Library News

To celebrate Wellness Week, the Library Staff have created a food-themed display. The display, ‘Food for Thought’, acknowledges various ways in which food is vital to our health and well-being. We have books about eating food, raising food, supplements and herbs. Through the end of February, we’ll have a ‘Recipe...

Search our library catalog for "anatomy" and you'll find hundreds of books, journals, software and AV materials. Some things are online and some are in the library. There are lots of species represented... small, large, domestic, ruminant, lab, exotic, avian, amphibian, reptile, primate, chordate and vertebrate. The topics range from...

It's been two years since the last e-book update and we have added some interesting books to the library's collection. All of these (and many more) are in the Tufts Library Catalog. It's not a lot of books, but there are some classics! Published in 2019 Fowler's zoo and wild...

Check out the Library of Things Scatter Map that the Massachusetts Library System has compiled for things like museum passes, cookware, garden seeds and home tools. As a resident of Massachusetts, you can get a local public library and a Boston Public Library card. Your local library and Boston Public...

The Farmers' Market has started back up for the 2019 season. We had some beautiful donations of cucumbers, peppers, squash and eggplant. All of the money collected is donated to the Travis Fund for Needy Animals. The market is located just inside the Library entrance, in Loew Medical Education Center.

Almost every topic in the news today has a One Health component. The Library has created a display to show some of the One Health topics and issues that are of concern: public health, veterinary medicine, human medicine, wildlife management, environmental health, climate change... the list goes on. National One...

We have gotten some comments in our suggestion box in the past year. I have decided to interpret 'Library' as the entire Loew Medical Education Center building when answering the suggestions. Could we please replace the old ticking clocks with silent (potentially digital) ones? -- Yes, we are ordering a...

To celebrate Diversity Month, the library asked for input on four statements. Here is what we heard and this is what it looked like. Describe yourself with one word. life-enriching positivity one-of-a-kind resourceful driven sensitive creative (twice) unapologetically me I’m a doer private awkward introvert What is a part of...

The week of April 8th is National Library Week. In recognition of this, Tufts Now has stories about each of the Tufts Libraries. The Veterinary Library article features our oldest book (1571, The Rules of riding… in Italian); most popular item (laptops); unusual items; and interesting new books.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others? Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. The library has created a display to honor Dr. King. We chose the theme of ‘service’. The display has stories about Cummings students, faculty, staff and our volunteers. Rescuing wildlife trapped in...