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Book Review: Sex Talks to Girls
In her latest Back in the Stacks blog, Cataloging Specialist Jan Hardy reviews Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir by Maureen Seaton, available now in our library catalog.
Digital WSJ Access
The University Libraries and the Tepper School have recently partnered to provide digital access to "The Wall Street Journal" for the entire CMU campus community. This is access to WSJ through the WSJ/Dow Jones platform.
Additional details about access and coverage are as follows:
Inside the Enigma Machine
During a four-hour period on October 7, campus historians and researchers associated with History of Science and Technology at CMU (HOST @ CMU)—a cross-campus, interdisciplinary initiative to collect and preserve CMU’s historical contributions to scientific and technical development—assembled in the Hunt Library Fine and Rare Book Room to open up the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ two Enigma machines.
Survey: Help Us Improve Our Website
The Libraries are currently in the process of assessing our current website in anticipation of a future redesign. As users who interact with our website regularly, you have unique insights that we would like to capture. Make your opinions heard and help us with these efforts by filling out a short seven-question survey about how our current website serves your needs. Your feedback will directly impact the decisions we make about the redesign of this website.
IDEAL 2019 Blog
In early August 2019, Materials Processing Coordinator Leah Zande and Library Programming and Engagement Coordinator Andy Prisbylla attended the annual Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives (IDEAL) in Columbus, Ohio.
Digitizing Mellon Institute Records
Archives Digitize Decades of Mellon Institute Records
The University Libraries have organized and preserved 347 boxes of records from the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, one of the nation’s premier independent research centers, making the records more widely discoverable and available to researchers.
Book Review: When They Call You a Terrorist
On her Back in the Stacks blog, Cataloging Specialist Jan Hardy reviews "When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, available in our library catalog.
Pardon Our Progress
Three of the five air handlers in Hunt Library are being replaced by newer, larger air handlers needed for better ventilation and air flow in the building. To accomplish this, the air handlers, which manage heating and cooling of the building, will be turned off and decommissioned. For this reason, this work is scheduled during the fall semester, when temperatures are mild.
Work will take place over the course of two weeks:
Banned Books Week 2019
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it." - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, removed from a Colorado high school in 1976 due to objectional material.
