Welcome Caro
Please help the Davis Family Library Welcome Caro Pinto. Caro will serve as the Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian. Her first day will be March 2nd.
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Special Collections, MiddPoints
From Bethel to Bethlehem: How the Bible Shaped the American Map
Tuesday February 24 4:30pm: How did biblical placenames like Bethel, Bethlehem, Canaan, and Goshen find their way to American landscapes? Join a religion scholar, a professor of modern Hebrew, and a Special Collections curator for a cross-disciplinary exploration of why early American colonists sought to mirror the geography of the Middle East on U.S. soil.
Staff Picks: "Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves" by Sophie Gilbert
Find out what the Davis Family Library is reading! Staff Picks features recommendations from people working in Davis. In this post, Mikaela Taylor, Special Collections Public Services and Outreach Specialist, features Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert.
We are reviewing items in our collections and other content that is available for free to Middlebury students, faculty and staff.
Research Desk Closure
As some of you may have seen in the Middlebury Campus article, Davis Family Library’s Research Desk closed at the end of the Fall 2025 term. The closure of the Research Desk is the end of a service model better suited to another era but not the end of Research and Data Services.
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Staff Picks: "What I ate in one year" by Stanley Tucci
Find out what the Davis Family Library is reading! Staff Picks features recommendations from people working in Davis. In this post, Sarah Lohnes Watulak, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media in DLINQ, features What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci.
We are reviewing items in our collections and other content that is available for free to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. 
Good luck on Finals! (Winter Recess Library Updates)
| by Laksamee Cave
Wishing you a delightful break! We have a few Library updates to share before the start of Winter Recess.
Adopt a pocket-pet at the library (December 2nd)
How are you relaxing during finals? Stressbusters are happening all over campus. Starting at 10am on Tuesday Dec 2nd, tiny pocket-pets will be hidden on all three floors of the Davis Family Library. Come wander the stacks and take home a cute buddy. Options will include a yellow shark, green platypus, grey manatee, orange fox, and pink/purple lizard. Locate the “chaser” pets, a silver fox and a red dragon, and bring them to the Circulation desk for a $20 Vermont Bookshop giftcard!
Special Collections, MiddPoints
ON EGGS-HIBIT: Case cracked? The Mystery of Ron Powers’ Big Bird Egg Solved!
| by Liefe Temple
An unusual egg with a dramatic backstory eggs on hard-boiled researcher-detective to crack the case!
Special Collections, MiddPoints
ON EGGS-HIBIT: Nancy Willard’s Bread Loaf Eggs
| by Liefe Temple
Nancy Willard (1936 - 2017) was an author, poet, and teacher, best known for her children’s books. During Willard’s time at Bread Loaf during the 1980s and 90s, she asked fellow faculty, attendees, and guests to sign wooden eggs. This EGGS-HIBIT is a collection of nearly three dozen hand painted and decorated eggs, themed around each signatory and their work, paired with a corresponding literary work.
New - The CSE Manual Online
| by Gretchen Kenet
Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff now have access to The CSE Manual Online, the authoritative reference for authors, editors, and publishers in all areas of the sciences.