Monday October 21, 2:00p.m. via Zoom
Join us as we remember the 55th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, with a special film screening of “Stonewall Uprising” for LGBT History Month. Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived. Presented by the Massasoit Film Society and Pride @ Massasoit.
In celebration of LGBT History Month, the Pride at Massasoit team is honored to host civil rights activists Paul Glass and Charles Evans, who will discuss their experiences as participants in the historic Stonewall Uprising. A fundamental moment in LGBTQ history in both the United States and abroad, these1969 protests marked a new beginning for gay rights and queer visibility, and laid the path for contemporary Pride celebrations and legal equity. .
Student Lounge. The event includes drum music, dance, indigenous food, and local resource
Massasoit faculty, students, and staff now have digital access to breaking news, curated newsletters, podcasts and videos, career insights and more from anywhere on desktop, tablet, mobile and the WSJ app.
Go to: https://library.massasoit.edu/wsjdj
WSJ Context is a new tool for instructors to easily create and share reading lists with their students.
The Assessment Tool lets you test your students’ comprehension and awareness of current events through online quizzes on WSJ articles.
The Weekly Review offers relevant articles, along with thought-provoking questions and classroom applications.
Critical Thinking Resources integrate WSJ articles into your classes and energize discussions with tangible examples of course concepts your students can apply in the real world.
Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by
Check your department page for new titles that have been added. I ordered 111 new books for this division, not including the 90 new children's books for our ECE students. The academic books have not all been cataloged, and are in multiple modalities, but you'll see on your pages what is already here and ready to circulate. I have tried to alert specific faculty to ebooks that you may want to use in your course, but feel free to reach out if you have questions.
50 students from this division sought help from the library, either through a drop in session or by making an appointment with me
2,700 uses of the LibGuides from this division in Canvas.
20 attendees for our Author Hour visit on April 2nd with Carrie Finision.
There is a lot up in the air, and the library has decided to be cautious in our response. If there is a realignment of library liaisons as a result of an academic reorganization, we will take time to ensure everyone is appropriately adjusted and have a gradual transition. So for next year at least, I will still be your library contact.
Click on your department in the left-hand menu to view some of the new titles.
The Library has a new streaming video database called Swank Digital Campus. Swank differs from Kanopy and Films on Demand in that it lisences more feature-type films, such as
In Swank, we have 25 pre-selected films, and 25 choices, for a total of 50 films. The library would like to give you the opportunity to recommend the titles to choose for the coming academic year. Options include: All the President’s Men, Hotel Rwanda, Brokeback Mountain, Philadelphia, Milk, and Inside Out. You can browse the list in your subject area and send me suggestions via email or using this form.
Please check the "library resources" tab on the navigation menu in your Canvas course. If the LibGuide is not what you want, let me know! LibGuides can be built for a general subject, but they can also be course or assignment specific.
While in Canvas, check your links to any Films on Demand or library eBooks you have embedded. The content in our databases changes often and we want to ensure smooth access for our students.
There are multiple videos and modules available for use in Canvas, from the basics of database searching to evaluating sources to managing the research process and I am always ready to create more. Let's chat about how those can meet your information literacy goals!
My schedulePlease reach out with any questions about library resources, information literacy, the research and writing modules in Canvas, or new acquisitions for the division. I'm thrilled to start the semester to accommodate the research and study needs of our students and I'm available to you as well for in-person or online appointments. I am in Canton, Monday & Tuesday, and in Brockton, Thursday and Friday.
Happy first week of spring- I just have two short announcements this month.
The library is hosting Megan Dowd Lambert, children's book author and curriculum creator. She will be visiting the library on April 13th, presenting to students at 12:30 on her Whole Book Approach to reading with Children, followed by a Faculty Coffee Time at 2pm.
I am closing out the Acquisitions budget, so if you have any final resource requests for the year, let me know!
Welcome to the Spring Semester. Just a few general housekeeping reminders from the library:
Please check the "library resources" tab on the navigation menu in your Canvas course. If the LibGuide is not what you want, let me know! LibGuides can be built for a general subject, but they can also be course or assignment specific.
While in Canvas, check your links to any Films on Demand or library eBooks you have embedded. The content in our databases changes often and I can't see where individual pieces are used.
There are multiple videos and modules available for use in Canvas, from the basics of database searching to evaluating sources to managing the research process and I am always ready to create more. Let's chat!
During winter term, the Reference Librarian team worked on an eBook purchasing plan. This resulted in every department on campus receiving multiple eBooks that students will be able to access "in perpetuity," unlike our eBook package, which has thousands of titles but changes all the time. It provides me with the opportunity to be intentional about the format of library books and purchase titles I may not otherwise prioritize. This is an example of an interdisciplinary title that was available in eBook form:
Land of Opportunity by
August is a tricky month here in New England for those of us in education as we attempt to simultaneously remain in our summer "vibe" and prepare for the upcoming semester. I have some general updates and reminders as you peek into Canvas and do some general dusting:
Please check the "library resources" tab on the navigation menu in your Canvas course. If the LibGuide is not what you want, let me know! LibGuides can be built for a general subject, but they can also be course or assignment specific.
While in Canvas, check your links to any Films on Demand or library eBooks you have embedded. The content in our databases changes often and I can see where individual pieces are used.
I have multiple videos and modules available for use in Canvas, from the basics of database searching to evaluating sources to managing the research process and am always ready to create more. Let's chat!
Check your department page on this guide to see the new purchases, both print and electronic, for your discipline! I will highlight a few every month but don't want you to miss it!
In the current hybrid online and video-teaching environment, library instruction can happen multiple ways:
And for a little light but interesting reading, here is an article from Wired about Google's effect on Democracy and the "IKEA effect" of personal research.
I look forward to hearing from, or seeing, you all over the next couple of weeks!
~Erin
They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition by
In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is George Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
Gender: a Graphic Guide by
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