Monday, November 2, 9am-10am
Tune-in to hear a half-century of rock, folk, reggae, and punk music, inspired by biblical stories.
With commentary, of course.
On September 1st, Mikaela Taylor ’15, will join the Library in Special Collections & Archives as our inaugural Postgraduate Fellow for Special Collections and Archives.
Mikaela studied Comparative Literature at Middlebury, worked as a Digital Liberal 
Arts intern this summer, and studied Italian language and culture in Rome and Siena, Italy. She hails from Houston, Texas.
Mikaela will have an office in Special Collections and a nomadic presence in the Library and across the campus as she helps us increase the impact of special collections through outreach to academic departments and students, event planning, and exhibitions. Welcome Mikaela!
Image credit: Title page from the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri with a portrait of Dante, Venice, 1564. Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury College.
Good Things to Eat: Recipes and Communities from 1827 to the Present
Join Emily Bogin ’16, guest curator, for an exhibition talk Friday August 1, 2014, in the Library atrium. The talk will begin shortly after 11:00am.
Visit the Special Collections & Archives blog to learn more.
How will you observe the life and death of Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862), the American writer and naturalist?
Thoreau, August 1861 © Wikimedia Common
By taking a quiet walk?
By turning off your cell phone? Your computer?
By having a deep conversation with a friend, colleague, or family member?
By getting out a sheet of paper and writing a letter? (Yes! By hand.)
By randomly squeezing a Thoreau quote into a conversation today?
Or, by visiting Special Collections in the Davis Library 101 to visit our display of Thoreau artifacts: his inkwell, bricks and timbers from his cabin at Walden Pond, books from his cabin library, and more.
What do experimental physics and Middlebury Special Collections have in common?
The Boston Globe featured the work of experimental physicist Carl Haber, the Northeast Document Conservation Center, and Middlebury College Special Collections as well as Harvard University and the Woody Guthrie Archives in a recent article, “Technology saves echoes of past from silence.” Our newly scanned sound files will start arriving this summer, Stay tuned!
In addition to the recently announced Annual Reviews of Economics and Chinese Newspaper Archive, more new library collections are rolling in:
Research Databases
Encyclopedias
Journals, etc.
Nope, nothing new in this photo. Starr Library, 1945
Due to the snowstorm, the opening has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 18, at 4pm in the Davis Family Library Atrium. Please stop by the 2nd floor display cases to view our current exhibition, Space & Place in the Graphic Novel:
