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Wow, we made it to December! This fall was extremely busy at the library. As you can tell by reading the library newsletter, the library staff is truly special. They take pride in making the library a welcoming, engaging, inclusive, and community-oriented space. Whether its recommending a good book, collecting coats for the RAMS Resource Center, answering research questions, opening the archives for a transcribathon, giving tours of the library, or showering weary students with sweets to perk up their day - our library CARES about people. Thank you Kate, our newsletter editor, for capturing our generous spirit. Thank you to all of you who visited our library.

May all of us enjoy the much needed holiday break. Happy holidays!

Every day we strive to enhance your personal and intellectual journey. Our mission is to:

• Engage and connect with our campus community;
• Embrace everyone’s truth;
• Advance the creation, discovery, and learning of knowledge;
• Acquire, curate, and provide access to the university’s collections and cultural heritage; and
• Prioritize professionalism, responsiveness, and customer service.

During November, we celebrated the cultures and contributions of Native Americans during Native American Heritage Month. Native American Heritage month has been celebrated nationally each November since 1990.

Massachusetts is home to two federally recognized tribes: the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs website has information on these and other tribes present in the state, as well as other resources. Framingham State University is located on the homelands of the Nipmuc Nation. Check out this link for more information about Native homelands in Massachusetts and around the country and the world. Also, visit the Nipmuc Nation.

To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, check out some of these resources available from the Whittemore Library:

Whittemore Library Native American Heritage Month LibGuide: Find a wide variety of resources and links to research materials about Native American Heritage Month compiled by the Whittemore Library librarians.

The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Knowledge 360⁰ program provides a wealth of information about Native American history and culture. Visit their FAQ page to learn more about current issues such as terminology, tribal sovereignty, and land acknowledgments. (Framingham State University is a Smithsonian Affiliate.)

Our Academic Video Online database has a wide variety of films and documentaries available for you to watch on-demand. Check out the documentary series Native America!

Episode 1: From Caves to Cosmos

Episode 2: Nature to Nations

Episode 3: Cities of the Sky

Episode 4: New World Rising

Kanopy also has a great selection of films about Native American history and heritage available to stream! Check out The Warrior Tradition, a film about the history of Native Americans in the United States military.

We also have a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction by and about Native Americans. Check out some of these titles in our collection (some materials are ebooks):

Graphic Novels

• La Voz de M.A.Y.O. : Tata Rambo Volume 1 created by Henry Barajas
• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
• Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David A. Robertson
• Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler & Sonia Paoloni
• Come Home, Indio: A Memoir by Jim Terry

Children and Young Adult

• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Mary Beth Leatherdale and Lisa Charleyboy
• Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis with Traci Sorel
• There, There by Tommy Orange
• Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids Edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young

Fiction and Poetry

• Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems by Natalie Diaz
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
• The Removed: A Novel by Brandon Hobson
• Calling for a Blanket Dance: A Novel by Oscar Hokeah
• The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving by Larry Spotted Crow Mann
• House Made of Dawn: A Novel by N. Scott Momaday

Nonfiction

• Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History by Theodore Brasser
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
• Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast by Christine M. DeLucia
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War by Douglas Edward Leach
• Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sean Teuton
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

Now on display in the Library Gallery: A fabric banner exhibition entitled “#BannersForJustice” created by FSU students, faculty and staff. The banners will be on display until the remainder of the school year. Please stop by to view these very impactful creative banners. Special thanks to Dr. Zynep Gonen for providing us with the banners.

We have created a new Community Engagement area in the lobby of the Library. In November and December we had boxes in front of our new Community Engagement Board to collect for the RAMS Resource Center, Kappa Delta Pi Food Drive, and Toys for Tots. Students, staff and faculty stopped by to drop off clothing, canned goods, and/or toys.

Also next to the Community Engagement Bulletin Board are carts with free items: COVID test kits - Special thanks to Pam Lehmberg from the Wellness Center for providing the test kits to the Library; hard copy books; audio books; and Playaways! Playaways are devices with one audiobook preloaded. No need to set up an account or be connected to the internet. Each device needs one AAA battery and a set of headphones with a jack. Getaway Playaway!

The Library has two book displays for December. Our "Curl Up With A Good Book" book display in our first floor lobby features some great titles. The book display on the Upper Mezzanine features books about the United Nations and human rights in recognition of the United Nations' Human Rights Day (12/10/2022).

Stop by and check them out!

Poster Exhibition: World War 1: Lessons and Legacies

The E-Resources department covers a wide range of responsibilities including: curation and management of the Library’s e-resources, which broadly include subscription databases, e-books, online services, and digital toolsets. These resources need to be maintained and made available for students and faculty. Management of the resources involves operating the “backend” administrative levels of these services. Supporting these resources also include understanding their intended uses and being able to explain these services to the campus community. This includes the creation of guides and tutorials.

The department ensures that availability of these resources and for correcting issues when they occur; and for providing analysis to support the decision to renew or cancel the subscriptions.

The department also supports emerging technologies and the Digital Repository, public galleries/special collections materials, digitization Services, and technical processes like photo editing and other related services.

To learn more, check out our online LibGuides:

E-Resources and Digital Services and Video Streaming

Hi, I'm Abelard (Abe) Newell, the Emerging Technologies and Digital Services Librarian at FSU. I graduated from Simmons University with a Masters of Library Science degree in 2017. I'm a Boston native who has worked in different roles at FSU for almost 5 years. In my free time I'm an avid reader of historical fiction and play board games.

Hello, I’m Marie Murphy from Hadley, MA. I’m a senior at FSU, majoring in Hospitality and Tourism Management with a minor in Psychology. I will graduate in Spring 2023. After graduation, I would love to work in a bakery or cafe and hopefully work my way up to owning my own business. In my free time, I love to read and watch movies. My favorite movie is Pitch Perfect. I'm currently reading Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood. My favorite music artist is Taylor Swift. I have two dogs and one cat.

My favorite thing about working in the library is interacting with the students and talking to them about books they've read or are about to read. I get a lot of good book recommendations that way. I work nights at the library, so my typical shift is pretty quiet, and involves shelving books, helping people with the printer, and helping people find the books they need for class. What surprised me the most when I first started working at the library was that the children's section is very popular with both kids and college students. Almost every shift I check out a children's book for someone.

The Library's Student Engagement Committee organized the annual Halloween party on October 31 in the Cafe. We hope you were able to take part in the festivities! Many students, faculty and staff (some in amazing costumes) stopped by to join in the fun and games, and enjoyed yummy refreshments and spooky music. Party goers made personalized buttons and played the popular and stomach-turning "squish and feel" game!

The Library's Student Engagement Committee organized and held the annual "Cocoa By The Fire" event. Library staff provided steaming cups of hot cocoa and tea along with yummy holiday treats to students who welcomed a bit of good cheer and encouragement as they studied for their final exams.

In the spirit of community and the holidays, the Library staff answered the call from the Center for Student Experience and Career Development to participate in the 8th Annual Giving Tree Program, co-hosted by the United Way of Tri-Country. We were provided wish lists from two children in need.The Library staff came together and purchased the requested gifts (and much more!) for our "adopted" youngsters.

We are very grateful for the opportunity to fulfill the holiday wishes of local children during this holiday season.

The Library, Sgt. Harpreet Singh and the FSU Police Department joined the U.S. Marines in their holiday giving campaign, Toys for Tots, in order to bring smiles to kids in need this holiday season. From November 11 until December 9th, we accepted toy donations in a large box at the entrance of the Library.

On December 8, Sgt. Singh drove his police cruiser up to the Library. Library elves stuffed the vehicle with a mountain of toys and books generously donated by the Library staff and the FSU community. Sgt. Singh drove his cruiser stuffed with toys to the central drop off site in a convoy of other cruisers. Mission accomplished! Thank you to everyone for your donations. We look forward to making an even bigger donation next year!

by Kathleen Barnard

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year for reading! It’s the season of big literary novels and cozy cold weather reads. Here are some of my favorite books from this season. (All titles available through the Minuteman Library Network).

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen: I love Sarah Addison Allen’s books. They are beautiful stories filled with magical realism, quirky characters, and settings that you wish were real. Other Birds is no exception. When Zoey moves into the Dellawisp condos on Mallow Island in South Carolina, she meets a cast of quirky neighbors—both living and not. Here she will find the family that she (and her neighbors) has always longed for. (Available in the McNaughton Browsing Collection)

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang: Oftentimes fall books are big books, and this one definitely fits the bill. This novel is one of ideas-about translation, colonialism, empire, and revolution. It also a wonderful fantasy story with characters that will draw you in and keep this book on your mind long after you have closed it. (Available through the Minuteman Library Network)

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan: Any new Jodi Picoult novel immediately lands on my TBR (to be read) list! This novel follows Olivia McAfee, a single mother in New Hampshire trying to escape from a violent past and raise her son, Asher. When Asher’s girlfriend Lily dies, Olivia’s world is turned upside down as Asher is questioned by the police. You’ll be drawn into this novel that is part family story, part police procedural, and completely engrossing. Longtime Jodi Picoult readers should be on the lookout for some familiar faces, too! (Available in the McNaughton Browsing Collection)

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese: This novel gives a bit of (fictional) backstory to one of American literature’s most famous and beloved novels, The Scarlet Letter. Isobel Gamble is a young woman who arrives in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1800s with sewing skills and a husband who leaves her alone almost as soon as they arrive. As she learns the ways of life in her new home, she meets a moody young man named Nathaniel Hawthorne and begins a relationship that will shape literature for centuries to come. (Available through the Minuteman Library Network)

Our McNaughton collection features new and popular fiction and nonfiction books. Stop by the Library to browse our McNaughton shelves and find your new favorite book!

Now on the McNaughton shelves:

Desert Star by Michael Connelly

The Ruin of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill

Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh

Winterland by Rae Meadows

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

For more information and links for these titles, go to our blog.

Below are some more great titles to be on the lookout for this winter! (Release dates subject to change.)

⭐ Coming Soon! ⭐

🎵 Listen to great songs by familiar music artists- and discover some new favs - on our Spotify.

This month we're highlighting the top songs from 2022.

All our music is creatively and thoughtfully curated by our own Alex Young! 🎵

It's exam week...time to de-stress and relax!

Make a reservation online today for time in our Renew Space. Just scan the QR code to reserve your session! Then stop by our front desk with your reservation email and pick up the room key (and prayer rug if needed).

(Note: One person in the room per session, no food, tidy up after your visit, use headphones, and return the key to the front desk.)

Did you know we have our own virtual cookbook? It's called Chewy Dewey!

The first Chewy Dewey cookbook was published by the Library in 2004. It contained pages of delicious recipes from the Library staff. It was updated and republished in 2019 for the Library's 50th Anniversary. The book features recipes from Library staff along with FSU students, staff, faculty and alumni. It is dedicated to our former Dean of the Library, Bonnie Mitchell, who retired in 2020 after 42 years at FSU.

If you need some new culinary ideas this holiday season, take a look at the book and get cooking!

Library Building -

Monday - Thursday: 8:00am - 11:00pm *

Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Saturday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Sunday: 1:00pm - 11:00pm

*Exception: On December 12, 13, 14, 15 and 19, the Library will be open until 12:00am.

Research & Learning -

Reference Librarians are available to assist you during the following days/times:

Monday - Thursday: 10:00am - 9:00pm

Friday: 10:00am - 2:00pm

Saturday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Sunday: 1:00pm - 9:00pm

From December 20 to January 16: *

Library Building -

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Saturday and Sunday: Closed

Research & Learning -

Reference Librarians are available to assist you during the following days/times:

Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Saturday and Sunday: Closed

* Exceptions:

The Library will be closed on Monday, December 26 for the Christmas holiday.

The building will be closed from Tuesday, December 27 through Friday, December 30; however, staff will be available to assist you virtually 8a-5p (Research & Learning department available via live chat 10a-2p).

The Library will be closed on Monday, January 2 for the New Year's Day holiday.

The Library will be closed on Monday, January 16 for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday.

- For complete listing, please see our hours page - days/hours may vary for holidays and intersessions. For contact info, please see our website.

Information about the Library's policies regarding access, borrowing, reference, interlibrary loan, circulation of materials, reserves, confidentiality of records, fines, public computers, diversity, and censorship can be found in this guide.

Answers to frequently asked questions are available in this guide.

We look forward to seeing you at the Library!

Follow us on social media (@WhittemoreLib) and our our blog (latest blog posts) to learn more about Library events, acquisitions, changes to our hours of operation, and to keep up with the latest news from the Whittemore Library!

This newsletter is created by the editor, Kate Burt, and published by Library Dean Millie Gonzalez.

If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns about this newsletter, please reach out to us.

Thank you.

Editor Kate Burt

Email: kburt2@framingham.edu
Website: https://www.framingham.edu/academics/henry-whittemore-library/