Experiments
I love my job. Love. It. There are a myriad of reasons for this, but central among them is the responsibility to build our library’s collections for the School of Critical Social Inquiry. While my...
View ArticleScheduling Hack
My office door. It occurred to me a month ago that I send too many emails back and forth with students and faculty to set up meetings. At Hampshire, students and faculty/ staff do not all share the...
View ArticleThey Can Teach, Too: Archivists Take Over
Where is the academic library going? Barbara Rockenbach, Director of the History and Humanities Library at Columbia University suggests that Digital Humanities is a new service model for libraries,...
View ArticleThe Fine Line between Outreach & Stalking
Last week, I posted a general wrap up from ACRL-NEC’s annual conference where my fabulous colleague Rachel Beckwith and I did a presentation on outreach and embedded librarianship. Over the next few...
View ArticleNew Presentism: Transitions as Opportunities
Welcome to part two of my series about outreach in academic libraries. Today’s topic – New Presentism. For me, the idea of new presentism means that librarians should insert themselves during moments...
View ArticleConsortial Change Agents: We’re Better Together
Along with Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts, Hampshire College is one of five colleges in the Five College Consortium in the Pioneer Valley....
View ArticleDPLA for you & me
Recently, there has been a slew of articles announcing and introducing the Digital Public Library, and its own outreach team has been tweeting out a roundup of the press coverage each week. I’ve been...
View ArticleAt Long Last, Reflections on Becoming MoHome
Archives & Special Collections, Mount Holyoke College This semester is one of those semesters where I literally cannot believe how fast time is passing. The summer and the start of the semester...
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