The Watkinson Library will be open for additional study hours and research help on Saturdays, beginning November 7, 2009, through December 19, 2009.
On those Saturdays, open hours will be 12:30pm - 4:30pm.
Due to the recent state budget holdback, effective November 1, iCONN will discontinue all ProQuest newspapers except the Hartford Courant and the Historical Hartford Courant. All CT libraries will continue to have access to the New York Times (1985 - present), Christian Science Monitor (1996 - present), and London Times (7/1985 - present) through Academic OneFile. In addition, we will continue to have access to the Wall Street Journal through ABI Inform. Both databases are still provided by iCONN.
An evening with documentary filmmaker Andy Blood -
Showing clips from his film, The Devil Among Us: America's First Witch Hunt, Andy Blood will discuss why he chose to make a film on this particular topic, how he went about the filming and piecing together of the story, and the pitfalls he encountered while making the documentary.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:30 p.m., in the Joslin Family 1823 Room.
If you are interested in local history, filmmaking, or even in the lore of Halloween, this event is sure to be a treat!
Missionaries, Books, and Knowledge: A View from 16th Century Mexico
This lecture will take place Thursday, October 15, 2009, at 4:45 p.m. in the Joslin Family 1823 Room. The event coincides with the fall exhibition in the Watkinson Library entitled, "Nueva España in the Watkinson: Sources on the History and Culture of Colonial Mexico." It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.Due to last minute changes in the state budget, iCONN (the Connecticut Digital Library) will suspend access to the following databases effective October 1, 2009:
AP Images (ADDENDUM: available through October 31, 2009 courtesy of the vendor)
Boston Globe
Campus Research (available through October 9, 2009 courtesy of the vendor)
CINAHL Full-Text (Index will remain intact)
The online catalog will not be available on Sunday in the early morning hours: midnight to 2 a.m. You can use http://www.worldcat.org as an alternative to find what items Trinity owns, but this tool won't be able to help you find their shelf location.
This downtime is a result of necessary network maintenance being performed by the vendor.
Laptops are frequent targets of theft on campus. It only takes a few seconds for a thief to walk away with your computer AND all the work you have saved on it!
Protect yourself -- borrow a laptop lock from the Circulation Desk in the library. Just show your ID and the lock is yours for the next 24 hours. They are so easy to use... and much easier than filling out a police report!
The Library has added two new science journal collections. The IEEE Computer Science Digital Library provides access to 27 journals and 3,300 conference proceedings. OpticsInfoBase from the Optical Society of America (OSA) contains journals and recent conference proceedings. Please direct any questions about these resources to Jennifer van Sickle (x2250).
You can now get updates from the library by following us on twitter. We will tweet about library news and events, unexpected changes to hours or the services we offer in the library, and anything else that we think might be useful to the faculty, staff, and students that use the library. Our Twitter name is trinitylibrary. Check it out!
Listen up! :)
Wilson Omnifile journal database now allows you to listen to its full text articles in the html format. To listen to an article, simply open the HTML version of the article, then click the "Listen" button near the top of the page.
The JStor journal database also allows listening to its full-text PDF articles. Save the PDF file to your PC, open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader, and then from the Acrobat menu, click on View, Read Out Loud, Activate Read Out Loud. Then click on View, Read Out Loud, and select either "Read this Page Only" or "Read to End of Document."
For more information about how to utilize these features, please contact a reference librarian.
