Coming in the fall to Memorial Library!

Let’s Talk About It will be back in the fall with more book discussions on Jewish literature. This year we will be looking at Modern Marvels, a series of graphic novels, including A Contract With God by Will Eisner; The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman; Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor; The Quitter by Harvey Pekar; The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar. Once again, sessions will be conducted by Nicky Morris of the English Department and held in the Reading Area of the Teaching Materials Center at Memorial Library. Projected dates for the discussions are: August 27, 2008, September 24, 2008, October 15, 2008, November 12, 2008 and December 3, 2008; all at 7:00 P.M. Refreshments will be served. Please join us!

For more information please contact Ellen McCabe (753-4051; mccabe@cortland.edu ).

This program is made possible by a grant from the American Library Association and Nextbook

April 17th  (Thursday)
Literature Circle in Action with Fahrenheit 451
TMC, Memorial Library, 1:30 - 2:15pm

April 19th   (Saturday)
Read-A-Thon: Fahrenheit 451 (Join us for a marathon read)
While adults read, there will be supervised activities with books for children
Center for the Arts, Homer, 9:00am-4:00pm

Event Sponsors: English Department, Literacy Department, Office of Sponsored Programs, Memorial Library Staff, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, National  Institute for Museum & Library Services.

Mark your calendars for April 15, 2008 at 1:15 PM and 2:50 PM.  Suzanne Bloom, noted author and illustrator, will be presenting in the Children’s Reading Area in the Teaching Materials Center, Memorial Library in conjunction with The Big Read.  Her theme will center on “Dare to Read:  The act of reading to a child creates a powerful connection between the reader and the child and between the child and a larger world.”  Ms. Bloom was an illustrator before she became a writer.  She notes, “..as much as I love writing the story, drawing the pictures is like dessert.”  She went to Cooper Union College, an art school, where she painted, made sculptures, and drew throughout her four years there.  She uses everyday details in her illustrations and lets the reader get to know who lives in each of her books.  Some of her books include A Family for Jamie: An Adoption Story, Girls A to Z, No Place for a Pig, The Bus for Us, A Splendid Friend Indeed, and Treasure.

Stop in at the Children’s Reading Area for a lively, energizing visit with Suzanne.  You will be glad you did!

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library in conjunction with The Big Read.

Memorial Library will be conducting an intensive quantitative study of reactions of fear, horror, and terror in response to the new stapler at the reference desk.   Funded by a grant from the Department of Defense, assessment will occur over a period of six months at the library reference desk.  Data will be collected via a comprehensive survey of library users and by analysis of closed-circuit television using the Dartfish software package.  The findings will be crucial for the experimental weapons program for the Army’s Psychological Warfare unit, which will establish whether staplers equipped with extension cords should be parachuted into hot zones to demoralize the enemy.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Mr. April Fool

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.  

Jennifer Hoover
Electronic Resources Librarian
SUNY Cortland Memorial Library

Federal tax forms can be found at : http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html?portlet=3.  The most requested tax forms can be found at: http://www.irs.gov/index.html.

The library is no longer supplying paper tax forms because the IRS is encouraging people to file online, or print out forms online.

NY state forms are also available online at: http://www.tax.state.ny.us/

The library winter and intersession hours are available at: http://library.cortland.edu/hours_winter.asp

Memorial Library has many great databases – but did you know you can get more for free?

The New York State Library and the New York Public Library can help you with your research. A card can get you access to thousands of articles from your home or office, saving you time and gas.

New York State Library

Databases available: Project Muse, AnthroSource, Sanborn Maps, New York Times-Historical, Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, and more. Check here for a list of databases, and here for a list of journals.

Get a card: Write nyslcirc@mail.nysed.gov and ask for a state employee borrower’s card. An application will be mailed to you. Send it back with a photocopied pay stub and a copy of your Cortland ID.

New York Public Library

Databases available: Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry, African American History Online, Chinese E-Journal Collection, Project Muse, more here

Get a card: Any NY resident or student is eligible. Start on their website here. Under the picture of the “Branch Libraries – Circulating Collections” card, click on “Apply for a library card”.

Don’t forget to ask a librarian at Memorial Library if you need any help with your research!

Dan Harms
Coordinator of Instruction Librarian

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance
on October 20, 2007 for approximately 2 hours
starting at 08:00 AM EST (13:00 PM GMT).
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Ever wonder why anyone would not let people read The Bible? Why would someone think Where’s Waldo is a bad book? What is wrong with Beloved? The Friends of the Library invite you to check out the Banned Books displays in The College Store, Corey Union, Old Main, and Memorial Library from Wednesday, September 26 through Monday, October 8 to see how familiar literature has been and continues to be censored on a regular basis. Contest entry forms at each display will test your knowledge to see how much you know about the books on display!

Participants who complete the contest forms are eligible to win one of two $25 ASC gift cards, a Cortaca Jug sweatshirt or T-shirt, or a Banned Book tote bag filled with lots of goodies inside. The contest is open to students, staff and faculty, limit one entry per person per display. The drawing for the prizes will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10 in the Memorial Library Teaching Materials Center. One winner per display will be drawn for all correct entries received. You do not need to be present to win.

Please contact Lorraine Melita at ext. 4009 or Gretchen Douglas at ext. 4029 with any questions you may have. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.