Legendary Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis died on November 11, 2010. In a career spanning over 50 years, he was responsible for producing a wide variety of films, from critically lauded films like La Strada, Ragtime, and Three Days ...
The dedicated terminal for the Datastream database has been temporarily moved to behind the Reference Desk in the Information Commons area. The normal Pods login will not work on this workstation, so users will need to ask the Reference Librarian ...
The 2010 Harpur College Dean’s Distinguished Lecture will present Distinguished Professor Donald Quataert from Harpur College’s Department of History at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, in FA-Casadesus Hall. His talk, “Views from Below and the Writing of Ottoman History,” promises ...
o How does Rosetta Stone work? o Which institutions are using Rosetta Stone and how? o Does Rosetta Stone have a place on the college campus? Sponsored by the Dean’s Speaker Series: “Best Practices in Foreign Lanugae & Culture Teaching ...
The National Council of Black Studies (NCBS) has an annual student essay contest. For information about participating in the upcoming contest, see http://www.ncbsonline.org/student_essay_contest Posted by Alesia McManus Africana Studies Subject Librarian ...
Of Spice and Men: An Exhibit of Rare Books and Maps Related to the Commercial Revolution from the Medieval to the Early Modern World In September 2010, CEMERS will host its annual conference. This year’s conference, “Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions ...
Application Now Open Deadline: November 15, 2010 The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the scholarship competition for the 2011 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages. ...
Stat-USA, a government database long used by students in international business and economics, is no longer active and has been removed from the Libraries’ website. The content has moved to various other sites, such as Lexis Nexis, Bureau of Economic ...
The Internet Archive now has a section devoted to “ephemeral films”. Ephemeral Films are “non-fiction films usually made for educational, industrial, or promotional purposes. The two classic ephemeral film collections found on the Archive are the Prelinger Archives and AV ...
NLM “Turning The Pages” Adds Richly Illustrated Japanese Manuscript, Hanaoka Seishu’s Influential Surgical Casebook The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health, announces the addition of Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical ...