Feb. 11 Illustrator Workshop in the DMDS: Sign Up Now!

Illustrator Basics [Click Here to Register for this Workshop] 2/11 @ 2:50pm-4:30pm This workshop teaches how to create images using the basic tools of Illustrator. Leave with an understanding of vector images and type. Learn how to create, edit, and bring your ideas to the screen. For more information, call Thomas Bary at 617-373-3399.

Take our Mobile Survey… Please!

Do you use a mobile device for more than just phone calls and texting? If so, we’re interested in knowing if you would like to be able to use it for better access to library services. A very brief survey (4 questions) goes live on the Library home page, so here’s your chance to help us decide what would be useful and helpful for your research needs. Please take a minute to let us know what library information you want to access on your phone or handheld device. The survey is on our home page, or here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L957V2G

Carmen Pola records now available for research

The Carmen A. Pola papers are open for research in the Archives and Special Collections Department, 92 Snell Library.  A guide to the collection is available online.  Carmen Pola is a community activist who settled in Mission Hill, Boston, in 1972. The materials date from 1970-2006 and document Pola’s work with the Puerto Rican Festival, the Boston Public Schools, the Project to Monitor the Code of Discipline, Mayor Raymond Flynn’s Administration, and Roxbury Unites for Families and Children. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, grant proposals and reports, surveys, charts, organizational records, legal materials, political campaign literature, catalogs, booklets, and meeting minutes. Read the full press release here. If you’re interested in this topic, in addtion to perusing the records in Archives, you might be interested in checking out Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston by Carol Hardy-Fanta. Below is a picture of Carmen Pola and Mayor Ray Flynn viewing a report in the Mayor’s office, ca. 1986.

Carmen Pola and Mayor Ray Flynn view a report in the Mayor's office, ca. 1986

Meet Author Elizabeth Nunez Feb. 5

This Friday, February 5, at noon, author Elizabeth Nunez will be speaking about about her novel Anna in Between in 421 Snell Library. The novel centers around Anna, a New York City-based editor who returns to her home in the Caribbean only to find out about her mother’s cancer diagnosis.  Refreshments will be served. Download the event flyer. One of Nunez’s earlier novels, Prospero’s Daughter, is a post-colonial re-telling of The Tempest, in the tradition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. You can check out all three books, (along with Anna in Between) at Snell Library. (Follow the links above, to the books’ call numbers in NUCAT.)

Thursday, Feb. 4 Faculty Training on Web of Science

Please Join Us

Thursday, February 4, 2010

10-11:30 AM

90 Snell Library

For a training session on Web of Science Questions? Please contact Head Librarian-Research and Instruction Jamie Dendy at j.dendy@neu.edu, 617-373-3344. Lunch will be provided, courtesy of Thomson-Reuters. Download the event flyer.