News, Exhibits, Events & New Resources

Summer and Fall Semesters, 2006

New York Times: The News of the Century (Posted: November 30, 2006)

A new exhibit is now on display in the Tisch Microforms and Current Periodicals department. This exhibit displays important news events of the 20th century as they were reported by the New York Times. Tisch Library is proud to have all issues of the New York Times as Microform R1. (The New York Times Online Archive is available without illustrations.)

Exhibit Prepared by: Daniel Shteremberg Microform/Current Periodicals Library Student Assistant Major: Computer Engineering '08

Color Copier installed in Tisch Library: (Posted: October 27, 2006)
A color copier has been installed in the copier room on entrance floor of Tisch Library. The cost per copy is 30 cents.

Parents Weekend Authors Talk by Frank Ackerman (Posted: October 11, 2006)

On Friday October 20, 2-3pm (Hirsh Reading Room, Tisch Library) Tufts faculty member in the Global Development and Environment Institute, entitled Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing. Book signing sponsored by Tufts Bookstore follows talk. Exhibit on the author in Tisch Library lobby October 11 - 31, 2006.

Making of the Modern World Full-text searching of digital facsimile images of literature on economy and business, containing the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive Access to online video from Vanderbilt's archive collection of CNN material only, plus abstracts for the remainder of the collection which holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Contains full content of the original 10-volume set on subject matters including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Also includes regularly added new articles, as well as editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web. [Contact Abby Cross]

Provides citations to over 30,000 English-language plays published between 1949 and the present; it includes links to the full text of plays available on the web. Patrons can also search over 500 monologues. Searches can be limited by age appropriateness, the number of male/female roles, etc. Annotations include plot summary, musical and scenery requirements, and number of sets. [Contact Chao Chen]

October 10, 2006 will be the Tenth Anniversary of the dedication of Tisch Library. A special film has been produced covering the construction of the library and significant events over the last ten years entitled Tisch Turns Ten: A Decade of Distinction. In response to visitor requests for tours of the library's art work and building, tours will be offered (see schedule below). We hope you will join us for some of these events to celebrate Tisch's Tenth Anniversary.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Tisch Library's 10th Anniversary Celebration

Noon & 1 pm, 30-minute Film (Hirsh Reading Room), followed by Tour (Tisch Lobby)
2pm, Anniversary Cake in The Tower Café
3:30 p.m.- Martin J. Sherwin, Friends Authors Talk (Hirsh Reading Room)

Tisch & Friends Tenth Anniversaries Talk by Martin Sherwin (Posted: October 2, 2006)

On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 3:30pm, celebrate the 10th Anniversaries of the Friends of Tufts Libraries and Tisch Library by attending a special Authors Talk given by Martin Sherwin, The Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, who received the 2006 Pulitzer prize for Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Co-sponsored by the History Department. Book signing sponsored by Tufts Bookstore and reception follow talk. Exhibit on the author in Tisch Library lobby October 2 - 11, 2006.

Tisch purchases extensive primary source materials in American history and literature: (Posted: October 2, 2006)

Early American Newspapers 1690-1876 Contains hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies with an emphasis on newspapers that began publication before 1820.

US Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980 Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 volumes.

American Broadsides and Ephemera Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

Homecoming Weekend Authors Talk by Rocco Carzo (Posted: September 15, 2006)

Saturday, September 30, 10-11am (Austin Conference Room, Tisch Library), Homecoming Weekend Authors Talk by Rocco Carzo, Athletics Director Emeritus, author of Jumbo Footprints: A History of Tufts Athletics, 1852-1999. Attend Rocky's Authors Talk before the Homecoming Game to learn more about Tufts football and Tufts' scholar-athlete tradition. Book signing sponsored by Tufts Bookstore and reception follow talk. Exhibit on Rocky in Tisch Library lobby September 20 - October 2, 2006.

Tisch Library will be closed: Saturday through Monday, September 2 - 4, 2006.

Tisch Library Summer Building Tours:(Posted August 29, 2006)
This year, Tisch building tours will be offered for new students every weekday from Noon-1pm from Tuesday, August 29 through Friday, September 8, 2006.
*No tour on September 4 (Labor Day)*

Tisch Library Fall Hours: September 5, 2006 - December 21, 2006
Monday - Thursday, 8:00AM - 1:00AM and Friday, 8:00AM - 9:00PM
Saturday, l0:00AM - 9:00PM and Sunday, 10:00AM - 1:00AM

Late Night Study & Group Study in Tisch: September 5 - December 8, 2006
Hirsh Reading Room late night quiet study area, Sunday - Thursday: 1am - 3am. Fridays & Saturdays: 9pm - Midnight
*New: The Tower café late night group study (no food service), Sunday - Thursday, 1am - 3am. The Tower fall pilot is funded by the TCU Senate.

Tisch Library, in response to the results of its biannual user web survey, has upgraded its copier and printing services. The new copiers have more sophisticated features such as high volume, high speed output, sharper texts and images. The new machines also have document feeders, automatic duplexes (for double-sided copying), and large capacity paper trays. Information on details of copier functions can be found in the copier room on the main level as well as at all copier locations in Tisch Library. The copiers will continue to accept copy cards and student ID points, and some will accept cash. Black and white copies will cost 10 cents each, and color copies will cost 30 cents per page. Copy cards may be purchased for $1.00 with a card fee of 40 cents from the card dispensers located in the copier room, where value can be added to them. Larger denomination cards in the amounts of $10, $20, $37.50, $70 and $100 can be purchased in the Administrative Services Office of Tisch Library without charge for the actual card during regular (9-5 weekday) business hours.

Library Research Workshops (Posted: August 29, 2006)

Our fall series of drop-in workshops is available here. Take a look, and sign up for as many sessions as you need. If the schedule doesn't meet with your time constraints, please contact Laurie Sabol to reschedule at a time that works for you. If you have colleagues, students or friends that might take advantage of some of the sessions, feel free to forward information to them.

Tisch Library Summer Building Tours: (Posted: August 24, 2006)

This year, Tisch building tours will be offered for new students every weekday from Noon-1pm from Tuesday, August 29 through Friday, September 8, 2006.
*No tour on September 4 (Labor Day)*

Collaborative Workstations in Tisch Library (Posted: August 24, 2006)

Friends of Tufts Libraries have funded 2 collaborative research workstations in the pilot Learning Commons, each with seating for 4-6 users.

Located in the Reference area, the Learning Commons will also provide access to all the library's web resources, thus giving students the opportunity to conduct library research & create documents and presentations at the same time.

This year's premiere celebration at Tisch will be the Tenth Anniversary of the dedication of Tisch Library on October 10, 2006. A special film has been produced covering the construction of the library and significant events over the last ten years entitled Tisch Turns Ten: A Decade of Distinction. In response to visitor requests for tours of the library's art work and building, tours will be offered (see schedule below). We hope you will join us for some of these events to celebrate Tisch's Tenth Anniversary.

Anniversary Events:

Saturday, September 30, 2006 - Homecoming
10 a.m.- Rocky Carzo, Friends Author Talk (Austin Room)
11a.m. - Art Tour (Tisch Lobby), followed by 30-minute Film at 11:30a.m. (Austin Room)
Noon & 2:30 p.m., 30-minute Film (Austin Room), followed by Art Tour (Tisch Lobby)

Sunday, October 1, 2006 - Tufts Community Day/Medford Academic Quad
11 a.m. & 12:30 p.m., 30-minute Film (Austin Room), followed by Tour (Tisch Lobby)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Tisch Library's 10th Anniversary Celebration
Noon & 1 p.m., 30-minute Film (Hirsh Reading Room), followed by Tour (Tisch Lobby)
2:00 p.m., Anniversary Cake in The Tower Café
3:30 p.m.-Martin J. Sherwin, Friends Authors Talk (Hirsh Reading Room)

Tisch Library Intersession Hours: August 12 - September 4, 2006: (Posted: August 1, 2006)

Monday - Friday, 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Saturday/Sunday, CLOSED
Exception: Monday, September 4 (Labor Day), CLOSED

Tisch Library Summer Session II Hours (Posted: July 5, 2006)

July 5 – August 11, 2006:
Monday – Thursday, 8:45a.m. – 10:00p.m.
Friday, 8:45a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Saturday, 10:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
Sunday, 2:00p.m. – 10:00p.m.

Two New Exhibits in Tisch Lobby (Posted: June 22, 2006)

Two new exhibits have gone up in the Tisch Lobby:

Summer at Tufts
See articles on the first summer school held at Tufts, check out some current and past catalogs generously lent to us from the Summer Session Office, and gaze at the images of the beautiful scenery in Tailloires, France. What better time than now to showcase all that Tufts has to offer in the summer time?! Thanks to Susanne Belovari and her staff in Archives for their assistance!

Partnership: Key to Technical Services Workflow
To provide materials in the fastest and most efficient manner, the technical services staff have formed close partnerships with important outside groups. Staff coordinates closely with book vendors, catalog providers, and the catalog software service people--and student employees are an important part of the process! Tisch technical service staff made a presentation at a recent national convention of libraries that use the same catalog software, demonstrating how our workflow runs faster and smoother when working in partnerships. An exhibit in the lobby of Tisch Library shows highlights from that poster presentation and the importance of our student employees to library technical services work.

Tisch Library Summer Session 1 Hours (Posted: June 1, 2006)

May 24 – June 30, 2006:
Monday – Thursday, 8:45a.m. – 10:00p.m.
Friday, 8:45a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Saturday, 10:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
Sunday, 2:00p.m. – 10:00p.m.

Tisch Library Intersession Hours: May 13 – May 23 (Posted: May 11, 2006)

Monday – Friday: 9:00a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED

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