Oreo Cookies and Fenway Park

What do Oreo Cookies, Wegener’s theory on “Continental Drift” and Fenway Park all have in common?

Check out the new displays outside the library for the answer.

Happy Spring Semester!

Starting January 21st, 2012, The library’s hours will be:

Monday – Thursday 8 am – 9 pm
Friday                                  8 am – 4 pm
Saturday                            9 am – 2 pm

Tunxis Weatherline:  860-255-3501
http://tunxis.commnet.edu/weather.php

 

 

What We are Reading in January

	Graphic Novel		Business		Hot Read
	Self Help		Memoir		Mystery
	Fiction		Science		History

Holiday and Semester Break Hours

Beginning December 20 and continuing though the semester break the library will be open
Monday-Friday from 8am-4pm
with the following exceptions:

Closed December 26
Closed January 2
Closed January 16

This Week’s Innovation Abstracts

In “Budget-Friendly Outreaching Strategies for Academic Libraries,” Paula Massadas Pereira, Circulation Manager/Librarian at El Centro College (TX), and Co-Founder of the Cerritos College Library Club (CA), describes multiple strategies for enhancing the presence of the college library in the educational agenda and for encouraging widespread student use of library services.
Any other ideas?  Please share your comments.

Thank you to Dr. Addy and Dr. Cassidy for passing this article on to us.

(*The username is member and the password is horns2012.*)

Beautiful Brains-National Geographic

“Beautiful Brains,” the October 2011 National Geographic article on the new science of the teenage brain, is available on the web.  You can also find the October edition of National Geographic in the Tunxis Library.  Thanks to Dr. Terry Cassidy for bringing this article to our attention.

See the photo gallery here.
Take a quiz on your risk tolerance.
Viewing Teens Positively (Video)

 

You’ve Been Upgraded!

 

Tunxis Library has subscribed to the Premium School Edition of EasyBib, the automatic bibliography composer.  If you’ve used the free edition, you’ll be pleased to discover an ad-free experience, the in-text citation formatting, website credibility check, and additional styles available, including APA and Chicago.  It’s an excellent tool that helps with plagiarism prevention  and critical thinking.  On our website under Find Articles.  Just register with an email and password on campus to get started, then log in each time so you can save your work and access it anywhere.

Moneyball?

Ahem…This morning some of us baseball fans find we have less invested in this year’s playoffs than we expected. What shall we do?  I for one am going to see Moneyball this weekend, even though it seems that following the sabermetric principles the Moneyball concept espouses and spending obscene amounts of money on star players results in nothing more than a historic collapse.
Maybe I should read the book first.  Will that help?

Remembering Bob Steele

If you are a Connecticut native over 40, you probably grew up listening to Bob Steele’s morning show on WTIC Radio. Bob Steele’s Century is our new multi-volume collection of newspaper clippings, old photos, letters, and of course, hundreds of Bob Steele’s corny jokes compiled by his son Phil from his father’s scrapbooks. If the “antennae switch,” “the word for the day,” “temperatures from around the world,” “Two Buffaloes” and “The Lion and Albert”, sound familiar, you will definitely want to browse through this entertaining collection available at the Tunxis Library.

Fall Semester Library Hours

Beginning  August 29th
the Library Hours for the Fall Semester will be:

Monday-Thursday    8am-9pm
Friday                             8am-4pm
Saturday                        9am-2pm