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 …
NEW Zotero workshops from your Librarians!
So, you’ve read your syllabus, been to your first class, and know that there’s a BIG paper due by the end 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, …
Welcome to all transfer students!
We were so glad to welcome so many transfer students to the Hampshire College library this morning with coffee, cookies, and lots …
Hampshire College Archives Announces Exhibits Related To The Life And Work Of Barbara Mettler
The Hampshire College Archives is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibit entitled Living Dance: Selections From The Barbara Mettler Collection …
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 …
Getty makes 4600 images available to the public
At Hampshire, we get excited about all open content projects that serve to benefit our library patrons. We have added this new …
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 …
Late Night Study Break
The Hampshire College Library was able to be open extended hours during the last couple weeks of the semester, for the second …
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 …
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, …
Archives Internships Available With Democracy Now
When people think of “archives” they often think “dusty basement rooms with lots of mice and old paper documents.” Well part of …