Category Archives: LIS Staff Interest

More issues of The Middlebury Campus digitized

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New old issues of The Middlebury Campus (1981-2008), now available via the Internet Archive!

Thanks to the efforts of Middlebury’s Digital Projects & Archives Librarian, Patrick Wallace, we are happy to announce that digitized issues of The Middlebury Campus dating from 1981 to 2008 are now available via the Internet Archive (go/ia).

These “new” issues of The Campus have been added to an ever-growing (over 3,000 items!) digital collection entitled “Middlebury College Newspapers and Magazines” available on the site. In addition to digitized copies of The Campus, the collection also includes The Undergraduate (precursor to The Campus), and Middlebury Magazine.

Visit go/ia to access digitized copies of The Campus and more!

Did you know digitized materials on the Internet Archive are full-text searchable? Simply click the bubble next to “Text contents” below the search bar. We searched for ourselves and found this mention in a Campus article from March 7, 2007:

We can’t help but agree with the author on this one.

Questions about accessing digitized materials? Email specialcollections@middlebury.edu

Weekly Web Updates – September 30, 2019

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Updates

  • Drupal views_data_export 8.x-1.0-beta3
  • WordPress jetpack plugin 7.7.2
  • WordPress redirection plugin 4.4
  • WordPress subscribe2 plugin 10.30.1
  • WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.9.9
  • WordPress responsive theme 3.18

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Added the proper search results page for use with the search form on the new Admissions site.
  • Fixed a bug which sometimes showed GO shortcut descriptions from the MIIS version of GO on codes from the Middlebury version of GO.
  • Added an SSL certification for the NER website.
  • Updated the Drupal 8 training website to have all current site features.
  • Ensured that the setting which defined the Institute site homepage is not overwritten when configuration changes are imported.

Ongoing Work

  • Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
  • Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
  • Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

Weekly Web Updates – September 9, 2019

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Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Fixed an issue with the MyEmma API that was preventing people who have dropped off of our lists in Banner from being removed from the email lists.
  • We’ve updated the global navigation on the MIIS website to streamline it and the text component can now be used on the homepage.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the icons on the GO website from loading.

Ongoing Work

  • Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
  • Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
  • Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

Weekly Web Updates – September 9, 2019

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We have moved the Study Abroad Course Information Database to Drupal 8, put it in our new design, and improved the search form, allowing you to search for terms in each of the lists.

Updates

  • Drupal viewfield 7.x-2.2
  • WordPress jetpack plugin 7.7.1
  • WordPress nextgen-gallery plugin 3.2.15
  • WordPress hueman theme 3.4.29

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Information in profiles on the Drupal 7 version of the Middlebury site is no longer cached by Drupal so it will be fetched fresh from the Directory once every five minutes.
  • Instagram links will now be shown in profile lists on the Drupal 8 site if the person has an Instagram account.

Ongoing Work

  • Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
  • Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
  • Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

Before and After Stonewall: Queer Stories Throughout American History

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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)

This fall in the Library Atrium, view Special Collections’ new exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event that sparked the movement for equal rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Curated by Suria Vanrajah ’22, the exhibit presents a timeline illustrating the increased visibility and acceptance of queer literature in America.

On view through fall, with the companion exhibit:

Middlebury College Coming Out: A Foundation for Queer Activism
Depicting Middlebury College’s LGBTQ community in the decades following the Stonewall riots.

Curated by Joseph Watson, Reid Macfarlane, ’21 and Halle Shephard, ’22.
Located on the Library Lower Level.

Questions? Contact specialcollections@middlebury.edu

Weekly Web Updates – September 9, 2019

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We have launched a new site for undergraduate admissions. This is the first part of the undergraduate college website to go live in our new Drupal 8 system.

Up until 2010, GO had a feature where we sent a notification email each night to shortcut admins to let them know if any of their GO codes weren’t working. We’ve brought this feature back, but made it a weekly instead of a nightly email. If you’d like to receive this message, you can opt-in by clicking the Notify link in the GO administration interface and setting your preference.

Updates

  • Drupal 8.7.7
  • Drupal field_collection 7.x-1.0 and 7.x-1.1
  • WordPress 5.2.3
  • WordPress badgeos plugin 3.2
  • WordPress enable-media-replace plugin 3.3.6
  • WordPress foobox-image-lightbox plugin 2.7.5
  • WordPress foogallery plugin 1.8.12
  • WordPress jetpack plugin 7.7
  • WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.9.8
  • WordPress responsive theme 3.16.4

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Added a “Chat with a librarian” widget to the Library website.
  • Added navigation menus for the subpages of the Museum Studies at Oxford program.
  • We’ve tuned our settings so that SiteImprove can now crawl the Drupal 8 sites we’re building before they’ve been launched to identify broken links and spelling errors.

Ongoing Work

  • Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
  • Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
  • Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

Welcome to the Libraries, Class of 2023!

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Welcome to the Libraries! Come and say hello to a librarian at the Research Desk. We provide expert research help, bookmarks, collectible library pins and (sometimes) candy! Find us on the main level of the Davis Family Library.

Welcome, Class of 2023!
We’re at the Research Desk Sunday-Friday. Come by and say hello!

Fall Research Desk Hours
(September 9 – December 13)

  • Sunday 2pm-5pm
  • Monday 11am-5pm and 7pm-9:30pm
  • Tuesday 11am-5pm and 7pm-9:30pm
  • Wednesday 11am-5pm and 7pm-9:30pm
  • Thursday 11am-5pm
  • Friday 11am-4pm

And online anytime at:
go.middlebury.edu/askalibrarian

No one’s at the Research Desk?
Visit us in our offices! Librarians are conveniently located right behind the Research Desk.

What about the Armstrong Library?
A librarian is available most days at the Armstrong Library in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, too. Just ask!

Weekly Web Updates – September 2, 2019

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We’ve added the world maps to our new Drupal 8 sites. You can add a map to your page and select the countries you’d like to shade in. See this new component in action on the Middlebury Institute website.

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Menus on Top Level pages of the new Admissions site will now show only their immediate child pages in the navigation.

Ongoing Work

  • Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
  • Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
  • Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.