College Libraries

The Helpdesk is coming to McCardell Bicentennial Hall’s “Great Hall”! We are offering all the services of the Call Center and Walk-in Helpdesk… on your end of campus. Come by with your laptop, or ask for a staff member or student consultant to swing by your office in MBH to help with a desktop question. We’ll be there to help from 10:00 AM – Noon on March 30th, April 6th & 27th, and May 11th. Stop by and see us! Watch for more dates and locations as we roll out our Mobile “Popup” Helpdesk

Are you working on a large writing project? Scrivener can help! Scrivener is a software program that breaks down your writing into manageable “chunks,” and brings your research and writing together into a single conceptual workspace. You will learn how to create a new writing project in Scrivener, import existing work, and how to outline, research, and write with Scrivener’s unique conceptual features. For more information on Scrivener, visit go.middlebury.edu/scrivener.

The shaping of our data shapes modern digital humanities scholarship. This lecture will explore this proposition in detail, looking at the ways in which tools, working practices, research questions, and disciplinary identity intersect with questions of data modeling. As the field matures, we possess increasingly sophisticated models for expressing time, space, cultural formations, language structures, visual forms. What level of knowledge and control over models do we need to engage productively and responsibly as scholars in the digital age?

Open discussion around computer security topics such as phishing, internet safety, and general safe computing.

Special Collections, Davis Family Library 101 To mark Founder’s Day, the original Middlebury College Charter signed by the Governor of Vermont on November 1st, 1800 will be on view in Special Collections on Nov. 2nd. Stop by and see it and other documents from the College Archives that date from the time of our founding.