Connelly Library

March 7-11 is Open Education Week! Open education recognizes the human right to education can only be guaranteed when everyone can afford to learn. Come join faculty, librarians, staff, and students at tables throughout the week to share your stories of how the high cost of textbooks impacts your education and learn more about what La Salle is doing to meet some of these challenges!

We are hosting the Center for Academic Achievement's "In Person Tutoring Theme Week."

February is Library Lover's Month! https://www.lasalle.edu/blog/2022/02/15/february-is-library-lovers-month-heres-how-to-celebrate-at-la-salle/

February is Library Lover’s Month. Here’s how to celebrate at La Salle La Salle's Connelly Library offers a plethora of resources to the University community.

Due to staffing issues, the Connelly Library will have shortened hours on these days:

Saturday, January 15th through Monday, January 17th: CLOSED

Tuesday, January 18th through Friday, January 21st: 8:00AM-5:00PM

Saturday, January 22nd through Sunday, January 23rd: CLOSED

You can always find our current hours on the Library's website: https://library.lasalle.edu/

LibGuides Welcome to LibGuides! Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!

We have a special person working in our Technical Services dept. -- a real "Elf off the shelf" performing magic regularly. (In the off-season she's known as the wonderful Melanie Johnson!)🤶🎅😁 Ho ho ho!!

Merry Christmas from Connelly Library! Very quiet here today - just us and the decorations! 🎄🤶🎅

https://youtu.be/ToXE5VQbd1M

Here's a video showing the new "face" of Summon -- same great searching features though!

Summon: Basic Search Showing how to do a basic search in Summon and also how to search beyond the library's collection and request an Interlibrary Loan

La Salle University Art Museum is now open Monday through Thursday with limited hours and visits by appointment only. Though we are often busy with La Salle classes, we also welcome public visitors. Please call 215-951-1221 to schedule a quiet time to explore the galleries. Note that masks are required in all buildings on La Salle University’s campus, following Covid-19 regulations. See our new exhibit: Beyond 2-D: Surface Play with Paper!

Sending out this information for our neighbors!

TreePhilly is partnering with Logan Free Library, Indochinese American Council and Jay Cooke Elementary School to give away trees to our communities. Visit TreePhilly.org to request a tree from our city-wide event. Trees will be available at a no-contact pickup event or delivery to your home! Our event will take place on Saturday, October 30, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.at the Jay Cooke Elementary School, located at 1300 Louden Street.

Click here to make your request: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKyIEERI9nN-wB7Fgw2FCNol7TBvDXqrDy49RlTLE85w2abw/viewform This request form is open through October 26th, and you will receive confirmation of your request to the email you provide.
We'll do our best to fulfill your first choice, but may substitute with your back-up choice if necessary. If neither of your requested trees are available, we will reach and offer a tree of similar size and features that you can choose to accept or decline.

You may request up to 2 trees per planting address. To request a second tree, submit the form and re-fill it out again for the second tree. Trees are available while supplies last.

You will be prompted to choose to pick up your tree(s) from Jay Cooke Elementary on Saturday, October 30th, or a contactless delivery the week of November 15th-19th.You'll be notified of the date of your delivery in your confirmation email.

Trees are available for Philadelphia residents only and must be planted in the ground (not in a pot) on private property in the city of Philadelphia.

TreePhilly is a program of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation in partnership with the Fairmount Park Conservancy, sponsored by TD Bank

AWI Sanctuary Space presents: Monsters Within—Manifesting Mental Illness Sanctuary Space is an ongoing program that creates virtual spaces for students to connect at the intersection of art and mental health.

Connelly Library's hours have been modified as this week all classes are virtual. We are open from 8:00AM-6:00PM for the week 9/7 - 9/10

We are all looking forward to seeing students in the chairs and on the stairs! It's been lonely! Welcome back everyone!

Welcome back faculty!! Like you, we at Connelly are gearing up for the new semester. Are you planning to have a Library Instruction session? We can teach either by zoom or face to face. Use the form found on our homepage to make your request: https://library.lasalle.edu/services/research-and-instructional-support -lg-box-wrapper-18473172

LibGuides: Services: Research & Instructional Support LibGuides: Services: Research & Instructional Support

We now have LibKey Nomad which Connelly patrons can use anywhere (even on Google!) to find out if we have an article and make a quick link to it. You can also link to our ILL request page with ease. Make your life easier! Download it today!

Installing and Using LibKey Nomad at La Salle University How to install and use LibKey Nomad to make finding articles easier at La Salle University, Philadelphia. Includes information on how to do an ILL if we do ...

Now available to our patrons https://library.lasalle.edu/pq1

Looking for a COVID vaccine? 2 new vaccine clinics are opening locally - get the shot!

An illustration from one of the books in our Dunleavy Collection: The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young
by the Rev. Richard Newton (1813-1887)
Philadelphia, c. 1880

Woodcut from The Life of Jesus. New York, 1937. - from the digital archive of Devotion: An Iconography of the Life of Jesus. This exhibition was curated by Sarah Seraphin, Special Collections Librarian. The exhibition was mounted in the Connelly Library for the 2013/2014 school year.

"Here the artist relies purely on symbols to depict the scene of the Last Supper. This illustration is quite lovely in its simplicity. At the center of the scene are the symbols of the Holy Eucharist, the bread and the chalice of wine. At the head of the table is a large cross, meant to depict Christ. Around the table are eleven smaller crosses representing the faithful apostles; Judas is represented by the symbol of a snake."

It was a year ago today, March 19 2020, that Connelly Library closed for COVID. 😷 Thank you to all our wonderful staff who helped keep us going virtually and then followed all safety precautions when we resumed in person. And thanks to all our patrons! We hope to see more of you soon (maybe unmasked - dare we say it!😄) We miss you!📚

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone!

Here is a calendar entry for St. Patrick in Robert Persons' Treatise of Three Conversions of England from Paganism to Christian Religion (1604), a polemic work against John Foxe's anti-Catholic reading of history that appeared in Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1583). Both Persons' and Foxe's books are available for viewing in La Salle's Special Collections department. (Thanks to Heather Willever-Farr, our Special Collections Librarian!☘️)

Our patrons can now use LibKey Nomad: One-click access to millions of scholarly articles. https://thirdiron.com/downloadnomad/
Supported by over 725 libraries in more than 30 countries!

LibKey Nomad automatically provides instant links to full text content for article subscribed to by Connelly Library - or open access alternatives - as you do research on the web and come across literature. In each case, Nomad works with Connelly Library to figure out the fastest path to content across thousands of publisher websites. Special enhancement is also performed in-line on sites like PubMed and Wikipedia.

If we don't have access, you will be sent to the ILL site for Connelly Library and we will get the article for you -- fast!

After installation, LibKey Nomad prompts you to select La Salle University. After that, it simply automatically scans for scholarly content wherever you may roam.

On February 19, 2021 the Connelly Library will be open from 10 AM - 5 PM. Once again we thank the intrepid staff who make the opening possible!

Another winter storm! Today, 2/18/21, Connelly Library
will be open from 10 AM-4 PM. Our thanks to the staff who are coming in! Be safe and warm!

See the revised Connelly Library Spring 2021 hours below - we have added Saturday hours - 12:00 noon - 5:00 PM

Today, February 2, 2020, ConnellyLibrary will be open from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM because of the inclement weather. Thanks again to the dedicated staff who are coming in to open up!! Virtual services available via the homepage: https://library.lasalle.edu

LibGuides Welcome to LibGuides! Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!

Today, February 1, 2020, Connelly Library will be open from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM because of the inclement weather. Thanks to the staff who are coming in to open up!! Virtual services available via the homepage https://library.lasalle.edu

LibGuides Welcome to LibGuides! Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!

Connelly Library Spring Hours 2021. Hours can also always be found on the Library Homepage: http://library.lasalle.edu

Merry Christmas! This is an online exhibit of artwork from the The Susan Dunleavy Collection of Biblical Literature on the Christmas Gospel created by our former Special Collections Librarian Sarah Seraphin. https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/christmas_gospel_iconography/

The Connelly Library will remain open 8am-8pm to La Salle students, faculty, and staff through Tuesday Nov 24th. Beginning Wed Nov 25th and continuing through Dec 16th, the library building will be closed. Curbside pickup of library material will be available by appointment. Call (215) 951-1292 or email [email protected] to make an appointment. In this we are following Philadelphia city policy:https://www.phila.gov/media/20200813092815/Guidelines-for-Colleges-Universities.pdf

The library will be closed Dec 17th-Jan 3rd. for winter break, along with the rest of the university. Online Chat reference will still be available 24/7 and online access to material will continue unchanged.

Please refer to https://library.lasalle.edu/virtual-support for all of our virtual support offerings.

LibGuides: Virtual Support: Home for Teaching, Research, and Learning