Library Says Thank You to Graduating Student AssistantsThe staff of the library gathered today to honor fifteen graduating student assistants. Students and staff enjoyed a potluck luncheon in the library's All Night Reading Room. The Library purchased books in each student's name to be placed in the general collection, to honor them. Book plates indicating the student and their graduation year will be placed in each title, and their names will be searchable in the library catalog. A list of the books and the student in whose name they were purchased is listed below:
Danielle Abatemarco The social conquest of Earth / Edward O. Wilson
Music Library
Brett Banhazl Documentary storytelling / Sheila Curran Bernard
Reference
Kelsey Brow Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture
Circulation
Nicholas Costantino Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet / Bill McKibben
Circulation
Xiaohan Du Ai Weiwei’s blog / Ai Weiwei
Media/Music Library
Christopher Eaton On becoming a conductor / Frank L. Battisti
Music Library
Charlotte Gendron A brief history of the Spanish language / David Pharies
Circulation
Rachel Grannis The lost cellos of Lev Aronson / Frances Brent
Circulation
Joseph Harmon Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945
Music Library
Patrick Landers Overtreated / Shannon Brownlee
Media Library
Kristen Pallen Built to win / Leslie Heywood and Shari Dworkin
Interlibrary Loan
Shirley Ramos Whistler in the nightworld : short fiction from the Latin Americas
Archives
Matt Therkelsen Film noir / Jennifer Fay and Justus Nieland
Media Library
Keomanisod Xiong South Asian feminisms
Digital Imaging
Fertaa Yieleh-Chireh The Arab awakening
Circulation
posted 5-15-2012
Avoid the Late Notices!
All books are due Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
Undergrads, faculty, staff, and administrators can renew their books by logging into their account in ALEX.
This does not apply to interlibrary loan materials.
ILLs are nonrenewable and must be returned.
Questions? Contact the Circulation Department at askcirc@hamilton.edu or 859-4479.
posted 4-30-2012
What is it? It’s a prototype group study pod . . . a discussion starter . . . something you can interact with as you think about the kind of space you might want for studying with others in the library. We’ll worry about what materials the pods are made of later. For now, we need your help to get the size, configuration, and possible locations right.
What you can do . . .Tell us what you think. There is paper on the shelves in front of the pod for your comments.
What we will do . . .We’ll use your suggestions to:
Take a look at other study spaces on our blog for ideas!
posted 4/6/12
Now you have another way to contact the Reference Librarians in Burke Library. During the regular reference hours, you can text a librarian at 315-565-6141. Other ways to communicate with the librarians include calling 315-859-4735, emailing askref@hamilton.edu, stopping by in person, and using the Meebo chat featured on our subject and course guides.
posted 2-24-12
Where Do You Like to Study?What’s your ideal study space? The library's student advisory group would like to know. We are gathering information to design two prototype study spaces in the library this spring. First though, we need your help. Take our short student survey on where you like to study on campus. You may even win a $25 gift card. Then visit our study spaces blog to see what’s been done at other colleges and share your ideas on what would make our library a better place to study.
We’ll be sharing what we learn on the blog and working to create a couple sample study spaces in the library by the time everyone returns from spring break. Questions? Contact Reid Larson at rslarson@hamilton.edu.
Posted 2-6-2012
Movie Screening: A North Woods Elegy
Tuesday, February 7 at 7pm
Kirner-Johnson Auditorium
Filmmaker Derek Taylor will screen his movie "A North Woods Elegy: Incident at Big Moose Lake" about the Chester Gillette and Grace Brown murder case. Scholars Craig Brandon and Jack Sherman will also be present to answer questions about the Gillette case.
This case was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy.
The Hamilton College Library Special Collections holds many important documents relating to the case, including Gillette's prison diary, and Grace Brown's love letters to Gillette. Documents from the collection will be brought to the screening.
posted 2-1-2012
New Hill Card Means New Library ID Numbers
A new HILL Card is being distributed to all underclass students. Current employees and seniors will not receive the new card unless requested. The new cards do not have the barcode on the back that previously acted as the library ID number. Because of this, we have had to make some adjustments to our systems.
Your library ID will now be the seven digit Hamilton ID number on the front of your Hill Card. This number will allow you to place interlibrary loan requests, renew your library materials, and access library databases and journals from off campus. You will no longer use the barcode number.
Questions? Please contact the Circulation Department at askcirc@hamilton.edu or 315-859-4479.
posted 1-11-12
Time Capsules on DisplaySeveral of the classes in the late 19th century buried time capsules under their class stones during their senior years. These were to be dug up and opened at their 50th reunions, but many seem to have been lost or forgotten by that time. The boxes from 1865, 1871, 1873, 1877-79, and 1884-87, were dug up around 1925 when Elihu Root, who was chairman of Buildings and Grounds, had the class stones moved.
Currently on display in Burke Library are the contents from the opened time capsules. Items include a green champagne bottle from 1881, issues of the Utica Daily Press from 1885, college pamphlets and other publications such as yearbooks and college catalogues. Most interesting are the contents of the time capsule from 1884. This small box included a slightly singed copy of an algebra book, and coffin hardware. A letter written by Reuben Leslie Maynard ’84 in 1934 explains that the class of 1885 was attempting to carry out the traditional “Burning of the Algebra,” where copies of the current algebra book were cremated in a coffin on a funeral pyre, when the pyre was raided by the class of 1884.
The college is currently looking for donations to be placed in a time capsule commemorating the 200th anniversary of the college. Items already earmarked are on display in the library as well.
Please stop by and see this interesting part of Hamilton’s history.
For more information on the time capsules and Hamilton College, please contact Kathy Collett in the college archives: askarch@hamilton.edu or 315-859-4471. The archives are open Monday through Friday mornings, and by appointment.
posted 1-11-12
Hands On Hamilton HistoryEach month, Hands on Hamilton History will feature a small group of documents, artifacts, and visual materials relating to a specific period in the history of Hamilton College.
A brief discussion of these materials will happen in the Patricia Pogue Couper Research Room in the Emerson Rare Book Room, third floor Burke Library, at 10 AM and 2 PM on the fourth Thursday of each month.
Visitors will be allowed to get up close to the artifacts and even handle some of them. The next day these items will be installed in the display cases on the first floor of Burke Library.
Fall 2011 Schedule
September 22: Samuel Kirkland
October 20: Von Steuben, Kirkland, and the Revolutionary War;Hamilton-Oneida Academy
November 17: Founding of Hamilton College
December 15: Life and Education in the Early Decades of Hamilton College
Posted 9-15-11
Reference Librarians are available in Burke Library to help you with all aspects of using the library, from how to find a call number to how to start work on a research paper. Stop by the IC Desk in Burke to talk to us in person, call us at 859-4735, email us at askref@hamilton.edu, or text us at askref_hamilton using Meebo mobile. Our hours are listed on the library's Ask a Librarian page.
Posted 8-26-2010
The third floor of Burke Library is designated as Quiet Study Space. Please turn your cell phone off or to vibrate, and keep conversations to a minimum. There are study carrels around the perimeter of the floor, with a small cluster of computers in the northwest corner by the HelpDesk, and several enclosed carrels on the south behind the Rare Book Room. Thank you for your cooperation!
Posted 2-10-2011
Use RefWorks to create, organize, and store bibliographic references. References can be im-ported from ALEX (the library catalog) and most other databases, or entered manually one-by-one. The references can be formatted for bibliographies in many style formats (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, etc.).
Please contact a reference librarian for assistance using RefWorks.
Posted 10-15-2010
Fall 2011 Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture
Please join us on Thursday, October 6 at 4:10pm in the Bradford Auditorium (Kirner Johnson 125) for the Fall 2011 Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture “From Schopenhauer to Schwarzenegger: The Impact of Copyright on Art and Scholarship in the Digital Age.” Kevin Smith ’81, Scholarly Communications Officer at Perkins Library, Duke University, will examine the problems and possibilities for copyright in a digital age over three broad areas - teaching, scholarship and the creative arts.
The Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture was established in 2005 to honor Hamilton alumnus Richard "Dick" Couper '44, who died in January 2006. This yearly lecture recognizes Couper's commitment and contributions to the college and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Each year a distinguished speaker is invited to present on a library-related topic.
Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Hamilton College Library, and the Dean of Faculty.
posted 9-28-11
