The Middlebury Blog Network » Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs Selected Posts from the Midd Blogosphere Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 10 days + 46 writers = 1 literary whirlwind http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddMag/~3/_Ll50E4tdow/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddMag/~3/_Ll50E4tdow/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:22:21 +0000 Middlebury Magazine http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=5196 Continue reading →]]> Wednesday, August 10, marks the start of the annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, which takes place on Middlebury’s mountain campus in Ripton. In addition to bringing together established icons, young hopefuls and publishing professionals, the event creates a literary feast for the local public. With daily lectures and multiple readings, there’s plenty to choose from.

Early in the session, Richard Bausch mixes angst with humor in his lecture titled “How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons,” and David Shields surmises that “All Great Books Wind Up with the Writer Getting His/Her Teeth Bashed In.” Despite the intended wit, these accomplished authors have plenty of wisdom to share.

Later in the week, James Geary discusses “Juggling Aphorisms with Mixing Metaphor,” Peter Ho Davies advises “Only Collect: Some Thoughts on the Short Story Collection,” and Marianne Boruch explores “The End Inside It: A Consideration of the Bewildering Nature of Closure.”

As for readings, there are at least four or five each day and evening. These are unbelievable opportunities to see some of the best of today’s established and emerging writers. All events take place in the Little Theatre on the Bread Loaf campus. Click the image at left to view the enlarged schedule at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference website.



]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/08/09/10-days-46-writers-1-literary-whirlwind/feed/ 0 New Special Collections Summer Hours http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/OfCVpj7UYmA/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/OfCVpj7UYmA/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 21:03:51 +0000 Andrew Wentink http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=25727 Continue reading → Continue reading →]]> A change in Summer Hours for Special Collections on the Lower Level  of the Davis Family Library was approved by the LIS Area Directors at their recent meeting. The following hours will be in effect immediately:

Tuesday, May 31-Thursday, June 2      By Appointment Only

Friday, June 3                                           Open 1-5 p.m.  for Reunion Weekend

Saturday, June 4                                      Open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. for Reunion Weekend

June 5-19                                                  CLOSED

Monday, June 20-Friday, August19     By Appointment Only

Monday, August 22-Friday, September 2    CLOSED

CLOSED WEEKENDS DURING THE SUMMER

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/05/30/new-special-collections-summer-hours/feed/ 0 Are you reading this post via a feed reader? If so, read on… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/29jGhDQgsJQ/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/29jGhDQgsJQ/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 14:27:44 +0000 Barbara Merz http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=25705 Continue reading → Continue reading →]]> On Tuesday May 31st we’re going to change the categories on this blog, so if by any chance you’re using a feed of a specific category, that’s going to break. We suggest subscribing to the whole blog for maximum enjoyment! If you’re not a LIS staff member & would like to filter out the more staff related posts, you can subscribe to the new “Middlebury Community Interest” category after May 31st. The other categories will be “LIS Staff Interest”, and “Post for MiddPoints” which will cause the post to be added to the MiddPoints blog too. All the old categories except “The Essentials” will be converted to tags for easy searching.
The LIS Web team developed this new scheme, following recommendations that came out of the open meeting about the future of the LIS Blog (including a call for simplified categories). The AD Team reviewed and approved these changes. We welcome your comments.

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/05/25/are-you-reading-this-post-via-a-feed-reader-if-so-read-on/feed/ 0 Introducing: The Identity Management Project http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs/2010/03/05/introducing-the-identity-management-project/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs/2010/03/05/introducing-the-identity-management-project/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:03:23 +0000 Adam Franco http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=22461 Continue reading →]]> The Identity Management Project kicked off in December of 2009. The current project team (small ‘t’) is Tom Cutter, Adam Franco, Mike Lynch, Chris Norris, Carol Peddie, Mark Pyfrom, Jeff Rehbach, Mike Roy, and Marcy Smith.

The Identity Management (IDM) project seeks to organize our concept of a “person” or “identity” among our various systems (including Banner, the Active Directory, web-applications, hosted systems, and others). This project focuses on three facets of each identity:

Unique identifier:
Every identity would have a unique identifier. Currently, only people in Banner have one of its identifiers (guests and vendor-staff aren’t in Banner) and only people in AD have log-in names (alumni, parents, and others aren’t in the AD).
Unified Properties:
Each identity will have a set of properties (name, email, address, title, department, etc) that is consistent and available to all of our applications. Currently user properties may be different or unavailable depending on which source of user information is used; a person’s title is a good example of this inconsistency.
Roles:
Identities will gain zero or more “roles” that can be used to grant or deny access to our systems and services. We currently have no consistent way (in AD or web applications) of determining if a person is a current student, faculty, staff, or other role — the best we can do now is to look at membership in certain mailing lists like “All_Faculty”. With the IDM project, we will be able to access an authoritative list of the current roles for a person (visitors would have no roles) and will be able to ensure that access to services properly matches an individual’s relationship to the college.

In addition to organizing and improving the properties and roles of our current set of users (current students, faculty, staff, emeriti, vendors, spouses, and limited guests), the IDM project will also enable us to expand the number of usable (authenticate-able) accounts to include alumni, prospective students, and visitors. As well, we gain the potential to include users from other institutions via federated authentication systems such as Shibboleth.

Here is a list of a few things that will become possible with completion of the IDM project:

  • Rather than accounts being immediately deleted upon graduation, they instead would loose the “student” role and gain the “alumnus” role. These users would continue to use their same log-in credentials access alumni-only and public resources (i.e. commenting on blogs, renewing library books), but would loose access to student-only resources (i.e. course websites, JStore and other subscription library materials).
  • We will be able to grant access (individually or in groups) to many of our online systems for guests, alumni, emeriti, visitors, vendors, perspectives, and others with loose affiliations with the college.
  • Inter-institutional projects will be able to make use of any of our online systems as collaboration platforms.
  • A fan of Middlebury Hockey could create a visitor account to use for purchasing panther gear from the college book store, then come back and log in with the same account to purchase tickets from the box office, make comments on the coach’s blog, and fill out a form to sign up their kids for participation in the Winter Carnival ice show. Their name, email, mailing address, and other properties would be available to all of the systems.

Please note that some of these examples will require additional changes and development projects beyond the IDM project itself. However, all require aspects of the IDM project to be possible.

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