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 …
Borrow a Laptop Desk Here!
Study a little more comfortably during our Late Study Hours, borrow one of these laptop desks at the circulation desk! You may …
Literary Hybrid/Book Arts Workshop
The Literary Hybrid/Book Arts Workshop @ Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop Kenyon College, Gambier, OH Saturday, June 15 – Saturday, June 22, 2013 …
Submit Your Div III To The Library!
So now that you’ve finished your Div III, rung the bell and are figuring out where life will take you next, the …
Late Night Library Hours Begin TODAY!
Starting on Sunday, April 21, the library is open until 4:00 a.m. Sunday-Thursday nights. Stay tuned for Study Breaks coming next week!
New resource to try from the Society of Architectural Historians
We have a trial of Archipedia set up — try it before May 11 and let me know your thoughts. This site …
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Launches Today
April 18, 2013 (Reposted from the DPLA Listserve) The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched a beta of its discovery portal …
Instructions for Adding Value to Your Printing Account & How to Give It Away to Friends!
With final papers due the hot question in the library this week has been “How do I add more value to my …