The library will reopen at 8:00am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Please note that the cafe will close at 4:00pm on Thursday, December 20 and remain closed until Tuesday, January 22.
For more information about the library or cafe hours please check our online hours calendar.
Happy holidays from the staff of the Bentley Library!
The staff of the Bentley Library thanks everyone who submitted their comments, suggestions, criticisms, and compliments during the most recent installment of the 14 Days to Have Your Say! blog. Now that everyone has “had their say”, we’ll address those issues that arose most frequently (though be assured that we read closely every comment made!).
We wouldn’t run 14 Days to Have Your Say if we weren’t committed to bettering our resources and services, and we want you to know that we are listening. In fact, here’s a quick list of changes that the Bentley Library made in response to the feedback we received from the first two rounds of 14 Days to Have Your Say!, which were held in 2008 and 2010. Over the past four years, in response to your suggestions, we have:
We’d like to remind you that you don’t have to wait for the next 14 Days to Have Your Say to voice your opinion or make a recommendation. Simply use the “Contact Us” link on the library’s website and send us your feedback anytime.
Communication and Mass Media Complete is an excellent source of information and research on communication, mass media, and other closely related fields of study. If you need to find articles, especially scholarly articles, for your marketing, English & media studies, psychology, or sociology courses, this is the perfect database to use. Communication and Mass Media Complete has full text access to over 500 journals related to these subjects , with this access going all the way back to 1915 in the case of some journals.
Communication and Mass Media Complete brings together the content of 2 older databases, CommSearch from the National Communication Association and Mass Media Articles Index from Penn State. EBSCO has two working groups comprised of librarians, bibliographers, and communication and mass media professionals endeavoring to enhance and develop the database further.
If you are familiar with some of our other EBSCO databases, such as Academic Search Premier or Business Source Premier, searching Communication and Mass Media Complete will be simple and easy. The advanced search screen in Communication and Mass Media Complete is nearly identical to the advanced search screen in those databases. You can limit yourself to scholarly, or peer reviewed, articles, articles available in full text, and articles published with a certain date range.
Please visit Communication and Mass Media Complete to explore this valuable database further or visit our Databases A-Z page to view a complete list of our resources.
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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please Ask a Librarian. If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.
Amy Williams is more commonly known to staff and students as Professor Amy Ray of the Information and Process Management Department. After this semester, she will be leaving Bentley University to further pursue her love of painting. Her paintings are now showing in the Art Gallery.
Opening Reception
December 12, 2012
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Artist Talk and Q&A @ 5:30
Light refreshments will be served.
Artist Statement:
Engaging in creativity has been essential to me for as long as I can remember. As a young child I spent countless hours sewing clothes for my stuffed animals from scraps of cloth and then drawing pictures of them sporting their new apparel. I also spent a lot of time drawing my sisters, our dogs and the flowers and trees in our yard as well as making construction paper collages of virtually everything, but especially the trees. My mother’s brother and sister were both artists who were never happier than when they had paintbrushes in their hands and I seem to have inherited that feeling from them. At the age of 8, however, I fell in love with music and that took me down a different creative road until I was a freshman in college and decided to use my music scholarship to pursue an education in Accounting.
Throughout my early adult life, I was always a volunteer for various creative arts organizations while focusing mainly on my career. Then, in 2000, I attended a special Van Gogh exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts on my very first weekend as a Boston-area resident. I was completely awe-struck by the exhibit and overwhelmed by the fact that the MFA was my ‘hometown museum’. With this amazing resource available, I vowed to rededicate myself to the creative process and started with classes at the venerable School of the Museum of Fine Arts that summer and have been painting and drawing regularly ever since.
Thanks to Bentley’s agreement to let me phase out of my current academic position, I have recently had the opportunity to study intensively for months at a time in NY at the world famous Art Students League with some of the greatest living painters and teachers including Burt Silverman for whom I have had the honor of serving as class monitor and also with Nelson Shanks, Ray Kinstler and most recently Dan Thompson, who is without a doubt the most passionate teacher I have ever known. Painting brings me great joy and I am so happy to have this amazing gift back in my life. I am never happier than when I’m in the sun dappled woods trying to capture the amazing beauty before me. And even when I’m not painting, I’m looking at the world as an artist again and it feels really good.
We’re happy to announce that this semester we are starting 24-hour access one day earlier than normal!
Our ’round the clock schedule starts at 7:30AM on Monday, December 10 (the day before Reading Day) and ends at 9:00PM on Thursday, December 20 (last day of exams). *Please note the Saturday night/Sunday morning exception – because everyone should take a little break from studying!
What to expect:
For more information about the library or cafe hours please view our full hours calendar online. Best of luck with your finals, and have a wonderful winter break!
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook acquisitions for the month of November. Go to our New Books & DVDs page to browse by subject or format. If you find something you want, simply hit the “Request” button to place a hold on it.
