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Professor Margaret Boyle partnered with Special Collections & Archives to engage students in digital transcription of early modern Spanish recipes.

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Please join us for the first Food for Thought of the year.

Adira Polite ’18 will present Lessons From My Summer in Prison: Crime and Punishment in the 21st Century.  She will recount her summer as a restorative justice facilitator and prison missionary in South Africa. Her talk will feature a crash-course in restorative justice and she will share multiple stories from her time within the nation’s prisons. The lecture also will explore the birth of restorative justice in the United States and how its growth may impact the future of the American legal system.

Wednesday, November 29 @ 8 p.m. in H-L’s Nixon Lounge (3rd floor)

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED – WITH OUR APOLOGIES

Please join us as Barbara Weiden Boyd, Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, presents her new book, Ovid’s Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception. This is the third and final event in the Library’s book launch series this semester.  More to come in the spring!

November 30, 2017 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Hawthorne Longfellow Library, Nixon Lounge

Join us for the second in a series of book launches by Bowdoin authors by celebrating the publication of Prof. June Vail’s new book The Passion of Perfection: Gertrude Hitz Burton’s Modern Victorian Life.

This event is on Thursday, Nov. 2 @ 4:30 in H-L’s Nixon Lounge.

What is Open Access?
Open Access (OA) is access to scholarly literature that is free, unrestricted, and online. It is about removing barriers and protecting quality.

On Tuesday, at 4 pm in the Telepresence Room of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, you are invited to attend a panel discussion of experts who are working to make books available through Open Access. Refreshments will be served.

Take the opportunity to learn more about OA this week at the following events on campus.

FMI please contact Sue O’Dell, sodell@bowdoin.edu, 207-725-3265

Professor Patrick Rael talks about the Library’s support of his new teaching initiative for his Fall ’17 history class.

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Join us on Thursday, September 7th, 3-4:30 pm, for a campus-wide event to celebrate the opening of the H-L Research Lab and the new home of Academic Technology & Consulting on the first floor of the library.

The Research Lab is an active and flexible space for formal and informal learning interactions among students, faculty, and research librarians.  By reducing the barriers between scholars and librarians, the Research Lab provides enhanced opportunities for collaboration, consultation, support, and guidance throughout the research cycle.  This re-envisioned and renovated space is adjacent to the research librarians’ offices so that scholars can easily move among independent, group, and consultative work environments.

In addition to facilitating enhanced research support, the Research Lab is also home to flexible furnishings for individual or group work, a small-group multimedia workstation, and comfortable reading chairs.

The relocation of Academic Technology & Consulting to a central location in H-L Library support’s the team’s efforts to engage actively with faculty and students. Their new “Innovation Lab” includes a common area for consultations, group discussions, hands-on workshops, and sharing innovative technologies to support teaching, learning, and research.

Librarian Liaisons work closely with students throughout the year, supporting both their coursework and research, including providing in-depth assistance with honors projects. Among the over 100 seniors who engaged in writing honors projects this year are Adam Glynn and William Doak, both students in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Carmen Greenlee, Humanities and Media Librarian, along with a number of her colleagues, supported Adam’s and Will’s projects by identifying and acquiring specialized material essential to their areas of study, providing assistance throughout all phases of the research and writing process, and offering instruction in the use of citation management software.

Adam Glynn’s project, Nessuna buona punizione resta indescritta: Il contrapasso dantesco nel cinema dell’orrore italiano ed americano / No good punishment goes undescribed: Dante’scontrapasso in Italian and American horror cinema, examines how the inventive sin/punishment structure shown in great detail in Dante’s Divine Comedy appears in modern horror films. In French and Italian Café Spaces and the Third Places They Create, Will Doak employs semiotic analysis to argue that café spaces in France and Italy create a sense of an important third place (home and work being the first two) through an examination of their historical development.

Adam and Will utilized a variety of primary sources in their work including films, digitized historical materials in the target languages of French and Italian, and print texts. The library’s existing collections were supplemented with new items that were purchased specifically to support their research. In addition, staff of the Interlibrary Loan Department fulfilled many requests for obscure and unusual resources held by other libraries that they needed to consult. Both students identified essential secondary materials using Hawthorne-Longfellow’s specialized bibliographies and the many online discovery tools and full-text databases licensed by the library for use by the Bowdoin community.

The great pleasure in our work is contributing to the development of our students’ research skills and witnessing their excitement as they make new discoveries. We look forward to adding Will’s and Adam’s honors projects to the library collections at the conclusion of the semester. Congratulations to these two fine Bowdoin scholars!