"The Irish in Film," the free movie series sponsored by the Irish Studies Program at Fairfield University, opens on Wednesday, October 3, with the first of four diverse films. The series, now in its fifth year, is part of Fairfield University's Arts & Minds season of cultural and intellectual programs. The series begins on Wednesday, October 3, with "The Dead" (1987), from James Joyce's 1914 collection "Dubliners." Directed by John Huston and starring Huston's daughter, Anjelica, the story is about the interrelationship between the living and the dead and how the dead are more alive than the living. Dr. Pearson will introduce the

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  In the less than six months since the launch of DigitalCommons@Fairfield initiative by Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library, more than 1,000 scholarly items have been catalogued and are now available in this open access institutional repository. To date, thousands of researchers from the University and around the world have downloaded materials. Essentially an online library of research papers, conferences and scholarly videos, the project highlights the scholarship of Fairfield faculty. The 1,000th item logged in was "Amazigh Activism and the Moroccan State," an article by Associate Professor Dr. David Crawford, co-written by Paul Silverstein.

You can read more at http://www.fairfield.edu/press/pr_index.html?id=3522

You can explore DigitalCommons by going to http://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu.

DiMenna-Nyselius Library welcomes First-Year students in a fun way by playing the Library Scene-It: Fairfield edition game on September 4, 2012.