College Libraries

Please join us for the inaugural meeting of our MiddLab Coffee Break series!  These meetings are hosted by MiddLab, with co-sponsorship from the Library, ITS, DLINQ, and the MiddData initiative.  MiddLab is a cross-campus hub for librarians, technologists, and other specialists who support digital projects, digital scholarship, and other technology-based research needs.

Please join the DLA for a talk by Danica Savonick, Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland. This talk explores the transformative impact that collaborative, multimodal, and public projects can have on students in the literature and writing classroom. Savonick begins with an unconventional genealogy of digital humanities pedagogy. While digital humanities is often understood as a response to the internet, her research explores how many contemporary engaged, public, and project-based learning methods had their roots in the feminist and antiracist social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Please join the DLA for a talk by Danica Savonick, Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland. This talk explores the transformative impact that collaborative, multimodal, and public projects can have on students in the literature and writing classroom. Savonick begins with an unconventional genealogy of digital humanities pedagogy. While digital humanities is often understood as a response to the internet, her research explores how many contemporary engaged, public, and project-based learning methods had their roots in the feminist and antiracist social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Endpapers - sheets of paper pasted onto a book’s inside covers - were first employed in the 15th century to serve practical purposes: they protected a book’s first and last pages from harm and formed a hinge, easing the strain of opening and closing the covers.

Join Director and Curator of Special Collections Rebekah Irwin and College Archivist Danielle Rougeau for an informal talk marking the end of the library’s exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s horror novel.

Photo credit: “General views on the application of galvanism to medical purposes” by Giovanni Aldini, 1819. Image courtesy of The New York Academy of Medicine Library.

“So very hideous an idea” Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
A Library Special Collections exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s monstrous novel. Located in the library atrium.

Vital Experiments: Science in 1818 curated by Nellie Pierce, ‘18, continues on the Library lower level in the Periodicals Reading Room and in Special Collections.

Ongoing exhibit through February 1.

“So very hideous an idea” Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
A Library Special Collections exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s monstrous novel. Located in the library atrium.

Vital Experiments: Science in 1818 curated by Nellie Pierce, ‘18, continues on the Library lower level in the Periodicals Reading Room and in Special Collections.

Ongoing exhibit through February 1.

“So very hideous an idea” Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
A Library Special Collections exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s monstrous novel. Located in the library atrium.

Vital Experiments: Science in 1818 curated by Nellie Pierce, ‘18, continues on the Library lower level in the Periodicals Reading Room and in Special Collections.

Ongoing exhibit through February 1.

“Before and After Stonewall: Queer Stories Throughout American History” which marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots by highlighting queer authors and literary themes, and “Middlebury College Coming Out: A Foundation for Queer Activism” an exhibit of College Archives materials celebrating Middlebury College’s LGBTQ activists.

Please join the curators of two queer history exhibits to celebrate National Coming Out Day. View “Before and After Stonewall: Queer Stories Throughout American History”, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots by highlighting queer authors and literary themes, and “Middlebury College Coming Out: A Foundation for Queer Activism”, an exhibit of College Archives materials celebrating Middlebury College’s LGBTQ activists.