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 …
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!
Book Arts Exhibition at the Library
The Harold F. Johnson Library is exhibiting selections from Hampshire College’s first-ever Book Arts course from Spring, 1999. This exhibition will be …
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 …
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 …
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. …
“This Book is Owned By Its Reader”: MR Nomads
Last Friday Jim Hicks, the editor of the Massachusetts Review, stopped by the library and dropped off 13 copies of the MR …
Read Gretchen Henderson’s article – a shortened version of her talk at Hampshire!
A shortened version of Gretchen’s keynote talk at Hampshire College last fall is now published in the Journal of Artists Books. …
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 …
Writers Reading Event a huge success!
If you missed it, we had a great audience yesterday for our Writers Reading event. Talya Kingston, Djola Branner, Will MacAdams, and …
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 …