Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Through January 31, 2022 the library is offering trial access to Stanford University Press ebooks hosted on the De Gruyter platform. The trial contents can be browsed here and includes books on architecture, arts, economics, cultural studies, geosciences, history, religious studies, law, life sciences, linguistics, literary studies, medicine, philosophy, physics, and social sciences.
Please send feedback on this trial to library.feedback@trincoll.edu
With a generous donation from the Student Government Association the library is now able in some cases to purchase resources that will support junior or senior research projects. Examples of the types of resources we might be able to provide you:
Applying for help is simple. Just tell us what your project is and what you need in this form. We’ll do some research and see if it is possible to provide you access. We’ll also need to get sign off from your faculty advisor.
Funds will be limited to be sure to apply early!
In recognition of prodigious textbook costs that can create a barrier to student learning, the library has purchased over forty texts assigned this semester and placed them on permanent physical reserve! We encourage everyone to review the list below and use any of the available titles.
Thanks to an extremely generous donation made by the Trinity Student Government Association the library was able to purchase all required textbooks costing more than $50.00 to rent or buy from the Trinity bookstore that do not include a unique electronic access code to additional materials and that the library does not already own. To see if the library already owns a copy of an assigned textbook you can search for the title in our electronic catalog, OneSearch. Any book located in Trinity Library Course Reserves can be checked out and used in the library for 3 hours at a time. A replacement fee equivalent to the cost of the textbook will be charged for books checked out and not returned.
If faculty have additional titles they would like the library to make available for print or electronic reserve please let us know as soon as possible! Library staff are working hard to process course reserve requests as they come in. Instructions for placing a course reserves and digital media request can be found here.
| New Textbooks on Reserve | Edition | Publication Date |
| A concise introduction to logic | 13th ed. | 2018 |
| A writer’s reference | 10th ed. | 2021 |
| Abnormal psychology | 10th ed. | 2018 |
| Abstract algebra | 3rd ed. | 1999 |
| Adolescence | 12th ed. | 2020 |
| American constitutionalism : powers, rights, and liberties | 2015 | |
| An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa : economic transformations and political changes | 2019 | |
| Animal physiology | 4th ed. | 2016 |
| Biochemistry : the molecular basis of life | 6th ed. | 2016 |
| Campbell biology | 12th ed. | 2021 |
| Cinéphile : intermediate French language and culture through film | 3rd ed. | 2018 |
| Corporate finance (Global edition, may not match assigned textbook exactly) | 5th ed. | 2020 |
| Database system concepts | 7th ed. | 2020 |
| Differential equations | 4th ed. | 2010 |
| Economics | 11th ed. | 2020 |
| Engineering mechanics. | 14th ed. | 2016 |
| Engineering mechanics. | 14th ed. | 2016 |
| Essential Soil Science | 2013 | |
| Film art : an introduction | 12th ed. | 2020 |
| Foundations of behavioral neuroscience | 10th ed. | 2020 |
| Introduction to robotics : mechanics and control | 4th ed. | 2018 |
| Introductory econometrics : a modern approach | 7th ed. | 2020 |
| Introductory statistics for the behavioral sciences | 7th ed. | 2012 |
| Judicial process in America | 11th ed. | 2020 |
| Linear algebra and its applications | 5th ed. | 2016 |
| Macroeconomics | 8th ed. | 2021 |
| Microelectronic circuits | 7th ed. | 2015 |
| Nuovo Espresso 1 : libro dello studente e esercizi : corso di italiano A1 | 2014 | |
| Philosophy of sport : critical readings, crucial issues | 2002 | |
| Physics for scientists and engineers : a strategic approach with modern physics | 4th ed. | 2017 |
| Political science research methods | 8th ed. | 2016 |
| Psychology | 13th ed. | 2019 |
| Psychopharmacology : drugs, the brain, and behavior | 3rd ed. | 2019 |
| Public finance and public policy | 6th ed. | 2019 |
| Soil Sciences Simplified 5th edition | 2013 | |
| Soils and Geomorphology 3rd Ed | 2013 | |
| Soils Genesis and Geomorphology | 2013 | |
| The Oxford history of Western music | 2nd ed. | 2019 |
| The study of law : a critical thinking approach | 5th ed. | 2020 |
| Vertebrate life | 10th ed. | 2019 |
| Voces de Hispanoamérica : antología literaria | 5th ed. | 2016 |
The library’s licensed resource Docuseek offers films tracing the history of Afghanistan and offering a perspective on the past four decades in that country. For example:
Afghanistan 1979: The War that Changed the World focuses on the Soviet invasion, starting a war which lasted ten years and played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union; Return to Kandahar offers an unique perspective from Canadian-Afghan actress Nelofer Pazira, star of the movie Kandahar, who returns to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2003 to seek out her childhood friend Dyana, whose story inspired that film; and A Home Called Nebraska introduces viewers to refugees who escaped war, torture and persecution in countries such as Afghanistan and Syria, and the Nebraskans who welcomed them and aided them in their transition to life in the United States.
April 4 marks the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s denunciation of the Vietnam war in his speech “Beyond Vietnam.” Delivered at the Riverside Church in New York City, King urged his audience to work toward a revolution in values that would say of war “This way of settling differences is not just.” Linking opposition to the war to the battle for racial equality, King was widely condemned for his anti-war views. There will be an online reading of his talk this Sunday.
Related reading in the Trinity Library Collection:
King, Martin Luther, and Cornel West. The Radical King . Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. Print. Main Collection E185.97.K5 A5 2015
“Vietnam War (1964–1973).” Not in Our Name. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 131–. Web.
Driver Training, Hartford, 1957
Trinity Library is excited to partner with JStor and a select few institutions in an initiative for sharing local digitized collections. The new JStor Open Community Collections platform now hosts a growing number of Trinity College digitized image and text collections sourced from Trinity College Archives and Libraries. Totaling over 20,000 items and spanning more than a century, it includes Ivy yearbooks, Tripod newspapers, archival photos, postcards, playbills, prints, manuscripts, and more. The collections which are public may be accessed directly on our Trinity College portal in JStor, but Trinity users may choose to authenticate for access also to other JStor content. Searches of our collections can be conducted from the Trinity portal or from the JStor database, with search capabilities to expand in future.
Browse more Open Community Collections or read the JStor blog post celebrating 350 collections and highlighting among them our Watkinson Library’s Book of Hours and British Theater Playbills collections.
Carnival, Trinidad: Young Girls in Costume, ca. 1998.
Tripod Jan.31, 1930.
Still image taken from a video testimony.
The library is proud to announce that the Trinity now has access to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Painstakingly recorded and transcribed over thirty years, the archive presents over 4400 first-person narratives from those who witnessed Nazi persecutions as survivors, observers, or liberators.
Hartford Collection, part of the Trinity Collection on JSTOR.
JSTOR has embarked on an ambitious project to link digitized academic collections to their journal and book searches. As part of this project Trinity has added more than 14,000 images to JSTOR’s Trinity Collection, with more texts to follow soon. Collections include
Books of Hours: 100 images of Renaissance manuscripts.
Hartford Collection: 1500 images of people and places in Hartford.
Trinidad Carnival: 400 images from Trinity in Trinidad Global Learning Site, c. 1998.
The Trinity Library subscribes to many newspapers so that you can read them free such as
Search for more titles on the Journal Title Search.
Recently added videos to the Trinity Swank collection
Many classes use library streaming video resources, and we expect this fall will be no different. Films from Kanopy and Swank are on one-year licenses with expiration dates throughout the year. If you’ve used a film in the past, or even checked it recently, it might expire before the class starts. Records in OneSearch list expiration dates and you may look there or ask us to check for you.
The films below have recently expired or will expire soon. The number of times the film was viewed last year is also indicated. Please check and let us know if there is a film you need to use in the fall so that we can renew the license.
| Title | Views | Provider |
| A Better Life (2011) | 16 | Swank |
| A Bridge Too Far (1977) | 32 | Swank |
| Chinatown (1974) | 8 | Swank |
| Coming of Age in Aging America – Exploring the Social Impacts of an Aging Population | 0 | Kanopy |
| Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter – The Academy Award nominated Doc on Alzheimers | 2 | Kanopy |
| Holy Motors (2012) | 17 | Swank |
| La Haine (1995) | 19 | Swank |
| Monster in the Mind – Investigating the Untruths of Alzheimer’s (playlist) | 2 | Kanopy |
| Post Truth Times: We The Media – Navigating Information in a Post-Truth Media Landscape | 1 | Kanopy |
| Rocky IV (1985) | 26 | Swank |
| Still Doing It | 5 | Kanopy |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | 12 | Swank |
| The Little Mermaid (1989) | 12 | Swank |
| The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | 143 | Swank |
| Why Don’t We Live Forever? | 0 | Kanopy |
The films below expired earlier this summer.
| Video Title | Provider |
| Bed and Board | Kanopy |
| Scottsboro | Kanopy |
| Scanners | Kanopy |
| Kedi | Kanopy |
| People Like Us | Kanopy |
| A Man Escaped | Kanopy |
| Killing Us Softly | Kanopy |
| Donovan’s Reef | Swank |
| Eye in the Sky | Swank |
| Margin Call | Swank |
| Rio Bravo | Swank |
| The Big Red One | Swank |
| The Truman Show | Swank |
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