Each year the Jonathan Edwards Library honors Berkshire Community College’s Convocation Students by dedicating books in their names to the Colleges collection.  You can find a list of our 2014 Convocation students and their books here.

There has been a delay in the migration of all CW/MARS libraries, including the Jonathan Edwards Library, to the new Evergreen Online Public Access Catalog.  (PAC)   The revised date to launch the new Evergreen PAC is now January 4th, 2012.  This delay will allow a smoother transition for both public and academic libraries. 

We think that you will find that the new and dynamic Evergreen system has many user friendly features, and is an improvement on our current system.  You will be able to seemlessly search both the Western and Central regions in one single catalog interface.  You will also have the option to use either your library card or create a username for login to the catalog.  And, you can create lists  of favorite books that you can  share with other readers.

While we count the days to the new launch date, you will notice a few changes to the current PAC.  You can no longer search the central region through the Union Catalog link, but we have made the State-wide virtual catalog more readily accessible, with a link to that system.   

We will continue to update you on new developments,  In the meantime feel free to read about more Evergreen.

Just a few of our new books, just in time for your summer reading. 

Alan Lomax : The Man Who Recorded the World / John Szwed.  ML423.L6347S98 2010

American Eden : From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards : What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are / Wade Graham  SB451.3.G718 2011

Armed Humanitarians : The Rise of the Nation Builders / Nathan Hodge.  JZ6369.H63 2011

 

Battle of Britain : Five Months that Changed History, May-October 1940 / James Holland.  D756.5.B7H66 2011

Beirut / Samir Kassir ; foreword by Robert Fisk ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.   DS89.B4K3813 2010

Branch Rickey / Jimmy Breslin. GV865.R45B74 2011

Every Man in This Village is a Liar : An Education in War / Megan K. Stack.  DS63.1.S696 2010 

For All the Tea in China : How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History / Sarah Rose. HD9198.G72R67 2010

In the Shadow of the Buddha : Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discovery in Tibet / Matteo Pistono. BQ978.I88A3 2011

The Invisible Line : Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White / Daniel J. Sharfstein.  E184.A1S5724 2011 

Jerusalem, Jerusalem : How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World / James Carroll  DS109.9.C367 2011

Joseph Brodsky : A Literary Life / Lev Loseff ; translated by Jane Ann Miller. PG3479.4.R64Z76513 2011

Livia, Empress of Rome : ABbiography / Matthew Dennison.  DG291.7.L5D45 2010

The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life / by Bettany Hughes. B316.H84 2011

The Memory Palace / by Mira Bartok.  RC464.H67 2011

The Most Human Human : What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means To Be Alive / Brian Christian.  BD450.C5356 2011

The Neoconservative Persuasion : Selected Essays, 1942-2009 / Irving Kristol ; edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb ; foreword by William Kristol.  JC573.K6658 2011

A Promise at Sobibór : A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-occupied Poland / Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz. DS134.72.B527A3 2010
        
 The 100 Best African American Poems : (*but I cheated) / edited by Nikki Giovanni.  PS591.N4A15 2010  Book and DVD

The Philosophical Breakfast Club : Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World / Laura J. Snyder.  Q141.S5635 2011

Queer (in)justice : The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States / Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock.  KF4754.5.M64 2011

The Return : Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev / Daniel Treisman. JN6695.T74 2011

Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees / by Malcolm T. Sanford and Richard E. Bonney.  SF523.S36 2010

21st-Century Gothic : Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 / edited by Danel Olson.  PN3435.A16 2011

 

Will Rogers : A Political life / Richard D. White, Jr.  PN2287.R74W45 2011

Will Eisner : A Dreamer’s Life in Comics / Michael Schumacher.  PN6727.E4Z78 2010

“It was a pleasure to burn,” begins Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic, Fahrenheit 451. In celebration of Pittsfield’s Big Read, the BCC library will display over 50 works appearing on the American Library Association’s Banned and Challenged Classics list. Highlighting Bradbury’s theme of censorship, the display represents well-known titles that have come under fire at libraries, schools and communities for decades. Come celebrate your intellectual freedom and check out a challenged book at the BCC library from April 1^st through 30^th.