News & Updates

February 23
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Burke Library

Mark Edington, Director of Amherst College Press, will join us to discuss the recently launched Lever Press. The new publishing venture is supported by Hamilton and nearly forty other member libraries from small, liberal arts colleges like ours who have committed to creating and funding a new, peer-reviewed, open access, digital-first pathway for scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Although we are in a new year, you may find yourself receiving more of the same phishing emails. How can you tell if an email message is real or fake?

Hamilton College recently joined with forty other small liberal arts colleges in supporting the launch of the Lever Press. The new academic press aims to acquire, develop, produce and disseminate a total of 60 new open-access titles by the end of 2020.

Lever Press will publish titles distinguished by three key features: editorial alignment with the mission and ethos of liberal arts colleges; a "platinum" approach to open access in which the pledging institutions rather than authors pay all publishing costs; and digitally native production processes designed to support innovative projects that go "beyond the book."

Please stop by and see the new exhibit located on the first floor of Burke Library, Commemorating  the 200th Anniversary of 1816.

Apple & Quill, the creative arts series sponsored by Library and Information Technology Services, announces an exciting spring line-up of readings featuring the Feminists of Color Collective, first year writers, and an Adirondack evening.

The “About Us” section of our website states our mission and goals. I encourage you to take a look at that, but what it boils down to is that LITS exists to support teaching and learning for students, faculty, and staff at Hamilton.

R U Serious? Are we becoming a community in which texting, email and social media replace face to face conversations?  I hope not.

Shay Foley joined LITS on January 4th as Director, Metadata and Digital Strategies.  In this position he provides leadership for cataloging, metadata creation, library information systems, digitization, data curation and preservation.

The Hamilton Geosciences Rock Collection was recently made available through Shared Shelf Commons, a free, open-access image library. The online collection currently features images of 653 rock samples, along with information about each rock.

The Season of Scams

The holidays are one of the busiest times of the year not only for consumers and retailers, but scammers as well. Every year from holiday e-cards and fake shipping receipts, to charity phishing emails and flash sales, cybercriminals try to take advantage of unsuspecting individuals. So why during the season of giving is there so much taking? Generally speaking, the increase in customer transactions and decrease in attention to detail makes the holidays ripe with opportunity when it comes to cybercrime.