Service Announcement: Ebrary
Announcements No Comments »Ebrary will be unavailable tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20th, from 9:00PM to 11:00PM EST.
College at Florham Library Reception
Announcements, Books, Events Tagged book collection, Events, gifts, Orangerie, receptions No Comments »The Library, College at Florham, will hold a reception and display of books in the Orangérie on Wednesday 21 October at 2:00 p.m.
The Library, College at Florham, is the proud recipient of a newly-donated core collection of special editions of 19th- and 20th-century British Women Writers, a gift of Allan Kushen & Family, which will be known as the “Kushen Family Collection in memory of Betty Kushen, PhD.”
Mrs. Kushen was a faculty member of the English Department on this campus in the 1970s. Her department chair was the late professor emeritus Walter Savage.
You are invited to join with faculty, students and staff on October 21st at 2:00 p.m., to view a representative selection of books drawn from the Kushen Family Collection in Memory of Betty Kushen, PhD, and to meet Allan Kushen and members of his family and to acknowledge their fine gift to the library.
The Kushen Collection also includes Benjamin Franklin-related works and Betty Kushen’s unpublished doctoral dissertation (NYU) on B. Franklin’s biographers’ attitudes toward him.
“Politics on the PublicMind”
Announcements, Events Tagged Library Event, politics, publicmind No Comments »We continue the series for the fall…..
OCTOBER EVENTS:
· Friday, October 16th…9:30 -11:00 a.m.
Senator Loretta Weinberg
Democratic Candidate for Lt. Governor of New Jersey
Topic: “Women’s Healthcare Issues”
~ Continental Breakfast ~
· Thursday, October 22nd…3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Frank Esposito
Independent Candidate for Lt. Governor of New Jersey
Topic: “Education Reform: K-12 and Higher Education”
~ Refreshments ~
All events held in FDU Library’s Orangérie
285 Madison Avenue Madison, NJ 07940
Reserve your seat now with Colleen Di Gregorio
colleend@fdu.edu, or call 973-443-8530
Free, but donations gratefully accepted
Co-sponsored by: 

Late Nights in the Library!
Announcements No Comments »We know you’ve been waiting…
“LATE NIGHTS” in the College at Florham Library begin this Sunday, October 4th.
Our extended hours are:
Sunday – Thursday, 10 p.m. – 2 a.m.
See full schedule of library hours.
Welcome Back from “Literary FDU”
Announcements, Events Tagged FDU Press, florham, Literary Review No Comments »FDU Press, The Literary Review, and the College at Florham Library
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Orangérie, College at Florham Library

Get reacquainted with two FDU institutions whose missions are to educate and advance knowledge beyond campus borders. More importantly, say “hi” to Harry and Minna!
Library Workshop Scheduled in the Metro Writing Studio
Announcements, Training Tagged wikipedia 2 Comments »On Wednesday, September 30, 2:30–4 p.m., at the Metro Writing Studio; a workshop titled — “Beyond Wikipedia: Doing Real Research,” will be presented by Kathleen Stein-Smith, associate University librarian and director, public services, Weiner Library (Metro).
New Resources Added to FDU Online Library
Announcements, Books, Databases, Films Tagged fol No Comments »In recent months, seven new databases and an encyclopedia have been added to the FDU Online Library. They can easily be found at FDU Online Library: A-Z, and are also available in the appropriate subject categories on the main FDU Online Library webpage. These new additions are:
AtoZ Maps Online, from World Trade Press: a comprehensive database of over 4,000 world, continent, country, and state maps, including political, physical, population, precipitation, climate and other maps.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text, from EBSCO: the world’s most comprehensive nursing and allied health research database, covering nursing, biomedicine, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship, and 17 allied health disciplines. This full-text upgrade supplants our previous CINAHL database.
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health: a 5-volume encyclopedia available online on the “Gale Virtual Reference Library” platform, with over 850 alphabetical entries covering topics in nursing and allied health written for students and professionals in the field.
Praeger Security International Online, from Greenwood Publishing Group: an interdisciplinary database covering international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, twentieth century military history, and terrorism.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text, from EBSCO: the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text journals in the fields of sports and sports medicine, this database includes over 490 full-text journals, with coverage dating back to 1985.
U.S. Government Online, from Facts On File: a reference site devoted to the U.S. government, offering overview essays, articles from encyclopedias and other reference works, primary source documents, current news articles, tables, charts, and maps, images and videos, a dictionary, and more.
Westlaw Campus Research, from Thomson West: a comprehensive collection of news, business, and legal resources, this massive database includes newspapers; magazines; trade journals; SEC filings; Hoover’s company records; newswire and broadcast transcripts; law reviews and journals; American Law Reports; United States Code Annotated; all federal and state court cases; state statutes and regulations; Code of Federal Regulations; Federal Register; and more.
World Higher Education Database Online, from Palgrave Macmillan: the most comprehensive reference on higher education worldwide, with information on some 17,000 higher education institutions in 183 countries and a description of each country’s education system.
All these resources are accessible by current FDU students, faculty, and staff both on and off campus.























