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Clinton, NY 13323

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Library News

 

Macintosh - EBSCO Connectivity Problems
 

The library is receiving reports of people having problems accessing library databases on Macintosh computers. If you see the following error messages, please use the attached instructions to flush the cache on your computer:

  • Server not found (Firefox)
  • Safari can't find the server (Safari)
The attached instructions will allow you to flush the cache on your computer and let you access the databases. Please keep these instructions handy, since this is likely a temporary solution to the problem, and you may need to do this again. It is recommended that you make these changes only to your personal computer; staff from the library and ITS are working to resolve the problem on campus computers. For assistance with these instructions, please call the ITS Help Desk at x 4181 or the Information Commons at x 4735.

Instructions for flushing the cache on Macintosh computers

Posted 9-29-2008

Past News

Chronicle Now Available Campus-Wide
 

Campus-wide access is now available to the Chronicle of Higher Education through the library. For more information the Chronicle and other new databases, visit our database news page.

Posted 9-17-2008

EBSCOhost 2.0 Released
 

Based on extensive user testing EBSCOhost has a clean, new look and feel, and many new features.

Watch the Flash Demo

Posted 8-1-2008

JSTOR Launches a New Platform
 

JSTOR has a new look. A document describing features of the new platform is included in the JSTOR Sandbox (sandbox.jstor.org). The Sandbox also has links to tutorials and training materials focused on the new JSTOR interface.

Posted 3-7-2008

Couper Press Publishes Chester Gillette Diary
 

Hamilton's Couper Press has published for the first time the prison diary and letters of Chester Gillette, whose 1906 conviction for murdering his lover Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks received national attention. The murder and trial has inspired a number of books and dramatizations, most notably Theodore Dreiser's classic novel, An American Tragedy, and the 1951 movie, A Place in the Sun.

Gillette's diary was written between 1907 and 1908 while he was in Auburn prison, awaiting his execution. Hamilton College's Burke Library received the donation of the diary from his grandniece, Marylynn Murray, in a ceremony on March 6, 2007. The new publication may be purchased for $25 plus shipping by contacting April Caprak at (315) 859-4475.

Posted 12-21-2007

Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Presents Shaker Expert
 

"Sex, Celibacy, and Gender Roles among the Shakers," will be presented on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. in Hamilton's Kennedy Science Auditorium in the Science Center by Glendyne Wergland, this year's Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture speaker. The event is free and open to the public. Wergland's most recent book, Visiting the Shakers: 1778-1849, was recently published by Hamilton's Couper Press.

 

Posted 10-21-2007

Library Adds New Electronic Resources
 

The library has added a number of online databases to our collection since the end of the summer. For more information, connect to our Database News page.

 

Posted 9-14-2007