College Libraries

Where:  Special Collections, 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. Stop by and see it and other documents from the College Archives that date from the time of our founding.

Middlebury is just beginning to embrace its complexity as a source of strength and as a competitive advantage. Despite the possibilities, we face difficulties with the multi-dimensional ways we must work together across the institution. “Remote Work and Distance Collaboration” is a 2-hour, hybrid community-initiated conversation that will be held synchronously in Middlebury and Monterey, with live participation from around the web. We’ll explore both ideological and technological solutions to the challenges we face when working at a distance.

Jamie McCallum (SOAN) will screen his short film “The Real Work,” collaboratively produced with students and alumni during his Digital Liberal Arts (DLA) fellowship. He will then discuss the challenges of conveying sociological ideas through film and the tension between creating a documentary and constructing a scripted narrative through which those sociological ideas emerge. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP at go/DLAscenes.

Send your sweetie a vintage Valentine or create your very own with photographs from the archives! Whether you’re romantic, historic, crafty, or just want an Otter Creek Bakery cookie, there’s enough love to go around.

Sponsored by Special Collections & Archives

Join us for an informal discussion about digital literacies with Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California. He will lead us in a conversation about how high school graduates are arriving for college with transformed literacies fostered in both formal and informal educational experiences, and consider how a liberal education might best address our current and future students.
Lunch will be provided.

Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America New large-scale digital collections such as the Digital Public Library of America bring together millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums, and can form the basis for new kinds of research. Understanding how these collections are assembled, and how their data is structured and made available, is essential for envisioning such new uses and the scholarship that might now be possible.

Russian experts lecture series broadcast live from MIIS at Monterey. Russian and US relations. In Russian.

Russian experts lecture series broadcast live from MIIS at Monterey. Russian and US relations. In Russian.

By Any Media Necessary: The New Activism of American Youth In a preview of his forthcoming book, Henry Jenkins shares some core observations about the ways that young activists are learning to tap the affordances of new media platforms and participatory culture practices in order to recruit and mobilize others of their generation. Drawing examples from Occupy, the DREAMer movement, #Blacklivesmatter, Invisible Children, and the Harry Potter Alliance, among other groups, this talk will ask some core questions about what democracy looks like in the 21st century.