Monthly Archives: February 2011

Four Outstanding Authors to Visit UMass Dartmouth on March 20th – Claire T. Carney Library Associates

What: Four Outstanding Authors to visit the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Where: MacLean Campus Center at UMass Dartmouth (Park in Lot 6)
When: Sunday, March 20, 2011 ~ 10:30 AM
Tickets: $25 or free to students with an current university ID (UMass Pass).

Join the Claire T. Carney Library Associates for an opportunity to meet four outstanding authors who will talk about their creative writing process. Enjoy a light brunch while listening to the authors discuss and read from their books. Includes an author meet and greet and book signing.

Anne LeClaire

Grew up in Western Massachusetts, has worked as a radio broadcaster, an actress and journalist. She has taught writing on Cape Cod, France, Ireland and Jamaica, and to women in prison. Land’s End (1985) Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence (2009) The Law of Bound Hearts (2004) and The Lavender Hour (2007.)

Ben Mazer

Lives in Boston, where he is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry andAesthetics. His poetry collections include The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (2008), Johanna Poems (2007), and White Cities (1995).

Sondra Perl

Sondra Perl is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Foundation’s Professor of the Year award. On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate (2005) Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006) Through Teachers’ Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work (1986).

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Widely known as a highly prized Channel 7 NEWS reporter, “Hank Investigates” she is also a best-selling mystery author, featuring a fictional Boston TV journalist who solves crimes in the Charlotte McNally Mystery Series. Investigative reporter Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things confident.

Additional Information:

Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at the door or in advance by mailing a check

payable to Carney Library Associates, 1032 Sterling St., New Bedford, MA 02745.

All proceeds benefit the Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth.

Students with ID may attend the author presentations at no charge.

Information: 508 999-8671 or 508 995-3528

We value your support ~ Please consider joining the Library Associates today!

A History of the Portuguese American Citizenship Project – by James M. McGlinchey – Feb 17th – UMassD Library Archives

What: A History of the Portuguese American Citizenship Project by Mr. James Martin McGlinchey, founding coordinator of the Project
Where: Prince Henry Society Reading Room at the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, Claire T. Carney Library
When: Thursday, February 17th 12:30 – 1:30 P.M.

Mr. McGlinchey holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.  He was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State from 1975 to 1999, during which time he served for several years in Portugal.  From 1999 to 2009, he coordinated the Portuguese American Citizenship Project.

In his presentation, Mr. McGlinchey will rely on his ten years of experience in grass-roots political organizing among Portuguese-American communities in five states to provide an historical overview of the project.

He will speak of the role played by the Luso American Foundation in the design and funding of the initiative and discuss the Project’s successes and shortcomings during its first 10 years of activity.  He will also explain the need for future funding from the Portuguese American community, in light of ongoing commitments from the Luso American Foundation and, more recently, the Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives are a joint collaboration between the Centre for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Claire T. Carney Library.

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 proceed to the first floor, exit the building, and proceed to the right to the Archives entrance.

For further information, contact 508-999-8684 or email spacheco@umassd.edu.

The Future of American Jewry: Presentation and discussion with Dr. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz – Feb. 14th – UMassD Library Archives

What: The Future of American Jewry: Presentation and discussion with Dr. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz
Where:
Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives @ the UMassD Claire T. Carney Library
When: Monday, February 14 from 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Admission: Free

Refreshments will be served.

Dr. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz will consider various assessments of the
prospects of American Jewry in terms of its population, size, cultural
continuity and distinctiveness, organizational structure and social
networks, economic and political status, and connections to Israel.

Are American Jews assimilating, undergoing transformation, or become more
polarized? Does any one characterization apply to all American Jewry, or do
segments of the American Jewish population show very different patterns now
and potentially different projections into the future? What do non-Jews
think and feel about Jews, and how does that affect the Jewish future?

A question and answer period will follow the presentation.

Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Cutlure
Contact: Rabbi Jacqueline Satlow
jsatlow@umassd.edu
508-910-6551

Collaborative Work Station Furniture Survey – Come Try It and Rate It!

The Claire T. Carney Library is hosting a trial of a collaborative work station for possible use in the renovated building.  It allows up to 6 people to each bring their own laptop to the station and share information on 2 screens. This can make group work and collaboration quick and seamless.  It is a walk up and connect experience with no special software necessary.  Find some colleagues and bring your laptops and give it a test drive.

The station is located on the 1st floor of the library in the Browsing area.  It will be here until February 27.  Please complete a survey form and leave it at the Learning Commons desk.  Your feedback is important.

For more information or questions, please contact Catherine Fortier-Barnes, cfortier@umassd.edu, Ext 8665 or Dean Terry Burton, tburton@umassd.edu, Ext 8664.

Library Orientation for Students in Fully-Online Programs – Two days – February 22nd & 23rd

Library Online Learning SupportLibrarians at Claire T. Carney Library are offering an orientation to online library services. Sign up for one of two sessions designed especially for students in online programs. Find out how the Carney Library’s staff and resources can help you succeed. The orientation will cover key library services and ensure that you know how to seek additional help from your liaison as well as library’s online support coordinator.

The orientation sessions are scheduled for Tuesday, February 22nd from 6 to 6:45 pm and Wednesday, February 23rd from 10 to 10:45 am. The synchronous sessions will be conducted using Wimba, an online teaching and learning tool. We will email attendees the link to the Wimba classroom and directions for accessing it.

If you’re interested in attending one of the sessions, please complete the online registration form by February 18th.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions!

Presenters

Matt Sylvain, Library Online Support Coordinator
Charlie McNeil, Library Systems and Digital Services Librarian

Technical Requirements

You need speakers or a headset to listen to the presentation. We also recommend that you have a microphone to ask questions and make comments. If you don’t have a microphone, you may use Wimba’s text-based chat to communicate with the presenters and fellow participants.

We also recommend that you use a broadband connection or higher.

Operating System

Windows 2000, XP or Vista; Mac OSX 10.3+
Java: Windows – J2SE(TM) Runtime Environment 5.0, Macintosh – Java for Mac OS X
Virus Scan and all Windows or Mac software updates installed (recommended)

Hardware

256 MB RAM
Sound Card
Speakers
Microphone Headset (recommended)

Web Browser

Windows: IE (7.0, 8.0), Firefox (3.0, 3.5)
Macintosh: Firefox (3.0, 3.5), Safari (3.0, 4.0)
Macromedia Flash Plug-in