Visit the Library's New Book display on the main level and located just beyond the grand stair. Recent additions, complete with book jackets, are specially displayed to catch your eye. The adjacent lounge chairs encourage serendipitous browsing of the new titles. Everything in this recently launched collection is available for immediate checkout. The library adds about 8,000 new titles each year in wide-ranging subject areas (including fiction). Check back often as new titles are added daily to the New Book collection. To browse recent acquisitions online, please visit http://sirsi.fairfield.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/1/1170/X/3. Some may recognize this location as formerly housing the Book Sale shelves. Donations of saleable items have declined in the past year so there were fewer items to offer. Instead, there will be a monthly book sale during the first week of every month. The sale cart will be in the lobby near the Circulation Desk. The same low prices continue with 50 cents for paperbacks and a dollar for hard copies unless otherwise marked.
Recently updated to include more databases and fewer steps, the "RefWorks Import and Export Guide" provides step-by-step directions to help you move citations into RefWorks, a Web-based bibliographic management service that allows you to create your own personal database of references. If you haven't used RefWorks and would like to try it, but don't want to use the system's tutorials, call (203) 254-4000 ext. 2178 to arrange for a personal appointment and one of the Reference Librarians will work with you individually (or in a small group) to introduce you to this powerful research tool.
Imagine yourself sipping a hot cup of coffee, reaching for the morning paper. What if the headline that greeted you dated from 1764? You might not believe your eyes, but indeed, it's now possible to read the same articles read by Connecticut colonists during the Revolutionary War, or Connecticut citizens in the midst of World War I. Time travel has never been so easy. Just type your search terms into the library's new database available from http://library2.fairfield.edu/databases.php, and browse the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Articles are reproduced in facsimile.