The Pratt Institute Libraries will stay open for extended study hours this week:
The Brooklyn Campus Library will stay open until 9pm on Friday, April 27th, 2007 and will be open 1pm-9pm on Saturday, April 27.
The Manhattan Campus Library will be open 10am-10:30pm, Monday, April 16, through Thursday, April 19, and 10am-6:30pm on Friday, April 20.
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Come to the Pratt Institute Libraries’ Annual Book Sale at the Brooklyn campus Library this Friday, April 27, 10am-3pm! We’ll have tons of great books at unbelievable prices. If it’s a sunny day we’ll be out on the Library’s patio; if it rains we’ll be inside on the Library’s lower level. Stop by, say hello to the library staff and faculty, and grab some books!
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Check out this cool short someone shot in the Brooklyn Campus Library:
Incidentally, those books The Bookworm is gazing at so forlornly in the last shot aren’t completely out of reach. She can come to the Reference Desk anytime and request access to any of them. They’re our Special Collections books, which are especially rare or delicate; they’re stored in what is fondly referred to as “The Cage” so we can keep close watch on their condition.
Want to find out what’s in Rare Books and Special Collections? Go to PrattCat and choose Advanced Search. Enter an asterisk (*) in the Search By: General Keyword box, and choose Rare Books/Special Collections in the Limits menu.
You can use an asterisk as a wildcard to represent a group of unknown characters in most PrattCat searches. For example, entering “forest*” as a keyword search will find entries with the words forests, forestry, foresters, etc.
Categories: Art & Design · Tools & Resources
The Pratt Institute Libraries are pleased to announce that we have a new trial subscription for DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective. The trial will be active until May 5, 2007.
DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective offers citations from Design and Applied Arts Index, 1903-1986, with some sources back to 1894. Major areas of coverage include:
Please visit the database via our Evaluation Databases page, and tell us what you think. We welcome comments via our online comments form or via email to libref at pratt dot edu. Remember, if you would like to access article databases from off campus, follow the instructions for proxy setup, and have your valid Pratt email username and password ready.
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Come see the new exhibit on display at the Brooklyn campus Library! Here’s a brief description of the show from the chair of our exhibitions committee:
A number of schools in Pratt Institute’s history are no longer in existence. The School of Household Science and Arts is one such school. Although the course of study here ended many years ago, the library still holds a good collection of materials related to cookery and the domestic arts.
This exhibition is intended to draw attention to some of the history of Pratt Institute; photographs from the School of Household Arts and Sciences have been selected from the Archives to give a sense of the subjects studied here in the past and provide a context for the cookbooks on display. A key piece in this exhibition is titled “Everybody’s Cook Book: a comprehensive manual of home cookery” which was edited by Isabel Ely Lord, Director of the School of Household Science and Arts of Pratt Institute from 1910-1920.
I would like to extend special thanks to Paul Schlotthauer and the Pratt Institute Archives for the use of several photographs showing various aspects of the School of Household Science and Arts.
Holly Wilson, MLIS
Research & Instruction Librarian
Assistant Professor
Chair, Exhibitions Committee
The image above shows women working with chemistry equipment in “Laboratory A” of the School of Household Science and Arts at Pratt Institute. This image and other historical images of Pratt may be viewed at the Pratt Institute Archives Photograph Collection.
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