Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s spring 2020 exhibit: Wanderlust.
Meet the artists and talk to them about their travels.
Thursday, February 27, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level, and features student art work.
If you are a faculty member, you may puzzle over the best way to explain citation and attribution to your students. It’s complicated–there are the formats and styles of said citations in MLA, APA, ACS, Chicago, and more, and each with its own idiosyncratic management of periods, commas, and italics. There are the purpose and function of attribution. And, then there are the ethical and legal dimensions of attribution, which range from giving credit where credit is due to copyright and fair use.
Students must wonder about the arcane and seemingly infinite conventions for documenting information and for making their contributions to scholarly knowledge. We know that many students worry about accusations of plagiarism, their anxiety fueled by their uncertainty about their professors’ expectations, how attribution and citation work in an academic context, and how to find their own voices in the process of synthesizing ‘authoritative’ ones through their writing.
This panel will explore the role of attribution in student writing from a variety of perspectives: is there pedagogical value in asking students to adhere to disciplinary conventions for documentation . . . or is it a technical afterthought? What is the nature of our institutional messaging to students about ‘citation,’ ‘academic honesty,’ and ‘plagiarism’? What definitions and structures of expertise and authority do we privilege in our approaches to the role of attribution in student work, and how do these definitions and structures contribute to student learning and to students seeing themselves as experts? How can we use a topic like bibliographic citation and attribution to show students the importance of membership in a community (or communities) of practice?
Panelists
Moderator
Erin Valentino, Associate Librarian for Research, Instruction, and Outreach
The panel will take place on Friday, February 21, 8:45-10:00 a.m. in Nixon Lounge, H-L Library. COFFEE and a light continental breakfast will be served.
Questions? Please contact Erin Valentino, evalenti@bowdoin.edu.
The Library provides access to a fabulous selection of online primary and secondary resources for research on African American history– take a look!
Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s fall 2019 exhibit: Perceptions of Beauty.
Thursday, October 24, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level, and features student art work.
Sunday, April 7 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 10 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Hatch 012 (downstairs seminar room in Hatch Science Library)
RSVP: Jeff Cosgrove-Cook (jcook3@bowdoin.edu) before April 5. Space is limited.
On Friday, February 8th, the Library celebrated ten years of the Bowdoin Reads project, the feature on the Library homepage showcasing what the Bowdoin community is reading. Begun a little over ten years ago (officially August, 2008), the site has featured over two hundred readers since its inception, rotating faculty, staff, and student readers monthly. In 2017, we expanded Bowdoin Reads to include watching and listening.
To help us celebrate, we invited some recent past participants to talk about and read from a chosen book. Eduardo Pazos Palma, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life read from Flourishing : Why we need religion in a globalized world, by Miroslav Volf; Michael Friedland, ’21 read from Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore; and Osterweis Associate Professor of German, Jill Smith, read from What I Saw by Joseph Roth. We all enjoyed a fabulous book-shaped cake from the Union Street Bakery.
What has Bowdoin been reading all these years? We’ve provided a list of books (and a few audio/video titles) which you can also find on the Bowdoin Reads Goodreads site.
Contact Joan Campbell if you, too, would like to participate in Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens.
See also the story about the celebration written by Assistant Director of Communications for News Content, Rebecca Goldfine.
Stay up to date with new acquisitions with the CBB New Books and Media search tool, http://www.cbbnet.org/new-books-and-media/, accessible from the library homepage (under Quick Links), or from within CBBcat (from the “search” dropdown menu at the top of all CBBcat pages).
The CBB New Books and Media search tool is updated on a weekly basis. Use this service to generate a list of materials recently acquired by Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin libraries or to subscribe to an ongoing feed.
Search by format for books, e-books, DVDs, audio books, CDs, scores, and government documents.
Subscribe to a periodic email of new acquisitions.
You will periodically receive a list of all items acquired based on your chosen criteria. You can create multiple feeds and unsubscribe at any time using the link that appears on the subscription email.
The CBB libraries continue to consider ways to enhance access to our shared library collection, and we hope you will take advantage of the New Books and Media search tool to keep up to date with new acquisitions. If you have questions, or feedback you’d like to share, please contact your Research Librarian.
The Library has access to many electronic primary and secondary resources for research on women’s history. Here are some noteworthy sources. Be sure to Ask Us for more!
