The library’s new display features our animal friends like Marley the dog, Alex the parrot, and Babe the pig. ...
In September 1956, Modern Mechanix magazine ran an article titled "Your Telephone of Tomorrow." In a summary of the article, it was predicted that people would eventually have "a tiny, touchtone, color videophone" (pictured at right).
Your Phone of Tomorrow
Modern Mechanix, September 1956
Plus: Movies and TV Shows They’ve Inspired! This display is brought to you by Craig Lordan '93. When we were kids, my older brother and future Bentley graduate spent many hours reading comic books and drawing his own comic book characters. It was the dark ages, and we lived in the suburbs, so Craig got his comic books through mail order. At some point, I started saving my allowance to buy my own comic books. Initially, all I wanted was Disney comic books, but I finally graduated to George Perez’s Wonder Woman.
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Happy new year and welcome to the Bentley Library's 5th annual best books display! This year we have consulted fifteen* best books lists to bring you the Best Books of 2013.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines brevity as “being short in speech or writing; contraction into few words, conciseness, terseness”. That we encounter brevity on a daily basis should come as no surprise. Twitter, one of the most widely used social networking services, is designed to only allow users 140 characters to convey thoughts, news, or commentary in dispatches known as Tweets. Most academic journal articles feature an abstract that summarizes the salient points of the document in a very brief paragraph, comprised of no more than a few sentences.
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Did you know that October 11 is National Coming Out Day? It marks the anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (learn more about the history of the day here). Here at the library, we're recognizing the day by kicking off a new display, Out in the Stacks.
Discover Massachusetts through books and film! The library’s new display highlights books and movies that take place in cities and towns throughout Massachusetts. You will be transported via books, audiobooks, and DVDs to locales such as: Boston, Cambridge, Gloucester, Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, Concord, Lowell, Worcester, Chicopee, Northampton, the Berkshires and more!
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