Rachel Beckwith, Arts Librarian, attended the ACRL-NEC conference and participated in a panel of speakers with Mike Meo, Sura Levine, and Bonnie Vigeland, presenting their talk, “Re-Designing for the 21st Century: A Reading Room?!” to a roomful of librarians and architects.
This week, from 7-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, the librarians will be at the InfoBar to help with your final papers, projects, and presentations. No appointment needed; just drop by!
Pavel Arseniev (Petersburg, Russia) to read at Hampshire College Library April 14 Tue 6-8 pm in the KIVA Poet, critic, publisher, translator …
Hampshire College will host filmmaker and artist Rhys Ernst (second from right) and writer and musician Faith Soloway on Monday, April 6. Ernst and Soloway are part of the creative team for Amazon’s groundbreaking series Transparent, winner of 2015 Golden Globes for best comedy series and best actor (Jeffrey Tambor).
Bibliothecaphilia is opening at Mass Moca with a reception tomorrow evening. The exhibit explores definitions of libraries in the age of e-books, apps, and digital media.
Ryan Mihaly, ’08F was one of the curators (along with Audrey Nefores) of the exhibit in the Hampshire Gallery, “I Make Me Up: The Work of Robert Seydel and his Pupils” that was up from September 12-29, 2014. That wonderful exhibit coincided with the opening of the Robert Seydel Reading Room in the Hampshire Library this past fall.
The purpose of the Art + Feminism event was to help correct a bias in Wikipedia which is disproportionately written by and about men. In just a short time, the group gathered at Mass Art created Wikipedia accounts and then learned how to create external links, when a person is considered “notable” and therefore eligible for a Wikipedia entry, and what types of sources are acceptable.
Papercut and tapestry artist Tamar Shadur came to the library yesterday evening to conduct a workshop for Hampshire students interested in learning this ancient art form. About 15 students (and a couple of staff and faculty members) came to the Hill Urbina Room on the 3rd floor to learn how to make papercut work around the theme of the “Tree of Life.”
We rely on our student employees so much at the Library InfoBar that in fact we could never operate the library without …
PIZZA WORKSHOP FOR DIV 2s and 3s Friday noon, 3rd floor of the library Sharing your process & final project November 14 …
Please stop by the library exhibit cases on the main floor to see material from the Hampshire College Archives on Andrew Salkey …
Come see what your fellow colleagues and students have been up to next time you are in the library. We have put …
Students in Karen Koehler’s Guernica tutorial got to view prints from 1937 from Francisco de Goya’s “Los Caprichos” today while using current …
Our faculty are busy with their own intellectual and creative endeavors all the time. Check out two recent faculty publications: The Original …
We were happy to see so many of you at the opening for the Robert Seydel Reading Room on the 12th. Now …
California book artists Peter and Donna Thomas will be visiting Hampshire College in their wandering bookmobile just outside of the Harold Johnson Library on Tuesday, September 9th from 10:30- noon.
Students in Billie Mandle and Hope Tucker’s Hampshire Media Arts course got to see (and try out, explore, play with..) some of …
The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) students and faculty traveled to Williamsburg, Brooklyn yesterday to see Kara Walker’s work “A Subtlety.” I …
The Hampshire College library and gallery are very excited to play host to the new Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) which starts …
