Joseph Watson

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PRICES REDUCED at Library Book Sale!

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

On Thursday everything is half-price at the Davis Library Book Sale!  Hardcover books are just $1, paperbacks are two for $1, and audio CDs just $1.  Come get them while they last!

And… on Friday everything is free!  Yes, FREE!  From Friday morning until Monday morning anything that is left over from the sale may be taken away for free!

Library Book Sale is Open!

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

Tuesday, November 15th – Sunday, November 20th ,Davis Family Library, 110 Storrs Ave., open at 9:00 AM on first day, continuing during regular library open hours thereafter.

Davis Lbirary Book Sale 2011

Davis Library Book Sale 2011

LIBRARY BOOK SALE– The Davis Family Library at Middlebury College is offering withdrawn and duplicate copies of books, music scores, CDs and other media for sale at great prices. Choose from a wide variety of items for scholarly work or recreational reading, listening, and viewing. Proceeds from this year’s sale will be donated to the Vermont Public Library Foundation’s Emergency Relief Fund, assisting libraries that were impacted by the recent floods. (Because the low price asked for materials is in part a service to the college community, anyone purchasing items on the first day of the sale will be required to show a Middlebury College ID. Book dealers are not welcome to purchase items for resale on Tuesday, Nov. 15th). FMI, contact Joseph Watson 443-5487 jwatson@middlebury.edu

Library Book Sale

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest, Post for MiddPoints

Tuesday, November 15th  – Sunday, November 20th ,  

Davis Family Library, 110 Storrs Ave., open at 9:00 AM on first day, continuing during regular library open hours thereafter.

The Davis Family Library will offer withdrawn and duplicate copies of books, music scores, and other media for sale at great prices.   Choose from a wide variety of items for scholarly work or recreational reading, listening, and viewing.  Proceeds from this year’s sale will be donated to the Vermont Public Library Foundation’s Emergency Relief Fund, assisting libraries that were impacted by the recent floods.

(Because the low price asked for materials is in part a service to the college community, anyone purchasing items on the first day of the sale will be required to show a Middlebury College ID.  Book dealers are not welcome to purchase items for resale on Tuesday, Nov. 15th).

FMI, contact Joseph Watson 443-5487 jwatson@middlebury.edu

AND!!!  Look for a small preview sale of antique/collectable/like new/especially nice items in the Atrium starting on Wed. the 9th.

How to help LIS preserve your library collections.

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest, Post for MiddPoints

Please take a moment (well, one minute and forty five seconds to be exact) to watch this short video that explains how you can help preserve the library’s collection.  Thank you!!

Click here!

 

Salvage of water damaged books, files, and photos.

Categories: Middlebury Community Interest

Some folks may have experienced some water damage from Irene.  Here’s a link to the NEDCC’s technical leaflet on how to recover damaged books and files.

http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/06SalvageWetBooks.php

and another about photographs.

http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/07SalvageWetPhotos.php

 

 

Update: collection rearrangement in Davis Family Library

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

The book collections on the Main and Lower Levels of Davis Family Library have been rearranged in order to create room for the Music Library collections that will be moving later this month.  Updated paper copies of the building guide are available at the Circulation and Info Desks, and you may see updated plans online at go/davismap

New compact shelving was installed in the SE corner of the lower level, and all of the books in the “stacks” (aka general collection shelves) were shifted toward Z.   Therefor, if you’re used to finding your favorite PQ books in a specific spot, to find them now, keep following the alphabet toward Z until you run into them.

The Vermont Collection was moved to the middle of the lower level, as were the Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese Collections.   The VHS collection was moved to open shelves in the center of the Main Lvl just east of the Government Documents.


Upcoming Projects in Davis Library: shifting collections and installing more shelves.

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

It was announced last fall that the Music Library will be moving from the Mahaney Center for the Arts into Davis Family Library as soon as the semester ends in May. (For more details see http://sites.middlebury.edu/acrosscampus/2010/11/08/music-library-to-davis ) There’s a lot of preparation already under way and continuing in the coming weeks, and some of it may be noticeable to those working and studying in Davis Family Library. More

A New Bookplate for the Davis Family Library

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

DavisFamilyLibraryBookplate 2010
To coincide with the naming of the Davis Family Library and to honor Jim Davis and his family, the Office of College Advancement commissioned a new bookplate for the library.   Bookplates have been used for centuries to indicate ownership of a book.  The Latin phrase “ex libris” or “book of” is traditionally used, and the design of a bookplate often conveys information about the owner of a book, whether that owner is an individual or an institution.  The Middlebury College Library has had a variety of bookplates over the years and each branch library has its own bookplate. More