Experience the Library in Your Language

Leave a reply

Finding your way around the library takes time, and we know that during summer language schools, time is scarce!  That’s why we’ve created guides to the library for every summer language, from Spanish, to Hebrew to Experience the library in your languageChinese and more. Browse a complete list of guides here.

Each guide is curated by a Middlebury librarian to help you find what you need quickly.  We provide links to lists of in-language books, search tips, and answers to questions that have been asked by other students.

Most importantly,  each guide includes contact information for a librarian who can help. Use the “Schedule Appointment” button to sign up for a one-on-one research consultation with your librarian. Talk with us about what you’re working on — and save yourself some time!

Find your research guide at go.middlebury.edu/guides.

Weekly Web Updates – July 22, 2019

Leave a reply

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

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 – July 15, 2019

Leave a reply

Updates

  • Drupal config_perms 8.x-1.2
  • Drupal media 7.x-2.22
  • WordPress duplicate-post plugin 3.2.3
  • WordPress wysija-newsletters plugin 2.12
  • WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.20.5
  • WordPress accelerate theme 1.4.2

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Fixed an issue with caching on the Library site where the desired cache lifetime of the Library Hours banner and RSS feed were not bubbled up to the page level and inconsistently cleared. The cache lifetime of a page with an RSS feed is now one hour. Other pages with the Library Hours will have their cache expire at midnight.
  • Updated the dates on the Language Schools inquiry form to properly show upcoming years.
  • Removed all use of the PECL_HTTP library, allowing us to remove a custom external package repository from our system configuration.

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.

Interlibrary Loan Service changes

Leave a reply

Dear Library Patrons:
You may have noticed that turnaround times to complete ILL requests
have of late at times been slightly longer than in the past.  As a
result of workforce planning, we have reduced the number of staff
working in this department by .5 FTE. We will of course continue to
fill requests as quickly as we can, but do bear this in mind when
submitting requests with hard deadlines. Please note the following as
well:

* ILL requests submitted with incomplete or erroneous bibliographic
information may be returned to you as unfulfilled and/or in need of
additional information

* ILL staff may not be able to devote quite as much time as in the
past to filling requests for particularly rare or hard-to-acquire
items

You should continue to use our online form
(http://go.middlebury.edu/illiad) to submit ILL requests and as noted
above, provide as much and as accurate bibliographic information as
possible.  If you need to speak to a member of our dedicated ILL
staff, you can stop by the Davis Family Library circulation desk
during the following hours:

Monday – Thursday: 9am-5pm
Friday: 9am-3pm

We apologize for any inconvenience these changes may cause. If you have questions or comments about these changes, please feel free to contact:

Michael Roy, Dean of Libraries (mdroy@middlebury.edu)

Terry Simpkins, Director, Access and Discovery Services (tsimpkin@middlebury.edu)

Weekly Web Updates – July 8, 2019

Leave a reply

Updates

  • Drupal 8.7.4
  • Drupal entity_browser 8.x-2.2
  • Drupal entity_embed 8.x-1.0
  • Drupal eva 8.x-2.0-rc3
  • Drupal redirect 8.x-1.4
  • MediaWiki 1.31.3
  • WordPress foobox-image-lightbox plugin 2.7.3
  • WordPress foogallery plugin 1.7.8
  • WordPress instagram-feed plugin 1.12.1
  • WordPress jetpack plugin 7.5.2
  • WordPress post-type-switcher plugin 3.2.0
  • WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.20.4
  • WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.9.4
  • WordPress hueman theme 3.4.25

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Added the RSS Feed component to all of the new Drupal 8 sites and added a field to the component allowing you to link back to the source of the feed.
  • Fixed a conflict between the WordPress OpenStreetMap and multilingual plugins that prevented you from saving a post.

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 – July 1, 2019

Leave a reply

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • We switched the authentication system for the Middlebury Institute site to the same one used by our other Drupal 8 sites.
  • The header menu links in Drupal 8 will now change appearance when you are in the section of the site corresponding to the link.

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 – June 24, 2019

Leave a reply

Updates

  • Drupal role_delegation 8.x-1.0
  • WordPress 5.2.2
  • WordPress auto-post-thumbnail plugin 3.4.2
  • WordPress enable-media-replace plugin 3.3.1
  • WordPress jetpack plugin 7.4.1
  • WordPress subscribe2 plugin 10.30

Fixes and Tweaks

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.

Announcing the New Library Website

Leave a reply
New library website
Home page of the new library website

You’re right, things look a little different this week! We’re excited to announce the launch of our new library website. We’ve streamlined and reorganized our content, and we’re now mobile-friendly! We hope it’ll be even easier for you to find what you need, and to discover useful and inspiring resources that you didn’t even know to ask for.

Please note that the site, though live, is not quite in its final form. We’ll be making minor upgrades and revisions in the coming weeks.

Many thanks to the Library Website User Experience Team, Library Website authors, and, last but not least, our colleagues at the Office of Communications!

Now, go ahead and update your bookmarks to point to: http://go.middlebury.edu/lib . We’ll see you there!