During the weeks of August 4-8 and 18-22, 2014 the Archives, Walsh Library, will be closed to researchers so that we can accomplish some work in the vault that we cannot do when school is in full session in the Fall and Spring semesters. This work will help us to improve our service. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.
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Please be sure to return your library books before you leave for the summer!
you can check if you have books that need to be returned under “using the library” >>> “my library account” — use your PirateNet user name and password to login. If you have materials that are not overdue, you can renew them online through our new library system.
Petersheim Week April 22-26
Please join us in celebrating student research at the PETERSHEIM ACADEMIC EXPO
SciFinder Training Sessions – with ICE CREAM!
Are you a science major, graduate student or faculty member? If so, you already use (or should be using) SciFinder – so come and learn all about it, from the basics to advanced techniques.
This Friday – April 4th 2014, McNulty Amphitheater (Room 101)
Please join us for one or more of these sessions
- 2:00 – 3:00 SciFinder Fundamentals and Reference Searching
- 3:10 – 3:40 Advanced SciFinder Structure Searching
- 3:50 – 4:30 Advanced SciFinder Reaction Searching and the SciPlanner
Presented by Dan Reasoner & John Kratunis of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS); a division of the American Chemical Service (ACS)
Light refreshments included (and yes, there really will be ICE CREAM!)
BOOK EXCHANGE and NEW BOOK shelves
Walsh Library is pleased to once again offer freely available books for your reading pleasure, just in time for the holiday season. Come and help yourself to a book and/or leave a book for others to take. The “BOOK EXCHANGE” shelves are located on the 2nd floor of Walsh Library, on the wall next to the Silent Study Room. These books do not need to be checked out.
Further along the same wall you will find our relocated “NEW BOOK” area. These books may be checked out at the circulation desk.
Mobile access to Nature Journals
You can now connect to Nature Journals through your mobile device; see Nature Publishing Group’s announcement.
You can also access Nature Journals through the library database page or directly at Nature Publishing Group (you will be prompted to log in withe your Pirate Net credentials if you are off campus). This is your gateway to the content and services produced by the Nature Publishing Group, including the journal Nature and its companion journals in specialized subject areas, blogs, conference reports, podcasts, job postings and other supplemental content.
Highlights from the Valente Library
The Valente Library continues to acquire materials donated by prominent scholars in the field of Italian Studies. Recently cataloged and shelved on the third floor are books from the library of Dr. Patricia Hochschild Labalme, a Renaissance scholar, who taught at Wellesley, Barnard, and Hunter Colleges, and New York University. She also directed the humanities program of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Other parts of her library were donated to the American Academy in Rome and to Kenyon College. Dr. Labalme received a master’s and a doctorate from Harvard. She was the author of Bernardo Giustiniani: A Venetian of the Quattrocento (1969) and numerous articles. To donate to our growing Italian Studies collection, please contact Dr. John Buschman, Dean of University Libraries, John.Buschman@shu.edu
New book by Dr. Angela Weisl, Director of Graduate Studies in English
Come check out Tison Pugh’s and Angela Weisl’s new book, Medievalism: Making the Past in the Present. Books recently added to the library’s collection can be found on the new books shelves to the side of the Reference Desk.
Eyewitness Testimonies on Italy in World War II: lecture Tuesday, April 2,at 6 PM in the Beck Rooms
Please join us this Tuesday, April 2nd, at 6 PM in the Beck Rooms, Walsh Library for a discussion and presentation of resources in Seton Hall’s Valente Collection, Rutgers’ Oral History Archives and the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW.
Marietta Patricia Leis: Earthly Pleasures | Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14th – 5pm to 8pm
Monday March 11 – April 5, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14th – 5pm to 8pm
Earthly Pleasures, a solo exhibition of paintings by Marietta Patricia Leis will be hosted by Seton Hall University’s Walsh Gallery. Curated by Jeanne Brasile, the exhibition features Leis’ oil paintings which are lushly rendered abstractions inspired by her extensive travels and love of nature. The paintings are, in part, evocative of landscapes, seascapes, plant forms, weather patterns or micro-organisms and can be concomitantly seen as many of these phenomena. Nuances of color and light palpably depict a range of imagery that encapsulates a life of experience, serving as complex memory portraits that tap into emotions and feelings, both past and present.
An avid traveler, Leis has visited such locales as Thailand, Spain, Antarctica, Portugal, Italy, Finland and Greece. Having experienced a variety of settings around the globe, she is inspired by our planet’s variety of light and color conditions. She strives to depict this beauty in abstract terms that capture nature’s bounty in the formal language of painting. Leis is also inspired by her childhood memories and her time spent in Newark and Montclair, New Jersey while growing up. Her grandmother’s artistic background and reverence for nature was a formative influence during that period and continues to inspire Leis’ work.
For 150 years, Seton Hall University has been a catalyst for leadership, developing the whole student, mind, heart and spirit. Seton Hall combines the resources of a large university with the personal attention of a small liberal arts college. Its attractive suburban campus is only 14 miles by train, bus or car to New York City, with the wealth of employment, internship, cultural and entertainment opportunities the city offers. Seton Hall is a Catholic university that embraces students of all races and religions, challenging each other to better the world with integrity, compassion and a commitment to serving others. For more information, see www.shu.edu. Seton Hall University is located at 400 S. Orange Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079. The Walsh Gallery is open 10:30am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday.