Author: Lisa

Memorial Day Weekend Hours

Lisa

Our hours during the Memorial Day holiday weekend are:

Friday, May 27
8:00am – 4:00pm

Saturday, May  28 & Sunday, May 29
CLOSED

Monday, May 30
1:00pm – 9:00pm

For more information about the library’s hours, please view our online hours calendar.

Summer Session Hours Begin May 23

Lisa

Summer Session I begins on Monday, May 23, 2011.  Our regular summer sessions hours are:

Sunday
1:00pm – 10:00pm

Monday – Thursday
8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday
8:00am – 4:00pm

Saturday
9:00am – 5:00pm

Please note: Hours are subject to change on holidays, holiday weekends and when classes are not being held.   To get the most up-to-date information about the library’s hours please view our online hours calendar.

Get Caught Listening! Audiobooks Are Now On Display.

Lisa

Officially, June is Audiobook Month, but we’ve decided that our new audiobook display just couldn’t wait until then.  In preparation for next week’s 2011 Audie Awards, we’re highlighting the 2011 audiobook nominees that we have in our collection (listed below).  And with Memorial Day just around the corner, we thought this would be the perfect time to promote our most recent audio acquisitions.  Being stalled on the highway in long-weekend traffic is no fun, but a captivating audiobook can help make the time fly!  Stop by and take a look at our selections.  Keep checking back, new titles are being added as they are received!

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2011 Audie Award nominees available at the Bentley Library:

AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR

  • LIFE by Keith Richards / read by Keith Richards, Johnny Depp & Joe Hurley [check availability]

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

  • ABIGAIL ADAMS: A LIFE  by Woody Holton / read by Cassandra Campbell [check availability]

BUSINESS/EDUCATIONAL

  • BUY-IN: SAVING YOUR GOOD IDEA FROM GETTING SHOT DOWN by John Kotter / read by Tim Wheeler [check availability]
  • DELIVERING HAPPINESS: A PATH TO PROFITS, PASSION AND PURPOSE by Tony Hsieh / read by Tony Hsieh   [check availability]
  • THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK: ESCAPE 9-5, LIVE ANYWHERE, AND JOIN THE NEW RICH by Timothy Ferriss / read by  Ray Porter [check availability]

CLASSIC

FICTION:

HUMOR

  • EARTH (THE AUDIOBOOK): A VISITOR’S GUIDE TO THE HUMAN RACE by Jon Stewart / read by Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, et al. [check availability]
  • SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK: A MODEST BESTIARY by David Sedaris / read by David Sedaris, Elaine Stritch, Dylan Baker & Sian Phillips [check availability]

LITERARY FICTION

MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE

  • ROOM: A NOVEL by Emma Donoghue / read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff & Suzanne Toren [check availability]

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE

NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR

  • A CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD by Garrison Keillor / read by Garrison Keillor [check availability]

NONFICTION

  • THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot / read by Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin  [check availability]

SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS

SPOKEN NARRATION/ FEMALE

SPOKEN NARRATION/MALE

THRILLER/SUSPENSE

  • THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson / read by Simon Vance  [check availability]

Special Library Hours: May 12 – May 22

Lisa

Special library hours are in effect from Thursday, May 12 (last day of final exams) until Sunday, May 22. This includes the week of Intensive Classes.

Thursday, May 12
library closes at 9:00pm
cafe closes at 6:00pm, remains closed for the summer*

Friday, May 13
7:30am – 6:00pm

Saturday, May 14 & Sunday, May 15
CLOSED

Monday, May 16 – Thursday May 19
8:00am – 9:00pm

Friday, May 20
8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday, May 21 & Sunday, May 22
CLOSED

Undergraduate Summer Session I begins Monday, May 23.  We will be posting our Summer Session hours shortly.  You may also check our online hours calendar for more information about the library’s hours.

* Please note that the Deloitte Cafe/Einstein Bros. Bagels closes at 6:00pm on Thursday, May 12, and will remain closed for the duration of the summer.

Congrats to Our Graduating Student Assistants! We Dedicate These Books & Films to You…

Lisa

Commencement is just around the corner, making it time for the library staff to bid farewell to our graduating student assistants – Megan Callahan, Nicholas Chitopoulos, Mark DiMaggio, Matthew Gillen, Julia Guilger, Michael Johnson, Ryan Miranda, Lauren Paglierani, Kelly Peterson, Anika Sutty, Kimberly Waldbillig and Steven Zhen. Congratulations and best wishes for a happy and successful future!

It’s a Bentley Library tradition to dedicate a book to each of our graduating student employees in appreciation for their service.  This year, the students were invited to choose either a book or a film to be dedicated on their behalf.   We enjoyed seeing the diversity of their picks, which range from Ayn Rand to Cormac McCarthy to Harry Potter! We will be displaying all of their individual selections in the New Books area for the next few weeks – stop by and take a look.

Thanks goes out to all of our student employees for their hard work and commitment throughout the past year! Have a wonderful summer break, and we look forward to your return next year.

Our Top 10 Most Circulated Books, DVDs & Audiobooks!

Lisa

Once again, it’s time to announce the Bentley Library Top 10!  Each May we query our database to find out which books, audiobooks and DVDs have circulated the most times during the academic year (excluding any items placed on reserve for a class).

So, what were this year’s trends? In non-fiction, books about the financial crisis and negotiating proved to be very popular. Financial journalist Michael Lewis scored two slots in the top 10 with books that took a revealing look at Wall Street – his 1989 bestseller Liar’s Poker and its 2010 sequel The Big Short. Over on the fiction side, two trilogies were huge hits – The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins and the Millennium series (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, et al.) by Stieg Larsson. Not surprisingly, both series are bound for the big screen.  Maybe next year we’ll see them on our Top 10 DVDs list?!

Below you’ll find the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2010-2011 in the categories of POPULAR READING, STACKS (regular book collection), AUDIOBOOKS and POPULAR DVDs. Drumroll, please…

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

  1. OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcom Gladwell [check availability]
  2. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  3. FREEDOM: A NOVEL by Jonathan Franzen [check availability]
  4. CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins [check availability]
  5. EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert [check availability]
  6. THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett [check availability]
  7. INNOCENT by Scott Turow [check availability]
  8. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  9. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  10. PRIVATE by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks (regular book collection)

  1. LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  2. PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE FINANCE by R. A. Brealey, S. C. Myers & F. Allen [check availability]
  3. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  4. PEOPLE SKILLS: HOW TO ASSERT YOURSELF, LISTEN TO OTHERS AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS  by Robert Bolton [check availability]
  5. THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins [check availability]
  6. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen Covey [check availability]
  7. BARGAINING FOR ADVANTAGE: NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES FOR REASONABLE PEOPLE by G. Richard Shell [check availability]
  8. THE SNOWBALL: WARREN BUFFET AND THE BUSINESS OF LIFE by Alice Schroeder [check availability]
  9. BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
  10. GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN by Roger Fisher [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks

  1. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen [check availability]
  2. EARTH (THE AUDIOBOOK) by Jon Stewart [check availability]
  3. FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven Levitt [check availability]
  4. NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein [check availability]
  5. THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK: ESCAPE 9-5, LIVE ANYWHERE, AND JOIN THE NEW RICH by Timothy Ferriss [check availability]
  6. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  7. ROOM: A NOVEL by Emma Donoghue [check availability]
  8. BLACK HILLS by Nora Roberts [check availability]
  9. SUPERFREAKONOMICS by Steven Levitt [check availability]
  10. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Popular DVDs

  1. THE HURT LOCKER [check availability]
  2. SHUTTER ISLAND [check availability]
  3. SHERLOCK HOLMES [check availability]
  4. THE BLIND SIDE [check availability]
  5. ALICE IN WONDERLAND [check availability]
  6. V FOR VENDETTA [check availability]
  7. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER [check availability]
  8. UP [check availability]
  9. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [check availability]
  10. THE HANGOVER [check availability]

Our Doors Are Open 24-hours During Exams!

Lisa

Need to hit the books? We are here for you! Starting today, our doors will be open ’round the clock until the end of exams on Thursday, May 12.  There’s just one teeny-tiny exception: we close at 9:00pm on Saturday, May 7 and reopen at 10:00am on Sunday, May 8.

Tuesday, May 3 (Reading Day) – Saturday, May 7:
Open at 7:30am on Tuesday, May 3 & remain open until 9:00pm on Saturday, May 7

Saturday, May 7:
Close at 9:00pm

Sunday, May 8 – Thursday, May 12
Open at 10:00am on Sunday, May 8 & remain open until 9:00pm on Thursday, May 12

Thursday, May 12 (Last Day of Exams):
Library closes at 9:00pm

Please note:

  • Regular library services (Circulation, Reserves, Reference) will not be available during the extended late-night hours (between 2:00am & 7:30am).
  • All patrons in the building at 2:00am will be required to show a Bentley ID in order to remain in the building.
  • Patrons entering the Library after 2:00am must enter via the front entrance and will need to show their Bentley ID upon entry.

For more information about the library or cafe hours please view our online hours calendar. Good luck with your final exams, papers and projects!

April Acquisitions: New Books, DVDs & Audiobooks

Lisa

Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of April. Go to our New Books & DVDs page to browse by subject or format.