The new exhibit at the Caturano and Company Art Gallery features paintings by Eileen Wagner in an installment titled “Change in Temperature”. All are invited to meet the artist at an opening reception on Wednesday, April 13, from 4:30pm – 6:30pm. To learn more about the artist please visit her website at http://eileenwagner.com/.
True-life stories are often more captivating than even the most thrilling fictional tale. Consider the heroic saga of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, Christopher McCandless’ journey into the Alaskan wilderness, Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic, the “perfect storm’s” Andrea Gail, the ill-fated Donner Party, and the fortunate Aron Ralston whose story was recently portrayed in the gripping film, 127 Hours.
These are stories of adventure, exploration, triumph and mishap. Whether told in their own words via diaries and journals, or chronicled by others decades later, their tales have become suspenseful page turners and blockbuster films that rival anything dreamed up by Stevenson, London or Ludlum. Swing by and take a look, or click here to browse online.
Reminder! There are just two more RefWorks workshops being offered before the end of the semester! Details are below… Please send an email to library@bentley.edu if you plan to attend.
Having trouble keeping track of those sources you’re supposed to cite? Victim of a second-rate citation generator? Come to:
RefWorks Workshops for Students
These workshops for students will provide an introduction to RefWorks, an online bibliographic management tool. Learn to export citations, create bibliographies, and save and organize sources for all your research papers and projects – all in one place. Have sources you’re not sure how to cite? Bring them with you and we’ll help you get them right.
Two sessions:
(Please RSVP to library@bentley.edu for this workshop. We also strongly recommend that you create a RefWorks account before attending, at RefWorks’ website. This works best when you are on campus.)
Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has been celebrating April as National Poetry Month. And while poetry probably isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think about the Bentley Library’s collections, the library does own plenty of books of and about poetry; a recent catalog search for the word “poems” yielded almost 1500 results. Almost all of those books can be found on the second floor, from our most recent acquisitions — St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott’s latest book White Egrets and a new definitive edition of Massachusetts native Elizabeth Bishop’s collected poems — to classic favorites like Shakespeare’s sonnets and the complete poems of Emily Dickinson.
Don’t know where to start? Try the Poetry Foundation’s website, where you can explore poems by topics like friendship or pets, or read their Poem of the Day. If you’re new to poetry, you might also be interested in Emily Gould’s short article “Independent Study,” which details one poetry newbie’s foray into the genre. Or check out the official National Poetry Month website, which includes a national Poetry Map of Events for April.
And for the moment, enjoy the beginning of a poem from the new Elizabeth Bishop book mentioned above. The poem’s title is, sadly, appropriate for this particular April: “A Cold Spring.”
“A cold spring:
the violet was flawed on the lawn.
For two weeks or more the trees hesitated;
the little leaves waited,
carefully indicating their characteristics.
Finally a grave green dust
settled over your big and aimless hills.”
(In Bishop, Elizabeth. Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011, page 55).
Have a paper or project due soon, and need information to complete it? Drop in to:
“Help! I Just Need 3 Sources By Tomorrow!” Drop-In Research Help
Bring whatever you are working on to a reference librarian and get immediate expert assistance in finding the information you need, whether it be articles, statistics, company information, or books. You will walk away with the source or two (or three) that you need!
Four sessions:
No RSVP necessary; come in anytime during the hour
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of March. Go to our New Books & DVDs page to browse by subject or format.
In between news updates on this blog, we are busy chatting away about the library, books, movies, business, current events and other intriguing things on Twitter (@BentleyLibrary) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/bentleylibrary). Our interests are varied – covering everything from the Google Books settlement to new research resources to the @BronxZoosCobra – and we want to know what interests you. So, what are you waiting for? Follow us today!
As you may have heard, the New York Times paywall goes into effect today. Visitors to the NYTimes.com website will be allowed to read only 20 articles per month for free. Additionally, readers who access articles through links from social media sites will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. (There may be some daily limitations for articles accessed via search engine links.) Read the publisher’s A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions to get the full scoop.
While casual readers of the New York Times may not run up against the paywall, regular readers may be impacted. Therefore, we’re happy to remind you that the Bentley Library has same-day, full-text access to articles from the New York Times via two of our databases: Factiva and ProQuest.
Users of the databases will notice that our subscription access to the full-text does not replicate the layout of either the NYTimes.com website or the print newspaper, nor does it include images. However, the article text is provided in its entirety. Also, the library continues to get delivery of the print New York Times newspaper should you want to read it in its original format.
We encourage you to contact the Reference Desk if you have any questions about accessing the New York Times via Factiva and ProQuest.
