Stress Less @ the Library!
During the first week of December, the Library and Knowledge Commons will be promoting mental wellness with activities, snacks, and additional study …
Studio G.’s Cyclorama
Studio G., named in honor of beloved long-time staffer John Gunther, houses our “GreenScreen Cyclorama.” Some folks may be familiar with the term “cyclorama” as a mechanism used to create a “seamless” backdrop, also sometimes referred to as an “infinity wall.”
Creative Media Institute at Hampshire and on PBS
Earlier this week Tom Roston, filmmaker and blogger for PBS at Doc Soup, posted a very nice piece on his blog about …
Freely-available and totally intriguing online collections
Are you a primary sources buff? An enthusiast for all things ephemeral? A lover of comics, vintage newsreels or magic? If so, …
Friday Workshop: Media Resources for Everyone
Media Resources for Everyone: A Workshop for Div II students transitioning to Div III Want to produce or include media in your …
“A blast from the past: Documentary film maker Ken Burns will teach at Hampshire College’s new summer film institute” | GazetteNet
Hampshire summer film institute featured in today’s Hampshire Gazette: A blast from the past: Documentary film maker Ken Burns will teach at …
Audiovisual Preservation Lecture on March 26th
Magnetic Humanity: Preserving the 20th Century’s Analog Tape March 26th, 6:30 pm, BIll Brand Screening Room, Jerome Liebling Center, Hampshire College Free …
Jerome Liebling NY Exhibit: Matter of Life and Death
A major retrospective of the photographs of Jerome Liebling–longtime Hampshire College professor–will open March 13 at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New …
Christina Choe’s “I Am John Wayne”
Watch the entirety of “I Am John Wayne” a short by filmmaker (and HC Alumn) Christina Choe. [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/26734344[/vimeo] Read an interview with …
Listen in to “Tell it Slant,” the Jan Term Audio Storytelling Intensive!
This Thursday, January 16th, listen in to an hour of gripping audio stories -some fact, some fiction, all exploring the theme of …
The Many Places of Reverb
[youtube]http://youtu.be/mY-f68J5PPo[/youtube] This dorky video fabulously demonstrates the power of place in making a sound recording. Without any processing other than editing, the …
NEH Awards Hampshire Library Preservation Assistance Grant
It turns out that there was another reason to be thankful last week! The Harold F. Johnson Library received a preservation assistance …
“Our Nixon” Showing at Hampshire College and Amherst Cinema
Hampshire College is pleased to announce a showing of the film Our Nixon and a question-and-answer session with the film’s creators Penny …
Protest! Exhibition of Selections From The Karen DiGia Collection
Through the month of November the Hampshire College Archives will be exhibiting materials from the Karen DiGia collection. The exhibit will take …
Now on the MagicBoard: Invisible by kara lynch
In 2099, the transatlantic slave trade never happened. Invisible is a speculative narrative that explores the limits of Black liberation and western …
New: You can request cds from all Five Colleges!
When you find a cd that you want to listen to in the Five College Library catalog and it’s not at Hampshire….. …
The role of the library in preserving sound
Today’s Library of Congress blog “The Signal” features a post about Sam Brylawski, a recognized authority on the history and preservation of …
Collecting & Preserving Code
What happens when archives and museums want to preserve something intangible, ephemeral (and possibly destined-for-obsolecence)? The Smithsonian Institute’s National Design Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, …
Personal Digital Archiving and Punk Rock!
As the digital revolution progresses it becomes easier and easier to create various kinds of materials – text documents, images, web pages, …
Tom Ciaburri: Div III Kickstarting to Finish His Div III
Tom Ciaburri just finished Hampshire in January, but his Div III isn’t quite finished yet. At Hampshire, Tom worked with musicmaker.org, a non-profit …