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March 22 - April 2, 2009. For the fourth consecutive year, Salve Regina will host the Tournées French Film Festival. Schedule and Films Coordinated by the McKillop Library
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| February 2009 / Issue 21 |
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FROM THE DIRECTOR --
UNIVERSITY RECEIVES TWO GRANTS FOR MCKILLOP LIBRARY ENHANCEMENTS
By Kathy Boyd, Director of Library Services
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LIBRARY SUBSCRIBES TO SCIENCE DIRECT
The McKillop Library recently subscribed to the Science Direct Health & Life Sciences College Edition database from Elsevier. Health & Life Sciences contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medical full text and bibliographic information. Science Direct's extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, including high-impact factor titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. It contains more than 1,100 full-text, scholarly journals, with coverage from 1995 through the present in many instances.
We have also expanded our JSTOR offerings with the Biological Sciences Collection and the Health & General Sciences Collection. |
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STUDENTS TO STUDY
MCKILLOP LIBRARY’S CARBON FOOTPRINT
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BOOKCROSSING
GIVES LIFE TO THE FREE BOOK SHELF
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UPCOMING LIBRARY PROGRAMS
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|  Dr. Catherine Zipf, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation
McKillop Library Special Collections Room Thursday, February 19, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Dr. Catherine Zipf will talk about her book Professional Pursuits: Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement, University of Tennessee Press, 2007. This book, named an Outstanding Academic Book for 2008 by Choice Magazine, examines the emergence of Victorian era women in the Arts and Crafts Movement. |
| Dr. Tina Wray, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
McKillop Library Special Collections Room Wednesday, March 18 at 4:00-5:00 p.m. Dr. Tina Wray will talk about her book Good Girls, Bad Girls: Enduring Lessons of Twelve Women of the Old Testament. , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2009. |
| Patricia Hawkridge, Chair, Department of Theater Arts
Thursday, April 16, TBA Mrs. Patricia Hawkridge will present Creating a Character: A Dramatic Presentation |
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HIDDEN TALENT SERIES
The "Hidden Talents" series on display in the McKillop Library foyer continues with silk paintings from Salve Regina University graphic designer Paula Telford. This is the third display in the Library’s series introduced earlier this year which highlights varied talents of Salve Regina’s faculty and staff. Upcoming exhibits are:
 IN MEMORIAM: SENATOR CLAIBORNE PELL (1918-2009)
Senator Pell had a decades-long relationship with Salve Regina University, as shown in an exhibit of papers, photos, ephemera, and books from the University Archives and Special Collections. One half of the exhibit contains photos and other items that document Senator Pell's career and contributions to the university. The other half describes the establishment of the Pell Center in 1996 and shows the diversity of its programs, with a special focus on the 2005 visit by the Dalai Lama. |
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MONUMENTA COLLECTIONS IN ARCHIVES
Two collections of photographs and files related to the 1974 Monumenta art exhibit in Newport have been arranged and described by senior history major Shelley Byron as a volunteer project.
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 Sights & Scenery -
Mark Dunn'09
 People & Culture -
Courtney Conroy'11 |
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK
International Education Week was celebrated the week before Thanksgiving; in concert with the Office of International and Multicultural Programs, McKillop Library hosted several events:
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Send comments or questions to Allen Antone, Outreach Librarian, 401-341-2278 or antonea@salve.edu | |||||||||||||
The University was notified in November that proposals for two grants to enhance space and services in the McKillop Library were successfully funded.
In an effort to become more aware of our impact on the environment and to identify ways to reduce our carbon footprint, McKillop Library has invited Dr. Jameson Chace, Assistant Professor,Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, to repeat a student project which assessed various aspects of Salve’s carbon footprint. 
Anyone who comes to the library, with or without a library card, may take a book from our free book shelf. But now that McKillop Library is a registered member of BookCrossing.com, you may track the book’s journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person. The idea is to share a book, leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on a vacation—anywhere it might find a new reader. By logging on to 
The art of silk painting can be traced back to the second century A.D. in China and India. Telford uses both the French serti technique which uses "gutta" resist on stretched white silk as well as a watercolor painting technique in which the design is drawn free hand and carefully painted with Sumi brushes. Special effects are added to pieces by layering colors and using salts and alcohol. 
