“A Taste of the Brooks Museum” is on display in the library! Located in the case next to the stairwell in the Lobby, the exhibit features some artifacts, including a “cowboy hat,” textiles and cat mask, from Latin America and Asia. Special thanks go to Sharon Steadman and the Brooks Museum for loaning these objects. For more fascinating items visit the Brooks Museum in Moffett Center, Room 2126! Please contact Amanda Halliwell, Secretary for Sociology/Anthropology, at 753-2726 for museum hours.
Need help finding resources for your research paper? Ask A Librarian!
Don’t struggle: Ask A Librarian if you have difficulties finding scholarly resources for your research paper! Librarians are there to help you! You can find us at the Research Assistance Desk in the Learning Commons or connect with us through Chat, Email, Phone or Text in the “Ask A Librarian” box on the Library Tab in myRedDragon. When you have difficulties finding resources at 2:00am in the morning: chat with a librarian through AskUs 24/7! A librarian from another part of the country will help you find resources! Ask for Help!
Featured: TMC Online Guide
The Teaching Materials Center has an online presence!
This online guide contains information about the many collections in the TMC, including descriptions and call numbers, as well as tips on how to search the catalog for these materials. There are also links to online journals, videos, databases, and websites. These websites include lesson plan ideas, children’s literature, standards, technology, and other topics aimed at educators.
The TMC Guide is always available under the Links/Resources area in the Library Tab.
Featured Database: MAS Ultra School Edition
Secondary Education students looking for articles to supplement their lesson plans will find a great resource in MAS Ultra. This database contains educational magazines and journals, reference works, and primary sources, all aimed at the high school level.
Among the roughly 500 periodicals included are: American Heritage, American History, Astronomy, Bioscience, Civil War Times, Discover, History Today, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American… and many more, representing a variety of subject areas. In addition, MAS Ultra has background material from encyclopedia articles and biographies. There’s text from primary source materials such as historical documents and speeches, as well as photos, maps, flags, and other images.
Searches can also be narrowed by Lexile Reading Level, making this database very useful when working with a specific grade.
Library CLOSED Friday March 15th
Due to an electrical power shut down on various parts of campus, the library will be closed Friday March 15th .
If you have any library related questions please use our chat box on the librarytab in myRedDragon during the hours of 9-4 and librarians will respond! Any other time, you can use our AskUs 24/7 chat reference, a nationwide collaborative service, by clicking here: http://goo.gl/M4UDj
Library Spring Break Hours
The library will operate at reduced hours during spring break. Changes to the schedule are as follows:
- March 8 (Friday): 7:30am – 4pm
- March 9/10 (Saturday/Sunday): Closed
- March 11-15 (Monday-Friday): 8am – 4pm
- March 16 (Saturday): Closed
- March 17 (Sunday): 4pm -10pm
Enjoy spring break!
Meet Robert Shetterly, the artist of “Americans Who Tell the Truth”!
In conjunction with the library display “Defining Activism:” books by and about American Activists, three special events take place this week in Sperry Building and Dowd Gallery: (the final week of this exhibition!)
- Tuesday March 5, 7:00pm: Art, Ethics and Resistance, an evening with Robert Shetterly hosted by the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, *Sperry Building (tentatively room 205)*
- Wednesday, March 6, 5:30pm: Artist’s Talk: Robert Shetterly
- Thursday, March 7, 7:00pm: Reception Celebrating the Induction of Bill Griffen’s Portrait into the Americans Who Tell the Truth Project.
All events and programs are free and open to the public.
New Display in the Library!
A new display is currently on view at Memorial Library entitled “Defining Activism:” books by and about American Activists.
In tandem with the current exhibition up at the Dowd and Beard Galleries, the Memorial Library is highlighting activism, as exhibited in our collections and at SUNY Cortland.
The library is highlighting a selection of books by about 28 “Americans who tell the truth” as depicted in Robert Shetterly’s portrait series currently showing in the Dowd and Beard Galleries. The 28 portraits originated from a still growing collection of more than 150 activists. Inspired by events that took place after 9/11 and the apparent disingenuity of the Bush Administration, Robert Shetterly, a Maine-based artist, set out to paint portraits of American activists that “tell the truth.” Drawn from a wide-range of activism, be it criminal justice activism, environmental activism, peace activism, each activist is beautifully represented by a portrait and a quote inscribed into the painting itself. A project spanning now over ten years, Shetterly continues to paint portraits of courageous American figures that define and redefine how we as a people can stand up to injustice.
Be sure to take a trip downtown to check out the exhibition in person! In the meantime, enjoy the slideshow displayed downstairs in the lobby depicting each activist in the exhibition accompanied by the powerful and poignant quote Shetterly chose to include within the portrait.
Alongside the books showcased, we have provided a bibliography for your own research. Come by the library and pick one up!
Featured Database: ARTstor
Impress your classmates and professors with high-quality images inserted into your presentations!
ARTstor provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. ARTstor shares collections from hundreds of museums, artists, artists’ estates, photographers, scholars, special collections and photo archives.
Some of the image collections you can find in ARTstor:
- Frick Collection
- Getty Research Institute
- Museum of Modern Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- and much, much more!
So what can you do with the ARTstor Digital Library?
- Create a free account and save and sort images into your own personal folders; even upload your own images
- Search by Keyword, or Browse by collection, classification, or geography
- View images and image data
- Print and save images to your own computer or flash drive
- Download images to PowerPoint or KeyNote
Ready to start? Go to the Library Databases link on the Library Tab in myRedDragon and search for ARTstor in the alphabetical list of databases by title or Ask a librarian!
New: Library Research Guides!
The library has a newly designed Library Tab in myRedDragon featuring the new Library Research Guides! Our previous Subject Plus guides have been transitioned to the most widely used system for creating research guides and sharing knowledge: LibGuides. These online Library Research Guides cover all SUNY Cortland’s study areas, specific topics and general research techniques and are created by Cortland librarians to help faculty and students find information for a particular subject. Be sure to take a look at our new Library Research Guides. You can find them in the third box down in the middle of the Library Tab. Enjoy!