Monthly Archives: February 2012
Donate to Children’s Book Drive
The Office of Student Life has teamed up with three Purchase College CAs to collection children’s books for World Read Aloud Day, which will take place on Wednesday March 7th.
All this week, there will be a childrens’ book drive to gather material for volunteers to read aloud to kids who have chronically ill parents at the Open Door Clinic in Port Chester and who have to wait in the hospital all day.
Please add your children’s books to the donations box placed near the front entrance to the Library.
The Library applauds the volunteers and the Office of Student Life for supporting World Read Aloud Day!
Time is running out– Take the 2012 Library Survey Now!
There’s only 2 more weeks to have your voice heard!
We are still listening, and we still want to hear from you.
Let us know what you think.
Library Survey 2012
The Library is looking for your feedback! We invite students, staff, and faculty to take the 2012 Library Survey online, available through March 9, 2012.
This is your chance to tell us how you’d like your Library to be and how we can best serve the Purchase community. Your suggestions on past surveys have led directly to improvements in the Library, such as:
- extending Library hours at night
- adding new, comfy furniture
- designating Quiet Zones and a Quiet Computer Lab
- installing vending machines
- and much more!
Just register with your email address to take the survey and win prizes. All survey responses are anonymous. Your email address will not be connected with your responses. Only Purchase College students are eligible to win prizes; however, faculty and staff are welcome to share their input with us as well.
Prizes include:
- One Kindle Fire
- Four $25.00 Dining Dollar “certificates”
- Four $25.00 MORE Dollar “certificates”
- One $75.00 Gift Certificate to China White Restaurant
- Two $50.00 Gift Certificates to Full Moon Trattoria
- Two $25.00 Gift Certificates to the Purchase Deli
- Two $25.00 Gift Certificates to the Cobblestone Restaurant
- Purchase College Gear from the campus bookstore
Film of the Week– Get Ready for the Oscars!
This week, instead of our usual Book of the Week post, I’m posting films of the week– Oscar nominees to be exact. The Academy Awards are Sunday, February 26th at 7pm. You can see a great interactive list of this year’s nominees for best picture, best actor/actress, best director and all the other categories on oscar.go.com
With films coming out on DVD sooner and sooner, the Library has already acquired several of the 2012 Best Picture nominees including:
The Tree of Life (DVD 3275)
The Help (DVD 3215)
Moneyball (DVD 3233)
Midnight in Paris (DVD 3228)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the nine Best Picture candidates were based on books. In fact, The Artist could be considered the only nominee not inspired by a book at all, when you consider that The Tree of Life alludes heavily to the Book of Genesis and Midnight in Paris (written/directed by Woody Allen) is the story of a writer (Owen Wilson) who finds himself back in 1920s Paris, exchanging manuscripts and discussing art with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, Cole Porter and Salvador Dali.
You can check out these films or the books that inspired them at Purchase College Library or order them via Interlibrary Loan.
Looking for quiet?
Due to the Faculty Achievement Recognition Reception, the second floor reading room will not be a quiet study area today, Wednesday, Feb. 22, from noon-7pm.
The study carrels located on the lower level are designated quiet areas as well as computer lab 1004D (when there is not a class scheduled in that room).
We apologize for any inconvenience!
The Library Newsletter is Here!
Find out what’s new at the Library this semester! Check out the Spring 2012 issue of our Library Newsletter, Beyond The Stacks.
Read the Spring 2012 Library Newsletter
Learn about new services, the DMZ renovations, Moodle 2.0, and the winner of the Library’s Design-a-Bookmark contest. The Library is excited to share our progress with you this Spring!
Click the image to see the full newsletter!
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Spring Semester Workshops for Faculty & Staff
The Library and TLTC have a great line-up of workshops for faculty & staff this Spring. Our workshops a great opportunity to grow as a professional, network with colleagues, learn something new… and get a voucher for a free lunch at the Hub (kindly provided by UUP).
We’ve brought back some popular sessions from last Fall including workshops on OpenScholar, Moodle, ePortfolios (Mahara), using social media professionally, mastering Facebook privacy settings, and infusing your syllabus with “mini” research assignments. Plus, we’ve added new workshops like:
Films for Classes: A Workshop on the Power of using Moodle for Reserves
Blogs: If you build it, they will come!
Google: Tools for Classroom Collaboration
Wikipedia for Academics: How to teach (and not compete) with Wikipedia
Beyond PowerPoint: Visual Presentation Tools
Hands on the Table(t): Exploring tablet technology
For a full listing of workshops and to sign up go to Spring 2012 Workshops Listing & Registration. Registration is encouraged but walk-ins are always welcome.
Book Sale Feb 13th and 14th @ the Library
The Library is holding a
BOOK SALE
Mon. Feb. 13 & Tues. Feb. 14
10am to 4pm
Why not pick up some leisure reading? A classic novel in paperback? An art book for only a dollar? You might even find a great gift for Valentine’s Day! Any donations or older books the Library cannot use in our collections go in the book sale and get passed on to you, the Purchase campus community, for $1 dollar per book. Stop on by between 10am and 4pm Monday and Tuesday and browse our book sale!
"Heart-Book." Nancy Hearkness. From the Garrett Blog
Take the 2012 Library Survey Now!
The Library listens.
And we want to hear from YOU!
Let us know what you think–
Library Survey 2012
The Library is looking for your feedback! We invite students, staff, and faculty to take the 2012 Library Survey online from February 6, 2012 through March 9, 2012.
This is your chance to tell us how you’d like your Library to be and how we can best serve the Purchase community. Your suggestions on past surveys have led directly to improvements in the Library, such as:
- extending Library hours at night
- adding new, comfy furniture
- designating Quiet Zones and a Quiet Computer Lab
- installing vending machines
- and much more!
Just register with your email address to take the survey and win prizes. All survey responses are anonymous. Your email address will not be connected with your responses. Only Purchase College students are eligible to win prizes.
Prizes include:
- One Kindle Fire
- Four $25.00 Dining Dollar “certificates”
- Four $25.00 MORE Dollar “certificates”
- One $75.00 Gift Certificate to China White Restaurant
- Two $50.00 Gift Certificates to Full Moon Trattoria
- Two $25.00 Gift Certificates to the Purchase Deli
- Two $25.00 Gift Certificates to the Cobblestone Restaurant
- Purchase College Gear from the campus bookstore
Suggestion Box!
Have a comment or idea for improving the Library? Use our Suggestion Box.
We have placed a brand new suggestion box in the Library. As we receive your questions or comments, we’ll post our replies on the bulletin board next to the box. Right now, the Suggestion Box is located by the front entrance, but it may roam around the Library shortly for a different point of view. So keep an eye out for it!
Let us know what changes you’d like to see in the Library!
Office for Emergency Management. War Production Board, 1942. Public Domain Image retrieved from Wikimedia Commons
Book of the Week- 2/1/12
“The Red House: A Novel” (2012) by Mark Haddon is the Book of the Week. This novel was recently added to the Purchase College Library’s Popular Collection. You can find novels, biographies, bestsellers and great leisure reading on the Popular Collection shelves on the First Floor of the Library.
Here’s what Library Journal had to say about this new novel by best-selling author Mark Haddon:
Newly remarried and stuck with a headstrong stepdaughter, a wealthy doctor, Richard, tries to mend fences with sister Angela by inviting her family for a week’s stay at a vacation home in the English countryside… but the week serves up secrets and misunderstandings, relentless grudges and dashed dreams. In lesser hands, this could be dreary, but…the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time deliver[s] an insightful, delicately tuned, bittersweet account of the contemporary family.
While this teaser accurately sums up the plot, it misses one of the unique aspects of this book: its mixed narration. Each member in Richard and Angela’s family gets a turn telling their story as the author deftly leaps from one point of view to another: first as Richard, the successful, self-satisfied doctor, then as his sister mourning over a miscarriage from over a decade ago, then as her 8-year-old boy who lives in a world of crime-fighting and star-gazing. We see the world as Daisy, an evangelical teenager grappling with her identity, but also as Melissa, Richard’s rebellious stepdaughter. Unlike many novels that that split up narrators chapter by chapter, “The Red House” flies from one character to the next by the paragraph, sometimes by the sentence! While it starts out a bit dizzying, the format of this novel attempts to reflect the shared (and private) consciousness of a family.
