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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.

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!

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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.