Welcome Back! Summer Renovations in the Library
The Library is excited to welcome you back to campus with some updates to the first floor! Special thanks are due to …
University libraries of the 21st century – in pictures!
It’s Friday, so it’s a great time to spread love and beauty. The Guardian posted a gorgeous series of pictures, dedicated to …
University library as a learning and teaching hub
Claire Shaw writes about the architecture of the academic library in a piece from the Higher Education Network in The Guardian. A …
Abandoned Wal-Mart is now America’s largest single-floor library
As our own library undergoes its own (albeit much smaller) transformation, I’m awed by how much this old, abandoned Wal-Mart has changed …
Q&A: Dr. Vandana Shiva, social activist, on the importance of saving seeds
Check out this great interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya and the seed saving movement in India.
What are librarians worth?
A great infographic from MastersinEducation.org and oBizMedia on what your librarian is worth! Lots of neat facts (as you’d expect from a …
Rediscovering the 19th Century thanks to Google Books
Reposted from the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog: The Conversation: Online opinion on ideas and Higher Education How Google Rediscovered the 19th …
News: Royal Babies and the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
Since its founding in December 2010, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance has worked to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve …
What Next?
If you come and visit us at the Hampshire Library this summer you might notice that we are in the process …
What I’m Reading: If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
Michael Nielsen, author of Reinventing discovery: The new era of networked science wrote a great piece explaining, in part, the theory of …
An Interview with James Baldwin in The Art of Fiction No. 78, the Paris Review
Photographer Jerome Liebling taught students to: Go, See, Do, Be. This teaching remains at the core of Hampshire’s approach to education. In …
What I’m Reading: Jailbreaking the PDF
Peter Murray-Rust has written a series of blog posts on Jailbreaking the PDF. The goal of this initiative is to break open …
Reminder: The Library Opens at Noon Today!
Due to a planned power outage on campus the Library will be open from noon until 4:30 today. Stay cool everyone!
The Library Catalog Will Be Down 6p.m.Saturday Through 9p.m. Sunday
The Five College Catalog will be down for an upgrade from Saturday, 6p.m. through Sunday, 9p.m. During that time you may use …
Please Clear Your Library Carrel by Noon on Monday, 5/13
Attention all students who are using carrels: please return all books and remove all personal belongings and trash by noon, Monday. Any …
End of Semester Library Hours
We’re still here for you! Here are the end of semester library hours: Saturday & Sunday, 5/11 & 5/12: 10a.m. – …
Enhancing Efficiency and Fueling Economic Growth through Open Data
Today, May 09 2013, the White House issued an Executive Order outlining the rules for government data to be well managed and …
Hampshire College represented at Art Library Conference
At the end of April, I presented a poster at the Art Library Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) conference in Pasadena, CA. …
Soren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday
“Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.” This Sunday is the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s …
Hampshire alums go on to become librarians!
I just got back from the Art Library Society conference (this year in sunny Pasadena, CA) where I got to have lunch …