Mildred F. Sawyer Library Blog

Streaming Video Services

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:48:00 +0000

Dear Faculty and Students,

As you may know, Sawyer library offers a collection of streaming videos through several content providers:

Films On Demand
Kanopy Streaming Media
Business Management Collection: Henry Stewart Talks
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments): Science Education
PsycTHERAPY

What you are likely not aware of is the variety of purchasing models these providers employ, and how those situations have impacted Sawyer library's offerings.

Some of these purchasing models are fairly straightforward; Sawyer library pays an annual subscription fee that opens a defined catalog of videos for unlimited use by our community members. Providers that follow this model:
Business Management Collection: Henry Stewart Talks
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments): Science Education
PsycTHERAPY

Other models offer opportunity to find and instantly access a desired video in the provider's full catalog, but the library pays license fees for videos that are "triggered". As users find and view videos, the provider tracks those views, then charges Sawyer library when a particular video achieves the "trigger threshold". This is a convenient service for our users, but it offers the library very little predictability when it comes to managing budgets, as numbers of triggers fluctuate wildly even in one year.

As a result, you may have noticed a change in your access within one of our most popular streaming video providers, Kanopy Streaming Media. Currently users are able to find videos in the Kanopy catalog, but must request purchase of a video via a request form that pops up in Kanopy's platform.

Films On Demand operates on a similar purchasing model as Kanopy, but it has received markedly less traffic and therefore currently still has funds for instant access. However, given what you have just read, it is possible that Films on Demand will also need to transition to a "request" model within the semester.

Sawyer library continually reviews its resources, and there are other options for providing video streaming that we will likely trial within the semester. We hope to strike the balance between convenient access and sustainable cost management.

As always, please do not hesitate to communicate your comments, questions and concerns:

sawlib@suffolk.edu

Circulation and Reserve Desk	Reference Desk
617-573-8535	617-573-8532

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Sincerely,
Sawyer library staff

Staff Notes: Farewell to Sharon Britton

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:42:00 +0000

Sharon Britton has retired from her position as Sawyer Library Director, and we wish her well in all her future kayaking, biking and family visiting pursuits!

Speech in honor of Sharon delivered May 30 2018:

Hello everyone! Thank you for coming to support Sharon Britton, the Mildred F. Sawyer Library Director until 5:00pm today when she might actually retire from Suffolk University and full time academic librarianship

We have all had an opportunity to work with Sharon as she engaged in events, projects and committees across campus. Sharon has probably attended every single community event held in this Poetry Center, and her commitment to the Employees Activity Council (EAC) programming ranges from regular First Friday SU spirit displays to last-second intensive decoration support for planned events. Sharon tirelessly advocates for the library’s interests at the Teaching Innovation Learning and Technology (TILT) Committee, Faculty and Professional Learning Community (FPLC), and at any “space meeting” she can politely muscle her way into. As Sharon has set the example for strong campus engagement, I believe you would agree that you are seeing librarians in more places across campus.

Within the library walls, Sharon has emphasized open communication, maintaining an open-door policy for staff to engage her in everything from feisty discussions about professional librarianship to compassionate (and confidential) personal conversations. Sharon has devoted much of her attention to increasing collaboration between departments on library-wide projects and enhancing library services for all users. As library director, Sharon oversaw the completion of the Sawyer Library Commons which grew seating and collaborative space for student use within the library. Sharon also supervised the integration of the former NESAD library’s collection with the Sawyer library collection, and welcomed the Moakley Archive and Institute as a new department of Sawyer library.

Sharon has led Sawyer library with sincerity and care for the past 5 years; please join me as we thank her tremendously for her service.

Off-Campus Authentication Upgrade

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:20:00 +0000

Dear Faculty and Students,

Suffolk University libraries are upgrading the service you use to sign into library databases from off-campus. This change is necessary for compliance with current web security standards, and it will improve reliable access to our materials from off-campus.

What this means for you:

Off-campus database users will now log in using the standard Suffolk University username and password information.

Some resources may still request the old login information during this transition phase. Please supply your old login information to access those resources.

Switching to the new service requires the libraries to change the database links. During the Spring 2018 semester, library staff will maintain the older authentication service, which provides access to the databases via the older links. After June 2018, the older service will no longer be maintained.

What this means for you:

Old links to databases, including direct links to articles, may break after June 2018.

Though some older links may remain functional after June, they will become increasingly less reliable.

Please update any links to databases or to content within databases in your research notes, syllabi, Blackboard platforms, etc.

As always, library staff is available to you for assistance! Please do not hesitate to email, call, or stop by your library for help.

Sincerely,

Moakley Library and Sawyer Library Staff

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Speaker Series Event! A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:48:00 +0000

Fall into Your Favorite Book

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:20:00 +0000

Compiled and Presented by Blaire Hiebsch, Senior Evening Library Assistant

A couple of weeks ago we had a question on the white board in Sawyer library asking students what their favorite book is, and it was so cool to see the wide range of books the students loved (some I knew and some I had never heard of). I thought wouldn't it be great if we had some of these books and we could show them off to our students. Sometimes university libraries are seen as just stuffy places to do scholarly research or a place to study but it isn't it nice to know libraries also provide a lot of fun reads as well. Some of these books were chosen because they were listed as being a students favorite books, some are just good reads that everyone should read in their life, and some purely looked intriguing. I tried to pull books that would appeal to a large range of people (and not just historical fiction which is my favorite). I tried show off the library's wide range of books to be enjoyed. With the changing of the season it feels like a good time to curl up with one's favorite hot beverage and a great book... especially now with it being mid-terms time it is an excellent moment for a little self-care and escape into a story.

Here is a list of the titles selected for the display. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out.

Speaker Series Event! Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict

noreply@blogger.com (Sarah Smith) — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:29:00 +0000

Speaker Series Event! Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict

When: Thursday, April 6, 4:30 PM

Where: 73 Tremont Street, Sawyer Library Poetry Center

The Women & Gender Studies Program and The Sawyer Library Speaker Series present a book talk by Professor Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber.
Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict examines bias within the state of Israel and the media at large, through the lens of the news coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair. The Yemenite Babies Affair is the emotionally laden, yet still unresolved, story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies upon their arrival to Israel during the 1950s. In analyzing fifty years of public narratives, Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber argues that the media played a major role in the concurrent framing and silencing of this story. This eye-opening study exposes the clash between the European Zionist ideology of unity and the reality of Israel’s diverse society, where at least half of the Jewish population is of Arab descent.

“Few books today raise more profoundly disturbing questions about identity, internal orientalism, modes of unofficial censorship, and the government of Israel than this brave and important book.”—Steven C. Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Society and Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University

“This brilliantly written and meticulously researched book explores one of the darkest chapters of those oppressive relations…This book belongs on your bookshelf in the small but ever-growing library of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) independent and alternative writing on the history of the Jews in modern times”—Sami Shalom Chetrit, Israeli poet and scholar, Queens College, CUNY

Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media at Suffolk University in Boston. She was born and raised in Israel to parents of Yemeni descent. She has worked as a freelance journalist in Israel for several newspapers; her book Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: the Yemenite Babies Affair was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2009/2014).

Speaker Series Event! Condition Critical: A Report Back on Gaza

noreply@blogger.com (Sarah Smith) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:58:00 +0000

When: Thursday, February 23, 2016

Where: 73 Tremont Street, Sawyer Library Poetry Center

Speaker Alice Rothchild, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist, has visited Gaza as part of an Israel/Palestine medical aid delegation. She will share images and impressions of the destruction and resilience that she has encountered and how ongoing siege conditions affect the lives of women and families.

Her latest publication, Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine presents key blog posts and analytical essays that explore everyday life in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza up close and with searing honesty. These eyewitness reports and intimate stories depict the critical condition of a region suffering from decades-old wounds of colonization and occupation. Condition Critical dares (and inspires) its readers to examine the painful consequences of Zionism and Israeli expansion and to bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice.

In Condition Critical Alice Rothchild grabs for the truth behind the lies, writing with extraordinary moral clarity and a sharp eye for the injustices, absurdities, and cruel historical ironies that define Palestinian life on both sides of the Green Line. (Ben Ehrenreich, Author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine)

Rothchild is a physician, author, and filmmaker who has focused her interest in human rights and social justice on Israel/Palestine since 1997. She practiced ob-gyn for almost 40 years. Until her retirement she served as assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harvard Medical School. She writes and lectures widely and also is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience and On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion. She directed a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide which premiered at the Boston Palestine Film Festival in 2013. Her latest trip to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza was in January 2017.

Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Mildred F. Sawyer Library.

Speaker Series Event! Edward Bernays and Advent of Modern Public Relations

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:18:00 +0000

Q: Why do so many people eat bacon and eggs in the morning?

A: Ask Edward Bernays (via Assoc. Prof. Brian Conley)!

Tuesday, January 31, 12:15 pm

Poetry Center, 3rd floor, Sawyer Library

Light Refreshments

Have you ever wondered why so many Americans eat bacon and eggs in the morning? Associate Professor Brian Conley will discuss the career of Edward L. Bernays, the man behind this famous ad campaign who was widely considered the founder of modern public relations theory and practice.

Conley will also discuss a lecture series hosted by Bernays at Suffolk University in the 1960s called "Europe's Contributions to the American Civilization." The Moakley Archive recently digitized documents and recordings from the series which featured diplomats from across Europe speaking about European-American relations and foreign policy.

Brian Conley is Associate Professor in the Government Department and serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Political Science at Suffolk University. His research focuses on American Politics, Political Parties and Party Systems, Political Marketing and Branding, Public Policy, Social Movement Theory and Practice.

Speaker Series Event! Book Talk by Amy Agigian, Associate Professor of Sociology.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:42:00 +0000

"The First House--A Memoir of Mom, Berkeley, and Beyond."

When: Thursday, April 21, 1:00 PM

Where: 73 Tremont St, Sawyer Library Poetry Center.
Light Refreshments will be served.

The memoir explores the author’s experiences growing up with love and secrets. What does a ten-year old do when her mom—the funnest, best mom in the world—goes from being an antiwar radical to being a closeted lesbian? How does a thirteen-year old girl cope when her mom is stricken with a terrifying illness that nobody, inside the family or out, can acknowledge? How does a fourteen-year old handle leaving her suburban home in Palo Alto to join her father in a hippie collective in 1970’s Berkeley?

The First House is a story of motherlove and motherloss that winds through decades of discovery. A young girl, then a teen, then an adult, seeks solace, sanity, and love in this collection of moving and surprisingly funny tales. The journey takes her through the unlikely worlds of astrology, academia, feminism, and queer family. Along the way she embraces a procession of surrogate mothers, teachers, lovers, friends, animals, and invisible beings. But how long can she keep the promises she made to the most important person in the world?

Amy Agigian, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University, where she is also the Founding Director of the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights. Trained in the sociology of women, gender, sexuality and health, she is the author of Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination is Changing the World. Dr. Agigian’s current research applies a feminist health and human rights perspective to the vexing, global issues of human fertility and infertility. A long time activist, Dr. Agigian lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and is the mother of a teen-aged son.

Reports on the Nominating Process, National Conventions, and Voter Identification, from the Congressional Research Service

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:28:00 +0000

The Republican National Convention this July in Cleveland may or may not turn into a brawl, but those who wish to be well supplied with information - in order to have a good understanding as the events unfold - may wish to look at the following report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS):

"The Presidential Nominating Process and the National Party Conventions, 2016: Frequently Asked Questions." This report provides "answers to frequently asked questions about the Presidential nominating process, including how delegates to the national conventions are chosen, differences between a caucus and a primary, national party rules changes for 2016, and information on national conventions."

The Sawyer Library recently began a subscription to a collection of CRS Reports through the vendor ProQuest. This collection may be found by starting at the Sawyer Library home page (http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/) > Databases by Subject > Social Sciences > Political Science > Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports.

The Congressional Research Service produces reports specifically for use by Congress. They are known for being nonpartisan reports, which typically include analysis, pro/con viewpoints, and statistics.

In preparation for Professor Rachael Cobb's upcoming talk in the Poetry Center, "Voting Rights and the 2016 Presidential Election," attendees may wish to view the following two reports from CRS:

"Voter Identification Requirements: Background and Legal Issues" updated November 03, 2014 and updated November 10, 2014.

Speaker Series Event! Voting Rights and the 2016 Presidential Election

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:12:00 +0000

Speaker: Rachael Cobb

When: Wednesday, March 30th 2016; 1:00 pm

Where: 73 Tremont St, Sawyer Library Poetry Center

In 2006 only one U.S. state required identification to vote on Election Day. Today, 11 states require identification and 34 states have some version of voter identification rules. Other election reforms including early voting have expanded since the early 2000s. What impact will these reforms have on voter turnout in the 2016 presidential election?

Rachael Cobb is Associate Professor and Chair of the Government Department at Suffolk University. Her research focuses on U.S. elections, election administration, electoral politics, civic engagement, and political participation. At Suffolk University, Cobb runs the University Pollworkers Project, a nonpartisan program designed to recruit college students to serve as poll workers in partnership with the City of Boston’s Election Department

Join us for Voting Rights and the 2016 Presidential Election, Wednesday, March 30th 2016 @ 1:00 pm

Location: Poetry Center, 3rd floor, Sawyer Library

Speaker Series Event! Book Talk on Change Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:43:00 +0000

Speakers: Collete Dumas & Richard H. Beinecke

When: Thursday, February 11th 2016; 1:00 pm

Where: 73 Tremont St, Sawyer Library Poetry Center

You know WHAT needs to change in your workplace. But have you ever wondered HOW to make change happen? Join Drs. Colette Dumas and Richard Beinecke as they share the inspiring stories and effective change practices of successful change leaders profiled in their new book series Change Leadership published by SAGE Publications.

Colette Dumas, Ph.D., is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship at the Sawyer Business School. Dr. Dumas founded the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at Suffolk University to help organizations develop innovative and collaborative change leadership learning programs.

Richard H. Beinecke DPA ACSW is a professor in the Suffolk University Institute for Public Service and the Healthcare Department in the Sawyer Business School where he teaches courses on leadership, and U.S. and global health policy and conducts research on management of mental health programs and leadership.

Join us for Book Talk on Change Leadership, Thursday, February 11 @ 1 p.m.

Location: Poetry Center, 3rd floor, Sawyer Library

Sawyer Library New Book Display

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:36:00 +0000

Here is a list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library display case. This display features new book covers from the Sawyer Library collection. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

Mildred F. Sawyer Library Book Display List

Henry Stewart Talks

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:10:00 +0000

Henry Stewart Talks

Henry Stewart Talks publishes animated audio visual presentations by leading world experts.

The Business and Management Collection includes over 800 specially prepared audio-visual lectures, organized into 80 comprehensive series. Topics include Marketing, Management, Leadership Finance, Technology, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Global Business, Strategy Financial Risk Management, and much more. Here are a few series that may be of interest:

Strategic Management, edited by Prof. Charles Baden-Fuller – Cass Business School, UK

Global Branding Strategies - Prof. Donald E. Sexton – Columbia University, USA

Corporate Finance Edited by Prof. Raghavendra Rau – University of Cambridge, UK

Principles of Marketing Edited Prof. Michael J. Baker – Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde

Managing Organizations Edited by Prof. Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Doing Business in China I Edited by Prof. Ilan Alon – Rollins College and Harvard University, USA

Talks can easily be embedded onto your course Blackboard page.

Henry Stewart Talks are listed in the Sawyer Library A-to Z list of Databases and within database subject lists.

Sawyer Library New Book Display

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:58:00 +0000

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library display case. This display features new book covers from the Sawyer Library collection. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

Mildred F. Sawyer Library Book Display List

1. Advertising and propaganda in World War II : cultural identity and the blitz spirit / David Clampin

2. Animal madness : how anxious dogs, compulsive parrots, and elephants in recovery help us understand ourselves / Laurel Braitman

3. Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode

4. Bats : a world of science and mystery / M. Brock Fenton, Nancy B. Simmons

5. Big data, little data, no data : scholarship in the networked world / Christine L. Borgman

6. Blaming Europe? : responsibility without accountability in the European Union / Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley

7. Bridging the gender gap : seven principles for achieving gender balance / Lynn Roseberry and Johan Roos

8. The business of America is lobbying : how corporations became politicized and politics became more corporate / Lee Drutman

9. City of steel : how Pittsburgh became the world's steelmaking capital during the Carnegie era / Kenneth J. Kobus

10. The container principle : how a box changes the way we think / Alexander Klose ; translated by Charles Marcrum II

11. Cowardice : a brief history / Chris Walsh

12. Currency politics : the political economy of exchange rate policy / Jeffry A. Frieden

13. Energy poverty : global challenges and local solutions / edited by Antoine Halff, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Jon Rozhon

14. Failing our fathers : confronting the crisis of economically vulnerable, nonresident fathers / Ronald B. Mincy, Monique Jethwani, Serena Klempin

15. The First Amendment bubble : how privacy and paparazzi threaten a free press / Amy Gajda

16. Flags and Faces : the visual culture of America's First World War / David M. Lubin

17. From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / Thomas C. Field Jr

18. From slave abuse to hate crime : the criminalization of racial violence in American history / Ely Aaronson

19. Galileo's middle finger : heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science / Alice Dreger

20. Government paternalism : nanny state or helpful friend? / Julian Le Grand and Bill New

21. Great minds : reflections of 111 top scientists / Balazs Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Istvan Hargittai

22. Happiness and economic growth : lessons from developing countries / edited by Andrew E. Clark and Claudia Senik

23. The human and environmental impact of fracking : how fracturing shale for gas affects us and our world / Madelon L. Finkel, editor ; foreword by Seth B.C. Shonkoff, PhD, MPH

24. Internet literature in China / Michel Hockx

25. It's not the size of the data--it's how you use it : smarter marketing with analytics and dashboards / Koen Pauwels

26. Japan : the paradox of harmony / Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer

27. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the art of the figure / Michael W. Cole

28. Living in infamy : felon disfranchisement and the history of American citizenship / Pippa Holloway

29. Media violence and children : a complete guide for parents and professionals / Douglas A. Gentile, editor ; foreword by Michael Rich, MD, MPH

30. The merchant republics : Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790 / Mary Lindemann

31. Mexicans in the making of America / Neil Foley

32. Miseducating Americans : distortions of historical understanding / Richard F. Hamilton

33. The new wild : why invasive species will be nature's salvation / Fred Pearce

34. Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis / Karsonya Wise Whitehead

35. The oldest living things in the world / Rachel Sussman

36. The outsourcer : the story of India's IT revolution / Dinesh C. Sharma

37. Perspectives on Dodd-Frank and finance / edited by Paul H. Schultz

38. Racial reckoning : prosecuting America's civil rights murders / Renee C. Romano

39. Rare : the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth / Keith Veronese

40. The Reagan Era : a history of the 1980s / Doug Rossinow

41. Saving the Pryor Mountain mustang : a legacy of local and federal cooperation / Christine M. Reed

42. Sea of storms : a history of hurricanes in the greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina / Stuart B. Schwartz

43. The Secret History of Wonder Woman / Jill Lepore

44. Sexualized media messages and our children : teaching kids to be smart critics and consumers / Jennifer W. Shewmaker

45. South Asia in the globalised world / edited by C. Vinodan

46. The triumph of seeds : how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history / Thor Hanson

47. Unfinished work : the struggle to build an aging American workforce / Joseph Coleman

48. The vanishing neighbor : the transformation of American community / Marc J. Dunkelman

49. Who we be : the colorization of America / Jeff Chang

50. The wobblies in their heyday : the rise and destruction of the industrial workers of the world during the World War I era / Eric Thomas Chester

May 8, 2015: The 70th Anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 May 2015 15:41:00 +0000

No single blog post could ever encompass the enormous tragedy of World War II. For that matter, many books only try to take on selected aspects of the war, its causes, and consequences. Here is a small sample of book titles available at the Sawyer Library:

Print:

Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
By Walter Kempowski; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.

Five Days that Shocked the World:
Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
By Nicholas Best

The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History
By Judith M. Hughes

E-Books:

The War in the Empty Air:
Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans"
By Dagmar Barnouw

Getting History Right:
East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War"
By Mark A. Wolfgram

The War Complex:
World War II in Our Time
By Marianna Torgovnick

Interesting reading (seriously) on freight, shipping, supply chains, and logistics.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:03:00 +0000

Listed below is a sample of titles that relate to containers and freight shipping. All are available through the Sawyer Library.

The "Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics" is a scholarly reference book, but the others (especially the three print titles) are interesting and relatively quick to read in their entirety.

All of the titles should awaken respect for those who work to transport the items that are at the center of the consumer economy.

Ninety Percent of Everything :
Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate.
By Rose George
Sawyer 4th Floor
HE571 .G465 2013

The Box :
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
By Marc Levinson
Sawyer 4th Floor
TA1215 .L47 2006

The Container Principle :
How a Box Changes the Way we Think.
By Alexander Klose ;
translated by Charles Marcrum II
Sawyer New Books
TA1215 .K5813 2015

Box Boats:
How Container Ships Changed the World.
By Brian J. Cudahy
E-BOOK

Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics:
Making Global Supply Chains Effective.
Edited by Chung-Yee Lee, Qiang Meng
E-BOOK

Development of Containerization:
Success Through Vision, Drive and Technology.
By Hans van Ham, Joan Rijsenbrij
E-BOOK

New Database: Films on Demand

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:31:00 +0000

Films on Demand (FOD) is a comprehensive collection of high-quality educational videos. The Sawyer Library has unlimited access to over 17,000 videos covering a wide range of topics. Featured producers include American Experience, BBC, Films for the Humanities and Science, Ken Burns, Frontline, PBS, NOVA, Meridian, Royal Opera House, TED, and much more.

Individual segments subdivide each video creating separate shorter units. Films may be searched by title or by keywords in segments. In addition, the user may browse titles alphabetically or browse or search within subject areas. Films on Demand offers closed captioning in many videos.

Users can create custom playlists of selected clips and share them or embed playlist URLs in Blackboard or syllabi. In addition, users can create personal accounts and save films or segments in folders for easy access and organization.

All films have public performance rights and no copyright infringement worries. Proper citation formats are provided with each video so that students can cite correctly.

New Online Resource: Oxford Islamic Studies Online

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:08:00 +0000

Oxford Islamic Studies Online is comprised of "over 5,000 A–Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines." Core content titles include:

The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
The Oxford History of Islam
Two versions of the Qur'an:
- M.A.S. Abdel Haleem's The Qur'an, a prose translation
- The Koran Interpreted, a verse translation by A.J. Arberry
Hanna Kassis' Concordance of the Qur'an

Have you heard about "Bitcoin"? Are you curious about virtual currencies? Are you looking for a paper topic relating to technology and society?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:55:00 +0000

If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then have a look at this new book:

"Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution is Transforming the Economy," written by Edward Castronova, published by Yale University Press, [2014].

The publisher has provided this synopsis:

"Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federal government. Credit card companies offer points that can be traded in for a variety of goods and services, from airline miles to online store credit. Online game creators have devised new mediums of electronic exchange that turn virtual money into real money. Meanwhile, real money is increasingly going digital, where it competes with private currencies like Bitcoin. The virtual and the real economic worlds are intermingling more than ever before, raising the possibility that this new money might eventually replace the government-run system of dollars, euros, and yen. Edward Castronova is the leading researcher in this field, a founder of scholarly online game studies and an expert on the economies of virtual worlds. In this dynamic and essential work, he explores the current phenomenon of virtual currencies and what it will mean legally, politically, and economically in the future. In doing so, he provides a fascinating, often surprising discourse on the meaning of money itself-what it is, what we think it is, and how we relate to it on an emotional level"

Speaker Series Event! Record of a Soldier in the Late War: The Confederate Memoir of John Wesley Bone

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:30:00 +0000

Speakers: Julianne Mehegan and David Mehegan

When: Tuesday, March 24^th 2015; 1:00 pm

Where: 73 Tremont St, Sawyer Library Poetry Center

Sawyer Library is proud to once again feature Suffolk University alumni at our next speaker event, happening Tuesday March 24 at 1pm! Julianne and David Mehegan, S.U. alums and editors of Record of a Soldier in the Late War: The Confederate Memoir of John Wesley Bone, will lead a book talk about this title.

John Wesley Bone's diary gives the reader the gritty essence of the Civil War. While it is one man's memory of a volunteer fighting for the Confederacy, it is also a portrait of what daily life was like for the common soldier on both sides of the conflict. In plain, straight-forward language, Bone describes the exploding confusion of battle, the fear, quiet courage, bloody marching feet, rampant sickness, bitter cold and fetid heat of that brutal time. The beautifully-designed diary, edited by Bone's great granddaughter, Julianne Mehegan and her husband, David, will resonate with readers on either side of the Mason-Dixon Line, be they Civil War memorabilia collectors or simply people who want a first-hand account of history.

The book talk will take place in the Poetry Center in the Sawyer Library. There will be light refreshments—Bring your bag lunch!

Sawyer Library Book Display

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:12:00 +0000

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library Book display. The display features book covers from the Sawyer Library collection related to African American History and Women's History. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

Frank Wedekind and his play "Spring's Awakening"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:46:00 +0000

In coordination with this year's Pioneer Performance Series production of Spring Awakening, the musical, (based on a 19th century German play by Frank Wedekind), and Professor Jay Rosellini's presentation about the original work and Wedekind’s legacy in drama history, the Sawyer Library is highlighting items in the Library's collection related to the play and its German author.

The contemporary production:

Spring Awakening
Book and lyrics by Steven Sater ; music by Duncan Sheik. Online access via eBrary.

Spring Awakening : In the Flesh
Written by David Cote ; principal photography by Doug Hamilton and Joan Marcus.

The English translation of Wedekind's play:

Spring's Awakening: Tragedy of Childhood
By Frank Wedekind; English version and ten notes by Eric Bentley

The original play:

Frühlings Erwachen : eine Kindertragödie
Frank Wedekind ; mit einem Nachwort von Georg Hensel

Biography and criticism of Frank Wedekind (1864-1918):

Frank Wedekind
By Sol Gittleman

Frank Wedekind
by Alan Best

Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1889-1918
Access book at Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Online

The Playwright & Historical Change; Dramatic Strategies in Brecht, Hauptmann, Kaiser & Wedekind
By Leroy R. Shaw

German literature and culture:

The Cambridge Companion to
Modern German Culture
View full text via Cambridge Online

Reviews of performances, and articles about the play, from
the New York Times, spanning from 1908 to 2008.

All are available online to Suffolk University students and staff, via
the Historic New York Times database.

Isherwood, Charles. "Injecting Real Youth into a Youthful show." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Sep 15 2008. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

BELLAFANTE, GINIA. "Sex, Repressed and Unleashed." New York Times (1923-Current file): 2. Feb 09 2007. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

Isherwood, Charles. "THEATER REVIEW: A Rock 'n' Roll Heartbeat for German Schoolboys of the 19th Century." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Jun 16 2006. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

SISARIO, BEN. "Duncan Sheik." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Feb 26 2006. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

Gussow, MEL. "Stage: Juilliard Players do 'Spring Awakening'." New York Times (1923-Current file): 40. Dec 19 1977. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

Funke, LEWIS. "Theater: Wedekind's 'the Awakening of Spring': Sex-Education Sermon at Pocket Theater 1891 Play Conveys Air of a Museum Piece." New York Times (1923-Current file): 50. May 13 1964. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

Gelb, ARTHUR. "Theatre: Dated Sermon: 'Spring's Awakening'Is an Essay on Sex." New York Times (1923-Current file): 30. Oct 10 1955. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

"COURT BARS SEX PLAY: Justice Erlanger Finds "The Awakening of Spring" Unfit for Public." New York Times (1857-1922): 13. May 03 1917. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

"THE AWAKENING OF SPRING": A Tragedy of Childhood by the German Playwright, Frank Wedekind." New York Times (1857-1922): 1. Oct 01 1910. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

Special Cable to THE NEW,YORK TIMES. "CHILD ACTORS SEEN IN GERMAN SEX PLAY." New York Times (1857-1922): 9. Oct 29 1908. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

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Sawyer Library Book Display

Frank Wedekind and his play "Spring's Awakening"

Speaker Series Event! Spring's Awakening - Wedekind's Awakening

Sponsored by Mildred F. Sawyer Library and the Performing Arts Office

Speaker Series Event! The Perils, Promise and Problems of Social Media and its Impact on Sports Journalism

Sponsored by Mildred F. Sawyer Library and the Journalism and Communication Department

When: Tuesday, March 24^th 2015; 1:00 pm