By Mike Magilligan, Reference Librarian, Lincoln Center An elderly Chinese man practice a QiGong exercise routine in a park in Beijing on October 18, 2011. ©UPI On the last Saturday of April in parks and cities all around the globe an annual celebration of Tai Chi and QiGong takes place. Practitioners gather in groups or solo to perform and celebrate these ancient traditional exercises that blend Martial Arts with Medicinal and Spiritual lineages. The free flowing movements aimed at helping circulate internal energy can be focused with an emphasis on Martial Art/Self defense applicat ..read more

By Maria Sanchez, Access Services & Circulation Support Staff Have you ever enjoyed a classic so much you’ve continued to re-read it over the years? Perhaps this was because after finishing it, you wished you could stay in that world with those characters, to learn more about their story or what could’ve happened next. Below are some books based on some popular classics that you may enjoy. If you loved Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, but always felt for the tragic figure that was Mr. Rochester’s first wife, Antoinette Cosway, aka Bertha, you can check out Wide Sargasso Sea where author Jean ..read more

By Kirsten Lee, Distance Learning Liaison, Quinn Library This March a display on the second floor of Quinn Library encourages all of us to hear women tell their own stories. Women’s autobiographies, memoirs, and personal essays serve an essential function of centering the female experience in our understanding of history and culture. Women’s voices, along with those of people of color, have been marginalized in history, healthcare, politics, and culture, and the books on display this month hope to highlight important stories of the human experience. Women’s History Month book display at Quinn ..read more

By Hannah Herrlich, Emerging Technologies Librarian The Walsh Library Student Lounge is now open for business! Walsh 108A is the new Student Lounge- An inviting environment for students who want a place to relax, get away from their books for a while, read their books for a while, enjoy a coffee, or simply ponder life, the universe, and everything. Now, we know what you’re thinking. “A student lounge in a library? Is this some kind of scholarly utopia?” Well, hold onto your calculators, and let’s explore what the swankiest new addition to Walsh Library has to offer. New Furniture I recently s ..read more

By Hannah Herrlich, Emerging Technologies Librarian We’re more than a month into 2024, so what better time than now to dig up some quantifiable data and use it to fondly analyze 2023. (Does it count as nostalgia if we’re not even a year out?) We’ve discussed already how Fordham Libraries can help make for a better 2024, but what about taking a second to look back on what we did in 2023? Thanks to our diligent library staff scattered throughout every department and across each of our campuses, we have gathered some never-before-seen library usage statistics that… will… leave… you… SPEECHLESS. O ..read more

By Tierney Gleason, Reference and Digital Humanities Librarian On February 14 from noon until 3pm, Walsh Library will be hosting a Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon event for the first time. We put together this blog post to explain how it works. We hope you will consider joining us! What is Douglass Day? Douglass Day is an annual event where organizers from the Colored Conventions Project and the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State ask groups around the country to assist them with transcribing the text in digital documents on African American history from libraries and archives. The ..read more

How the Fordham University Libraries Can Help You with Your 2024 Resolutions By Hannah Herrlich, Emerging Technologies Librarian Welcome back, Rams! We hope that you all had a relaxing, or at the very least, enjoyable, Winter Break. Now that you’re recharged and ready to slide into 2024 with ease, it’s time to hit the books, and focus on some of those New Year’s resolutions. Whatever your goals for 2024 may be, the Fordham University Libraries has a plethora of material that can help guide you in seeing through those resolutions, and setting your sights on becoming the best version of YOU. So ..read more

By the Fordham University Libraries Staff Aaaaand, that’s a wrap. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or fewer. The 2023 Fall semester, and general Roman calendar year, are coming to an end. The Fordham Library News Blog explored a lot in the past year. We turned up the heat on Valentine’s Day; we rejoiced with celebrations commemorating the Fordham Museum and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop; of course, we’d be remiss not to highlight techniques on how to search for resources from our collection ..read more

By Hannah Herrlich, Emerging Technologies Librarian Last year, we introduced a blog series titled, Game & Checkout. It featured popular video games reminiscent of and linked to books available through our collection. Shortly thereafter, we published the second installment of this series, Game & Checkout Pt. 2. Connecting one resource to another in an attempt to broaden the scope of a library user’s reading experience is a service known as readers’ advisory. So, after a long-awaited period, we present to you part three of our Game & Checkout series. With Winter Break right around th ..read more

By Hannah Herrlich, Emerging Technologies Librarian Come for the laughs, but stay for the facts– This is the mantra of Fordham University Libraries debut podcast, Loud Librarians. Yes, you read that correctly: The library now has a podcast. And this is no ordinary podcast; Loud Librarians is a whirlwind of knowledge and fun, complete with a dash of copyright chaos. “The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.” Scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975),  written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese. View, at your own laughing fit discretion. Meet the Loud Librarians Hosts Hannah (Emerging Techn ..read more