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Summer and Fall Semesters, 2005
Special Hours at Tisch (Posted
December 15, 2005)
Friday, December 16th: 8:00a.m. - 12:00a.m.
Saturday, December 17th: 10:00a.m. - 12:00a.m.
Wednesday, December 21st: 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Intersession Hours (Posted:
December 15, 2005)
December 22, 2005 - January 18, 2006:
Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Saturday/Sunday: CLOSED
EXCEPTIONS:
Monday, December 26th: CLOSED
Monday, January 2, 2006: CLOSED
Monday, January 16, 2006: CLOSED
Late Night Study until 6:00a.m. (Posted:
December 7, 2005)
Sunday - Thursday, December 11, 2005 - December 20, 2005: 1:00a.m. - 6:00a.m.
Friday, December 16th and Saturday, December 17th: 12:00a.m. - 6:00a.m.
Tisch Library Hours (Posted:
December 7, 2005)
Friday, December 16th: 8:00a.m. - 12:00a.m.
Saturday, December 17th: 10:00a.m. - 12:00a.m.
New Sci/Tech Blog (Posted:
December 1, 2005)
Tisch Library is pleased to announce our new sci/tech blog - Tisch Library SciTech News. We hope to be able to use it to keep you informed about relevant updates in library services as well as presenting interesting news items about the sciences, technology, and engineering from various sources. In the future, you can find a link to it on the Tisch homepage under the heading Research Assistance. The administrator is Wayne Powell. If you have questions or comments, you can email him directly.
"Forever Free" events, including films, lectures, and performances--week of 11/25 to 12/2 (Posted:
November 23, 2005)
Tuesday, 11/29, 5:30pm
Liberty's Unfinished Business
Tisch Library is honored to host the inaugural presentation of this lecture by Beverly Morgan-Welch, Executive Director of the Museum of Afro-American History in Boston and Nantucket.
Ballou Hall, Coolidge RoomThursday, 12/1, 5:00pm
Forever Free Chaplain's Table Discussion
Join University Chaplain David O'Leary for a very special finale of this year's Chaplain's Table series. Tisch Librarian Margaret Gooch will lead a brief tour of the Forever Free exhibit. The group will adjourn to Dewick Dining Hall for dinner and discussion.
Tisch Library Exhibit AreaFriday, 12/2, 3:00pm
Bamboozled: produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee; written and directed by Spike Lee
About a disgruntled TV writer who tries to sabotage an upstart network by reviving an offensive minstrel show, only to watch it become a runaway hit. Starring Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
2 hours, 16 minutes; Rated R
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 304Friday, 12/2, 6:00pm
Forever Free Exhibit Grand Finale
Our six weeks of programming culminates in a very special event featuring Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of the recently-released and critically-acclaimed Lincoln's Melancholy. Mr. Shenk's book was previewed in Time Magazine's July 2005 cover story, and adapted for the October 2005 Atlantic Monthly. A book-signing and color guard ceremony to close the exhibition will be followed by a reception in honor of the many participants and volunteers involved in the Forever Free project.
Tisch Library, Forever Free Exhibit Area, Main Floor
Holiday Hours (Posted:
November 17, 2005)
Wednesday, November 23rd: 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Thursday, November 24th - Saturday, November 26th: CLOSED
Sunday, 11/20, 1:00pm--Medford/Somerville Local Historical Markers (Posted:
November 17, 2005)
Which famous abolitionist's home is still standing in Medford Square? Do you know the Somerville location of the oldest Civil War memorial? Join Jay Griffin, President of the Medford Historical Society and, historians Evelyn Battinelli and Barbara Mangum of the Somerville Historical Society, for the answer to these questions and an interesting look at Medford's and Somerville's rich Civil War related history. This event takes place in Tisch Library's Electronic Resource Center.
Tisch Library Recognizes its 5 Millionth Visitor (Posted:
November 10, 2005)
On Tuesday, September 20, 2005, at 1:35 p.m., Tisch Library recognized the 5 millionth visitor since the1996 opening of the new building. Congratulations to Padden Murphy, Class of 2009! As the 5 Millionth Visitor to Tisch Library, he was presented with balloons and a gift basket containing a Tisch spill-proof mug and mousepad, a $10 copycard and gift certificates to the Tower Café and the Tufts Bookstore.
Despite the availability of thousands of online databases and journals licensed by Tufts libraries, students and faculty continue to come to the library in great numbers. Tisch is the cultural and intellectual heart of the campus - a place where students and faculty meet to exchange ideas, find information, learn new skills, and create new knowledge.
The expanded and enlarged Tisch Library opened for business in May 1996 and has supported the mission of Tufts University in providing students and the entire Tufts Community with information to support teaching and research.
"Forever Free" events, including films, lectures, and performances--week of 11/13 to 11/19 (Posted:
November 10, 2005)
Tuesday, 11/15, 5:30pm
Tracing Your Roots - Intermediate Workshop
This advanced approach is intended for individuals who attended the 11/8 introductory session, or have already reconstructed their family heritage back several generations. Connie Reik's workshop utilizes invaluable government documents, references, and electronic resources.
Tisch Library, Electronic Resource Center, Main Floor.Tuesday, 11/15, 7:00pm
"No Army Without Music": Songs of the Civil War
The Confederate and Union armies would serenade each other across the lines at night and then slaughter one another in the morning. Within the songs of the time--depiction of battles, comic treatments of army life, sentimental ballads, and patriotic anthems--we discover the attitudes, values, and beliefs of a nation at war with itself. Our guest speaker is Michael Lasser, lecturer, writer, critic, teacher, and host of the nationally syndicated, Peabody-Award-winning, public radio show Fascinatin' Rhythm.
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 316Wednesday, 11/16, 4:45pm
Risks of Activism: Stowe, Lincoln, and the Twenty-First Century
Focusing on the conflicting issues of abolition and racism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel, which Lincoln reportedly said "started the great war," Professor Ammons will ask what the lessons are for activists today. What's to be learned from Uncle Tom's Cabin in the struggle now against the war in Iraq, or the effort to save the environment, or the continuing fight against racism, homophobia, and misogyny?
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 316Friday, 11/18, 3:00pm
The Life and Legend of Sojourner Truth: produced, directed & written by Lynn C. Spangler
Traces the life and legend of Sojourner Truth, the former slave who became an antislavery and women's rights activist in the United States.
57 minutes; Not Rated
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 304Friday, 11/18, 4:00pm
The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: producer, Matthew White; screenplay, Paula White
Lincoln's words are illustrated with rare still photographs. Included are the "house divided" speech, highlights from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, readings of The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address and more.
45 minutes; Not Rated
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 304
Library Holiday Hours (Posted:
November 3, 2005)
Friday, November 11th, 2005: 10:00a.m. - 9:00p.m.
"Forever Free" events, including films, lectures, and performances--week of 11/6 to 11/12 (Posted:
November 3, 2005)
Monday, 11/7, 8:00pm
Our American Cousin - Musical Performance
Music by Eric Sawyer; text by John Shoptaw
This original opera tells the story of the assassination of President Lincoln from the perspectives of the actors on stage at Ford's Theater when Lincoln was shot. Featuring Alan Schneider, tenor.
Goddard Chapel.Tuesday, 11/8, 5:30pm
Tracing Your Roots - Introductory Workshop
Connie Reik, Tisch Librarian, presents this session, exploring the basic tools needed to get started. The workshop is intended for novices just beginning to research their ancestry.
Tisch Library, Electronic Resource Center, Main FloorWednesday, 11/9, 12:00pm
Did Lincoln Really Believe 'All Men Are Created Equal'?
V. Phillip Muñoz, Tufts Professor of Political Science, explores political philosophy and American constitutional law, as it relates to this evocative topic.
Location TBA - Visit our website for updatesThursday, 11/10, 5:30pm
Spiritual Development: Lessons from Lincoln
W. George Scarlett, Tufts Professor of Child Development, will speak on Lincoln as a spiritual hero.
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 304Friday, 11/11, 3:00pm
The Horse Soldiers: directed by John Ford; written for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin
Based in an actual Civil War incident, tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union Cavalry soldiers who force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a Rebel stronghold at Newton Station. Starring John Wayne, William Holden.
2 hours; Not Rated
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 304
"Forever Free" events, including films, lectures, and performances--week of 10/30 to 11/05 (Posted:
October 27, 2005)
Monday, 10/31, 12:00pm
Letters and Diaries of Soldiers—or, What I Did on my Summer Vacation
Max Felker-Kantor, Tufts senior, and Bryna O'Sullivan, Tufts sophomore, will each discuss their summer work with Civil War documents. Max spent time in New York as a 2005 Gilder-Lehrman History Scholar, where he studied the correspondence of Laurens Wolcott, a soldier who fought for the duration of the Civil War. Bryna served an internship at the Middlesex County Historical Society in Middletown, Connecticut, where she cataloged the Society's military collection and created a multimedia presentation featuring both Union and Confederate letters, diaries and images.
Tisch Library, Electronic Resource Center, Main FloorTuesday, 11/1, 11:00am
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott - Live Dramatic Performance
Through her living history portrayals, Jan Turnquist brings alive two of the most famous women of the Civil War era. An educator, actress and historian, Jan is the founder and director of InterAct Performances, and a consultant to Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts.
Tisch Library Patio (Rain location - Tisch Lobby)Wednesday, 11/2, 3:00pm
Authentic Clothing of the Civil War
Barbara Pugliese, considered to be a world expert on dress and costumes from the 19th century, demonstrates the intricacies of stitchery during the Civil War era from uniforms to daily clothing.
Tisch Library, Electronic Resource Center, Main FloorThursday, 11/3, 3:45pm
Friends of Tufts' Libraries Authors Talk Series
Friends of Tufts' Libraries welcomes Nina Silber to a discussion of her most recently released book, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (spring, 2005). Ms. Silber, an Associate Professor of History at Boston University, received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist for her "...provocative, challenging work..." that "...writes ordinary women onto the page and reshapes the boundaries of Civil War history." A question and answer session and book-signing will follow.
Tisch Library, Hirsh Reading Room, Main FloorFriday, 11/4, 2:00-4:00pm
Digital Collections and Archives Open House
Come see highlights from DCA's collection of Civil War era photographs and artifacts. University Archivist Anne Sauer will give introductory remarks on Tufts during the Civil War.
Tisch Library, Digital Collections and Archives, Level GFriday, 11/4, 3:00pm
Principle and Prudence in Lincoln's Statecraft and Statesmanship, Politics and Persuasion
Yale Professors David Bromwich (English), and Steven Smith (Political Science) present this program in 2 parts, followed by a joint question and answer period. Reception to follow.
Location TBA - Visit our website for updatesFriday, 11/4, 3:00pm
Friendly Persuasion: producer-director, William Wyler; screenplay, Jessamyn West and Robert Wylar
The story of a Quaker family in Indiana in 1862 whose religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. They are forced to decide whether or not to fight when Southern troops pass the area. Starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy Maguire, Anthony Perkins.
2 hours, 17 minutes; Not Rated.
Tisch Library Media Center, Room 316
Nina Silber, Friends Authors Talk (Posted:
October 20, 2005)
On 11/03/05, in the Hirsh Reading Room of Tisch Library; Nina Silber, author of Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (Harvard University Press. May 2005) , in connection with Tisch Library's installation of the national touring exhibition entitled Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation. Book signing sponsored by Tufts University Bookstore follows talk. Exhibit on the author in Tisch Library lobby October 10 - November 11, 2005.
Holiday Hours (Posted:
October 6, 2005)
Monday, October 10, 2005: 10:00a.m. - 1:00a.m.
Renewal in Poland (Posted:
October 6, 2005)
Tufts librarian Laurie Sabol traveled to Poland, helping to transform the neglected site of a notorious concentration camp into a commemorative park. You can read the full story on the Tufts website.
Friday Afternoon Film Series (Posted:
October 6, 2005)
Films to accompany the "Forever Free" exhibition that traces "Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" are being shown each Friday at 3:00p.m. in the Tisch Media Center. The films for October are Young Mr. Lincoln (Oct. 7), Glory, a film about America's first black regiment, with introduction by Professor Gerald Gill (Oct. 14), and the concluding episodes of Ken Burns' Series The Civil War (Oct.21 and 28). These will all be shown in Room 304. For a full listing of films, with details, see the Film Series page on the Forever Free website.
"The Courage to Listen: Voices of Israelis and Palestinians" (Posted:
October 6, 2005)
The Tower Gallery is proud to display an exhibition of children's drawings accompanied by portraits of Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists. The portraits are photographs taken by M.F.A. candidate Rebecca Heyl. Rebecca lived in Israel from 2001 until the summer of 2004 and brings back a stirring look at the people and emotion found in the land. This exhibit can be seen in Tisch Library until October 27th.
Graduate Student Council Lounge (Posted:
October 3, 2005)
The Graduate Student Council Lounge is temporarily located on Level G in Tisch Library while renovations continue in East Hall during the fall semester. Level G will continue to be a quiet study area.
Catherine Clinton, Friends/Parents/Homecoming Weekend Authors Talk (Posted:
September 29, 2005)
On October 14, 2005, in the Hirsh Reading Room, Catherine Clinton, acclaimed author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, kicks off Tisch Library's installation of the national touring exhibition entitled Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation. Book signing sponsored by Tufts University Bookstore follows talk. Exhibit on the author in Tisch Library lobby October 10 - November 11, 2005.
Banned Books Week (Posted:
September 23, 2005)
READ! Emancipate a Banned Book! Tisch Library celebrates Banned Books Week, September 24 - October 7, 2005. Displays featuring African-American, Children's and Civil War Literature will be on display in the Tisch Library until October 7, 2005.
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index Online (Posted:
September 22, 2005)
HAPI is now available electronically. HAPI contains the best scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States: citations to articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, and other material in more than 500 international social science and humanities journals, published from 1970 to the present. Many citations are linked to full-text.
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now online! (Posted:
September 22, 2005)
The very popular CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now available online. Now corresponding to the 85th edition in content, this new version enables quick and easy access to everything the Handbook has to offer. Whether you want to browse through the Table of Contents or search for a specific piece of data, you'll be sure to find what you were looking for, and more quickly than ever before.
"Find it @ Tufts" (Posted:
September 8, 2005)
Imagine a link from Tisch's electronic indexes and abstracts that allows you to click on a button and be presented with the full-text article directly from the citation. Instead of following the time-consuming process of finding a citation, searching the lists of journals, and reviewing subscription coverage details, you are instead taken automatically to the article you want if it is available online through Tufts.
Beginning this September with the databases in Scopus, Ovid, Web of Knowledge, Engineering Village, and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, the Tufts libraries are offering a "Find It @ Tufts" link to articles found in the most comprehensive of our electronic journal collections: JSTOR, Project Muse, Oxford University Journals, Cambridge University Journals, Science Direct, and Blackwell Synergy. If Tufts does not own the electronic version of the journal, the "Find It @ Tufts" link will take you to the library catalog. If we don't own the journal in print, "Find It @ Tufts" will supply a direct link to our ILLIAD inter-library loan service. We will continue to add databases and journal collections throughout the coming months and will also use this service to create links in the online catalog for related subject and author searching of journal literature. As always, if you need assistance, do not hesitate to contact the reference desk at 617-627-3460.
Fall Newsletter (Posted:
September 8, 2005)
New Cash-to-Card Machine in the Copier Room (Posted:
September 1, 2005)
A vending points cash-to-card machine is going to be installed in the copier room on the entrance floor of the Tisch Library.
Enhancements to the Tufts Catalog (Posted:
September 1, 2005)
Several upgrades to the Tufts catalog have been made in the past few months:
Preferred searches
When you are logged in to your account, you can search the catalog and save your searches as preferred. The next time you log in to your account, you can rerun any of your preferred searches to see if new items that match your search have arrived at the library. A future enhancement will allow you to receive an email message alerting you that new titles have arrived!
Reading History
This feature, which you have the choice of opting into or not, allows you to look at a list of titles you've checked out from the time you opt in. No one else has access to this list. You can remove selected titles as you wish. NOTE: if you turn off your reading history or delete items, titles are not retrievable. To opt in to your reading history, log in to your account.
New Acquisitions List
Run on the 15th of each month, the New Acquisitions List includes the previous month's new acquisitions in all formats. It is searchable by title, keyword and author and is browsable by broad Library of Congress heading. You can limit your searches by library and can set up RSS feeds for any search so that you can be automatically alerted when new material arrives.
Improved Searching for Various Formats
The next time you search by advanced keyword and limit your search by material type, you'll notice a great improvement in the choices you can make. You can now search either DVDs or VHS tapes, and there are new, more specific breakdowns in music formats than before. The other aspect of this project is that items have exact descriptive icons. Search by title for Our Town and you'll see that now you tell the difference between the various formats more quickly than you've been able to in the past.
Please talk to Reference Desk staff about any of these improvements.
Tisch Library Tours on Weekdays (Posted:
August 25, 2005)
20-minute tours depart from the library lobby weekdays at Noon, 12:20pm, & 12:40pm. Take a tour & receive a free Tisch Library spill-proof mug! There will be no tour on Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
150 Years of Fraternities and Sororities at Tufts (Posted:
August 12, 2005)
An exhibit entitled "150 Years of Fraternities and Sororities at Tufts" has been prepared by the Friends Exhibit Team especially for Homecoming and Parents Weekend. This is the final exhibit to be prepared by the current team whose members are: Marcia Kaplan Goldsmith J55, Sheila McDermott J57, Jay Samuels E45 and Judy Johnson Uhrig J55. The exhibit will be on display August 26, 2005 through January 12, 2006.
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation (Posted:
August 12, 2005)
Tisch Library hosts a national touring exhibition entitled Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation which consists of 6 full weeks of programming including: period re-enactments, lectures, panel discussions, film series, a Civil War photo gallery, and music and dance performances. This exhibit will be on display October 12, 2005 through December 02, 2005. For complete information on the exhibition and the events at Tisch Library, see the Forever Free website.
Games and Pastimes of the Civil War Era (Posted:
July 22, 2005)
An exciting collection of toys, games, sewing tools, dance shoes and other items used for entertainment during the mid-1800s. The exhibit will be on display through August 15, 2005, and highlights artifacts and books generously lent to the Tisch Library by Patri and Barbara Pugliese, local Civil War era experts.
First Family: Mary Todd Lincoln and her Children (Posted:
July 21, 2005)
A new exhibit is now on display in the Tisch Library lobby. Learn more about the early life of Mary Todd, see images of the couple and their four children, and read about Mary's tumultuous life as the widow of the Civil War President.
Harper's Weekly Satire of President Lincoln's Time in Office (Posted:
June 16, 2005)
A new exhibit is now on display in the Tisch Microforms and Current Periodicals department. This exhibit highlights Harper's Weekly's satire during President Lincoln's time in office from 1861-1865. Harper's Weekly was published from 1857-1916. Tisch Library is proud to have all of these issues available for use on microfilm R376.
Healing the Men During the Civil War (Posted:
June 15, 2005)
A new exhibit is on display now in the Tisch Lobby. This exhibit highlights the medical treatment of sick and injured soldiers during the Civil War and the stories of a few individual men.
Animals of the Civil War (Posted:
May 26, 2005)
A new exhibit is on display now through July 15, 2005 in the Tisch Lobby. This exhibit highlights stories of a few animals of the Civil War. A variety of animals, not limited to dogs and horses, served as the pets, mascots and heroes of the soldiers fighting in the Civil War. The exhibit will travel to the Tufts Webster Veterinary Library in Grafton this July.
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