College Libraries

Special Collections’ newest exhibit features 100 years of pop-up books from the fanciful to the functional, from science textbooks to fairy tales. The exhibit is installed in Davis Family Library on the Main Level.

Visit go/popup/ to see the books in action.

Keynote Performance: DJ Spooky Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), “Of Water and Ice,” a suite for strings and iPad inspired by climate data from Antarctica. Tickets available at the McCullough Box Office.

Richard Hopkins and Duncan Kreps ‘23 present an update to the Climate Economy Action Center’s biannual greenhouse gas inventory, and describe actions being taken (and that one can join) to reduce our county’s production of greenhouse gases.

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, and meet the new College Archivist.

Davis Family Library, Special Collections (Room 101)

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. Join Special Collections staff for a bookmaking workshop in honor of Fall Family Weekend.

Location: Davis Family Library, Room 101 (Special Collections)

The Writing Center at Middlebury College will join 75 other colleges and universities in sponsoring a Write-In. Supported by CTLR, the Writing Program and the Library, the Write-In fosters a writing community by creating a calm time and space in LIB 145 and the Harman Reading Room for students to write together. A Peer Writing Tutor and a Research Librarian will be on hand in LIB 201 to provide support. During the Write-In, students may work on academic papers, do personal writing, or brainstorm writing for fellowships, internships, and summer jobs. We’ll provide snacks and prizes.

Inspired by a humanist colleague’s approach to grading papers and discussions taking place in statistics pedagogy circles, I present my use of the GitHub web-based repository hosting service in my Introduction to Data Science course to encourage open and collaborative development of students’ coding skills and to facilitate the delivery of feedback from instructor to student. This short presentation will be followed by discussion of using digital tools for feedback in the classroom, so come with your questions. Lunch will be served, so please RSVP at go/DLAscenes. Albert Y.

Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America

Jay Parini will read from his NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1975-2015 — a book that brings together “all of the poems of the last four decades I would like to preserve,” as Parini writes in his introduction. He has read his poems only three times in over three decades at Middlebury College, and this reading marks the publication of this new collection in April. Davis Family Library, Harmon Reading Room, Lower Lever Reception to Follow

The current model of scholarly communication is broken. The costs of journals and monographs continues to outpace inflation. As university presses fail, faculty have fewer and fewer venues for their work, and their work reaches fewer readers. Open Access is a model that turns the current system on its head.