Hi, language lovers! Here’s the library’s best advice for finding books, articles and films for summer studies.

Find Middlebury College yearbooks, photos (like this one!), and more in the library’s digital collections.

Chat with a Middlebury librarian from your phone, tablet, or laptop! Just visit go/AskUs/

April is National Poetry Month. For our Staff Picks, Kellam Ayres, Library Reserves Coordinator and Liaison to the Bread Loaf Programs, writes about The Shared World : Poems by Vievee Francis.

^{We are reviewing items in our collections and other content that is available for free to Middlebury students, faculty and staff!}

Want to learn something new for free? Try Open Educational Resources. Here’s what you need to know to find the best ones.

Open Access Week is an international event that raises awareness of the many benefits of making research free and open for others to use. This year’s theme is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” which asks libraries and researchers around the world to consider how they will create and support platforms for sharing knowledge that are “inclusive, equitable, and truly serve the needs of a diverse global community. Asking ourselves and our partners ‘open for whom?’ will help ensure that considerations of equity become and remain central… .”

At Middlebury, we are considering “open for whom?” through two goals for the upcoming year: expanding our efforts to support campus-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; as well as identifying our role in building and sustaining the infrastructure required for digital scholarship.

Other open access efforts at Middlebury include:

• Digital Collections at Middlebury, our open-source repository that houses digitized works from our archives, along with student theses, scientific datasets, and faculty open access articles.
• The Open Access policy, adopted by faculty in 2016, grants the college a license to republish scholarly essays by faculty in our online repository.
• Lever Press, a consortial open access publisher focusing on “digital-first” online scholarly monographs. 
• An examination of digital scholarship infrastructure, supported by a Mellon grant and led by Dean of the Library Mike Roy (along with a multi-school team of library professionals), with the goal of envisioning a more modern and sustainable system that would enhance scholarly communication at colleges, universities, and research libraries. 

Finally, are you wondering where to find open access research? Here are a few places to look:

• Open Access on Project MUSE
• Open Content on JSTOR
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• LibrarySearch, Middlebury’s new discovery service (the replacement for Summon). Find Open Access materials by going to “Search Options” then “Collection” and finally “Open Access Scholarship.” LibrarySearch is still a new service and a work-in-progress, so please get in touch with a librarian with any questions!