Saturday, March 28, 8:00 am – Noon: the vendor will perform essential site maintenance on the Wiley InterScience platform (where the Blackwell Synergy Collections reside). User access may be intermittently disrupted. The full site will not go offline, but users may experience minor disruptions where items such as the search or customer service interfaces will be unavailable for periods of about 30-40 minutes.
March 27th, 2009
On March 24-25, 2009, George Mason University is holding the conference “1989: Looking Back, Looking Forward” featuring Mikhail Gorbachev as the keynote speaker. Gorbachev will also participate in a round table discussion with Lee Hamilton, President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and former FBI Director William Webster. In support of this conference, Special Collections & Archives is hosting a loaned collection of poster art pertaining to the Berlin Wall. Photographs of several of the posters are available for viewing via SC&A’s Facebook page. Some of the posters contain photographic images from the Wall, while others show graphic arts related to, and actual paintings from, the Wall. These items are from the private collection of Thomas Hill.
March 25th, 2009
Mason Libraries recently added Eighteenth Century Collections Online. This resource includes over 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes) published in the Eighteenth Century. ECCO is based on the English Short Title Catalogue, and includes books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more. This collection encompasses works published in the UK during the 18th century, plus thousands from elsewhere. ECCO also includes Research Tools such as Image Gallery; Chronology; Key Documents and Contextual Essays. The ECCO subscription also includes ECCO – Law materials – more than 9,000 legal treatises tracing the development of law in the British Empire, covering Anglo-American law and legal practice during the 18th century. This archive includes many publications summarizing the laws, explaining the court system, dramatizing past and pending cases, guiding attorneys, and theorizing and commenting on the application of legal standards.
March 24th, 2009
On Monday, April 6, George Mason University Libraries will host the 2009 Fenwick Fellow Lecture at 3 p.m. in the Edwin Meese III Boardroom, Mason Hall.
Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi, Department of Social Work, will present “Pacific Islander Roots and American Wings”. John G. Dale and Tony Samara, Department of Sociology and Anthropology will present “Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of Governance: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition”. A reception will follow the lectures; please RSVP to librsvp@gmu.edu or call 703/993-2251.
March 23rd, 2009
Mason Libraries do not receive print copies of tax forms. Federal and state forms are available online:
March 18th, 2009
Drawing from Mason Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives‘ wide-raging collections, this exhibit features unusual, unique or otherwise unconventional archival items. The items selected for this exhibit are non-textual and intended to be visually appealing. Some of the selections are unusual items from heavily used collections such as the tomato marionette from the Federal Theatre Project 
Collection. Other selections are from smaller or lesser known collections such as the Japanese sash from the Leonard H. Clark Collection. Regardless, the exhibit serves to highlight items not traditionally found in an archive. Mason’s Hidden Treasures are now on display, 2nd Floor, Wing A, Fenwick Library and you can view selected treasures online.
March 16th, 2009
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