Library News Blog
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Msgr. William Noé Field Archives and Special Collections Center has been the beneficiary of a more detailed information sharing presence through the standardization and uploading a large number finding aids. The creation of a set of new research guides (or LibGuides) that detail Archives & Special Collections in general and Finding Aids in particular have been added for researcher reference. These reference tools will be consistently updated. More information can be found via this link- http://shu.libguides.com/cat.php?cid=55869 <Archives & Special Collections LibGuides>
In addition, more information on recently constructed LibGuides such as: “Catholic Studies: Primary Sources and Special Collections” and other news items from our Center can be discovered under Blog Feeds on the right side of our current Homepage http://www.shu.edu/academics/libraries/archives/index.cfm <Archives & Special Collections Homepage>
The Archives & Special Collections Center was represented with a display of various materials from our collection with particular emphasis on the evolution of academics and student life at our annual homecoming event University Weekend at Seton Hall University in early October 2012.
Visitation to our repository has topped the 105,000 mark since counter records have been measured beginning in 2007.
The New Jersey Catholic Historical Commission has a new homepage/blog site to compliment its Facebook presence. We welcome visitation and contributions to our efforts in the days ahead. This web presence includes digitized images of our foundation documents and newsletters through the years. In addition, there is a section for becoming a Friend of the Commission as we welcome participation from anyone with an interest in Catholic history in New Jersey. The URL for more information is – http://blogs.shu.edu/njchc/
SetonCat will not be available on Saturday, December 29, 2012 due to maintenance. For more information , please check the University IT Winter Maintenance schedule:
http://www.shu.edu/offices/technology/winter-maintenance-schedule.cfm
Poet and Seton Hall alumna, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, has donated to the University Libraries over 300 volumes of recent American poetry, short stories and fiction, inncluding works by David Slavitt, Andrew Hudgins, and Maxine Kumin. Most of these books can be found in the PS (American Literature) section of the library. Gillan, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey, is the Founder /Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She is also Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University. She has published fourteen books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons (Cross-Cultural Communications), Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica Editions). With her daughter, Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin/Putnam) and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey (Rutgers).
