College Libraries

Stop by and learn more about ALL the services we offer! Meet staff from Information Technology Services, Center for Teaching, Learning & Research, the Office of Digital Learning & Inquiry, and the Library. Tour the animation lab, watch a virtual reality demonstration, visit the library’s special collections. Enjoy cider & cookies while you learn more about technology training classes, copyright & fair use, equipment available for loan and so much more! Have a question about writing? technology? research? copyright? We have the answers (and candy) all in one building!

5041012 97 MBH 116 18 Computer Classroom F Contact Media Services if VCR is needed.

In celebration of National Poetry Month we are turning the Library into an old-school letterpress printing shop. Join us, along with John Vincent from A Revolutionary Press, to print a limited-edition broadside with handset type on a vintage printing press.

“Free, fair, and Alive: The Commons and the Post-Capitalist Future”

Globalism and capitalism as we know it are failing us — and the evidence is all around us in the destruction of our environment, and the privatization of our shared wealth. What can we do to shift the story line, and re-write our future? What alternatives do we have at hand?

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.

Special Collections, LIB101 Davis Family Library

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.

Join Special Collections staff for a pop-up bookmaking workshop in honor of current library exhibits celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Special Collections holds collections of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, films, and other unique materials that tell the Middlebury story and the stories of our collective past.

EVENT LOCATION: Special Collections, Davis Family Library, Lower Level

This cryptoparty is the first of a series that focuses on the FAANG companies. Participants will focus on Facebook, and actively take steps to protect their privacy while learning about how our data is collected and shared. We ask that all attendees bring their own laptop so that they can take the benefits of these activities with them.

About FAANG Companies (De-FAANGing Facebook https://dlinq.middcreate.net/digital-literacy/de-faanging-facebook/)

Make an up-cycled paper rose for your best gal, guy, prof… or self! We’ll be using pages from discarded books.

Location:  Special Collections, Davis LIB101 

Patrick Wallace (Digital Projects & Archives Librarian) will introduce a selection of current techniques used to harvest web and social media content for preservation and research. Rather than a user tutorial or deep dive into technical arcana, the discussion will draw on examples from Special Collections’ digital projects to illustrate how popular websites and mobile applications—such as Twitter and Facebook—confound historical memory through legal and technical means.