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Twenty people were accused of witchcraft in Connecticut during the seventeenth century, thirteen in the Hartford witchcraft outbreak of 1662-1663 and seven during the Fairfield outbreak of 1692-1693. Seven of those were tried and four were executed. The Samuel Wyllys Papers at the Connecticut State Library contains documents from these trials. The Matthew Grant Diary established the identity of the first person executed as a witch in New England. During the month of October, the Connecticut State Library will be posting lines from these documents on Twitter. You can follow us at http://twitter.com/LibraryofCt or find us using #CTwitch.

All Connecticut State Library facilities will be closed on Saturday, October 10 & Monday, October 12, 2009 for the Columbus Day holiday. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, October 13.

Tribal Contracting: Understanding and Drafting Business Contracts with American Indian Tribes. M. Brent Leonhard. KF 801 .L46 2009.

The Little White Book of Baseball Law. John H. Minan, Kevin Cole. KF 3989 .M563 2009.

The Busy Lawyer’s Guide To Success. Reid F. Trautz, Dan Pinnington. KF 315 .T72 2009.

The Law Firm Associate’s Guide to Connecting with Your Colleagues. Barbara Miller, Martin Camp. KF 300 .M552 2009.

Responding To National Security Letters: A Practical Guide For Legal Counsel. David P. Fidler, Sarah Jane Hughes. KF 4850 .F53 2009.

The Connecticut State Library is making photos and descriptions of Connecticut’s historic homes available online. Library staff members are working alphabetically through a list of the state’s 169 towns. Andover through Fairfield are currently available, with more towns coming online soon. As towns are completed, their local organizations and newspapers will be notified by the library.
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
The project was recently featured in an article in the Cheshire Herald.

With the Connecticut State Library facing a 12% reduction in staff as a
result of the state’s Retirement Incentive Plan, half of whom are
librarians in the library’s reference units, State Librarian Kendall
Wiggin has announced that the State Library will be closed to the public
on Mondays for the summer.  Effective July 1, the new public service
hours for the Library will be Tuesday through Friday 9-5 and Saturday
9-2. The Museum of Connecticut History’s hours are not affected. The
Museum’s hours will remain Monday through Friday 9-4 and Saturday 9-3.
Both the Library and Museum will be closed July 3 and 4 in celebration
of Independence Day.

Do No Wrong: Ethics for Prosecutors and Defenders. Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. McMunigal. KF 9619 .J69 2009.

Rethinking Juvenile Justice. Elizabeth S. Scott, Laurence Steinberg. KF 9779 .S36 2008.

A Constitution of Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before.  Cass R. Sunstein. KF 4552 .S86 2009.

Litigating the Nursing Home Case.  James T. O’Reilly. KF 3826 .N8 O74 2009.

Intellectual Property In Government Contracts: Protecting and Enforcing IP at the State and Federal Level. James G. McEwen, David S. Bloch and Richard M. Gray. KF 2979 .M345 2009.

Bioterror; Anthrax, Influenza, and the Future of Public Health Security. R. William Johnstone. HV 6433.35  .J64 2008

Colin Powell: American Power and Intervention from Vietnam to Iraq.  Christopher D. O’Sullivan. E 840.5  .P68 O885 2009

Mobility First; A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-First Century.  Sam Staley and Adrian Moore. HE 151 .S725 2009

The Myth of the Oil Crisis; Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming.  Robin M. Mills. HD 9560.5 .M553 2008

No Pity; People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.  Joseph P. Shapiro.  HV 1553 .S52 1994

Due to the state’s difficult budget times, all Connecticut State Library facilities will be closed on Friday as part of a statewide furlough day.  Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, May26th (following the Memorial Day holiday).

From Governor M. Jodi Rell’s memo to state agency directors:

“As you know, we are facing difficult budget times in Connecticut. As a result the recently signed SEBAC agreement calls for an unpaid furlough day on Friday, May 22^nd.  All agencies must adhere to the agreement other than those who must maintain 24/7 operations.”