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.
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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!
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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.
Special Collections, MiddPoints
Airwaves to Archives: Using ChatGPT to make WRMC recordings more accessible online
| by Kaitlin Buerge
Using AI tools like ChatGPT and Whisper, Middlebury Libraries transcribed and summarized 423 historic WRMC radio recordings now available at the Internet Archive. Then we brought those summaries into ArchivesSpace, improving searchability and connecting each program directly to its audio and transcript online.
Don't get "spooked" by midterms!
Midterms are coming, but have no fear!
Ask a librarian for help choosing a research topic, finding resources, writing a citation, and more.
Special Collections, MiddPoints
Artificial Intelligence + Internet Archive, or AI and IA: New Technology for Old Stuff
| by Patrick Wallace
On the 10th anniversary of Middlebury’s first upload to the Internet Archive, we’re celebrating 52,000+ items in IA and new AI integrations for access.
Staff Picks: "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness
Find out what the Davis Family Library is reading! Staff Picks features recommendations from people working in Davis. In this post, Kimberly Marshall, Library/Circulation Supervisor, features “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness.
We are reviewing items in our collections and other content that is available for free to Middlebury students, faculty and staff.
Celebrate the freedom to read during Banned Book Week: October 5 – October 11
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
— Haruki Murikami