Heirloom Discovery Day is a UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library Associates fundraiser.

Details:
Heirloom Discovery Day
March 30, 2 - 4:30
Library Browsing area
Claire T. Carney Library
Parking available in lot 13
Light refreshments will be available.

The Claire T. Carney Library Associates are hosting an Heirloom Discovery Day at UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA.

The event will be Sunday, March 30 at 2-4:30 p.m. in the Claire T. Carney library browsing area.

Senior appraiser Francis H. McNamee of the Marion Antique Shop and Paula Dean, who appraises jewelry and collectibles, will be featured.

• Each appraisal will be $5 payable at the door.
• There is a three item limit.
• Bring portable items and photographs of items that are too heavy to carry in.
• Do not bring coins, books or stamps.

For more information contact Rita Raymond at 508.995.3528.

The Claire T. Carney Library is currently featuring an exhibit of 15 art books created by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Participating students completed the course on bookmaking, known as the Art of the Book, taught in the fall semester by Design Professor and CVPA Assistant Dean, Janine Wong. The purpose of the course is to explore “the possibilities inherent in the book’s function as a repository of ideas and a form for expression.”

Students study historical books and develop new forms by creating a variety of book structures, both traditional and contemporary. Students explore structure and content of the book form and are introduced to print process and technologies as well as
decorative papers.

Each book features original haiku by John P. Landry. Landry serves on the staff of the English department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In April 2007 he was named the official Poet Laureate for the city of New Bedford by Mayor Scott W. Lang. The Poet Laureate’s official duties for the city are to compose and read poetry at various venues and special events within New Bedford.

The exhibit is located in the glass display cases on the first floor of the library. The following students participated: Victor Morse, Matt Sullivan, Danielle Lavoie, Gianna Abbondanza, Amy Williams, Nick Carey, Stacey Sarber, Sadira Rashidi, Amy McGillicuddy, Savanna Ferreira, Christina Martins, Jennifer Soares, Beth Enko, Lisel Dexheimer, and Erin LaPlante.

In collaboration with Claire T. Carney Library, Dartmouth Public Libraries produced an informative guide to the April 1st town elections. The guide provides access to YouTube interviews with candidates for Select Board, candidate-written editorials, key ballot questions, and essential voter information on topics such as registering to vote and voting locations.

A major professional publication, Library Journal, wrote “it’s one of the finer pages I’ve seen in my ongoing survey of public libraries’ election-education initiatives: easily accessible, simply organized and straightforwardly designed, seriously informative…”

We encourage town residents to be civically engaged and to make informed voting decisions. The library’s “Smart Voting Begins at the Library” guide will certainly help residents achieve this goal.

Beginning March 24, LSIRT (Library Services, Information Resources and Technology) will implement a “print solution” to reduce paper waste. Anyone printing from the Carney Library’s second-floor computers and those in CITS labs in the lower level and LARTS 216 will use a nearby print station to release a document for print.

Staff and information will be available to help students with the new process.

A print solution to reduce paper waste is necessary as UMass Dartmouth strives to be more environmentally conscious. Currently, printer areas in the Carney Library and the CITS labs generate an average of 800 sheets of waste paper every day: items printed but never picked up. That figure translates to 5600 sheets of waste paper per week and 179,200 sheets per academic year (32 weeks).

We believe that the new printing system will help people to be more aware of the documents they send to the printer.

We appreciate your cooperation as we try to reduce paper waste and improve our impact on the environment.

- Donna Massano, Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, CITS
- Sharon Weiner, Dean of Library Services, Claire T. Carney Library

Claire T. Carney Library Science Librarian, Elizabeth Winiarz, has been awarded an $8,000.00 Cranberry Research Grant to provide literature support for ongoing cranberry research. The Claire T. Carney Library has a very good collection to support cranberry research and this new grant will add to what is already available. The library maintains subscriptions to several journals where much of the literature is published and purchases a variety of sources that are not easily accessible. These include a collection of theses and dissertations from all over the United States and Canada publishing cutting edge research on cranberry growth, properties, biochemistry and medicinal potential. Take a look at our online subject guide: Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon).

Bruce Barnes, a librarian at the UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney library, virtually unveiled a website dedicated to Paul Rudolph and His Architecture today.

Mr. Barnes stated that the web site’s purpose is to produce a comprehensive reference resource on this famous man and his architecture with an emphasis on SMTI / UMass Dartmouth. The culmination of years of work, Mr. Barnes hopes that the site will become a unique central resource for a variety of materials on the topic.

The website provides a comprehensive bibliography of the works, writings and life of the architect, complete with supporting images, documents and media.

December 5, 2007 - Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room Gift Announced - Robert F. Stoico, founder of The Robert F. Stoico / FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation announces $1 million gift to UMass Dartmouth. The university plans to invest $750,000 of its gift in the physical renovation of the Claire T. Carney Library and establish the Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room. The Grand Reading Room will be a stately, dynamic and spacious two-story room with an ambience that promotes intellectual richness, purpose and inspiration. It will have floor to ceiling windows that will provide spectacular views of the campus in all seasons, and be a place easily changed to accommodate small or large groups of people who are working together.

Please check the Library Building Renovation & Expansion Program page on the the Claire T. Carney Library web site for further updates and more information on the library’s renovation plans.

Jatin Patel was the winner of a chocolate Santa donated to the Library by Dr. John Weiner.
Jatin is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science. Jatin is shown in
the photograph with the donor and Dr. Sharon Weiner, Dean of Library Services.

Chocolate Santa Give Away: The holidays can be a little sweeter for one lucky UMass Dartmouth student …

The Claire T. Carney Library has a large dark chocolate Santa (13 inches high!)
that it will give to one UMass Dartmouth student on Friday December 14.

Yum. Look at a larger image of the Chocolate Santa!

Students are encouraged to visit the Circulation Desk on the first floor to register for the drawing which will be held at 10 AM on Friday December 14, the last day of classes.

Only students are eligible for the drawing and only one entry per person please.

A Visit to Oxford: a Higher Education Seminar Report
Dr. Sharon Weiner, Dean of Library Services

When:  Noon, Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Where:  Library Browsing Area

Eat your lunch while enjoying a stimulating lecture by Sharon Weiner, Dean of Library Services. Dr. Weiner attended a three-day Higher Education Seminar at Oxford University this fall.

She will relate her experience and present the talk she gave based on her research, “Do Cross-Institutional Characteristics Contribute to The Reputation of Universities: A Focus on the Academic Library.”

Free to all!
Coffee, Tea and desert will be served.

Sponsored By: Faculty Senate & Claire T. Carney Library