What is a primary source? What makes it different from a secondary source? How do I know when I’ve found one, and where should I look for them? Answers to all… or, most… okay, at least some of your questions about primary and secondary sources can be found in our new video!
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New Video: On Finding a Book in the Library
How do call numbers work? How is the library arranged? How do I find anything in all these shelves? We answer these questions and more in the library’s new video, On Finding a Book in the Library.
Reading for Anti-Racism
The Middlebury College Libraries have built an Anti-Racism Reading Guide to help everyone in the Middlebury community connect with books and other resources to support anti-racism efforts and self-education. In this guide you’ll find works encompassing a wide array of perspectives, and covering foundational concepts, lived experiences, and artistic expressions.
The guide also includes all of the works covered in our ongoing Staff Picks reviews of titles related to anti-racism. Most recently Kay Cyr, Interlibrary Loan Associate at Davis Family Library, reviewed Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Anti-Racist.
All titles included in this reading guide are available through the Middlebury College Libraries. For help connecting to these or any other library resources, don’t hesitate to reach out to your Middlebury librarians via go/AskUs/.
Different Worlds display at Davis Family Library
For J-term, the Davis Family Library is hosting a display of science fiction, fantasy, and other works of speculative fiction by authors from diverse cultural backgrounds. If you’re looking for something a bit less elf-y to help you while away the rest of January, we’ve got you covered.
Read more about the development of this display on the Middlebury College Libraries blog.
New Video Tutorial for 2019: Citation For People Who Hate Citation!
Middlebury Libraries is happy to unveil our newest video tutorial for 2019: Citation For People Who Hate Citation. This is a big-picture look at citation: why we do it, what it’s for, and how to make it an easier, stress-free process. Big thanks to Middlebury students Emma Román ’22 and Kayla Moore ’22 for their participation! You can watch the video here, or find it at go/CitationForPeople/.
New video tutorial from the Library!
Top Tips for Starting Your Research
Our newest video tutorial offers students some helpful tips for those moments when they feel stuck in their research, or are just not sure what to do next. There’s no need to struggle in silence! Middlebury College Librarians are here to help with all research problems.
Refer students easily with the go link go/TopTips/, or see all of our current video tutorials at go/videotutorials/.
2018 Clifford Symposium Library Display
The 2018 Clifford Symposium starts today! Come to Davis Family Library to see our display of related works, including titles noted in The Origin of Others and other works by Toni Morrison.
Also find a multimedia presentation of original audio of Toni Morrison reading from her (then still unpublished) novel Song of Solomon, while teaching at the Breadloaf School of English in 1977. Thanks to Special Collections for providing this recording and related photographs!
Fall Term Middlebury Write-In!
It was a hit last spring, and so we’re doing it again: on Wednesday, December 7, the CTLR, the Writing Center, and the Library are hosting the second Middlebury Write-In! Students can attend at either the Davis Family Library or the Anderson Freeman Resource Center to find a productive, social, and supportive environment designed to help them focus on their writing. There will be food, prizes, and writing and research help on hand to make end-of-term writing less stressful and more fun. The Write-In begins at 8 pm and lasts until 11pm, but students are welcome to come any time!
What: Middlebury Write-In!
When: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 8-11 PM
Where: the Davis Family Library and the Anderson Freeman Resource Center