News & Updates

This semester, our new Universal Laser Cutter was put to creative task. Julie Suk (Class of ’18) worked along side Educational Technologist Bret Olsen to produce images that utilized the laser cutter, medium format photography, scanning, Photoshop, and Illustrator.  

After several planning meetings, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature Nhora Serrano’s exciting and ambitious course has started! The course “introduces students to the representation of virtual worlds in literature, and how these ‘dreamscapes’ have transformed our understanding and experience of the ‘real.'”

Mark Edington, director of the Amherst College Press; Oya Y. Rieger, associate university librarian for scholarly resources and preservation services at Cornell University, and Jerry Singerman, senior humanities editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press will participate in a panel discussion titled "The Landscape of Scholarly Publishing," moderated by Lisa Trivedi, professor of history at Hamilton College.  

Mark Tillson, LITS Special Collections Coordinator, has completed his certificate in conservation at the International Preservation Studies Center in Mount Carroll, Illinois.

The Fillius Jazz Archive presents a film, Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The concert documentary was filmed in Wellin Hall on September 7, 1996. This 20th anniversary screening is free and open to the public.

“I’m hoping that I can give this document to an organization that will take good care of it and allow other people to study and appreciate it.” These words, spoken by Jean Waite on an  episode of PBS’s History Detective in 2012, prompted Hamilton’s Director of Special Collections Christian Goodwillie to place a call that, three years later, led to a donation to the college’s Communal Societies collection.

We are pleased to announce that Gisella Stalloch has been appointed to the position of Metadata & Cataloging Librarian, effective July 1. Gisella has been our part-time Metadata and Cataloging Assistant since 2012, supported by the DHi grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. In the last three years she has been a member of the LITS activity committee, helping to bring our organization together socially.

Adam Wickert joined LITS on April 11 as Desktop Systems Administrator. In this position he provides technical services related to supporting desktop computer hardware and software. In this role, Adam’s focus is supporting the labs and research facilities within academic departments.

The Couper Press recently published a comprehensive collection of more than thirty Iroquois language documents from the Samuel Kirkland Papers at Hamilton College. Dating from 1768-1803, these manuscripts have been transcribed, transliterated, and translated, many for the first time. The volume includes line-by-line photographic illustrations of each letter, along with the translator's work.

A recent acquisition to our general rare books collection is what appears to be a very unassuming 66-page volume entitled Hunter’s Panoramic Guide from Niagara to Quebec by W. S. Hunter published in Montreal, 1857.

It is bound in brown cloth with gold stamped decoration. It measures only 5 inches by 7 and one half inches. However, when you open the front cover, you realize that is a pretty special book.