In the Know @ the Bentley Library

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.

Did you miss the library's Information Literacy Series event on October 23? Don't worry - we have audio for all the lightning talks that were given, as well as slides for some of them. Below you'll see mp3 recordings of the talks, and slides or visuals as they become available to us. For more information about the event, click the link "Information Literacy Series event" above.  

Jay Cooprider (CIS): Big Data Through a Technology Lens

Ian Cross (Marketing): John Wayne is Big Data

Now showing in the McGladrey Art Gallery is an exhibit created by Bentley University students and staff entitled Making Visible the Invisible: Library Data Transformed. This exhibit features visualizations of library-related data created by Bentley Library and ATC staff members, as well as students Robyn Dion, Eric Kennedy and Nikki Nguyen.

Please join us on Wednesday, October 23, for the fourth event in the Bentley Library Information Literacy Series, "Lightning Talks About Big Data: Making Sense Out of Massive Amounts of Information." Bentley faculty and alumni will present focused talks of 5-7 minutes on how they make sense out of big data in their disciplines. Join us in the library’s Art Gallery during the following times. 

3:00-3:35: Lightning Talks Round 1:

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.