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Monday, July 30, 2012
Thank You DASAC Artists
Thank you to all of our DASAC friends who created a special surprise for our library staff – a lovely poster that showcases the importance of libraries and reading. Be sure to visit the library to admire our DASAC poster — currently on display at our Circulation Desk.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Introducing Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
"Debates over Slavery and Abolition. Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections from the United States and Europe on the worldwide movement for the abolition of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
- This database contains:
- 1.5 million cross-searchable pages: 7285 books, 79 serials, 16 manuscript collections and 377 supreme court records and briefs
- Newly commissioned essays, links to websites, biographies, chronology and bibliographies; reference materials from Macmillan, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale encyclopedias
- Collections published through partnerships with the Amistad Research Center, Oberlin College, Oxford University and many other institutions"
Gale Cengage Learning
Monday, June 11, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Introducing GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources)
"GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. A one-stop site, this resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in highly accessible, visually appealing research areas, covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development."
Friday, March 9, 2012
Titanic Centennial Display
Our Spring Boyden Library displays highlight the upcoming Titanic Centennial. These displays were inspired by our friend and recently retired faculty member, Gabor Temesvari*. Mr. Temesvari has enthusiastically researched this historic event. Within the above slideshow, he shares some of the artifacts that he has collected.
In addition to the bounty of library books and audiovisuals available for loan from the Boyden Library Collection, we are also highlighting newspaper articles about the Titanic tragedy - most of which were culled from the following library database collections:
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