In honor of Constitution Day, September 17, 2023, the anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, explore constitutional questions related to abortion rights from a variety of perspectives.
Download a copy of The Constitution of the United States with Index and The Declaration of Independence or pick up a free pocket Constitution at the display at the Circulation Desk in HL Library.
As of the fall semester, Research Librarians are moving their research support operations from the Research Desk to the adjacent Research Lab. We are excited about the greater potential for interactive research support for faculty and students provided by the space! In the Research Lab, Research Librarians will continue to provide expert in-person or remote research assistance.
We do welcome you to stop by, and what better opportunity than providing answers to your questions about Compass, our new Integrated Library Catalog? Research Librarians are ready and available to help with your questions about Compass or anything else as you prepare for the start of the fall semester! Please join us at the Research Lab 11am-4pm Monday-Friday. If those times aren’t convenient, your Library liaison is always ready and willing to help!
Please contact Erin Valentino with any questions!
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is the largest African American oral video history archive in the world, and is committed to preserving, developing, and providing access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories. The HistoryMakers provides access to 150,000 stories from oral history interviews with over 2,700 historically significant African Americans from across the United States with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Their collective memories stretch as far back as the 1890s. However, these interviews do not focus on any particular event; they span the interviewee’s life and their family’s collective oral histories.
Find this and other exciting resources on the Bowdoin College Library’s Databases page.
The Compass integrated catalog is a central component of the new library management system Bowdoin, Colby, and Bates have adopted and replaces both CBBcat and OneSearch.
Features include:
Staff are available to provide support in person and virtually. Contact your Research Librarian or send us an email if you have a question or would like to schedule a demo of the new interface.
Staff have been working throughout the summer and fall semester to fine-tune the catalog’s search functionality; complete the integration of external tools, including links to e-resources; and perform necessary data cleanup projects related to the migration. The direct link to MaineCat search and requesting is expected to be live in Compass in November. Please use Interlibrary Loan during this transition period.
The library appreciates your understanding and flexibility. If you have questions, please contact Karen Jung.
The Library’s 2022-23 BIPOC Collection, curated by Karla Lainez, ‘24, opened with a discussion with Karla on November 17. The video is on Facebook.
The display remained in place through the 2022-23 academic year.
Hi! I am so happy you are here, browsing through the 2022 Fall BIPOC Collection focused on Latinidad, identity, and queer love at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.
My name is Karla Lainez, and I am a junior at Bowdoin College. When beginning to think about this collection and what to include within it, I knew I wanted it to have a variety of stories, experiences, and voices that celebrate and show our strength and humanity: the love, the struggles, the family, the humor, the joy, the care, and the empowerment. Often, the narrative is one of lack of power and autonomy, but we are strong, le echamos ganas, continually show up, and are here. Our experiences matter, and finding a character or person to relate to is so crucial. I also wanted to have books in the collection I wished I had growing up, as seeing parts of my identity, and that of my friends represented and honored in school didn’t occur. My identities as a queer Mexcian and Salvadoran American daughter of immigrants have had an impact on how connected I’ve been able to feel. Books on queer love and joy were never on the shelves, much less by Latine/a/o authors, which is why I can’t wait to read these. The younger version of me would have loved seeing these books in the library or recommended by a professor. I probably would have read more. So, I am so glad they can be added here, and I hope you can enjoy them too.
I’ve tried to include an author from each part of Latin America, recognizing that while we have many shared experiences that unite us as a community, our cultures and countries are unique. Additionally, these works will increase the number of books Bowdoin has by Latine/a/o authors within the library, which must continue and expand even after the display of this collection ends. This collection contains a variety of formats, from essays, poems, children’s books, fiction, and anthologies, to even films. It includes stories that aren’t highlighted enough, and experiences that deserve to be shared and heard. Finding a space where you feel seen, welcomed, and understood at a predominantly white institution like Bowdoin is hard. So, I hope that within these works, you find a piece that resonates with you, even if just a line.
Thank you 🙂
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| La Señora Varsovia | Abend van Dalen, Raquel |
| The Poet X | Acevedo, Elizabeth |
| Inheritance: A Visual Poem | Acevedo, Elizabeth |
| Performing the US Latina and Latino borderlands | Aldama, Artuo . |
| Violeta: A novel | Allende, Isabel |
| The Woman I kept to myself | Alvarez, Julia |
| In the time of the butterflies | Alvarez, Julia |
| mala mala | Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles |
| Borderlands: the new mestiza = la frontera | Anzaldúa, Gloria |
| This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color | Anzaldúa, Gloria and Moraga, Cherrie |
| Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey | Behar, Ruth |
| Fire from the Andes: Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru | Benner, Susan and Leonard, Kathy |
| We Are Owed | Brown, Ariana |
| Tengo una tía que no es monjita | Cardoza, Melissa |
| 13 Colors of the Honduran Resitance | Cardoza, Melissa |
| So Far From God | Castillo, Ana |
| The House on Mango Street | Cisneros, Sandra |
| Caramelo | Cisneros, Sandra |
| Reclaim the stars: 17 tales across realms & space | Córdova, Zoraida |
| Latina Lesbian Writers and Authors | Costa, María Colores |
| Halsey Street | Coster, Naima |
| Homecoming queers : desire and difference in Chicana Latina cultural production | Danielson, Marivel |
| Mango Moon | de Anda, Diane |
| Kiwi | de Posadas, Carmen |
| Cantoras | De Robertis, Carolina |
| Vindictas: Cuentistas Latinoamericanas | Delgado, Susy |
| Here Comes the Sun | Dennis-Benn, Nicole |
| Ordinary Girls: A memoir | Díaz, Jaquira |
| Islandborn | Diaz, Junot |
| Boogie, Boogie, Yall | Esperanza, C. G. |
| “Sabrina & Corina” | Fajardo-Anstine, Kali |
| Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer | Figueroa, Jamie |
| Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas | Flores, Anel |
| Antonio’s card | Gonzalaez, rigoberto |
| Calling the doves | gonzales, grace cornell |
| All Around Us | Gonzalez, Xelena |
| Olga Dies Dreaming | Gonzalez, Xochitl |
| Catrachos | Guzmán, Roy |
| The book of Unknown Americans | Henriquez, Cristina |
| Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl | Hernández Linares, Leticia |
| A Cup of Water Under My Bed | Hernandez, Daisy |
| A Child Grows Up and Wonders | Hernandez, Felicia O |
| American Dreamer | Herrera, Adriana |
| Cafe con Lychee | Lee, Emery |
| Fiebre Tropical | Lopera, Julián Delgado |
| Cuentamelo | Lopera, Julián Delgado |
| Peluda | Lozada-Olivia, Melissa |
| Killing Marías: A Poem for Multiple Voices | Luna, Claudia Catro |
| No Filter and Oher Lies | Maldonado, Crystal |
| Our Shadows Have Claws | Many |
| Wild Tounges Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora | many |
| Ophelia After All | Marie, Racquel |
| Alma and How She Got Her Name | Martinez-Neal, Juana |
| Here the Whole Time | Martins, Vitor |
| One of a kind like me | Mayeno, Laurin |
| Lake Lore | McLemore, Anna-Marie |
| Furia | Mendez, Yamile |
| Mexican Gothic | Moreno-Garcia, Silvia |
| Alicia and the Hurricane | Newman, Leslea |
| What’s Coming To Me | Padilla, Francesca |
| 500 years | Pamela Yates |
| Funeral for Flaca | Prado, Emily |
| The Five Wounds | Quade, Kirstin Valdez |
| Beauty Woke | Ramos, NoNieqa |
| The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School | Reyes, Sonora |
| A Girl’s Guide to Love & Magic | Rigaud, Debbie |
| They Call Me Mix/Me Llaman Maestre | Rivas, Lourdes |
| Juliet Takes a Breath | Rivera, Gabby |
| America Vol. 1: The Life And Times Of America Chavez | Rivera, Gabby |
| For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color | Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas Mojica |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the Universe | Sáenz, Benjamin Alire |
| Hermosa | Salgado, Yesika |
| I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter | Sanchez, Erika |
| With Lots of Love | Sanchez, Jenny Toress |
| Una Mujer Fantastica | Sebastián Lelio |
| Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color | Selenite, Venus |
| Cemetery Boys | Thomas, Aiden |
| Lotería | Valenti, Karla |
| Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity | Velez, Angela |
| Fifteen Hunded Miles From The Sun | Villa, Jonny Garza |
| Las Malas | Villada, Camila Sosa |
| The Grief Keeper | Villasante, Alexandra |
| The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Zoraida Córdova |
The Bowdoin Library is joining with colleagues at Bates and Colby to host a presentation on the ways in which we are supporting Open Access Publishing. Please join us on Tuesday, October 25th at noon for a discussion of Read and Publish agreements, models for open access across academic journals, and opportunities for making your work open access at no cost. This collaborative Zoom event will be held in the Nixon Lounge (3rd floor H-L Library) at noon, with lunch to follow. If you would like to join us in Nixon for the presentation and lunch, please RSVP by Tuesday, October 18 to Helen Hill, hhill@bowdoin.edu. If you would like to register for the Zoom presentation individually or have us send you a recording of it, please sign up here. If you have any questions, please contact Erin Valentino, evalenti@bowdoin.edu.
46 new Spanish language children’s books were added to the Bowdoin Library collection to support the work of students enrolled in Professor Margaret Boyle’s Teaching and Learning Languages and Cultures class and an honors project by Katharine Barrett, Class of 2023, Multilingualism and Community Engagement.
The titles were purchased from La Librería, Los Angeles, CA, and support the work of Bowdoin-led Multilingual Mainers.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Mi super familia : un libro animado | Raisson, Gwendoline |
| Desde el tiempo de los abuelos : cuentos de la tradición oral maya | Serrano Echeverría |
| El monstruo más feo del mundo | Amavisca, Luis |
| Peque y yo | Acosta |
| Cómo cocinar princesas | Martínez Castillo, Ana |
| Luis & Jennifer en César Chávez & la máquina del tiempo | Quezadas, Juan Carlos |
| Monstruo Rosa | Dios, Olga de |
| El libro negro de los colores | Cottin, Menena |
| Ni guau ni miau | Lacasa, Blanca |
| Zoo de insectos | Wheeler, Lisa |
| La niña de Guatemala | Martí, José |
| No des puntada sin hilo | Peña Muñoz, Manuel |
| El monstruo de colores | Llenas, Anna |
| Mejores amigas (casi siempre) | Danis, Naomi |
| Malena Ballena | Calì, Davide |
| Niños de América | Palacios, Francisca |
| Hoy me siento… de la A a la Z | Moniz, Madalena |
| Poemas ilustrados | Mistral, Gabriela |
| Los delfines del sur del mundo : cuento basado en un relato selk’nam | Pavez, Ana María |
| Popol vuh : basado en el mito de creación maya quiché | Pavez, Ana María |
| El niño y la ballena : cuento basado en un relato yámana | Recabarren, Marcela |
| Papá está conectado | Kemmeter, Philippe de |
| ¿Qué es un refugiado? | Gravel, Elise |
| ¿De dónde eres? | Álvarez Lata, Irene |
| De cómo nació la piñata | Czernecki, Stefan |
| Un poco valiente | Kinnear, Nicola |
| El elefante | Desmond, Jenni |
| En la unión está la fuerza : una historia de gallinas | Cardon, Laurent |
| Coatlicue : Madre del Sol, la Luna y las estrellas | Melgar, Juan Carlos |
| Un pelo en la sopa : un cuentito absurdo | Nogués Otero, Alex |
| Será | Calvo, Mercedes |
| Siete Pablos | Luján, Jorge |
| Dos conejos blancos | Buitrago, Jairo |
| El zorro Chuleta | Undurraga, Sol |
| Mi papi tiene una moto | Quintero, Isabel |
| Un árbol | Mattioli, Rodrigo |
| Sabores de América | Pavez, Ana María |
| Gilda : la oveja gigante | Urberuaga, Emilio |
| Las dos Fridas | Kahlo, Frida |
| Qué es la guerra | Altarriba, Eduard |
| Migrantes | Altarriba, Eduard |
| Totem : animales y civilizaciones | Cassany, Mia |
| Los invisibles | Percival, Tom |
| Tengo hambre | Cottin, Menena |
| Mi abuelo el luchador | Ramos, Antonio |
A new seminar room is coming to Hawthorne-Longfellow Library this summer! To support Special Collections & Archives’ active instruction program, a 16-person seminar room will be constructed adjacent to the department, on the north side of the 3rd floor. This dedicated space will significantly augment the ability of SC&A to meet the growing demands of its program, which reaches students and faculty across disciplines.
The room will provide
This project is the most recent of the library’s ongoing efforts to think creatively about how to mitigate the limitations of the current building. We are continually balancing the competing needs of students, faculty, and staff, along with space for collections. While the project will require the removal of a portion of shelving from the north side of the 3rd floor, we are extremely fortunate to have the library Annex at our disposal. Librarians have reviewed the collections shelved on the floor and have identified approximately 7000 volumes for relocation. As is the case for all materials shelved at the Annex, these volumes will be requestable through the catalog and typically available for pick up on campus within 24 hours.
Over the course of the summer, the 3rd floor will be shifted to rationalize the collections in call number order. We do not anticipate any disruption in services while this work is underway. The entire project—construction and collections shift—will be completed before the start of the coming academic year.
Any questions about the project can be directed to Marjorie Hassen, Director of the College Library.
mhassen@bowdoin.edu | (207) 725-3281
Friday, May 13
Baldwin Center for Learning & Teaching, H-L Library 112
FMI: Tina Chong, Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching, t.chong@bowdoin.edu