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Use Summon as a first stop for your research to search across most of the library's resources. Example: “life cycle assessment” cars
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Use when you know the title of a journal, magazine or newspaper to find if WPI has full text access. Example: “Journal of Solar Energy Engineering”
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Example: “Erosion”More Search Options: Project Center Resources | Theses & Dissertations
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Books and media needed for Library Book Sale!
Take a few minutes to clear off you bookshelves and clean your closets. Gordon Library needs those books you don’t use anymore for our annual book sale. We take cds (talking books, music), vhs, and dvds as well. Donations can be brought to the Information Desk on the main floor. We are also collecting children’s books, which [...]
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- “Invented: WPI Patents Past and Present” exhibit now in Gladwin Gallery An exhibit of WPI patents is now open in Gladwin Gallery on the ground floor of Gordon Library. >
- Dickens’s mystery Olive Rappoli -- winner of the Robert Fellman Memorial Scholarship Prize! >
- Books in Print and Resources for College Libraries Now Available Check out our two newest databases, Books in Print and Resources for College Libraries. >
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And the winners are…
The votes have been counted and the winners of this year’s ART | WPI are: Best in Show – Irrelephant by Michelle Zayas, a Biomed major, Class of 2015 Most Creative — Drum by Janice Frederick, Facilities Dept. Best Student Work – Moonglow by Andrew Steele Turgeon, an ME major, Class of 2014 Other popular pieces [...]
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Books and media needed for Library Book Sale!
Take a few minutes to clear off you bookshelves and clean your closets. Gordon Library needs those books you don’t use anymore for our annual book sale. We take cds (talking books, music), vhs, and dvds as well. Donations can be brought to the Information Desk on the main floor. We are also collecting children’s books, which [...]
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When 4×4=8, An Exhibition of Visual Art and Poetry
March 22-April 26 2103 at Gordon Library’s Class of ’41 Gallery 4×4 is a Worcester area collaborative of four poets and four artists who, for the last three years, have discovered new ideas and creative energy in each others’ work, visions and voices. Group members include visual artists Lisa Barthelson, Carrie Crane, Dorothy Magadieu and Susan Sedgwick [...]
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- Get ready for the Big Read! Get ready for Worcester’s upcoming Big Read program by reading Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the featured book. Gordon Library has copies available to borrow on the Bestsellers Shelf on the 3rd floor. The Big Read is sponsored by the Humanities and Arts Dept. with funding from the National Endowment for the [...] >
- WPI Innovator : Chester A. Reed, Class of 1896 When one considers careers WPI graduates pursue, being an author and illustrator of field guides to birds probably does not come to mind. In the early 1900s, that is what Chester Reed did, producing the first bird guides that were practical to take into the field. Instead of following his WPI major of Electrical Engineering, [...] >
- ART | WPI Many artists and friends enjoyed the artwork created by members of the WPI community on January 24, in the Class of ’41 Gallery, Gordon Library, for the opening of ART|WPI. Over 80 works of art are on display created by students, staff, and faculty. The many media in the show include textiles, with quilts by [...] >
