Archive your Div III!
Div III season is here!! At least, partly. Many of you are wrapping up your work this fall. The Harold F. Johnson …
American Archives Month
American Archives Month: Hi! My name is Emily Moran. I’m the Archive Alumni Fellow here at Hampshire and this is my first …
Archive Your Div III
Attention, all graduating Div III students! We know there’s a lot going on as you finish up your Div III, between holding …
Saving Hampshire History – one VHS/DVD at a time
An article in today’s Inside Higher Education describes the significant challenges Colleges and Universities face with audio and visual materials that must …
“Our Support Will Not End with the Occupation”: The 1988 Dakin Takeover
“Our Support Will Not End with the Occupation”: The 1988 Dakin Takeover An exhibition, jointly hosted by The Harold F. Johnson Library and …
Generating Change: Div III’s ENGAGING Us All
Explore the scholarly work produced by Hampshire students during the course of the College’s history. The library has curated a display of Division III’s from the library’s collection that study and explore racism and white supremacy, classism, islamophobia, anti-semitism, transphobia, sexism, ableism, and oppression in many forms. Visit the physical exhibit in the Harold F. Johnson Library. See our digital collection online
Founders Oral History Collection: Ken Rosenthal Remembers the Founding Years
Deep in the Hampshire College Archives, nestled among boxes of presidential papers and student newspapers, is a collection that reveals the deep …
Registration Day: the student portrait in context, an exhibition of the Elaine Mayes’ portraits
-by Mia Karnofsky Elaine Mayes (b. 1936) is a photographer who taught at Hampshire College from 1971 to 1981. Mayes originally trained …
Finally! Explore the wealth of digital cultural & historic materials in the Hampshire Archives through Five College Compass: Digital Collections
The Harold F. Johnson Library is pleased to announce the launch of Five College Compass: Digital Collections [https://compass.fivecolleges.edu] a site bringing together digital scholarship …
In each hand I keep each of my eyes
The Hampshire College Art Gallery presents In each hand I keep each of my eyes, featuring 15 photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo …
New addition to Special Collections
We recently acquired the work “Opera Mortis: The Works of Death; The Simulacra & Natural History of Death’s Labors & Hours of …
DESIGN & BUILD: The Art of the Book Closing Events
D E S I G N & B U I L D The Art of the Book Thursday 9/29/2016 2pm – 3.45pm: …
Inscribed novels by James Baldwin
Today I had the enormous pleasure of opening a box of four inscribed books, given as gifts to talent agent Robert Lantz …
Enduring Questions: Los Caprichos, authenticity, and reproduction
by Ivy Vance In conjunction with Karen Koehler’s Art Questions class funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, several groups of …
Cuban Artists Books in the Archives and Special Collections
As Hampshire prepares to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of its Cuba student-exchange program, the Harold F. Johnson Library is excited to announce …
NDSA NE Regional Meeting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Libraries
Don’t miss the New England National Digital Stewardship Alliance regional meeting on Thursday, October 30, hosted by the Five College Digital Preservation Task Force at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Hampshire Myths And Legends!
I took over the post of Archivist for Hampshire College a little over a year ago after the person who created the …
Archives Internships Available With Democracy Now
When people think of “archives” they often think “dusty basement rooms with lots of mice and old paper documents.” Well part of …