The DNL Report

Please come visit the library to see the exhibit "China, Russia, and Central Asia", an intriguing exhibit featuring art, artifacts, and rare books from the region. The exhibit will run through March 15, 2008. This exhibit celebrates the University's Eurasia Initiative, a plan to boost interest and involvement in Russia, China, and Central Asia, a crucial region in our global community. The goals of the Initiative are to strengthen the International Studies curriculum, expand opportunities to study Chinese and Russian languages and central Asian culture, and provide new study abroad experiences and stipends for faculty curriculum development. Many unique items are on display, such as these Putin Matryoshka Dolls on loan from David McFadden.

Need help with a bibliography? Have a research paper coming up? Then come to the RefWorks workshop at the library, Wednesday, Jan 30th or Thursday, January 31st, 5:00 PM -6:00 PM, room 114, and learn how RefWorks can make your life a whole lot easier.

Just arrived is the new book The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News (call # PN 1992.77.D28.D25 2007).

Taking or teaching an English course this semester? If so, you will definitely want to check out Literature Criticism Online. This database provides online access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. We are keeping the print versions of these titles on the shelves, but the entire backfile is available online, and all future editions of these titles will be available online exclusively. You can access the database from our database page: For access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and other literature products from Gale, St. James Press, and Twayne

Do you know why Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe wore a false nose made out of gold and silver? You can find out in our new e-book, The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. This e-book provides articles, illustrations, and photographs of some of the most important scientists throughout history. You can access this through the catalog and searching on the title. To learn how to search for other e-books, watch our tutorial on finding e-books in the catalog.

Winner of the Dartmouth Medal 2007 for the best reference book of the year, Encyclopaedia Judaica is considered the definitive source on Jewish life, culture, religion and history.

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Chinese Scroll on loan from Chris Bowers We welcome you into the library to see the exhibit "China, Russia, and Central Asia", an intriguing exhibit featuring art, artifacts, and rare books from the region. The exhibit will run from January 15, 2008-March 15, 2008. This exhibit celebrates the University's Eurasia Initiative, a plan to boost interest and involvement in Russia, China, and Central Asia, a crucial region in our global community. Fairfield's Critical Languages Eurasia Initiative is funded, in part, by a two-year, $155,393 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The funds are being used to strengthen the International Studies curriculum, expand opportunities to study Chinese and Russian languages and central Asian culture, and provide new study abroad experiences and stipends for faculty curriculum development. Wedding Dolls on loan from Danke Li In 2003 Fairfield University became the first university in the United States to partner with the prestigious St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance and Fairfield has a longstanding partnership with Herzen University in St. Petersburg and other universities in Arkangelsk, Kaliningrad, and Cherepovets. Fairfield students may also study at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. The U.S. Dept. of Education grant will help the University strengthen communication with these programs and expand into other areas. More information about these programs can be found at:

• St. Petersburg State University of Economics
• Herzen University in St. Petersburg
• Beijing Center for Chinese Studies

Putin Matryoshka Dolls on loan from David McFadden A smaller exhibit highlighting Russian and Chinese film will be on display on the lower level, in conjunction with the Russian Film Festival, which kicked off Jan. 24 with Aleksandr Sokurov's 2002 Russian Ark. Next up on Feb. 21 is Aleksandr Zarkhi's Anna Karenina, released in 1967 in Russian. The Fairfield screening features the dubbed version. On March 13, Tengiz Abuladze's somber 1984 film Repentance takes the screen, revealing the Georgian director's interest in Stalin's impact on his homeland. The film series concludes on April 10 with Anna: From Six till Eighteen, in which director Nikita Mikhalkov filmed his own daughter annually from 1980 through 1991 answering questions such as "What scares you the most?" and "What do you want above anything?" All films will begin at 7 p.m. in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library's multimedia room. Admission to the films is free.

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