ENVIRONMENT IS EVERYTHING:
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES, CHANGING CLIMATES

Purchase College ’s campus-wide theme for 2008-2009, Environment is Everything: Creative Communities, Changing Climates, embraces issues concerning contemporary challenges to the physical environment as well as opportunities for new forms of expression found in various cultural centers globally.

The library is one such cultural center. We serve as a gathering place, a crossroads, in the center of campus. Our numerous resources vary from traditional (print) to digital (databases), from physical (monographs) to online (Netlibrary). We invite students and faculty to explore and utilize the great wealth of information to be gained through and in the library environment.

This year we will feature a Slideshow, video and physical displays, and more TBA.

Photos

Photographs of the Purchase campus can be viewed on the library's Flickr site. These include scenes of the Purchase farm collective (behind the Dance building) and dimensions of “nature” as we know it at Purchase.

For more information about these scenes, contact Carl Wadley (x6401; carlford.wadley@purchase.edu).

Video Display

Throughout the semester, on the first floor, we will be showing titles available in the Media Resource Center (lower level), such as:

• Planet Earth, the acclaimed series from director David Attenborough

Media Resource Center

Web Sites

Our delicious site features environmental, government, advocacy groups and other related websites. For example,

Environmental Encyclopedia - Available Online (2002)

Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.

For more, go to:
http://delicious.com/PurchaseCollegeLibrary/environmentalstudies

Books (Monographs)

We have highlighted titles selected by our subject specialists. The items include book-length studies on: the effects of global warming from physical, sociological, political and economic vantage points; environmental policy studies; marine biology to digital biology; zoogeography to biodiversity; climate control to global energy policy. Correspondingly, various academic disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches are represented.

All books are on display on the 1st floor and available for check-out. See works cited list here. Included are the selections for general interest, environment or eco, literature, film, and Reference.

To search the catalog or more titles, try these terms:

• ecofeminism
• environmental policy
• environmental justice
• environmentalism
• green movement
• evolution
• sustainable development
• global environmental change
• global warming

Reference

Our print Reference holdings are showcased in the new Reference Room on the 1st floor.

Highlights include:

These resources may be used in the library only and are not available for check-out.

For more, see our selected reference holdings at:
http://delicious.com/PurchaseCollegeLibrary/environmentalstudies/

E-Books

Net Library
Contains full text of thousands of books, newly published and older versions, covering a wide range of subjects.  Note: You must create an account before you can view an eBook.  Click on "Create a Free Account."  

Using the search term “environment,” you can retrieve texts such as:

Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy, and Politics
by Wall, Derek.
Publication: New York Taylor & Francis, 1994.

and

Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades
by Neuzil, Mark.; Kovarik, William.
Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications, Inc., 1996.

Databases

For more information, contact Joe Swatski, Reference Librarian (x6411; joseph.swatski@purchase.edu)