ANNOUNCEMENTS

LibQUAL+(TM) Summary Report: Last year, Whittemore Library conducted an assessment of their library services. Results of the survey are found here.

National Library Week FSC READS pictures: Over 33 faculty, students and staff posed with their favorite books. Teresa Pagliuca's wonderful shots can be viewed here.

Extended Library Hours: Starting Sunday, April 13th, the library will be open until midnight Sunday through Thursdays now until finals.

Featured MacNaughton book for May - Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig : " In this authorized reimagining, Rhett, disowned son of a cruel South Carolina planter, is still a jauntily worldwise charmer, roguish but kind; Scarlett is still feisty, manipulative and neurotic; and the air of besieged decorum is slightly racier." (Publisher's Weekly)

New biography reference source: The Whittemore Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new resource for the reference collection: African American National Biography. According to the website, “The African American National Biography, a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press, was published in an eight volume print edition in January 2008. 

Covering a broader range of African American lives than ever before, the African American National Biography presents history through a mosaic of the lives of 4,100 individuals, some known throughout the world and others all but forgotten, illuminating the abiding influence of African Americans on the life of this nation through the immediacy of personal experience.  We include not only great and famous African Americans, but a selection that will be representative of the scope of African American experience.”

The African American National Biography was generously donated to the library by Professor Robert Johnson, Jr. in memory of his parents Robert O. and Vernice Johnson. Professor Johnson contributed essays on three prominent men of science, Mr. Walter McAffee, Mr. Walter Hawkins, and Mr. William Knox.

Welcome to the Whittemore Library Blog! Take a peek at our new blog. We will be updating the blog weekly.

New Online Resource - Handbook of Research on E-Portfolios: For those interested in research on e-portfolios, The Handbook of Research on ePortfolios is the source for comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios.

Microsoft Office available in library:The two computers next to the reference desk have Microsoft Office installed on them. To access a Microsoft Office application, select the Microsoft Office icon on the desktop and choose the application (for example: Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Microsoft Excel).

Exhibit Announcement

Location: Henry Whittemore Library Pit area

October 2007 – March 2008

We have on display materials from some of our early Normal School women.  Featuring, Mary Swift Lamson (1840), member of the first class, and early pioneer in teaching at the Perkins School for the Blind, and noted to have inspired Helen Keller to speak.  Also on display are materials from Lydia Stow (1841), first class grad, and an abolitionist, possibly having risked her and her families’ life to aid slaves to safety up North.  Louisa Harris (1840) and Adeline Ireson (1841, 1842), they became lifelong teachers, and were amongst those who didn’t follow societies’ standards and expectations and never got married.  Travel to the Argentine w/ Jennie Howard (1866), leaving all she knew and severing ties to America, to answer Domingo Sarmientos’ (President of Argentina 1868-1874) call to begin normal schools in the Argentine Region.  She did this not knowing the language, traveling to a foreign country and finally making this her lifetimes’ work, never to visit the United States again.  Read an excerpt from Frances Merritts’ (1855, 1857) letter describing being the first students to attend the college once it moved to Framingham on what was called “Bare Hill”. 

Learn a bit about Olivia Davidson Washington (1881), her role as teacher administrator and wife of Booker T. and a great advocate and aid to the establishment of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.  Catch a glimpse of Bertha Johnston (1885), her successes of having become the editor of the Kindergarten Magazine, in 1897.  Review some her many writings, on all topics educational to her passion of women’s suffrage movement.  But most of all take great pride in the successes and examples these women set before us.

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