…and providing a little more elbow room.
The Information Commons has upgraded many of its computers and some software. New additions include:
- 2 New Color Printers in the Information Commons,
- 5 New Scanners for Macs,
- Updated Adobe Creative Suite 3 to CS 4,
- 84 Desktops and Monitors
The new desktop computers allow for more desk space so you can spread out a little easier and have space to look at some of our books while you are writing that important research paper!
Posted: 10:51 am, August 27th, 2009.
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If you intend to put physical library material on reserve for fall semester, we’re prepared to begin the process now. The more material we process early in August, the quicker the turnaround time will be for processing reserves for faculty who submit items in late August when everyone returns to campus.
Full instructions can be found here.
Posted: 9:21 am, July 28th, 2009.
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Bistro Burnett, located inside the library lobby, will remain open this summer. Hours of operation will be Monday-Friday 8:00am – 2:00pm.
Posted: 2:00 pm, May 6th, 2009.
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A Terrible Beauty? Women, Media, and the Irish Struggle for Independence
Dr. Karen Steele, Associate Professor and Director of Women’s Studies TCU
April 17, 2009 @ 7 p.m. Library Conference Room
“Women, Press, and Politics” explores the literary and historical significance of women’s writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish Revival, the advanced nationalist press. This work studies women’s writings in the Irish nationalist tradition, focusing in particular on leading female voices in the cultural and political movements that helped launch the Easter Rising of 1916: Augusta Gregory, Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Constance Markievicz, Delia Larkin, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and Louise Bennett. Karen Steele argues that by examining the innovative work of these writers from the perspective of women’s artistry and women’s political investments, we can best appreciate the expansive range of their cultural productions and the influence these had on other nationalists, who went on to shape Irish politics and culture in the decades to come.
- from Amazon.com
Posted: 4:03 pm, April 15th, 2009.
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WEDNESDAY APRIL 15th
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM B29
CannonDesign Architectural firm is working with the Mary Couts Burnett Library to design a renovated and expanded library building. We would like to hear from you about what undergraduate students want from the TCU Library. Assume we had lots more space and whatever would be needed to be the PERFECT place for undergraduate students. How would these facilities be designed? What is in place now that needs to be expanded? What isn’t available now that we need? Here is your chance to make a difference for undergraduate students now and in the future at TCU!
Can’t meet then?? Please send an email to James Lutz (j.lutz@tcu.edu), Director of Library Administrative Services, with your recommendations.
Posted: 12:00 pm, April 13th, 2009.
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TCU Press presents it’s second annual Books & Music in the Garden event on Sunday, April 19th, 2009 from 2-4pm in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Moncrief at 313 Rivercrest Drive, Fort Worth.
Nibble on light refreshments, wander the gardens, listen to soothing, soft music, touch good books, meet authors, and visit with friends old and new.
Featuring:
Phil Vinson, Fort Worth: A Personal View
Mary Rogers, Dancing Naked: Unforgettable Stories of Memorable Texans
Don Collins, Traces of Forgotten Places
David Murph, Before Texas Changed: A Fort Worth Boyhood
Judy Alter, Extraordinary Texas Women and Great Texas Chefs
James Ward Lee, Texas Country Singers
Carlton Stowers, Texas Football Legends: Greats of the Game
Refreshments – Books for Sale – Valet Parking
$15.00 per person; $25 per couple; Members of the Bookish Frogs will be admitted free.
Limited Reservations. Please reply by April 15, 2009.
817.257.7822; tcupress@tcu.edu; TCU Press, PO Box 298300, Fort Worth, TX 76129; www.prs.tcu.edu
Posted: 4:35 pm, April 8th, 2009.
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The TCU Library online catalog is now enriched with links to PBS Frontline programs. Frontline is one of many excellent PBS series with full-length programs viewable online from PBS.org. The Library also offers PBS programs on DVD. One of Frontline’s recent titles, The Persuaders, is a must-see for the media-savvy. The Persuaders explores how the cultures of marketing and advertising have come to influence not only what Americans buy and for whom they vote, but what they know, and how well they understand the world around them.
Posted: 2:05 pm, April 3rd, 2009.
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Get back in tune with performances and events for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.Featured this month in the Music/Media Library’s exhibit case are the Cliburn Screening Auditions, February 21-23 in TCU’s Ed Landreth Auditorium, in which several TCU artist diploma students will play. For the latest on Competition events and resources, consult the exhibit case or e-mail the Cliburn Archivist, l.ruede@tcu.edu.
Posted: 2:18 pm, February 9th, 2009.
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A recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project predicts that mobile devices will be the “primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020.” The TCU community has already embraced a variety of smart phones, including iPhones, BlackBerries and Android phones, and the library has developed a website optimized for these devices.
Many of these new smart phones are able to use the regular library website; however, this new site for mobile devices is designed for small screens and quick inquiries. Users can check library hours and contact information as well as search the catalog using a simplified interface. Instructions for texting questions to the reference staff are given, and directions to the campus and the library are available for TCU guests.
The mobile devices site is available at http://lib.tcu.edu/m.
Posted: 7:00 am, January 26th, 2009.
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TCU holds the correspondence of the Texas Legation, the embassy in Washington DC before Texas was a state. The exhibit shows what some of the 172-year-old letters look like. Their contents, according to history Professor Gregg Cantrell, cover money, annexation, personal matters and inquiries into land and employment opportunities in Texas.
The exhibit has likenesses of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, principals in the making of Texas, and old maps illustrating how the area was apportioned at that time. Burnt edges on some of the letters reveal the rough treatment the documents endured during the long period when they were lost. Since then, they have been restored, and their scanned facsimiles may be seen in Special Collections.
Mark Wright writes about the Texas Legation Records, putting the papers into historical and personal perspective in “Reading the Papers,” The TCU Magazine, Summer 2007.
Posted: 9:14 am, January 20th, 2009.
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Portrait of Mary Couts Burnett by Emily Guthrie Smith.