Monthly Archives: May 2012

Congratulations Graduates from the Claire T. Carney Library!! Access Highlights of Commencement and Enjoy it Again!

The Claire T. Carney Library PhotoGraphics Department has assembled a selection of highlight photos of the 2012 Undergraduate Commencement. You may view and download the photos via this site:

https://www1.umassd.edu/photographics/slideshow/welcome.cfm?slideshowAction=thumbnails&slideshowGalleryDirectory=2012-05-27_18242

You may access the following link to download 1024px X 683px images of the Undergraduate Commencement: https://cumulusphoto.umassd.edu/sites/pincollection.jspx?collectionName=%7Bb4937dd5-c6d4-4ee2-b36a-a76dee8786a7%7D

You may also access the collection of Saturday’s Graduate Commencement highlights:

2012 Graduate Commencement Slideshow: https://www1.umassd.edu/photographics/slideshow/welcome.cfm?slideshowAction=thumbnails&slideshowGalleryDirectory=2012-05-26_74848

You may access the following link to download 1024px X 683px images of the Graduate Commencement: https://cumulusphoto.umassd.edu/sites/pincollection.jspx?collectionName=%7B4f7f54f2-cf28-423a-a8a1-662fe7f05932%7D#1338078111099_8

The 2012 Graduate and Undergraduate Commencement photos may also be accessed by logging into the PhotoGraphics Image Collection (PIC) and searching “2012 Commencement”

https://cumulusphoto.umassd.edu/sites

We will be working diligently to add more Commencement photos to PIC over the coming weeks.

Congratulations Graduates from the Claire T. Carney Library!!

Library Minute Video Survey

We would like to assess our latest Library Minute Videos and we would love your input and suggestions.   If you watched one or more of the movies, please take this brief survey to help us create new films in the future.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PTDH235

If you haven’t watched any of the videos, you can check them out here:

https://library.umassd.edu/libraryinfo/LibraryPresentations.html#minute

Thank you and have a great summer!

Kari Mofford

Claire T. Carney Library Open 24/7 – Monday, May 7th through 7 PM, Wednesday May 23rd

The Claire T. Carney Library will be open continuously from 7:30 AM on Monday May 7 through 7 PM on Wednesday May 23. This period includes the last weeks of classes and final exams.  Only 2 floors of the building will be available for use during the extended hours.  Computers and a staffed service point will be available on the lower level.  Study space and library collections are located on the 5th floor.  Regular library services such as circulation/reserve transactions and reference assistance will only be available on the same schedule as regular library hours.

Off hours building access is via UMass Pass only. 
Anyone using the building beyond the regular library hours must be a member of the UMD community and show a valid UMass Pass. Guests will not be admitted.

Entrances will be on the lower level and the first floor.  The validation points are the computer labs in the lower level and the library service desk on the 5th floor.  Please be sure to have your UMass Pass with you.  If you need to obtain a UMass Pass, please go to their office located on the ground floor of the Campus Center Monday – Friday 9 AM to 4 PM.

Personnel from the Department of Public Safety and DART van service will be available.

These extended hours are sponsored by the Claire T. Carney Library, CITS, UMD Dept of Public Safety and Campus Services.

Please contact the library dean’s office librarydean@umassd.edu for general information and the IT Student Services Center at
itstudentcenter@umassd.edu or 508-999-8884 for IT questions.

Terrance M. Burton
Dean of Library Services
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
tburton@umassd.edu
508-999-8664

Historical Portuguese Newspapers of California Digitized

from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Cultures Events page: https://www.portstudies.umassd.edu/activities/events/events2012/120425.htm  

 The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney Library and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce the addition of 14 Portuguese-language newspapers published in California between 1885 and 1940 to its Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections. The project was done in collaboration with the J.A. Freitas Library, a special collections library privately owned and operated by the Supreme Council of P.F.S.A. in San Leandro, CA, which provided the original newspapers.

This unique collection, which includes some of the earliest known Portuguese-language newspapers in the U.S., such as O Progresso Californiense, first published in July of 1885, may be accessed through the Internet for free and without a password at https://lib.umassd.edu/archives/paa/PADigitalNewsColl.html. Each issue of the newspapers in the collection may be browsed in its entirety or searched by keyword. The site also offers the possibility of searching across all issues of the same paper or across all newspapers in the collection.

A formal presentation of the online site that houses the collection will take place

  • Saturday, April 28 at 6:00 PM in the J.A. Freitas Library, 1120-24 E. 14th Street, San Leandro, CA.
    Archivist Sonia Pacheco of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, who supervised the digitization, will provide an overview of the project and demonstrate the use of the site.

Similar presentations will also be held at the

  • Portuguese Historical Museum of San Jose on April 29th at 2:00 PM (History Park – San Jose, Phelan Ave. Entrance);
  • University of California, Berkeley on May 2nd;
  • Jose State University on May 3rd

For time and place please contact Prof. Deolinda Adã£o at 408-924-4022 or deolinda.adao@sjsu.edu. All presentations are free and open to the public.

The papers were digitized onsite at the J.A. Freitas Library by ArcaSearch of Minneapolis, MN. This process safeguarded the integrity of the fragile historical originals and created high quality scans, using a patented process that optimizes the text and illustrations. ArcaSearch also provided preservation quality microfilm, which will serve as a backup for long-term preservation of the contents of the papers.

Information which in the past required researchers to travel to various archives and spend extensive hours of searching paper sources or reel after reel of microfilm is now available from the comfort of one’s home at the click of a computer mouse. “This collection of historical newspaper is an invaluable resource for the study of the Portuguese-American experience in California and beyond,” said Dr. Frank Sousa, Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who initiated the Portuguese-American Newspaper Digitization Project.

“Given the major role played by the Portuguese in California agriculture, especially the dairy industry, this collection is of paramount value to the understanding of the state’s history and economy,” stated Dr. Maria da Gloria de Sá, Faculty Director of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, the major repository of historical materials about the Portuguese in the U.S. “Much of the information contained in these newspapers cannot be found elsewhere. Sociologists, historians, anthropologists, political scientists and other academics researching issues associated with immigration and ethnicity will also find it a valuable tool, as will those interested in local and family history. It’s the most comprehensive and accessible database available to students and academic researchers interested in Portuguese-related issues, as well as individuals tracing their family genealogy,” added Dr. de Sá.

Besides keeping Portuguese Americans informed about local, national, Portuguese and world news, these newspapers also played a major role in documenting social events and life. Religious festivals, club activities, charity appeals, and visits of prominent individuals were regularly announced; weddings, births and deaths reported; and news of the arrival and departure of vessels bringing new immigrants or taking them for a visit back to their homeland were featured along with the respective passenger lists. Photographs, drawings, advertisements and editorials give us a window into period fashions, patterns of consumption, the cost of goods, types of businesses owned by the Portuguese and the perspectives of this ethnic group on the political and social issues of the times.

The digitization of the historical Portuguese newspapers of California is the second venture undertaken by the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives under its Portuguese-American Newspaper Digitization Project. The first was the Diãrio de Notã­cias, a daily newspaper published in New Bedford, Massachusetts between 1919 and 1973. The initiative was made possible by grants from the Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Carlos César, President); Elisia and Mark Saab of Advanced Polymers, Inc., in Salem, NH; and Luis Pedroso, of Accutronics, Inc., in Lowell, MA. The goal of the project is to digitize major historical Portuguese newspapers published in the United States. Individuals or organizations possessing copies of such newspapers or other historical documents associated with the Portuguese in the U.S. are encouraged to contact Sonia Pacheco at 508 999-8695 or spacheco@umassd.edu.

Hybrid Identity and the Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of Alfred Lewis – A lecture by Prof. Frank F. Sousa – 5 P.M., May 10, 2012

What: A lecture by  Prof. Frank F. Sousa entitled: “Hybrid Identity and the Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of Alfred Lewis”
Where: Prince Henry Society Reading Room at the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, Claire T. Carney Library
When: May 10th, 2012, 5:00 P.M.

~ Free and open to the public ~ Light refreshments will be served ~

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth announce a lecture, “Hybrid Identity and the Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of Alfred Lewis,” by Prof. Frank F. Sousa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, on Thursday, May 10 at 5:00 P.M. in the Prince Henry Society Reading Room at the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives (Parking lot 13). The lecture, free and open to the public, will include the launching of Lewis’s novel Home Is an Island. Light refreshments will be served.

Alfred Lewis (1902-1977) is the author of two published novels: Home Is an Island (Random House, 1951; Tagus Press, 2012) and Sixty Acres and a Barn (Tagus Press, 2005 and 1912). This lecture examines how these two works of fiction complement each other—the first treats life in the Old Country (Azores, Portugal) in the first quarter of the twentieth century, through the story of a young man who is about to emigrate to the America of his dreams, while the second is set in America, where the main character, a recent immigrant, pursues the American Dream on a dairy farm in the Central Valley of California during the 1940s. Both works call attention to the balancing act of dual identities and divided loyalties in individuals and communities on the margins between cultures. No other writer captures so well how the poor in the Azores viewed the promise of America and how Portuguese immigrants made a new life for themselves.

Alfred Lewis, born Alfredo Luís in the mid-Atlantic island of Flores, in the archipelago of the Azores, Portugal, was the son of a nineteenth-century whaleman who sailed the seven seas and eventually became a gold prospector in California, before returning to his homeland. Lewis himself immigrated to the Central Valley (Atwater) in 1922. Having learned English only after arriving in America, he nevertheless went on to study law and become a municipal judge in the San Joaquin Valley town of Los Baños.

Prof. Sousa’s lecture will conclude with the launching of a new, hardbound edition of Alfred Lewis’s classic novel, Home Is an Island, originally published by the prestigious Random House Publishers in 1951. The novel received much critical acclaim, including two reviews in the New York Times, and was highly praised by the well-known American novelist Patricia Highsmith, who wrote, “One does not often find a novel that reads like a poem, that tells a simple story in a simple prose, and yet is heroic, a novel of importance.”

Home Is an Island is volume 17 of the Portuguese in the Americas Series published by Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England. The Tagus Press cloth edition, sponsored by the Luso-American Foundation, features a foreword by Congressman Devin Nunes and a preface by Frank F. Sousa.

Frank F. Sousa is professor of Portuguese and director of both the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is the author of O segredo de Eça, an often-cited work on Portugal’s foremost novelist of the nineteenth century.

Directions: The entrance to the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives is located on the campus side of the Claire T. Carney Library. For access during library construction, as you approach from Lot 13, enter the library basement and take the elevator to the first floor, exit the building, and proceed to the right, to the Archives entrance.

For further information, contact 508-999-8686 or email jfarrar@umassd.edu.