
March 2025 Newsletter
Check out what’s going on in the library in our March 2025 Newsletter! In this issue: Meet our new Systems and Discovery …

Epic Takover of the Library 1st floor for writing and research help and CrafterDark!
We were thrilled to host so many students last night for an End-of-Semester Takeover of the Library’s 1st floor, complete with writing …
Installation complete making the Library the official heart of the campus!
We made the Hampshire College News! Read the full article here about this student project, and check out Kat Brown’s heart illustration …

Library as Laboratory takes over the exhibit cases!
Come wander through the Library to see the exhibit cases on floors 1, 2 and 3 from the Spring 2024 course, Library …

Harold F. Johnson Library: the Heart of the Campus
I tasked students in Professor Thom Long’s fall course, CMYK Graphic Design Studio (HACU 231), with designing a place for this quote …

Library as Laboratory class creates library “leaves” project
Have you noticed the “leaves” that are sticking out of our stacks? These leaves were placed there by students in Andrew Yang’s …

Black History Month at the Hampshire College Library
Check out this great interview with our very own Nebraska Chatham, Access Services Associate! And then, please check out some of these …

Media & Tech November Gathering– Come discuss post truth
Please join the Media and Technology LC in the Art Gallery (ground floor of the Library) this Wednesday, November 2, from …

Celebration of “Previously Owned” — A Reading and Q&A with Nathan McClain
In collaboration with the LC Network and the Media & Technology LC, join us in celebration as poet, educator, and Hampshire faculty …

From the Archives: History of the Div Free Bell
From the desk of Archives Student Assistant Gianna Paladino: Hampshire legends say that ringing the Div Free Bell before completing your Div …

Welcome Eliza!
We’d like to introduce you to our new Access Services Associate for Media, Eliza Gelinas! Eliza uses they/ them pronouns and grew …

Need Library Resources for your Div? We’ve got a fund for that!
Is there an e-book that only Smith or Amherst College have that you’d love to have access to for your Div III? …
Ebooks for Equity: Pride Month recommendations!
To celebrate pride month, Research & Instruction Librarian Natane Halasz updated our Pride guide to books and films available in the Five …
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Ebook for Equity: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
For this week’s Ebook for Equity, we’re featuring a local author, Ocean Vuong, during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. His …

E-poem for Equity: Love Poem by Nathan McClain
We continue this week with one more poem for National Poetry Month. This week, we share this poem available online as our …