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September 2024 Newsletter

Hi and Hello! Check out what’s going on in the library in our 18th Newsletter! In this issue: Aorta Installation! New …

Gallery Director Lorenzo Conte and Hampshire student artist Kat Brown

Gallery Director working on installation

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 …

flyer describing library installation of heart window sticker and wooden letters of quote about the library as the aorta of the campus.

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 …

Photographs of the Women’s Lives Collection Opening Reception

The library celebrated the opening of the Women’s Lives Collection, donated by Andrea Wright, on Friday June 1, 2018 from 4-6:00 pm. The event …

Lunch party to celebrate opening of Knowledge Commons, Friday, October 13th, at 12-2:30 pm

Knowledge Commons Launch Party!

Join us in celebrating the opening of the Knowledge Commons, Hampshire College’s new hub of academic resources in the Library. Drop by for food, fun, games, crafts, ribbon cutting and meet the KC Staff & Alumni Fellows.

Welcome to the Knowledge Commons

Beginning this coming week, and unfolding over the course of the month, alumni fellows and peer mentors representing an array of academic …

Orientation Week Recap

It was exciting to welcome returning students and faculty back to campus, and greet new students and their families, as they visited …

The Libraries Extend Five College Partnerships

Our Office of Communications has published this news story sharing details about the three of the colleges joining to launch an online …

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded $1.2 million grant to develop a Knowledge Commons in the HFJ Library

The Plan In the Learning Commons, the Library will jointly offer services with Information Technology, the Creativity Center, the Center for Teaching …

Airport Lounge Opening Reception | Apr. 30th 4:30-6:00pm

AIRPORT LOUNGE OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH 4:30pm-6:00pm The Airport Lounge is now a prototype sandbox for the Library Learning Commons. Please …

Library Learning Commons Spring Break, Part 2: Occidental College

Spring Break 2015 continued with a trip to the Academic Commons in the Occidental College Library.

Library Learning Commons Spring Break, Part 1: Colorado Springs

It’s spring break, 2015 and a small team from Hampshire flew away from the snow and mud to visit the Colket Center for Academic Excellence and the Tutt Library at Colorado College.

Hampshire receives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Library Learning Commons

“Hampshire College is using a $65,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research and develop a plan to transform Harold …

LIBRARY LEARNING COMMONS UPDATE – AIRPORT LOUNGE PILOT PROJECT

We are excited to announce that this spring the Harold F. Johnson Library will be able to try out a few key …

Picture of Harold F. Johnson Library Center

Fall has fallen! Some updates on Library Learning Commons

While we still await news from our Board of Trustees and College President about the Library Learning Commons timeline, etc., the College …

Library Learning and Community with Joan Lippincott, September 8, 3:30-5:00 pm, in Main lecture hall, FPH

Library Learning + Community w/ Joan K. Lippincott – Sept 8

Libraries can enable curricular innovation by providing content, services and technologies that serve the entire institution. In addition, libraries continue to serve as a cultural hub of the institution, reflecting the college’s culture, celebrating creativity and art, and welcoming all to interact in a marketplace of ideas.