Come learn about tools that can help you to keep track of research materials, collaborate with classmates and colleagues, take notes, format citations, and create bibliographies for papers in a variety of styles. All workshops are free and open to UVM students, faculty, and staff. No registration is required.
Introduction to Zotero
Learn how to keep track of research materials, organize note-taking, and format citations and bibliographies using this easy-to-master, open-source solution.
The Universe of Keith Haring is a beautiful, moving and extremely entertaining documentary that engages us in the life and work of one of today’s most successful modern artists. Keith Haring created a body of work in both the streets and on canvas, and although he created these pieces in less than a decade they are some of the most iconic images of our modern day world. The New York based artist lived a life devoted to art through-out the 80’s before he died young due to the AIDS epidemic. His untimely demise is all the more reason this film should have been made, to carry on the legacy and make people aware of the artist whose good will showed in both his paintings and activist works.
Individuals of the current youth generation who may not have heard of Keith have probably been inevitably exposed to his work, as his buttons, t-shirts and prints are still floating around as well as the many Haring murals that still cling to walls around the world today. This film is a great start for anyone who is interested in art and would like to learn more about this artist and his work. Directed by Christina Clausen and released in 2008, the film runs a little over an hour and a half, plowing through interviews, stock footage and still images in an entertaining and colorful spectacle that will invigorate even viewers who are opposed to watching your average documentary. If you enjoy this film check out these other fun documentaries on modern art: Jean Michel Basquait: The Radiant ChildExit Through the Gift Shop
These works can be found on our New Book shelf in Bailey/Howe, an ever-rotating sampling of things we’re adding to our collection. You can also review all our newest books online, and subscribe via RSS to receive alerts about acquisitions, by discipline.
In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.
In Waiting for the Barbarians, Mendelsohn brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one glinting with “verve and sparkle,” “acumen and passion”—on a wide range of subjects, from Avatar to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud.
Immortalized as a domineering king, notorious philanderer, and the unlikely benefactor of a new church, Henry VIII became a legend during his own reign. Who, though, was the young royal who would grow up to become England’s most infamous ruler? Robert Hutchinson’s Young Henry examines Henry Tudor’s childhood beginnings and subsequent rise to power in the most intimate retelling of his early life to date.
UVM staff members Angus, Eric, Coco, Henry the dog, Valerie and Jimmy stand alongside Rob Meehan, the Director of the CEFS
The UVM Libraries faculty, staff and student employees maintain a longstanding tradition of charitable giving during the holidays. This year our collective efforts will be on behalf of the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf which is located in Burlington, VT. They are run by the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity.
If you want to help us support CEFS, you can make a secure online donation or bring non-perishable food items to Bailey/Howe Library.
The CEFS works to alleviate hunger by feeding people and cultivating opportunities. As the largest direct service emergency food provider in Vermont, CEFS serves over 12,000 people each year. By supporting the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, you are making an investment in your community.
Food Shelves all across the country are currently struggling through a period of declining donations and government funding. Let’s show our local food shelf what the Libraries’ extended family of colleagues and friends are capable of when we work together.
We asked everyone who works in Bailey/Howe—from the ground floor to the third floor—to tell us about their favorite person, place or thing in this building. Their answers are this exhibit. From old-school media equipment that’s still in use to books about Bigfoot, we invite you to “Discover This.” (And us in the process.)
In 1997, British author J. K. Rowling introduced the world to Harry Potter and a literary phenomenon was born. Millions of readers have followed Harry to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he discovers his heritage, encounters new plants and animals, and perfects his magical abilities. Although a fantasy story, the magic in the Harry Potter books is partially based on Renaissance traditions that played an important role in the development of Western science, including alchemy, astrology, and natural philosophy. Incorporating the work of several 15th- and 16th-century thinkers, the seven-part series examines important ethical topics such as the desire for knowledge, the effects of prejudice, and the responsibility that comes with power.
This exhibition, using materials from the National Library of Medicine, explores Harry Potter’s world, its roots in Renaissance science, and the ethical questions that affected not only the wizards of Harry Potter, but also the historical thinkers featured in the series.
Harry Potter’s World is currently on view at the Dana Medical Library, University of Vermont and will remain until December 14th, 2012.
Bittersweet House, at the corner of Main and South Prospect, is home to UVM’s Environmental Program, but it may also be the home of a campus ghost. In Green Mountains, Dark Tales, Joe Citro records a UVM staff member’s encounter with a shadowy woman dressed in the style of the early 1900s. Others have reported seeing a shadowy grey shape in the Bittersweet halls. Some have suggested that the ghost is Margaret “Daisy” Smith, who bought the building in 1928 and ran a tearoom there for many years. Citro describes her as blind, poor, and tragically lonely.
While Vermont’s own ghost hunters, Vermont Spirits Detective Agency, have conducted investigations onsite trying to make contact with Daisy the ghost, another researcher visited Special Collections in Bailey/Howe Library to learn more about Margaret Smith.
Historic Preservation graduate student Christine Prevolos conducted exhaustive research that provides a rather different picture of Smith. She relied heavily on four books published by Margaret Smith in her late 70s and early 80s: Bittersweet Branches (1946), Beautiful Burlington (1948), Bittersweet Berries (1951), and Bittersweet Blessings (1952). Read Prevolos’s story about the business woman, traveler, author and peace activist here, and visit Special Collections to read Smith’s books or to learn more about other campus ghosts.
It’s always been my opinion that when it comes to politicians, what they say, what they intend to do and what they will actually accomplish are never the same thing. Can you really trust someone whose convictions are not to stand for their own beliefs but to represent the views of the nation? And in a nation so divided in their beliefs, how can they even pull off embodying all perspectives on how to run a nation, what is their own agenda in getting the positions that they chase? The 2011 film The Ides of March best embodies my view of politics and is definitely one of the better dramatic thrillers to be put out in the last ten years, although I do use the word thriller very lightly, don’t expect to get your heart racing from this film.
The film stars a fantastic acting duo of George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, although we don’t see too much of Clooney in the film since he also directs. This is the fourth film Mr. Clooney has had the pleasure of being both in front of the camera and behind the lense. I would consider it his second best film so far, right under his masterpiece Good Night and Good Luck. The film’s plot revolves around the relationship between a young speechwriter (Gosling) who discovers the dirty aspects of politics while working on the campaign of a politician who may have a few skeletons in his closet (Clooney). The major flaw with the film is its pacing – the beginning starts off very slow but then picks up with an intense velocity once it hits you with the main conflict a third of the way through. So if you’re at first bored, be patient because the film really pays off with a fantastic second act. Clooney gets great work from the rising star Gosling, while Clooney himself has a scene of top-grade acting that is most likely to be the most sinister portrayal he has ever embodied (you’ll know what scene I mean). There are also great side performances from respected actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood. The film relies heavily on a well-crafted script and the deliveries of the actors, so don’t expect it to be very visually stimulating with its bland cinematography. Enjoying the film doesn’t require an interest in politics but it would enhance it. Fans of good drama and conflict should find all they need with a plot centering around truth, ambition, power, control and loyalty.
If you like this film check out other politically centered dramas such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Clayton, All the President’s Men, Dr. Strangelove, and Emir Kusturica’s Underground. So as the Presidential election approaches, be sure to go and contribute your grain of sand that will make up the beach that is the voting polls. Pick the lesser of two evils; never forget that politicians wear two faces and power is the opiate of the corrupt.
