Gordon Library http://wp.wpi.edu/library WPI Library news, events & resources Tue, 14 May 2013 13:50:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Changes in thesis and dissertation binding http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/05/06/changes-in-thesis-and-dissertation-binding/ http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/05/06/changes-in-thesis-and-dissertation-binding/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 14:41:23 +0000 Lora Brueck http://wp.wpi.edu/library/?p=3381 Want to get your thesis or dissertation printed and bound?

Gordon Library is no longer handling thesis and dissertation binding.  Students may now go direct to Acme Bookbinding Company.  Acme’s on-demand thesis printing and binding service offers students a reasonably priced, beautiful hard cover binding service and is easy and fast.   Send Acme a .pdf of your thesis or dissertation, and they will print and bind it with many options for shipping and other requirements.  You can do as many or as few copies as you want. Visit Acme’s website for more information:  www.acmebook.com/bindery/thesis.  If you have already brought your thesis or dissertation to the library for binding,we will have it bound and notify you when it is ready.

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Summer hours at the library are:

Monday-Thursday: 8am-9pm
Friday: 8am-5pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 5pm-9pm

Exceptions:

May 26-27: Closed
June 1: 12pm-4pm
June 8: 10am-4pm
July 4-5: Closed

Have a great summer and be sure stop by and see us.

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Take a few minutes to clear off you bookshelves and clean your closets.  Gordon Library needs those books you don’t use anymore for our annual book sale.   We take cds (talking books, music), vhs, and dvds as well.   Donations can be brought to the Information Desk on the main floor.   We are also collecting children’s books, which will be given to Worcester, the City That Reads, a  program that tries to get books into the hands of every Worcester public school child.

The sale will take place on Tuesday, April 16, 11:30-2:30, in the Gordon Library Conference Room. We will be selling books that have been donated to us during the past year, as well as older titles from our bestseller collection.  Proceeds will be used for library programs.

Thanks!

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 4×4 is a Worcester area collaborative of four poets and four artists who, for the last three years, have discovered new ideas and creative energy in each others’ work, visions and voices. Group members include visual artists Lisa Barthelson, Carrie Crane, Dorothy Magadieu and Susan Sedgwick and poets Clair Degutis, Dan Lewis, Susan Roney O’Brien, and Patricia Youngblood.

4×4’s third annual exhibition and reading opens Friday March 22 at 5:30 PM, with an artists’ and poets’ talk on Tuesday, April 9 @ 4 PM.  The collaborative’s 2012 exhibition and related events were held at Worcester’s Sprinkler Factory

4×4 grew out of a 2010 lunchtime conversation between Roney-O’Brien and Sedgwick, friends and fans of each other’s work. By the end of lunch, they had decided to invite other artists and writers to share their projects and, perhaps, spark new creative possibilities. What grew from the original sources often took on its own life … and still does.

Sometimes the connections are clear; other times entirely unexpected visions emerge, or  new voices heard.  But it is always 4X4, affirming images and words that inform their work, connect each to the other, and provide a common language of respect, care, and outright astonishment.

]]> http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/03/18/when-4x48-an-exhibition-of-visual-art-and-poetry/feed/ 0 “Invented: WPI Patents Past and Present” exhibit now in Gladwin Gallery http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/03/15/invented-wpi-patents-past-and-present-exhibit-now-in-gladwin-gallery/ http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/03/15/invented-wpi-patents-past-and-present-exhibit-now-in-gladwin-gallery/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:38:17 +0000 Margaret Anderson http://wp.wpi.edu/library/?p=3299 This exhibit, in the gallery on the ground floor of Gordon Library, shows patents and invented objects of WPI founders, early trustees, alumni, faculty and students.  Informational posters explain the patent process, types of patents, and patent components.

Invented objects on display include a Washburn Shops drawing stand; loom models; fire sprinkler nozzles; ball valves; a medication injection device; some of the first mass produced integrated circuits and a recent circuit board; a bar made of a master aluminum alloy; and an arm orthosis.

Some of the featured inventors are Ichabod Washburn, Milton Higgins, Elwood Haynes, Atwater Kent, Howard Freeman, Dean Kamen, Edward Clarke, Diran Apelian, Helen Vassallo, Dan Gibson, Pam Weathers, Glenn Gaudette, Ki Chon, and Allen Hoffman.

The exhibit is open now and will run until October 31, 2013.  A reception will be held April 4th from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

]]> http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/03/15/invented-wpi-patents-past-and-present-exhibit-now-in-gladwin-gallery/feed/ 0 Dickens’s mystery http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/02/28/dickenss-mystery/ http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/02/28/dickenss-mystery/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:47:30 +0000 Kathy http://wp.wpi.edu/library/?p=3284 I am pleased announce that Olive Rappoli  has been chosen the winner of the Robert Fellman Memorial Scholarship Prize for her essay ”Character Development and Dramatic Irony” which looks at Dickens’s skill as a mystery writer.   One reviewer said “I think the subject of character development and dramatic irony was well chosen, and she dealt with her topic with excellent evidence from the story. “

Olive has been invited to present the essay at the next meeting of the Worcester chapter of the Charles Dickens Fellowship on April 17th at 7pm  at the Higgins House Library, and will receive a cash prize of $100.

Congratulations!!!

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]]> http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/02/21/books-in-print-and-resources-for-college-libraries-now-available/feed/ 0 And the winners are… http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/02/13/and-the-winners-are/ http://wp.wpi.edu/library/2013/02/13/and-the-winners-are/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:34:56 +0000 Lora Brueck http://wp.wpi.edu/library/?p=3250 The votes have been counted and the winners of this year’s ART | WPI are:

Best in Show  –  Irrelephant by Michelle Zayas, a Biomed major, Class of 2015

Most Creative — Drum by Janice Frederick,  Facilities Dept.

Best Student Work –  Moonglow by Andrew Steele Turgeon, an ME major, Class of 2014

Other popular pieces were Adriana Hera’s slide show of Institute Park, Samee Swartz’s masks, and Britton Snyder’s paintings.

Congratulations to all and thanks to everyone who participated by entering pieces in the show and voting.  The show will be on view through C term so don’t miss it!

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