Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
All pay-per-view access to unsubscribed content from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect has been discontinued. All requests, including our Elsevier print holdings, will be filled via regular ILL.
The Library subscription to our current ScienceDirect journal collection remains active.
Have a blind date with a book.
Winter blues got you down? Why not try a one night stand with a book? Staff and students working in Information Services have recommended some of their favorite reads for you! The catch is you have to take a bit of a leap of faith and try something new–our books are wrapped up so you won’t know the title and this will be a blind date. But as always at the library, the book is free to you, so you have literally nothing to lose. And unlike a person blind date, you won’t need to plan an exit strategy.
The books are available now in the library atrium. Join us Friday February 7, 2020, 1 to 3pm in the atrium of LITC for cupcakes and candy to celebrate having a Blind Date with a Book!
A number of people have mentioned that they haven’t been receiving notifications from our IS Desk ticketing system. We found that sometimes these notifications end up in your “Other” tab within Outlook. If you ever find one of these notifications sitting in your “Other” tab, you can move them into your “Focused” tab. Once you do this, future emails from our ticketing system will be directed to your focused tab.
To find more information on your focused and other tabs or to remove these options from your inbox, please see the following: Microsoft Outlook Article
If you have any questions, please contact the IS Desk:
Self-Service: Submit a help request!
Email: helpdesk@trincoll.edu
Students: 860-297-2007
Faculty and Staff: 860-297-2100
When it’s cold outside, there’s nothing better than sitting by a cozy fire.
You may already know how to reserve a study space in the library, but did you know that the library now features a cozy spot with a real burning fireplace? This nook is so much better than any 12-hour video of fireplace crackling sounds, and offers the true warmth someone needs to stay up all night and study.
You can’t book these comfortable seats in advance, but the fire will burn 24-hours a day for library patrons that are faced with late nights and early mornings. When you’re contemplating your next study space, look no further.
Find this warm and cozy fireplace on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the 24-hour zone of the library, in the DiBenedetto Reading Room. Enjoy!
In addition to the cell phone charging station located near the scanners on Level A, we now have a charging station for Mac laptops and IPhone and Android cell phones. (Unfortunately, Windows computer chargers are very specific to the individual manufacturer and may damage devices, so we are unable to provide those.) Just look for the signs on Level A like the one below or ask for help at the Information Services Desk.
Photo by Jeffrey Chock for Trinity in Trinidad Global Learning Site
Nearly 400 photographic slides of Trinidad Carnival dating from about 1998 were produced in association with the Trinity College in Trinidad Global Learning Site. These have been digitized and published online by our Digital Collections and Services staff and are publicly available to view as the Trinidad Carnival Images collection in our licensed Artstor image repository. The images document Carnival activities, participants, and many traditional characters and costumes. https://library.artstor.org/#/collection/10003682. Continue reading
It is sometimes called Bishop Brownell’s Book, or the Commencement Book. Peter Knapp in his Trinity College in the Twentieth Century simply calls it, “The Book.”
Not to be confused with the Matriculation Book, “‘The Book’ is a small, early-19th century record book that all recipients of Trinity degrees touch during Commencement ceremonies,” Knapp states. The Book remains unnamed due in part to its contents: its pages contain details of the Commencement exercises and degrees, prayers for graduates in Latin, and include signatures from more recent Trinity College presidential inaugurations. It is a curious and important piece of Trinity history, originating from a legendary mix-up during the first Commencement ceremony in 1827. College President Thomas Church Brownell intended for students to place their hands on a Bible during commencement exercises, but either couldn’t find one or realized he didn’t bring it with him to the ceremony, and so he used his personal record book instead.
“By chance, the Book became one of the college’s oldest traditions,” Peter Knapp writes. “The Book’s use at Commencement appears to have been inconsistent in the years following the Bishop’s Presidency, but it can be said with certainty that all Trinity graduates have touched it” since the 1946-47 academic year.
Thanks to the efforts of College Archivist Eric Stoykovich, the Book was recently retrieved for digitization and is now available to view in the Digital Repository. The physical book resides in a safe location on campus in order to ensure its preservation for annual use at Commencement.
Source: Trinity College in the Twentieth Century by Peter Knapp, pages 232-33.
by Lorraine Huddy, CTW Librarian for Collaborative Projects
The libraries at Trinity College and its CTW partners, Connecticut College and Wesleyan University, are now using Evidence-Based Acquisitions (a.k.a. EBA). We implemented this model with well-known content providers including JSTOR, Project Muse, and most recently, Oxford University Press.
How does EBA work? The publisher/vendor grants access to a very large pool of ebook titles for one year. At the end of the year, usage reports show how many times a specific title was viewed or downloaded. Using this evidence, the libraries select which titles to purchase. With purchase, the library is given perpetual access to the title.
What a crazy idea, right? Buy books after they’re actually used instead of forecasting which books might be used, and buying those. Publishers and vendors literally provide access to thousands of titles and the libraries only buy the ones used the most by our faculty and students? Sounds like a win-win proposition for the libraries!
What’s the catch? What do publishers and vendors get out of this plan? In the EBA model, providers know ahead of time what the financial spend will be. As part of the contract, the libraries and provider negotiate the financial commitment: how much the library will commit to the EBA program, using these funds to purchase perpetual access to specific titles. The amount varies by provider but they typically use a spend ratio based on the value of the pool of titles the libraries have access to (i.e. $1 spent for every $15 of value.) On their end, libraries typically consider how much they’ve spent on a publisher’s titles in past years to calculate what they’re willing to commit to the EBA program.
How’s it working out? For the most part, so far, so good. JSTOR ebooks are getting very high use. On the other hand, Project Muse ebooks are not used as much as expected and due to overlap with JSTOR titles, Trinity will withdraw from this program in January. The Oxford EBA program was set up in July 2019 so it’s too early to tell, but the list of titles in this package is very promising.
We are watching these programs closely in case of diminishing returns over time. The number of new titles added each year is small compared to the entire pool of titles – will there be enough new content that is of interest and value to our students and faculty? Should we commit less to these programs each year as a result of this new vs. old content imbalance? As with other library resources, the proof to retain is overall usage. As long as we’re able to identify enough unique title purchases that spend down the annual financial commitment, there’s good reason to maintain these programs.
The Library now has a site license for the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com). All users must create an individual account in order to access the content. Once they have activated an account, they will have access to WSJ, WSJ+, WSJ newsletters and podcasts. Users may also download the app for mobile devices.
Any questions may be directed to Jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu.
Need a quiet study space?
In general, the higher you go up in levels within the library, the quieter the space becomes.
You can, however also book a Group Study Space located on levels 3, 2 and 1 within the library.
The Library provides a variety of spaces and tools to facilitate research and learning in the Library. Group study rooms may be reserved by Trinity College students for groups of two or more for group study or other curricular activities. Time slots are 1 hour long but one can select up to 2 time slots per day, for a maximum of 2 hours.
Reservations require a valid @trincoll.edu email, and room access requires a current Trinity ID.
Unreserved rooms that are empty after the start of a time slot are available on a first-come basis until the next scheduled time period. Otherwise room use requires reservations through the web form, linked below.
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