Library News

Local Boston Designers Recognized by Smithsonian

Being a native Massachusetts girl and a graphic design student at Northeastern, I am always excited to hear about different opportunities in the design world that pop up around the historical city of Boston. Just the other day I came across an interesting article from Boston.com, which announced that the Smithsonian recently awarded three local MA designers for their recent and lifelong achievements in typography, interactive and product design. One designer, Matthew Carter, received the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Lifetime Achievement Award, a prestigious award recognizing him for his years of work on numerous typefaces for Microsoft, Yale University, and the Boston Globe. Additionally, the Boston.com article features a short interview with designer Gianfranco Zaccai who says he believes Americans are becoming more design-savvy and excelling in the design world. He states, “We live in a much more global and connected world…. and I think a lot of it is due to some design companies communicating to people more”. Needless to say, this recent recognition of local designers certainly makes me excited to see what other opportunities lie within our beloved city!

Boston GuitarFest June 15-19

Beginning Wednesday, June 15th, Boston GuitarFest will kick off its sixth year; this year with an Italian theme. Featuring well known-musicians, artists, and composers GuitarFest will go on for five nights hosting concerts right on Northeastern’s campus at the Fenway Center (77 St. Stephen Street). Included in the schedule is a performance by Jude Gold (electric guitar) who will perform a world premiere of a work by Anthony Paul De Ritis (Northeastern Music Professor) on June 16th at 8pm. In addition to this premier, The Newman & Oltman Duo will perform works by Gioachino Rossini, Leo Brouwer, and a world premiere by Arthur Kampela. To attend Thursday evening’s concert, mention “Snell Library” when you make your ticket purchase and receive a $7 discounted rate. All other concerts are priced on the event website. For more information about the concert series click here.

Argo Tea Coming Soon to Snell

We are excited to announce that Argo Tea will be replacing the Cyber Cafe on the first floor of Snell Library this Fall! As Dining Services has announced, construction will begin this month to ensure it is ready for the first day of classes in September. For those of you who haven’t heard of Argo Tea, the business originated in Chicago in 2003, and was created by Arsen Avakian, Daniel Lindwasser, and Simon Simonian. Their cafes offer a variety of black, white, green, and natural herbal teas, coffees, and an assortment of baked goods and small entrees. In addition to their healthy menu options, Argo Tea has made continuous donations of white teas to the University of Chicago’s Hospitals to contribute to Cancer Research efforts. To read more about Argo Tea and their menu offerings visit www.argotea.com. Stop by this fall and check it out!

IEEE Xplore upgrade brings new content and features

On Wednesday, IEEE upgraded the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Here are some of the new features: 1. Addition of VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings: One of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe, VDE VERLAG now integrates its conference proceedings into IEEE Xplore bringing new and important content that was not available to us before. There are 3,100 VDE conference papers from 20+ annual conference titles and 1,000 new articles anticipated to be added every year. 2. Sort search results by “Most Cited”: This new feature allows you to sort your search results by “Most Cited” and a citation count will be displayed on each article so you will be able to find articles of high impact quickly. 3. See more search results with scitopia.org: Scitopia.org is a search engine that surfaces content from 15 leading scholarly society publishers in science and technology. Now, when you perform your search in IEEE Xplore you will see additional relevant results from scitopia.org. Enjoy the new IEEEXplore upgrade, and we hope it makes your research easier!

Online book club @1book140

If you have ever joined a book club you know from experience that it is not easy to coordinate busy schedules, agree on next month’s book, or decide who will be next to host. Northeastern Journalism Professor, Jeffrey Howe, has created a book club that eliminates all of these troubles. Howe’s book club is on Twitter @1book140. The way it works is quite simple. 1book140 selects the book of the month by a majority vote of its Twitter followers. Once a book is selected members tweet their thoughts as they read, abiding by the month’s weekly schedule, and including the hashtag #1book140 so that their comments are collected on the site’s Twitter page. This month, readers have their noses in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. If you’re interested in joining you can view the weekly reading schedule for June and reserve The Blind Assassin at Snell Library to start your summer reading! For more information about @1book140 read this article from Marketplace Tech Report