Go Deeper: Delve into African American Studies

This month and all months, we honor the African diaspora and the many contributions of African-Americans. The Northeastern University community is fortunate to have two related experts to help us to learn more about African American history. Kantigi Camara is the Librarian who runs the John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute Library. And Research & Instruction Librarian Christine Oka designed this research guide. She also provides reference assistance and manages a related collection at Snell Library. Additionally, here is a gorgeous website celebrating Black History Month, which was put together by the Library of Congress.

Tech Alert: Elsevier Ejournals, WorldCat Outages This Weekend

Add this to your reasons to get out of Boston and go skiing (or surfing) this weekend: SciVerse, the Elsevier publishing platform that includes Science Direct ejournals and ebooks as well as the Scopus search engine, will be undergoing upgrades this weekend and will be unavailable Saturday, 2/26, from 8am to 8pm, or nearly all day. In addition, WorldCat Local, which allows you to search the catalogs of most United States and some international libraries, will be unavailable Sunday, 2/27 from 1am to 6am.  That’s basically late late overnight Saturday night. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope that the enforced hiatus from these two services offers you the opportunity for some rest and relaxation as we head into Spring Break!

Spring Break 2011 Hours

Snell Library Spring Break Hours 2011 Saturday, February 26, 9:00am-5:00pm Sunday, February 27, closed Monday-Thursday, February 28-March 3, 8:00am-10:00pm Friday, March 4, 8:00am-9:00pm Saturday, March 5, 9:00am-9:00pm Sunday, March 6, 10:00am-12:00 Midnight Digital Media Design Studio Hours for Spring Break Saturday and Sunday, February 26-27, closed Monday-Friday, February 28-March 4, 9:00am-8:00pm Saturday, March 5, closed Sunday, March 6, 12:00Noon-8:00pm Hours for Infocommons and Cyber Cafe Saturday, February 26, 9:00am-5:00pm Sunday, February 27, 9:00am-5:00pm Monday-Thursday, February 28-March 3, 8:00am-10:00pm Friday, March 4, 8:00am-9:00pm Saturday, March 5, 9:00am-9:00pm Sunday, March 6, 10:00am-12:00 Midnight

Sign Up for Our After Effects Workshop, Wed. March 2, 2011

After Effects Basics 3/2 @ 11:45am-1:25pm This workshop is designed to teach you the main elements used to create a composition. Learn how to create, edit, and bring your ideas to the screen using the basic tools of After Effects. [Register Now!]

Submit Your Work to Our Spring Media Showcase!

To all students and faculty, your artwork (photographs, graphic images, video or audio) can be displayed as part of our Spring Media Showcase on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 which will be held from 12-1 p.m. in 90 Snell Library. All you have to do to be considered as a participant in the Showcase is drop off a storage drive of your work to the Digital Media Design Studio in 200 Snell Library between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. by March 11th. Just follow these guidelines: – Projects must have been produced within the last two academic years – Photography and graphic image submissions must be in .PDF format – Video submissions must be less than 5 minutes in length, in Quicktime format (.mov), and with a resolution of 620×480 pixels. Video submissions should include an open slate at the beginning of the video with name, project title, date and length. – Audio submissions must be less than 3 minutes long and in mp3 format For more information please contact Thomas Bary (t.bary@neu.edu or 617-373-3399) or Elizabeth Ochse (e.ochse@neu.edu or 617-373-4109). Get your creative juices flowing!