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.
General
Spring Faculty Workshops
- Teaching the Collections: Using Objects From Bowdoin Museums and Special Collections
March 29, 2019 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
- Faculty Panel – Book Publishing Today: Voices of Experience
April 3, 2019 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Spark of Learning Teaching Hack: Does it Spark Joy? Exploring Self-regulation and Appraisal in Teaching and Learning
April 10, 2019 | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens Tenth Anniversary
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.
CBB New Books and Media
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.
- Search on a particular subject area (books, e-books, DVDs only).
- Limit results by language and library location (Colby, Bates, or Bowdoin).
- Choose a time frame: most recent 7, 30, or 90 days.
- View results as a web page (full-featured or printer-friendly), or send in an email.
Subscribe to a periodic email of new acquisitions.
- Choose subject areas of interest, format, languages, and location.
- Indicate the desired time period (whether items have been received in the past week, month, or 90 days) and set your preferred display option.
- Enter your email address, choose “subscribe,” and submit the form.
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.
Women’s History Month Resources
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!
- Women’s Magazine Archive
- Vogue Archive
- Women and Social Movements in the United States
- Women and Social Movements International
- Contemporary Women’s Issues
- Women: Transnational Networks (part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
- Gender Studies Database
- Women Writers Online
- Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
- From Suffrage to the Senate: America’s Political Women : An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender
Ramp Gallery Opening: Topophilia: A Love of Place
Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s spring exhibit: Topophilia: A Love of Place.
Opening remarks at 2pm on Friday, February 22.
The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level.
Curated by Blanche Froelich, ’19, the Ramp Gallery features student art work from all four class years.
Access to Library Databases While You’re Away
Have research to do over break? Most of the Library’s databases can be accessed anywhere in the world with your Bowdoin ID. Just use our A-Z list of databases and you’ll be prompted with a login screen where you enter your Bowdoin credentials.
More information is found at https://library.bowdoin.edu/research/off-campus-access-to-databases.shtml
Questions? Ask us!
Faculty New Book Launch Series 2018-2019
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Nixon Lounge
Thursdays at 4:30 pm
September 27thMeredith McCarroll, Director of Writing and Rhetoric
Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film (University of Georgia Press)
October 25thChristopher Chong, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Coherent Structures in Granular Crystals: From Experiment and Modeling to Computation and Mathematical Analysis (Springer)
December 6thConnie Chiang, Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration (Oxford University Press)
January 31stEmma Maggie Solberg, Assistant Professor of English
Virgin Whore (Cornell University Press)
March 7thShenila Khoja-Moolji, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press)
April 25thDoris Santoro, Associate Professor of Education
Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas (Harvard Education Press) and Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay (Harvard Education Press)
Ramp Gallery Opening: Creating with Light and Time
The Library invites you to the Ramp Gallery’s opening reception for Creating with Light and Time: Explorations in Non-Narrative Video.
We’ll be showing non-narrative videos created in Erin Johnson’s digital media class, along with stills from the videos. The show’s opening will include the work of six students.
Curated by Blanche Froelich, ’19.
Open to the public. Refreshments will be served. You’ll find The Ramp Gallery in the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level.
October 18, 2018
4:30 PM — 6:00 PM
Summer Construction Projects
Improvements are coming to Hawthorne-Longfellow and Hatch Science Library!
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
Research Desk
The Research Desk will be relocated near the entrance to the Research Lab, on the south side of the 1st floor. The move, along with new and configured furniture, will facilitate interactions between liaisons and library users. Soft seating will be installed in the space currently occupied by the existing desk.
College Test Center
A new facility, the College Test Center, will be created on the south side of the 2nd floor. The Center will provide a controlled environment designed to support students who have approved accommodations for disabilities or require other special arrangements for test taking. When not scheduled for exams—during most evenings and weekends—the space will be available to the student community for quiet study. Overseen by Lesley Levy, Director of Student Accessibility, the Test Center will not only meet a long-standing need at the College but will be a welcome addition to H-L’s student-centered resources.
Faculty Study Commons
A Faculty Study Commons will be created adjacent to the current Faculty Research Room on the north side of the 2nd floor. This new space, which will replace existing faculty studies, will provide carrels, soft seating, and bookshelves to support individual study and research. The adjacent Research Room, which will be connected directly to the Study Commons, will be newly furnished as a collaborative space.
Exhibit Gallery
The 2nd floor exhibit gallery will be reconfigured with new, state-of-the-art exhibit cases installed in the floor’s central area. In place of the existing cases, soft seating will be provided around the two interior light wells.
Carpeting
New carpet will be installed throughout the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Hatch Science Library
Library Entrance
The former reference desk and adjacent shelving will be removed and replaced with soft seating.
Carpeting
New carpet will be installed in the circular stairwell that connects the ground through 2nd floors of the library.