How To Begin A Course At Hampshire: After A Pleasant Summer
As the semester gets underway, I just wanted to share a little humor especially dedicated to faculty from the archives. This piece …
Library and Archives Zine Collection
There are over 200+ zines covering 90’s and early 00’s angst, advice, music reviews and various other topics and musings that …
Launch of long-awaited Havana Archive Project!!!
The Hampshire College Library is thrilled to announce the launch of the Havana Archive Project, an Open Access digital photographic archive containing …
Archives: Windows into Lives
There are many unforeseen revelations I’ve had since starting my work in archives. Some of them have been sparked through observing the …
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 …