@bridgew.edu

Location: Library 3rd floor

This exhibit is made available through a cooperative effort with the Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA). The exhibit includes original art work and illustrations, printers’ proofs and excerpts from the books as well as the finished books.

Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) was founded in the fall of 2007 by some of the members of IMAGO gallery, a cooperative gallery for fine arts and craft located in Warren, RI. Their goal was to offer arts-related events, classes and workshops to the public. IFA’s stated mission is to make the arts a visible and active part of the lives of Rhode Islanders.

In February IFA held an open community show that included about 160 works of art. “Words + Pictures: RI celebrates Children’s Books” was IFA’s second public event and the brainstorm of IMAGO’s Literary Director Dr. Mara Berkeley who was looking for a way to showcase the work of gifted children’s book authors and illustrators she had come to know in the course of pursuing who own interests in children’s book writing.

Illustrations from The Great Redwall Feast done by Christopher Denis		Illustration from Jill Lamere’s ook Upside Down

Artists:

Christopher and Anika Denise are the creators of Pigs Love Potatoes (Philomel; ages 2-6), a charming counting book full of charismatic pigs and lilting rhyme that appeals to parents and children alike. Christopher Denise, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, has illustrated several beautiful books for young readers including: the Redwall picture books by internationally bestselling author Brian Jacques; Oliver Finds His Way by Phyllis Root; and his own adaptation of the Russian folktale, The Fool of the World and The Flying Ship. Anika Denise is a promising new children’s author who started out in advertising and public relations, and is now is a freelance writer. Pigs Love Potatoes is her debut children’s book. The Denise’s currently reside in Barrington, Rhode Island with their two young daughters.

Jill Lamere is a graphic designer and a member of The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Barrington, Rhode Island. The author of The King’s Crown and Upside Down, she is also the winner of the Independent Publisher’s 2006 award for Best Children’s Book, age 6 and under.

Marlo Garnsworthy is an editor, children's author and illustrator. She has been editing children's books and teaching writing for children since the late 1990s. She is on faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Continuing Education and teaches "Writing for Children's Books." Her first book for children Let's Visit Space was recently released by Macmillan McGraw-Hill, and her second Author at Work, Dr Seuss is due later this year. She is currently writing a middle grade series, a young adult novel and several picture book texts. Marlo is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI).

The Educational Resource Center celebrates Spring with an assortment of children’s and young adult books. Enjoy reading a children’s book about Spring plants and flowers, animals, Easter stories, baseball, and other Spring related activities.

Spring by Ron Hirschi Photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen Text and photographs introduce the natural world in spring.	My Spring Robin by Anne Rockwell Illus. Lizzy Rockwell & Harlow Rockwell Before finding the robin she is searching for, a child discovers other interesting fauna and flora in her backyard.
Spring Peepers by Judy Hawes Illus. Graham Booth Describes the physical characteristics and habits of tree frogs, particularly the peeper whose song is a harbinger of spring.	Exploring Spring by Sandra MarkleA collection of springtime activities which include stories, observations of nature, handicraft, games, and puzzles.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

The Educational Resource Center celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a display of children’s and young adult books on the second floor of the Maxwell Library. Click on the titles below to link to Maxwell Library’s online catalog. For information on St. Patrick’s Day that includes St. Patrick Bio, history of the Holiday, celebrating the Holiday, and symbols of the Holiday visit Maxwell Library’s database, Infotrac Kid’s Edition K-12. Off-campus users need to log in first.

Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs : the Story of the St. Patrick's Day by Edna Barth Illus. Ursula Arndt Explores the origin and meaning of the symbols and legends associated with St. Patrick’s Day.	St. Patrick's Day in the Morning by Eve Bunting Illus. Jan Brett Jamie seeks a way to prove he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Saint Patrick by Ann Tompert Illus. Michael Garland A picture book biography of the patron saint of Ireland.	Gerald McDermott by A very poor Irishman is provided with magical things by the "wee folk", but he must then keep his good fortune out of the hands of the greedy McGoons.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

The Educational Resource Center celebrates Dr. Seuss books with an online book display for your browsing pleasure. To view the display, simply go to the ERC homepage at http://www.bridgew.edu/library/erc.cfm. Dr. Seuss was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was born Theodore Seuss Geisel and assumed the pen name Dr. Seuss for his children’s books, keeping his real name for his more serious works. According to Children’s Literature Review, at a time when Dick and Jane primers were teaching children how to read, Seuss’s use of absurd pictures and inventive rhymes represented a new type of children’s literature---pleasure reading for beginning and reluctant readers. The Cat in the Hat was the first work of this new, visionary style. For Dr. Seuss’ personal information, awards, a list of his written works, screen plays, and television scripts, visit Maxwell Library’s database, Biography Resource Center & Who’s Who. Join us and celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday and enjoy a whimsical tongue-twisting Dr. Seuss book!

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

The Educational Resource Center celebrates ♥ Valentine’s Day ♥ with a display of children’s and young adult books on the second floor of the Maxwell Library. For a complete guide to children’s books for Valentine’s Day in the ERC go to http://www.bridgew.edu/library/htm/pdf/valentines.pdf.

Arthur’s Valentine by Marc Brown Arthur’s wrong guess about the identity of the secret admirer sending him valentine messages leads to teasing by the other children, but clues in additional messages allow him to get his due.	Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen Halley’s junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett’s boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley’s own first serious relationship.
The Story of Valentine’s Day by Robert Clyde Bulla Relates the history and describes the customs of this holiday from its beginning in Roman times to the present. Includes directions for making a paper valentine and sugar cookies.	Crafts for Valentine’s Day by Kathy Ross Easy step-by-step instructions for 20 different Valentine’s Day projects from a Valentine crown to a heart photo locket.

The Educational Resource Center in Maxwell Library celebrates Black History Month with an online book display for your viewing pleasure. To view the display simply go to the ERC homepage at http://www.bridgew.edu/library/erc.cfm. Originally celebrated as a weeklong event that began in 1926 through the efforts of noted Black scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson, Black History Month expanded to the entire month of February in 1976.

Books available will include biographies of important figures in black history, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, and Satchel Paige, and children’s and young-adult fiction such as the award winning books Bud, Not Buddy and Bronx Masquerade.

For a complete guide to ERC resources in celebration of Black History Month go to http://www.bridgew.edu/library/htm/pdf/blackhis.pdf.

CONTACT INFO: Educational Resource Center, 2nd Floor, Clement C. Maxwell Library. Email erc@bridgew.edu. Phone 508.531.1304.

The International Year of the Potato (IYP) was officially launched at United Nations headquarters in New York on 18 October 2007. Throughout 2008, the International Year of the Potato (IYP) will seek to underline the humble spud's role in improving food security and poverty alleviation.

Over the next two decades, the world's population is expected to grow on average by more than 100 million people a year. More than 95 percent of that increase will occur in the developing countries, where pressure on land and water is already intense. A key challenge facing the international community is, therefore, to ensure food security for present and future generations, while protecting the natural resource base on which we all depend. The potato will be an important part of efforts to meet those challenges...

Potatoes are grown worldwide
The potato has been consumed in the Andes for about 8 000 years. Taken by the Spanish to Europe in the 16th century, it quickly spread across the globe: today potatoes are grown on an estimated 195 000 sq km, or 75 000 square miles, of farmland, from China's Yunnan plateau and the subtropical lowlands of India, to Java's equatorial highlands and the steppes of Ukraine. In terms of sheer quantity harvested, the humble potato tuber is the world's No. 4 food crop, with production in 2006 of almost 315 million tonnes (about 347 million US tons). More than half of that total was harvested in developing countries.

Potatoes feed the hungry
The potato should be a major component in strategies aimed at providing nutritious food for the poor and hungry. It is ideally suited to places where land is limited and labour is abundant, conditions that characterize much of the developing world. The potato produces more nutritious food more quickly, on less land, and in harsher climates than any other major crop - up to 85 percent of the plant is edible human food, compared to around 50% in cereals.

Potatoes are good for you
Potatoes are rich in carbohydrates, making them a good source of energy. They have the highest protein content (around 2.1 percent on a fresh weight basis) in the family of root and tuber crops, and protein of a fairly high quality, with an amino-acid pattern that is well matched to human requirements. They are also very rich in vitamin C - a single medium-sized potato contains about half the recommended daily intake - and contain a fifth of the recommended daily value of potassium.

Demand for potatoes is growing
World potato production has increased at an annual average rate of 4.5 percent over the last 10 years, and exceeded the growth in production of many other major food commodities in developing countries, particularly in Asia. While consumption of potato has declined in Europe, it has increased in the developing world, from less than 10 kg (22 lb) per capita in 1961-63 to almost 22 kg (48.5 lb) in 2003. Consumption of potato in developing countries is still less than a quarter of that in Europe, but all evidence suggests it will increase strongly in the future.

Read more at http://www.potato2008.org/en/index.html.

Next Wednesday, December 12, 2007 the librarians of the Library of Congress will offer a free, one-hour, online presentation of some of the treasures in the collections at OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) web site. Everyone worldwide is welcome to attend. There's no need to register.

This program will be beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu.

Gifts to the Nation: American Treasures of the Library of Congress

These are the gifts of generations past. They describe the exploits, strivings, accomplishments, and beliefs and attitudes of those who contributed, for better or for worse, to making us who we are as a nation. They were not given lightly –- danger lurked on the high seas or in acts of treason against the King of England; continuing failures preceded ultimate success; the spark of imagination required years of work to come to fruition.

They are here, at the Library of Congress, and now on display through the Library’s Web site, for all generations, present and future. Join us as we take you on a journey through a sampling of the more than 250 items that have been selected to represent the treasures that the Library holds.

Watch for further information about these upcoming events in the Library of Congress online series of programs:

Jan 9 - Gen. Washington and the Spy Map
Feb 13 - History of chocolate in the US
Mar 12 - Early scrapbooks and the women who created them
April 9 - Poetry
May 14 - Jefferson's Library
June 11 - All History Is Local in a Digital World

Host: Library of Congress

Quick Link for Regular Participants who have already installed the OPAL Software: OPAL Online Auditorium

Link for First-Time OPAL Users, Moderators, and Users of the No-Software-Download-Required Interface: OPAL Online Auditorium

The Library has a one-month trial to the Naxos Music Library, the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catlogs of over 258,000 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music. While listening you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers and artists. Please try this resource and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at staubin@bridgew.edu by December 20.

Clement C. Maxwell Library celebrates American Indian Heritage Month with a guide that highlights the books that are available in the Educational Resource Center (ERC) Topics include various American Indian cultures, arts and crafts, food, games, music, myths, tales, legends, plays, and poetry. View the guide at http://www.bridgew.edu/library/htm/pdf/nativeam.pdf.

Videos and other books on American Indians can be found in the Library's online catalog, Webster and can be checked out at the Circulation Desk.

Visit the ERC, located on the second floor of Maxwell Library, in November to browse the featured display of materials highlighting the traditions and culture of Native Americans.

From November 5 through November 30 the Library has a trial of two ReferenceUSA databases: U.S. Business database and International Business (One Source) database. The U.S. Business database contains information on 14 million United States businesses. One Source is a database containing over 3 million global companies across the world. It includes over 9 million executive names searching with results linked to biographies, colleagues, and firms. Find in-depth company profiles and detailed financial information with five years of historical information. Industry trends, SWOT analysis, Analysis reporting, web links, comprehensive corporate family structures, news and articles searching, and much more. Access to the trial is available from the Library’s home page. Please try this database and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu by Nov. 30, 2007. Thanks.

This year, CORNUCOPIA OF RHODE ISLAND (CORI) program activities focus on Native American children's literature. Three functions are planned: a kick-off mini conference at the University of Rhode Island (URI), a day-long field trip to the Mashantucket Pequot Children's Library and Research Center, and a community service project. Our kick off conference is Friday, November 16, 2007 from 9:00 AM to 12 Noon at the University Club, URI in Kingston, RI. (Directions are available at: www.uclub-uri.org). The program focus is publishing trends and selection criteria for children's books about or depicting Native Americans. Registration includes a light breakfast buffet with time to "meet and greet" from 9 to 10 AM.

Conference Speakers

Naomi R. Caldwell is an associate professor of library and information studies at the University of Rhode Island, a past president of the American Indian Library Association and an enrolled member of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation in Mahwah, NY. Dr. Caldwell co-authored I is Not for Indian, which has been cited on the American Library Association web page fall 2006 as a seminal work. Since the first release in 1991, she has continued to observe the field and contribute to its' scholarship.

GABRIELLA (Gaby) KAYE is an alumnus of URI-GLIS. She has been Reference/Children's Librarian at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center since 1996, where she manages the collections, activities, and programs of the Children's Library and oversees the Research Library staff. The Children's Library is noted for its unique, multifaceted materials by and about Native Peoples of North America. Ms. Kaye has done many workshops for teachers and students on this subject.

Donna L. Gilton, the Moderator for the Program, is a professor of library and information studies at the University of Rhode Island and a founding member of CORI. Dr. Gilton is the author of Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States, published by Scarecrow Press, July 2007. Her book, which is a detailed and readable reference, describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the United States.

The Library has a one month trial for the PRISMA database. PRISMA Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas is a comprehensive reference resource providing 100 full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Please try the database and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu. by November 30.

Maxwell Library will be having a candy jar contest starting on October 29 and ending on Oct 31st. Filled candy jars will be held at each service area (Circ, Reference, ERC, Doc Delivery, and Special Collections). The box for completed entry forms will be held at the reference desk.

RULES

* All enrolled students are encouraged to guess the total number of candies in each jar.

* 1 filled jar will be at each service desk. A total of 5 jars throughout the library.

* Guess the total number of candies in as many of the 5 jars that you like. You do not have to guess all 5 jars to be eligible to win.

* Guess as close as you can without going over the number of candies in the jar.

* If you exceed the number of candies, you are not eligible for that jar, but you still could win on another jar.

* All entries must be placed in the entry box by 11pm on Oct. 31st to be eligible to win.

* Winners will be chosen from the closest guess or in the event of a tie – the winner will be selected from a drawing from those entries.

* 5 Prize candy jars will be awarded.

Come to have fun!

Good Luck!

Lincoln School Presents the Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books and Authors on Saturday, October 13th from 9:30 am - 5:30pm. The festival will feature many well-known authors and illustrators including ....

The day will also include a noon performance by the Big Nazo Puppets, book making crafts and a visit from Corduroy.

Admission is $3.00 and this event is open to the public. Visit our website to learn more: http://www.tazl.com/bookfest07.htm

Any questions? Contact Meagan Lenihan mlenihan@lincolnschool.org

You can find the books written by some of these authors in the library's online catalog, Webster.

The Library has a trial of Social Work Abstracts through EBSCO for the month of September to compare it with our current subscription to Social Work Abstracts on the Silverplatter platform that expires on November 1.

Click here to access this trial from off-campus.

Please try this database and contact Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu by September 27 with your preference. Thank you.

Exhibition related events include; Collectors and Collecting sponsored by The Friends of Dartmouth College Library on September 27; the opening reception for the GBW 100th anniversary exhibition on September 27; and on October 27 there will be presentations featuring some key New England members of the Guild of Book Workers. All of these events are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Collectors and Collecting is an afternoon event on September 27, and will include tables for collectors to show off prized books. GBW members and the public are invited to meet the Dartmouth book collectors, attend the 3:00 pm talk, "Collector's Showcase: Highlights from Some of Our Friends", and hear the 4:00 pm lecture, "Collectors and Collecting" offered by Joy Kenseth, Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. After the lecture, you may participate in the opening reception of the 100th Anniversary Exhibition, beginning at 5:00 pm. Jeffrey Horrell, Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College, and James Reid-Cunningham, President of the Guild of Book Workers, will offer brief remarks at the reception.

October 27 at 1:30 pm, there will be presentations by Daniel Kelm, Peter Geraty, Nancy Leavitt and James Reid-Cunningham. Kelm, Geraty, and Leavitt will talk about their books and careers. Reid-Cunningham, President of GBW, will give an account of the 100 year history of the Guild of Book Workers. This event is a fitting accompaniment to the 100th Anniversary Exhibition.

Dartmouth College directions: http://www.dartmouth.edu/home/about/visiting.html

Websites to view in anticipation of the exhibition:

Guild of Book Workers on-line 100th anniversary exhibit
Daniel Kelm website
Peter Geraty website
Nancy Leavitt's work can be seen on this website
James Reid-Cunningham website

85 artists will open their studios to exhibit, sell and discuss works completed over the past year. Paintings, sculpture, wood-works, artists books, collages, ceramics, glass-works, prints, textiles, photography and jewelry will be on display. Enjoy screenings of our artists’ films, videos, animations and multi-media, collaborative experiments plus a live performance or two, and a few other surprises! FREE EVENT! BRING THE FAMILY!

The Writing of Fantasy
Roundtable Discussion
Join Roger Sutton , editor in chief of The Horn Book Magazine as he leads Susan Cooper ( The Dark is Rising) and Gregory Maguire (Wicked ) in a discussion about the possibilities and problems in writing-and reading-fantasy for young people and adults.

Reception to follow. Books will be available for purchase and autographing.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 7:00 P.M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue

Tickets are free and required for this event. Please send an SASE, including the number of tickets requested (limit of 4) to Susan Cooper Event, Cambridge Public Library, 359 Broadway, 02139. Tickets are available beginning October 15th.

Unriddling the World: Fantasy and Children
Cambridge Forum presents award-winning author Susan Cooper
Why do children read fantasy? Does an adult understand fantasy in the same way as a child? In what ways does fantasy help children cope with the real world?

Preceded by Songs and Riddles: a musical introduction by Dr. Tony Barrand, singer, dancer and scholar and George Emlen, music director of Revels.

Books will be available for purchase and autographing. Tickets are not required for this event.

Thursday, November 15, 2007, 7:30 P.M.
First Parish in Cambridge 3 Church Street (Harvard Square)

Both events are free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. Sponsored by Cambridge Forum, the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library, The Horn Book, Inc., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with support from the Cambridge Community Foundation. For further information, please see www.cambridgepubliclibrary.org , call the Cambridge Public Library at 617-349-4409; TTY 617-349-4421 or call Cambridge Forum at 617-495-2727.

For two days in June, Copley Square in Boston becomes party central for an event hosted by Nova Scotia celebrating the close connection the province shares with Massachusetts.

Photo Gallery

As planned, the general contractor will be onsite on Wednesday, May 16, to begin abatement work on the third floor. Therefore, we need to close access for the general public to the second and third floors on Wednesday, May 16. In order to make sure the safety of the public, we will lock down the elevators on Wednesday, May 16, and shut the doors in the central stairwell on the first floor. We will need to begin retrieving books and other materials from the second and third floors on Wednesday, May 16. The material requst form will be posted on the library's web site. Paper copies of the requst form will also be available at Circulation Services and Reference Services. Again, we will not be able to access the third floor collections until 4:00 pm, but we will be able to retrieve materials from the second floor throughout the day. If any library user wants to use the ERC Test Collection materials, he/she needs to be escorted to the ERC temporary office at room 212 to use them.

The administrative offices on the second floor and the faculty offices on the second and third floors will still be available to the staff and faculty in these offices. Guests will need to be escorted by the folks from these offices to and from the first floor.

Archives/Special Collections materials will be available throughout the summer. However, retrieving these materials that are not accompanying the staff to the first floor will be handled differently. Since part of the materials are currently stored in the Science Building, we may only be able to retrieve materials from that location once a week. Scholars and researchers who want to use the materials need to make appointments well in advance and materials needed for their research need to be identified well in advance as well. The archives materials, children’s literature and textbooks’ collections, and a few other collections will remain on the compact shelving in the Vault. It will be under wraps (literally), but it can be retrieved—again after 4:00 pm.

This is the final phase of this excellent and exciting project! Once this phase is completed, just think how beautiful this facility will look! The entire library will be an inviting and delightful learning environment!

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please ask. Thanks!

Michael Somers
Director of Library Services

Please join us for a very special double-feature Reader's Circle next Wednesday, April 11. We will have not one, but two authors in attendance, one at 10 a.m. and one at 11 a.m. Books by both authors are available here in the Regional Office - but you don't have to read the books to attend! Our authors will discuss their latest works, their upcoming projects, and the writing process. This very special Reader's Circle will take place in the Glass Orientation Room next to the Changing Exhibit Hall in the McKim Building of the BPL. If you'd like to attend, please contact Garry Wong at gwong@bpl.org, or 617-859-2380.

The first author is William G. Tapply. He will join the Readers' Circle to discuss his new book Gray Ghost. Tapply is the author of the Brady Coyne series as well as the first novel featuring Stoney Calhoun, Bitch Creek. His latest novel, Gray Ghost, is the second Stoney Calhoun novel. Stoney, who lost his memory when he was struck by lightning years earlier, knows how to tie a gray ghost-a fly used for salmon-as well as other skills useful to his new life as half-owner of a bait shop in Portland, Maine. Occasionally, hints about his past arrive like muscle twinges-survival skills of the sort learned in law enforcement, reinforced by infrequent visits from "a grayish, nondescript guy from some government agency who'd been sent to keep an eye on him." But Stoney is mostly on his own as he struggles to find out why a burned corpse turns up on a small island, and why the fishing client who was with him when they discovered the body is also killed. Copies of Gray Ghost are available in the Boston Regional Office.

The second author is Trisha Gura. She will discuss the book Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women. The book was published in May 2007 by HarperCollins. In this provocative, ground-breaking study, a science writer reveals the truth that tens of millions of American women at every age suffer from eating disorders, not just teenage girls. Trisha Gura holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology and has written extensively for such publications as Science, Nature, Scientific American, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Health. She is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University. She lives in Brookline, MA. This is her first book. Copies of Lying in Weight are also available in the Boston Regional Office.

Artist: Elizabeth Sturges Llerena

April 7 - June 15, 2007
Maxwell Library 2nd Floor Lobby

Elizabeth is an artist and art teacher who teaches in New York City. She uses a dress format to illustrate stories. Come to meet the artist on April 17 at 12:30 ~ 1:30 on the 2nd floor of Maxwell Library. Hors D’ Oeuvres will be served.

The exhibit is comprised of the following works:
   Mask, 1993, metal
   Dictionary Dress, 2002, with Kip Meng Moy cloth, paper, sound
   Gaobie/Farewell, 2003, embroidery, photographic & drawn images on linen
   What’s Hidden Underneath, 2006, drawn and photographic images on linen

In honor of National Library Week (April 15 - 21), Maxwell Library will be sponsoring a BOOK GIVEAWAY.

Books will be given out throughout the week to 7 lucky library users. Faculty, staff, students, and community members are eligible for these prizes. Come to the Library, check out a book, ask a reference question, or use a computer, and you just may be a winner!

March 26, 2007 - April 27, 2007

Lecture and Gallery Talk
Friday, April 6, 2007
8:00 - 8:30 am
Noble and Greenough School's Foster Gallery
10 Campus Drive
Dedham, MA 02026
781-320-7227

For Mags Harries and Lajos Héder, water becomes a sculptural medium capable of visual alchemy: transforming space; galvanizing memory; and prompting consideration of its sustainability as a resource.  Harries and Héder’s installation Waterways at the Foster Gallery combines the projection piece "The River;” a video piece with ball and net; and "Winding Down the Charles River," a giant, 550-pound ball of string the length of the Charles.  While these three works reflect the fluidity and power of water, "Displacement 2050," a massive block of ice melting slowly over the course of the installation, forces viewers to confront the mutability of water and the larger ramifications of global warming.

Please join us and bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy some live ambient electronic music by Dennis Moser.

The concert will take place in the Heritage Room, Maxwell Library on Thursday, March 29 at noon time.

DENNIS MOSER is currently Digital Services Librarian at Maxwell Library. His research specialty is in the recording and preservation of modern performance art, the process of its creation as well as the end results, for future study. Dennis is also an electronic guitarist who can run his guitar synthesizer through four Lexicon Vortex effects processors to achieve unique sounds.

Enter Maxwell Library’s contest
Entry forms are on-line at http://www.bridgew.edu/library/contests/maxwell.cfm
or you can pick up an entry form in Maxwell Library.
Contest begins 4/1/07 and ends 4/13/07

The Library has a trial of Blackwell Synergy from March 9 through April 30. This database contains one million articles from over 850 journals published by Blackwell Publishing. Among the subjects covered are business, economics, accounting, finance, computing, health sciences, humanities, criminology, life and physical sciences, mathematics, social and behavioral sciences and the arts. Please try this database and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu.

BOSTON, MA -- CRASHarts and Bank of America Celebrity Series present Cirque Éloize performing the Boston premiere of Rain on Tuesday, March 13, 7:30pm; Wednesday, March 14, 7:30pm; Thursday, March 15, 7:30pm; Friday, March 16, 7:30pm; Saturday, March 17, 2pm & 8pm; Sunday, March 18, 3pm at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, 219 Tremont St., Boston. Tickets are $60, $48 and $35. For tickets and information call CelebrityCharge 617-482-6661 or buy online at www.celebrityseries.org.

Cirque Éloize has been traveling the globe for over a decade, trading the big-top tent for the theater in a magical brand of circus artistry that is entirely original. Its latest production, Rain, pours out a feast for the senses that’s at once poetic, mystical, musical, acrobatic, entertaining, breathtakingly beautiful—and as cool and refreshing as a summer shower.

Rain is based upon the childhood memories of writer and director Daniele Finzi Pasca. Pasca’s mother and father were both visual artists (a painter and a photographer, respectively), and in Rain he combines his visual sensibilities with a long personal career in circus performance and clowning. Much of Pasca’s inspiration was derived from old photographs, and the story unfolds in a series of evocative tableaus, creating tender moments and sympathetic, multi-dimensional characters. The story of Rain takes place in a theatre where a circus show is in rehearsal. The performers create and maintain a direct connection with the audience, heightening the intimacy of Rain. In Pasca’s circus creations, the story line and characters carry as much weight and responsibility as the feats and stunts. This is Pasca’s second collaboration with Cirque Éloize.

Of particular interest to local audiences will be troupe member and Boston-area native, Jonas Woolverton, whose specialty is the Cyr Wheel. Woolverton trained on the apparatus (a human-sized metal hoop in which the performer stands and spins like a dropped coin) with inventor and expert, Daniel Cyr. Jonas is from Lexington, Massachusetts.

Presented by CRASHarts, a division of World Music, Inc, and Bank of America Celebrity Series. World Music and Bank of America Celebrity Series are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency which also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The exhibit and related events are free and open to the public.

BEVERLY, MA, January 22, 2007 – Montserrat College of Art Gallery is pleased to announce its new exhibition, It’s Alive: A Laboratory of Biotech Art. From a tomato that rots as mechanized needles repeatedly plunge into it at viewers’ discretion, to butterflies whose wing patterns appear to have morphed into the backgrounds of the average American family’s living room decor, all of the artwork on display is, was, or appears to be, alive.

Read more.

The Library has a trial of CSA Sociological Abstracts with ProQuest Full-Text until March 1, 2007. This database includes indexes and abstracts of the international literature in sociology and related disciplines from CSA Sociological Abstracts in combination with full-text access to more than 128,000 articles from 140 full-text journals in sociology. Please try this database, compare it with SocINDEX with Full Text, and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu by March 1.

Off-campus users please use this link to access this database.

The Library has a trial of Grove Music Online until March 17, 2007. This resource includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. Please try this database and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu.

Off-campus users please use this link to access this database.

The library has a trial of Theatre in Video from Alexander Street Press for the month of February. Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This first release contains over 50 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Later this year the database will add a collection of Shakespeare plays from the BBC. Theatre in Video also allows you to create and save your own playlists, but registration as an individual is required. You can do this by clicking on the Register link on the red menu bar. You will be asked for a unique email address and password that you can use to log in to your personal settings.

Click here to enter the trial. For accessing this trial from off-campus, please click this link.

Please try this resource and send your comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu.

DATABASE TRIALS

The Library has trials of two EBSCO databases from now until the end of February.

Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information for evaluation of test products within such areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. The Library currently has a subscription to this product through SilverPlatter, but is considering a switch to EBSCO’s version.

SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers. The Library is considering SocINDEX as a replacement for our subscription to Sociological Abstracts through CSA.

Please try these databases and send comments to Kendra St. Aubin at kstaubin@bridgew.edu.

From Director of Library Services

Mike

Visit this site to explore American Indian Heritage. Provided by The National Register of Historic Places, this site is to promote awareness of and appreciation for the history and culture of American Indians and Alaska Natives during National American Indian Heritage Month. This month is dedicated to recognizing the intertribal cultures, the events and lifeways, the designs and achievements of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Prepared by The United States Department of Defense, this site commemoriates the historical participation of Native Americans in the U.S. armed forces. Topics include American Indian Medal of Honor Recipients, Native American women veterans, and Native Americans in World War II and the Korean War. Includes links to related sites. From the U.S. Department of Defense.

The holidays are coming. Enter the Maxwell Library Holiday Time Contest and win some GREAT PRIZES!

Click here to enter the contest.

Attention to Detail

Time: October 30 - November 24, 2006

Location: 1st and 2nd Floor of the Maxwell Library

The inaugural Fourth Thursday Brown Bag Concert will be held in the Library's Heritage Room on Thursday, October 26, at noon. This one hour concert will feature two recorder groups, the Capriol Consort and Triple Tyme, and a piece performed with a few Music Education students. Bring your lunch, enjoy the music, and applaud your friends and colleagues.

The two recorder groups will perform: the Capriol Consort, under the direction of Marcia Anderson, and Triple Tyme, a trio with members, Marcia Anderson, John Dye, and Nancy Paxcia-Bibbins.

This concert is organized and co-sponsored by the music department and Maxwell library. Please come and enjoy a midday break in your day.

BRIDGING COMMUNITY THROUGH MOVIES

The Consulate General of Canada is a proud partner in the 5th Annual Boston Latino International Film Festival. This year's Festival is featuring three Canadian films:

Friday, Oct. 20 at 8:45 PM at Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Souvenir Kids

Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 7:00 PM at Mass College of Art's Tower Auditorium (with a Q/A with Director Kathryn Klassen after the screening) 621 Huntington Ave
Out of the Shadow, into the Sun/Sangre Torera

Thursday, Oct. 26 at 5:00 PM at the Center for Latino Arts (Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center) 85 West Newton St, Boston
Pinatas

For more information, please visit the event web site at http://www.bliff.org/.

Artist: Katina Spileos Hayward

Time: Oct 4 – Oct 27

Un-Earthly Matters is a three part series of multimedia installations addressing environmental issues. The series includes a desecrated garden, threatened and endangered species, and a simulated body of water/holding pond, chaotic with marine life. The work is not based on scientific fact and information, but rather a expression of awareness and concern for the fragility of our troubled ecosystem. The installations are at the Anderson Gallery in the Art building and on the first floor of Maxwell Library.

Mitch Albom Book Signing

When:  Saturday, September 30th, 12:00 Noon
Where:  One Worcester Road, Framingham

Mitch Albom introduced the world to the wisdom of his beloved former teacher in Tuesdays with Morrie -- a #1 bestseller that became nothing less than a phenomenon. His latest novel, For One More Day, is a poignant work that takes Albom's inspirational message to new heights.

In this heartwarming novel, a middle-aged man returns to his hometown and finds his mother - who died eight years earlier - living in their old house, giving them the opportunity to share family secrets and make amends.

Listen to exclusive video interview with Mich Albom.

The BeanTown Jazz Festival features more than 15 performances on three stages, including national acts and homegrown powerhouses, a family entertainment area on Carter playground, a VIP jazz tent, and more than 50 vendors offering food, arts, and crafts. Prostate cancer awareness and research organizations will be on-site at Saturday's festival to create awareness for their programs and recruit volunteers. It's free also on Saturday only.

Times:

Friday, September 29
The Story of Impulse! Records - The McCoy Tyner Septet
8:15 pm at Berklee Performance Center

Saturday, September 30
BeanTown Jazz Festival
12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
South End, Columbus Avenue Between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street
Free Admission (Donations Accepted)

Sunday, October 1
Gospel Jazz Brunch - with Kendrick Oliver's New Life Orchestra
11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Westin copley Place

Tickets on sale through Ticketmaster

The Royal Drummers of Burundi
with special guest MOMBASA PARTY

Saturday, September 30, 8:00 PM

Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy St
Cambridge, 02138
Visit http://www.worldmusic.org/ for more information.

One of the greatest percussion ensembles in the world, the Royal Drummers of Burundi are a spectacle of music and dance. Full of energy, grace and pure athleticism, they hammer out compelling rhythms and complex syncopations while leaping, dancing and singing over their waist-high drums.

The Mombasa Party, one of the largest and most respected taarab groups in Kenya, celebrates the acoustic traditions of this joyous African music. Taarab echoes the sounds of Bollywood with its rich Arabic and Indian melodies. Its unique instrumentation combines African percussion with Indian harmonium, tabla and tashkota (a Japanese toy instrument akin to a small koto with a typewriter-like keyboard used to pluck the strings).

John Adams Unbound marks the first public exhibition of the complete personal library of founding father and lifelong book collector, John Adams.

Designed by C&G Partners, New York, John Adams Unbound features more than 3,800 books from Adams’s personal library. Held by the Boston Public Library since 1894, the John Adams collection is of particular historical importance because hundreds of books retain a permanent record of John Adams’s interactions with his library. He read with a pen clasped firmly in hand, and scores of volumes contain Adams’s handwritten commentary in the margins. These private notes often represent a lively dialogue between Adams and the author, moments where he felt compelled during his reading to respond to the printed text with force, passion and his unique – and often testy – insights. His books also feature original family signatures, acquisition dates, purchase amounts, drawings, inscriptions, and a wide variety of family bookplates, as well as loose manuscripts, newspaper clippings and handwritten indices.

This landmark event is the culmination of a three-year project by the Boston Public Library to catalog, preserve, digitize and provide access to the extraordinary personal library of America’s second president and was made possible by federal grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the General Services Administration (GSA). An online John Adams Library will be made available to the public soon!

Exhibition Information:
September 22, 2006 - April 1, 2007
Admission free
Exhibition open during all library hours

Guided Tours beginning September 30th
Thursdays at 6 p.m. & Saturdays at 2 p.m.

September 17 is Constitution Day! To honor this historic document and the events surrounding its creation, a number of interesting and thought-provoking activities have been planned across campus. For a list of the lectures, workshops and other activities scheduled to celebrate Constitution Day, visit the Library's website. For a partial list of the books, videos and other resources on and about the U.S. Constitution, visit this page.

If you want to add more events to the site, contact Mike Somers.

Target Presents The Boston Globe Children's Book Festival.

Come to the 4th annual Boston Globe Children's Book Festival presented by Target.

The fun begins Saturday, September 9 with a weeklong series of readings and activities at Boston Public Library branches. Then on Saturday, September 16, join us in Copley Square for a day filled with readings and signings by children's authors and illustrators, great entertainment, loads of giveaways, and more. Admission is FREE!

For more information and directions, please visit the program's web site.

Recovered Views: African American Portraits, 1912-1925

Rare Images Date to 1912

Location:
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery
Jackson Arts Center
Bristol Community College
777 Elsbree St., Fall River

Time:
September 1 - October 5, 2006

Matt Weber: The Urban Prisoner

An Eye for Irony

Location:
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Cambridge

Time:
August 28 - September 28, 2006

An introduction to these two exhibitions written by Cate McQuaid appears in September 7's Boston Globe. It is entitled Photo exhibition is quite a find. This article is available in library's Newsbank database.

Vikki Stark, an author and family therapist from Montréal will read from her book entitled My Sister, My Self: Understanding the Sibling Relationship that Shapes Our Lives, Our Loves and Ourselves on October 22nd at Porter Square Books at 25 White Street in Cambridge at 3pm.

My Sister, My Self is based on interviews and email questionnaires that Ms. Stark received from 400 women, teens and girls worldwide. It explores how having grown up as an older, younger, middle or twin sister makes an indelible imprint on a woman's identity, one that affects all her subsequent relationships. To learn more about the book, please visit the website at www.MySister-MySelf.com".

A one-act, one-woman play, written by N. Lynn Eckhert, MD, Harvard
Medical International

Followed by a Networking Reception

Time:Thursday, September 7th, 4:30 PM (CURTAIN TIME)
Location: Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Ave, Walters
Amphitheatre

Dr Blackwell earned her medical degree in 1849 from Geneva Medical
College* (Hobart and William Smith College*), although her admission as a
female candidate was considered a joke (to the administration) and an
irritant (to the students). She became the founding physician for the
innovative New York Infirmary for Women and Children, an institution
staffed by women doctors for women patients.

Dr Eckhert was inspired to write this play after visiting Hobart and
William Smith College with her son on a college tour. "It is a story
that needed to be told." She conducted meticulous research, using the
original Blackwell family letters. Modelled in the style of William
Luce's play about Emily Dickinson, The Belle of Amherst, A Lady Alone
is performed by Linda Kelley, a professional actress.

RSVP to owc@partners.org

Sponsored by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Center for
Faculty Development; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners Office for
Women's Careers; Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library;
Children's Hospital Boston, Office of Faculty Development; Children's
Hospital Boston, Office for Fellowship Training; HMS/HSDM Joint
Committee on the Status of Women; and Massachusetts General Hospital,
Partners Office for Women's Careers

September is Women in Medicine month.

* In the 1870's, Geneva Medical College was transferred from the
oversight of Hobart to Syracuse University, and then in the 1950's, it
became part of the SUNY system.

As part of the 5th annual Great Waters Folk Festival, the Winnipesaukee Belle will embark on a harbor cruise on Saturday, July 29 featuring the "Sounds of Cape Breton Island" with acclaimed multi-instrumentalist J.P. Cormier. Cormier will be joined by Hilda Chiasson-Cormier and Darren McMullen. Aside from featuring the music of these incredible Canadian artists, the cruise will offer scenic views as it travels around Lake Winnipesaukee as well as complimentary food. The Belle departs promptly from the Wolfeboro town docks at 11am and returns at 1pm, just in time for the other Folk Festival afternoon concerts and workshops. Tickets are $25. Available via www.greatwaters.org or the box office: 603/569-7710
Other Canadian acts will be featured during the Great Waters Folk Festival: Friday Mainstage, July 28, 7:00pm Ron Sexsmith David Francey J.P. Cormier Saturday Morning Cruise, July 29, 11am J.P. Cormier, Hilda Chiasson, Darren McMullen Saturday Afternoon, July 29, Noon - 4:30 Songs You Wish You Had Written Ron Sexsmith (joined by Terri Hendrix, Antje Duvekot, Jason Spooner) Hurtin'est Song I Ever Heard David Francey (joined by Mary Gauthier, Meg Hutchinson, David Jacobs-Strain) Under the Spell - Songs of Love Ron Sexsmith (joined by Anais Mitchell, Terri Hendrix, Cormac McCarthy) Hot Licks, Smokin' Picks J.P. Cormier (joined by Rowan Brothers, Lloyd Maines, David Jacobs-Strain) Music to Life - Songwriters Circle David Francey, Ron Sexsmith (joined by Cheryl Wheeler, Jason Spooner) Trad meets Bluegrass J.P. Cormier (joined by High Range, Rowan Brothers) Sunday Finale, July 30, 10am Rise Up and Sing Out Finale Concert David Francey, J.P. Cormer (joined by Bill Morrissey, Terri Hendrix, Ollabelle, Anais Mitchell, High Range, Rowan Brothers)