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Spring Semester, 2006

Tower Café Hours (Posted: May 11, 2006)

The last day of business for the school year is Friday, May 12th, 2006, 12:00p.m.-4:00a.m. After this date, the Tower Cafe will be CLOSED for the summer.

Alumni Weekend Super Seminar & Friends Authors Talk (Posted: May 11, 2006)

Saturday, May 20, 2006, 2:30p.m. - 3:30p.m., in Pearson Room 104.
Jumbo Footprints: A History of Tufts Athletics, 1852-1999 with Rocco "Rocky" Carzo, Athletics Director Emeritus Tufts University.
This Super Seminar is to celebrate the enrichment that comes from life-long learning and the exemplary expertise found within the Tufts Community and will offer a "classroom" experience to showcase Rocky's exciting work.

Jumbo Footprints: A History of Tufts Athletics, 1852-1999 (Posted: May 4, 2006)

Tisch Library invites everyone to view an exhibit in the lobby exhibit cases celebrating the publication of an exciting new book: Jumbo Footprints: A History of Tufts Athletics, 1852-1999. The exhibit features photographs from the book and the Tufts Digital Library, as well as special artifacts on loan from the Athletics Department. The book is a celebration of the players, coaches, administrators, and staff who have-each in their own way-contributed to the Tufts athletic experience and enabled future generations of student-athletes to challenge themselves to do the same and take from those experiences lessons that last a lifetime.

The exhibit will be on display in the Tisch lobby exhibit case until June 15. Go Jumbos!

Jumbo-laya : Saving the SUNO Library (Posted: May 4, 2006)

An exhibit entitled "Jumbo-laya : Saving the SUNO Library" has been prepared by the Tufts-SUNO Task force in order to commemorate Tisch Library's participation in the American Library Association's Adopt a Library Program. This program matched institutions devastated by Hurricane Katrina with other institutions across the country. Tisch Library raised funds by celebrating Mardi Gras in the library, and when the streets were cleaned on Ash Wednesday, the Tufts Community raised $1000 to help our partner, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO).

SUNO can still use your help. Please send donations to:
Southern University at New Orleans-Library
6400 Press Drive New Orleans, LA 70126
Please Reference: Tufts University

Tisch Library Extended Hours and Late Night Study (Updated: May 4, 2006)

Extended:
Friday, May 5th: 8:00a.m. - 12:00a.m.
Saturday, May 6th: 10:00a.m. - 12:00a.m.

Late Night Study:
Sunday - Thursday, April 30th - May 10th: 1:00a.m. - 6:00a.m.
Friday & Saturday, May 5th - May 6th: 12:00a.m. - 6:00a.m.

Special Hours at Tisch (Posted: April 13, 2006)

Monday, April 17, 2006: 10:00a.m. - 1:00a.m.

Library Newsletter (Posted: April 13, 2006)

Ninth Annual Berger Family Technology Award (Posted: March 23, 2006)

The ninth annual grant from the Tufts University Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment has been awarded to 2 projects:

Developing a Digital Repository Service for Datasets has been selected by the Berger Family Technology Transfer Advisory Board to be funded at $42,600.   Submitted by Edward Oberholtzer from Tisch Library; Anne Sauer, Director, DCA and University Archivist, Robert Chavez, Technology Manager, DCA; Robert Dockins, Digital Resources Archivist, DCA and David Kahle, Academic Technology.

Video in the Tufts Digital Repository has been selected by the Berger Family Technology Transfer Advisory Board to be funded at $35,000. Submitted by Thom Cox and Beverly Gobiel from Tisch Library; Anne Sauer, Director, DCA and University Archivist, Robert Chavez, Technology Manager, DCA; and Robert Dockins, Digital Resources Archivist, DCA.

Second John Holmes Memorial Poetry Reading by Richard Wilbur (Posted: March 23, 2006)

On Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. in the Coolidge Room - Ballou Hall, Richard Wilbur, author of Collected Poems, 1943-2004, will give the 2nd John Holmes Memorial Poetry Reading sponsored by the English Department and Tisch Library. Richard Wilbur has been awarded 2 Pulitzer prizes in Poetry, was selected as the second U.S. Poet Laureate, and was a member of a small poetry writing workshop with his friend John Holmes when they were young poets. Book signing sponsored by Tufts University Bookstore Follows talk. Exhibit on the author is on display in Tisch Library lobby March 16-April 15, 2006.

Spring Break Hours (Posted: March 16, 2006)

Friday, March 17th: 8:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, March 18th and 19th: CLOSED
Monday-Friday, March 20th-March 24th: 9:00a.m.-6:00p.m.
Saturday, March 25th: CLOSED

ARC Graduate Writing Consultants (Posted: February 23, 2006)

ARC Graduate Writing Consultants are available to all Tufts Graduate and Undergraduate students at Tisch Library, in the Reference area. Spring 2006 drop-in hours are:

Monday 6:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.
Wednesday 6:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.
Thursday 6:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.
Sunday 6:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.

For information on hours by appointment and other Writing Resources available through the ARC please visit us at the ARC website.

Acquisitions Abroad: a new library exhibit (Posted: February 23, 2006)

The Acquisitions Department of Tisch Library invites everyone to view the latest exhibit in the lobby exhibit cases: Acquisitions Abroad: Foreign Language Materials at Tisch Library.

While the great majority of material in Tisch Library is in English, the library also purchases a substantial number of items published in foreign languages. Whether print, audio, or video, these resources provide both researchers and casual readers the chance to see or hear a presentation in the original language, to compare translations, or simply to practice a different language. The Acquisitions Department presents here a sampling of the many foreign language materials available in the library, and the sources from which we acquire them. Exhibit will be on display in the Tisch lobby exhibit case until March 31st.

Jumbo-Laya, February 21st - 28th (Posted: February 16, 2006)

Come celebrate Mardi Gras at the library! Tisch Library is holding an event to raise money for the Southern University of New Orleans Library which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Starting Tuesday February 21st at 12:00p.m. with a Library Float Parade and continuing until Fat Tuesday, February 28th, Tisch will be full of Mardi Gras spirit. Stop by the library, donate your spare change or more if you can, enter for raffles and vote for your favorite float! TONS of raffle prizes are up for grabs including a PC flat panel, local gift certificates, BRUINS tickets and much, much more.

Special Hours at Tisch (Posted: February 16, 2006)

Monday, February 20, 2006: 10:00a.m. - 1:00a.m.

Celebrate Darwin Day (Posted: February 9, 2006)

February 12th marks the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin, renowned for his intellectual contributions to the history of science. A mini-exhibit in the Tisch Lobby celebrates Darwin's contributions and highlights the work of some of his intellectual descendents, including leading theorist and Tufts faculty member, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, E.O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins.

In 2009, Tisch Library plans a series of lectures to commemorate Darwin's 200th birthday, which coincides with the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous book, On the Origin of Species. To learn about other Darwinian events from around the world see the Darwin Day Celebration website.

Books displayed here represent just a small number of our holdings pertaining to this topic. You are welcome to borrow them if you like!

2005 Federal and State Income Tax Forms (Posted: February 2, 2006)

Tisch Library is no longer receiving paper Federal and State Income Tax Forms. Go to this site for Federal 1040 forms and this site for Massachusetts forms.

Win $100--Take Tisch Survey (Posted: February 2, 2006)

Your voice makes a difference to the Tisch Library! The library uses this survey to better meet your library needs. Past surveys have led to longer weekend hours, increased spending on electronic resources, and the purchase of new materials in all formats.

Complete the survey and be eligible to win a $100 Tufts Bookstore gift certificate. Simply click on one of the following links before February 20 to access the survey:
Faculty
Students

Tony Massarotti, Friends Authors Talk(Posted: January 26, 2006)

Thursday, February 9, 2006; 3:30p.m. - 5:30p.m. in the Hirsh Reading Room of Tisch Library.

Tony Massarotti, A89, author of A Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankees and Red Sox Rivalry and the War for the Pennant is a Baseball and General Sports Columnist for the Boston Herald. A book signing sponsored by Tufts University Bookstore and reception follow the talk. The exhibit is in the Tisch Library lobby from January 16 - February 15, 2006. The fifth Maxine Newberg Gordon, J70, Book Prize will be awarded before the Authors Talk to a mathematics major who has demonstrated a love of reading, literature and poetry.

Hispanic E-Resources (Posted: January 26, 2006)

Tisch Library has acquired electronic versions of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) and PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas). HAPI indexes journals covering Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States . PRISMA provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin and offers key titles indexed in HAPI.

Spring Hours (Posted: January 19, 2006)

Tower Café resumes January 19th 2006 (Posted: January 19, 2006)

Spring Newsletter (Posted: January 19, 2006)