Please excuse our dust and noise ...

The Sawyer Library is in the process of removing books and bound periodicals from the collection to make way for more seating for students.

We apologize for the dust and noise that this effort creates.

New Database: Women's Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844

Sawyer Library's third recent acquisition of historic content is Ebsco's Women's Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844.

It is described as being "one of three collections containing women's-related periodicals that span the 18th through the 19th century and represent a broad range of subjects and places of publication. This series draws heavily from the Colonial through the Jacksonian Era, spanning roughly from the 1730's-1840's. Because almost all of the women's periodicals by nature covered many topics, the titles included in this collection highlight radically changing perceptions of womanhood and ideas about the role of women over time. Some representative titles are:

• the Lady's Monthly Museum or Polite Repository of Amusment and Instruction,
• the Ladies' Companion,
• the Lady's Book
• and Margret Fuller's Transcendentalist publication, the Dial."

New Database: 'Scientific Periodicals, 1771-1901'

In addition to the periodical database discussed below, the Sawyer Library has also added the Ebsco database 'Scientific Periodicals, 1771-1901.' Ebsco's database description states:

"The Scientific Periodicals, 1771-1901 collection contains publications related chiefly to the hard sciences: mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, geology (including mining), and the like. It also contains a few social sciences titles and literary magazines with science content." Titles include:

• The Anthropological Journal
• Astronomical Notices
• The American Chemist
• The American Journal of Microscopy and Popular Science
• The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist
• Popular Science Monthly.

This database is a nice complement to JSTOR, which also includes journals in the sciences, in some cases with coverage going back as far as the mid 1800's.

New Database: 'Current Events and History Periodicals, 1691-1912 '

The Sawyer Library has recently added an online collection of periodicals which cover the period 1691-1912. The vendor, Ebsco, describes the collection as follow:

"The Current Events and History Periodicals 1691-1912 collection consists primarily of publications about the current events of the 18th and 19th centuries. These include regular reports on economics and government affairs, with titles such as:

• the New England Post Office Record,
• the Political State of Great Britain,
• and the Social Science Review.

Also strongly represented in this collection is as group of periodicals dedicated to local news and interests, including:

• Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society,
• Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
• Mad River Valley Pioneer,
• and Bowen's Boston News Letter.

In addition, there are many titles that take the country's history as their main subject:

• Lexington and Concord Centennial 1775,
• Stars and Stripes in Rebellion,
• The Scorpion: A Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Privateersman,
• the Historical Family Library,
• the Picture Gallery of the New and Old Worlds,
• and the Antiquarian and General Review,

to name but a few."

Students who are looking for contemporaneous accounts of events from that time period may find something of use here.

Speaker Series Event! Voices Against Sexual Assault: A Talk by Robert Uttaro, Author and Suffolk University Alumnus

Sponsored by Mildred F. Sawyer Library and The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights

When: Monday November 17, 2014; 12pm – 1pm

Where: 73 Tremont St, Sawyer Library Commons 9^th Floor

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Sawyer Library is pleased to continue our successful Speaker Series with this second event, featuring Suffolk University Alumnus, Robert Uttaro! After graduating from Suffolk in 2007, Uttaro devoted his subsequent years to aiding sexual assault and rape victims via crisis counseling at centers in the area. His book, To the Survivors, highlights individual victims’ stories of trauma and recovery, and draws attention to the public need for crisis counselors serving victims of sexual assault and rape. Please join us in the 9^th floor Library Commons to learn about and discuss this serious and timely issue. Robert Uttaro will focus on college sexual assault, how it can occur and how to respond to it.

Robert Uttaro is in his seventh year of working and volunteering as a rape crisis counselor, public speaker and community educator. Inspired by his undergraduate studies in Criminal Justice here at Suffolk, he continues to embrace a life-long commitment to activism and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence. Serving as a counselor, Uttaro supports rape survivors and their significant others through various legal and case management issues. 

Robert Uttaro’s book, To the Survivors is available in the library and copies will be available for purchase at the event.

New Database: The World Bank eLibrary

The Sawyer Library has recently added a subscription to the The World Bank eLibrary.

"The eLibrary offers full-text access to the complete backlist of all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank since the 1990s."

Topics covered by the eLibrary include "more than 20 disciplines related to poverty, development, and social science including economic and human development, agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, climate change, natural resources, and regional integration."

NEW! Mildred F. Sawyer Library Speaker Series Presents:

Perspectives on a Modern American Death Penalty

A Discussion with Jeffrey Pokorak,

Suffolk University Vice-Provost and Professor of Law

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, NOON-1 PM

POETRY CENTER, SAWYER LIBRARY

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Mildred F. Sawyer Library welcomes you to our very first Speaker Series event, featuring your Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Curriculum, Jeffrey Pokorak! We hope you will join us to discuss capital punishment in the USA with Professor Pokorak.

Professor Pokorak has been involved in many efforts to combat unjust application of the death penalty. He worked as Senior Staff Attorney at the Texas Resource Center, an organization dedicated to representation of indigents on death row in their post-conviction appeals. He has been a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Defenders Services, a non-profit organization that provides legal services to death sentenced inmates, as well as training and assistance to attorneys representing those charged with capital crimes. Additionally, he has moderated victim forums in the death penalty context, and continues research in the areas of race and prosecutorial discretion and victims' access to equal justice in the criminal law system.

New Database: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Sawyer Library has recently added a subscription to the The Chronicle of Higher Education website. It is available to all current Suffolk University students, faculty, and staff, from the Sawyer Library web page (with authentication via a current Suffolk ID number, when off campus).

From the center widget box on the Sawyer Library home page > select the Databases Tab > then either choose the A-Z list, or select: Social Sciences > Education.

The Chronicle is the #1 source of news and information within the world of higher education.

OneSearch

The Sawyer Library has recently contracted with EBSCO's Discovery Service, to offer a 'OneSearch' option to identify library resources. As described by EBSCO, the OneSearch function strives to provide:

• "A fast, single search of your [library's] collection
• Comprehensive content
• Highly-refined relevancy ranking
• Elaborate indexing (subject headings, etc.)
• The inclusion of high-end indexes
• Enhanced catalog treatment & handling of repositories
• A full-featured discovery layer user experience
• Instant access to full text (whenever available)."

Google has been the ultimate catalyst for libraries to re-visit their methods of presenting their resources. Traditionally, content has been organized by subject (business, literature, social sciences, etc.), and to a certain extent format (books vs. articles; print vs. online). A 'Google-like' single search interface, such as OneSearch, intermingles all of the above, and then displays a variety of limiters along the margin of the screen, to enable users to narrow down their results.

"OneSearch" is the default option in the center widget box of the Sawyer Library homepage. (The 'classic' online catalog, and the periodical databases are all still available as before.) Since there is a good deal of behind-the-scenes effort that must go into to making such a system function seamlessly, we currently have our OneSearch labeled as being in 'beta.' Afterall, Google, having been founded in 1998, has a 16 year headstart.

New Library Copiers Scan to your USB Drive.

Quick Start: How to Scan-to-USB Drive:

1. Insert USB drive into copier.

2. Document face-down on upper left corner of glass.

3. Touch-screen button: SCAN

4. Touch-screen button (lower left of screen): SEND FILE TYPE / NAME

5. Choose unique title for saving document to USB.

6. START button to scan. Continue placing pages on glass as prompted.

7. Press # to finish and save document to USB.

8. WAIT to remove USB until document saving is complete.


For more information, check out our LibAnswers entry on scanning in Sawyer Library.

"New Books" Display

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently in the New Book display. Click the hyperlink to see if the item is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

America's public lands : from Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and beyond | Randall K. Wilson

Ask the beasts : Darwin and the god of love | Elizabeth A. Johnson

Bees : a natural history | Christopher O'Toole; featuring photographs by Edward Ross

Beowulf : a Translation and Commentary : Together with Sellic Spell | by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by 

Christopher Tolkien

Between flesh and steel : a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan | Richard A. Gabriel

Between Pagan and Christian | Christopher P. Jones

The billionaire's apprentice : the rise of the Indian-American elite and the fall of the Galleon hedge fund | Anita Raghavan

Biosociology : bridging the biology-sociology divide | Anthony Walsh

Boston : a visual history | Jonathan M. Beagle, Ph.D

The bright continent : breaking rules and making change in modern Africa | Dayo Olopade

Collective genius : the art and practice of leading innovation | Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback

Congo : the epic history of a people | David van Reybrouck ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett

Cubed : a secret history of the workplace | Nikil Saval

Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism | Benjamin Ross

Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream | Suzanne Mettler

The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap | Matt Taibbi ; illustrations by Molly Crabapple

The economics of conflict : theory and empirical evidence | edited by Karl Wärneryd

The edge of the precipice : why read literature in the digital age? | edited by Paul Socken

Fish can't see water : how national culture can make or break your corporate strategy | Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis

GPS declassified : from smart bombs to smartphones | Richard D. Easton and Eric F. Frazier ; foreword by Rick W. Sturdevant

Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty | Austin Sarat

Histories of victimhood | edited by Steffen Jensen and Henrik Ronsbo

Hoover's secret war against Axis spies : FBI counterespionage during World War II | Raymond J. Batvinis

Human capitalism : how economic growth has made us smarter-and more unequal | Brink Lindsey

The impacts of lasting occupation : lessons from Israeli society | edited by Daniel Bar-Tal and Izhak Schnell

The improbability principle : why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day | David J. Hand

The invention of news : how the world came to know about itself | Andrew Pettegree

The last alchemist in Paris : & other curious tales from chemistry | Lars Öhrström

Malthus : the life and legacies of an untimely prophet | Robert J. Mayhew

Marching masters : slavery, race, and the Confederate army during the Civil War | Colin Edward Woodward

Missing microbes : how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues | Martin J. Blaser, MD

The power of inaction : bank bailouts in comparison / Cornelia Woll

Pirate politics : the new information policy contests | Patrick Burkart

Queen Anne : the politics of passion | Anne Somerset

Rebuilding the brand : how Harley-Davidson became king of the road | Clyde Fessler

Richard Wagner : a life in music | Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer

The roots of cognitive neuroscience : behavioral neurology and neuropsychology | edited by Anjan Chatterjee and H. Branch Coslett

Routes of power : energy and modern America | Christopher F. Jones

Securing the West : politics, public lands, and the fate of the old republic, 1785-1850 | John R. Van Atta

Selma to Saigon : the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War | Daniel S. Lucks

The Senate syndrome : the evolution of procedural warfare in the modern U.S. Senate | Steven S. Smith

The soft edge : where great companies find lasting success | Rich Karlgaard ; foreword by Tom Peters ; afterword by Clayton M. Christensen

Titian | edited by Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa

Virtual ascendance : video games and the remaking of reality | Devin C. Griffiths

War and gold : a 500-year history of empires, adventures, and debt | Kwasi Kwarteng

The watchdog that didn't bark : the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative reporting | Dean Starkman

What is chemistry? | Peter Atkins

Why hell stinks of sulfur : mythology and geology of the underworld | Salomon Kroonenberg ; translated by Andy Brown

A working people : a history of African American workers since emancipation | Steven A. Reich

Worthless, impossible, and stupid : how contrarian entrepreneurs create and capture extraordinary value | Daniel Isenberg with Karen Dillon

The zero carbon car : green technology and the automotive industry | Brian Long