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Information Literacy and AI: Reflections & Resources from Research Librarians

March 17, 2026

As Research Librarians, we strive to provide equitable access to a diversity of sources and perspectives that meets the needs of our academic community. Through instruction, outreach, and documentation, we endeavor to empower our learners to develop lifelong skills in critical thinking and information literacy. Read more about our thoughts on AI in academic research and check out two AI Research Guides we have created.

Staff Picks, MiddPoints

Staff Picks: "Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

March 10, 2026

Find out what the Davis Family Library is reading! Staff Picks features recommendations from people working in Davis. In this post, Anna Hurd, Processing Archivist, Special Collections and Archives, features Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.

^{We are reviewing items in our collections and other content that is available for free to Middlebury students, faculty and staff.}

MiddPoints

Welcome Caro

February 23, 2026

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.

Cover of book: W.E.B. Du Bois's data portraits : visualizing Black America : the color line at the turn of the twentieth century

The data of Black History

February 20, 2026

Phrases like “data visualization” and “data driven insights” are ubiquitous in the modern context, so much so that the history of these techniques is not often well documented. As part of the library’s celebration of Black History Month, we want to highlight the visionary data portraits created by W.E.B. Du Bois for exhibition at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, France.

portraits of Shalom Goldman, Rebekah Irwin, and Michal Strier

Special Collections, MiddPoints

From Bethel to Bethlehem: How the Bible Shaped the American Map

February 11, 2026

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, MiddPoints

Staff Picks: "Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves" by Sophie Gilbert

February 9, 2026

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.}

Welcome Febs!

February 3, 2026

Welcome to the incoming class of 2029.5! We hope to see you in the library and around campus.

blue poster with yellow, orange, and red text reading "Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Celebrate Black History Month. Carter G. Woodson originally founded Negro History Week in February to honor the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two key figures in the fight for freedom and equality, a tradition that later evolved into Black History Month." with an artistic interpretation of a portrait of Carter G. Woodson

Celebrate 100 years of Black History Commemorations

February 1, 2026

The inaugural week-long observance of Black history was held in 1926, making 2026’s Black History Month theme “A Century of Black History Commemorations.”

dolphin with the phrase "so long and thanks for all the fish"

MiddPoints

Research Desk Closure

January 26, 2026

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.

Need to make a document more accessible?

January 19, 2026

SensusAccess is a web-based, self-service application that allows users to automatically convert documents into a range of alternate and accessible formats.