Library News http://library.bowdoin.edu/news Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:13:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Citation Drop-In Clinics: It’s Stylin’ Time http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/citation-drop-in-clinics/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/citation-drop-in-clinics/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:13:12 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1469 Citation Drop-In Clinics: It’s Stylin’ TimeYou finished the research for your project or paper, read many articles, books, documents, viewed countless videos, web pages and images, and written your paper.  “It’s Stylin’ Time,” time to document your sources and create your citations.  References? In-text? Bibliography? Works cited? Reference lists? Footnotes? Endnotes?  Whatever you call it….We’re here to help. The Hawthorne Longfellow Library will host Citation Drop-In Clinics beginning the week of Dec. 2 at the H-L Reference Desk. Librarians will provide dedicated assistance with creating citations for print, electro... Read more..]]> You finished the research for your project or paper, read many articles, books, documents, viewed countless videos, web pages and images, and written your paper.  “It’s Stylin’ Time,” time to document your sources and create your citations.  References? In-text? Bibliography? Works cited? Reference lists? Footnotes? Endnotes?  Whatever you call it….We’re here to help.

The Hawthorne Longfellow Library will host Citation Drop-In Clinics beginning the week of Dec. 2 at the H-L Reference Desk. Librarians will provide dedicated assistance with creating citations for print, electronic, images, blogs, and many other sources, in a variety of citation styles, including MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian. EndNote and Zotero assistance will also be available at the clinics.

Citation Drop-In Clinics at the HL Reference Desk:

Tues., Dec. 10th and 17th, 11AM-12PM

Wed., Dec. 4th and 18th, 3PM-4PM

Thurs., Dec. 5th   and 12th, 4PM-5PM

Sun., Dec. 8th and 15th, 7PM-8PM

Not able to drop-in during for our scheduled citation clinics?  Citation help is always available at the H-L Reference Desk, or contact us through email, chat, or schedule an appointment by clicking on the “Ask Us!” box at the top of the Library’s web page.  24/7 citation assistance is also available on our webpage at: http://library.bowdoin.edu/help/citationguides-by-subject.shtml

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“The Place Show” – The New Ramp Gallery Exhibit http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/the-place-show-ramp-gallery-exhibit/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/the-place-show-ramp-gallery-exhibit/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:23:39 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1445
Does understanding of place affect the work we make? When creating a work are we reflecting on a place we are inspired by? Does the space where we create work indirectly or directly influence our process and outcomes? Is your understanding of place metaphoric, for example a “place or time in you... Read more..]]>
The Place Show

  • Does understanding of place affect the work we make?
  • When creating a work are we reflecting on a place we are inspired by?
  • Does the space where we create work indirectly or directly influence our process and outcomes?
  • Is your understanding of place metaphoric, for example a “place or time in your life”?
  • What does “place” mean to you?

The Ramp Gallery is pleased to present the second show in this student curated venue, hosted by the Bowdoin College Library.

For this exhibit, curator James Boeding ’14, solicited submissions from peers across campus in response to the theme of “place”. The resulting installation, juxtaposes text and image in an easy and balanced manner.

Reception:
Thursday, December 5th
4:30-5:30pm

Please join us in the gallery
in the  Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
to celebrate the artists and the results of this collaboration.

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http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/food-for-thought-8/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/food-for-thought-8/#comments Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:12:50 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1439 Join us for another Food For Thought, the Bowdoin Student Government/Library student lecture series

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Join us for another Food For Thought,
the Bowdoin Student Government/Library student lecture series

Monday, November 18th at 9:00pm in the Nixon Lounge on the 3rd floor of H-L Library.

Clare Stansberry, ’14: “Welcome to the Mesosoic: Imagining Dinosaurs in Their Natural Habitat”

Jacob Reiben, ’17: “Life Without Brakes: BMX and Extreme Sports Culture in Brooklyn”

Food and Refreshments Provided

See you there!

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New York Review of Books Archive Online http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/new-york-review-of-books-archive-online/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/new-york-review-of-books-archive-online/#comments Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:58:43 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1436 New York Review of Books Archive OnlineFinally, online access to the back issues of The New York Review of Books!!! Just look at the list of reviewers and contributors in the first issue from Feb. 1, 1963: Lowell, Berryman, Dupee, Hardwick, Auden, McCarthy, Rahv, Mailer, Warren, Sontag (I’m not making this up), Kazin, Rich, Hollander, Glazer, Styron, Vidal and even more. And that’s just the first issue. Here’s a gem: Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference—with words. Elizabeth Hardwick... Read more..]]> Finally, online access to the back issues of The New York Review of Books!!! Just look at the list of reviewers and contributors in the first issue from Feb. 1, 1963: Lowell, Berryman, Dupee, Hardwick, Auden, McCarthy, Rahv, Mailer, Warren, Sontag (I’m not making this up), Kazin, Rich, Hollander, Glazer, Styron, Vidal and even more. And that’s just the first issue. Here’s a gem:
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference—with words. Elizabeth Hardwick in her piece “Grub Street: New York” from the first issue.

Happy Reading!
Your friends at the Library

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Food for Thought http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/food-for-thought-7/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/food-for-thought-7/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:02:51 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1431 Food for Thought Join us for Food For Thought, the Bowdoin Student Government/Library student lecture series

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Join us for Food For Thought,
the Bowdoin Student Government/Library student lecture series

Monday, November 4th at 9:00pm in the Nixon Lounge on the 3rd floor of H-L Library.

Chrissy Hayes, ’14: “Headscarves and Beekeeping”

Emma Johnson, ’14: “Polishing the Jewel of Africa: Government and Public Education in Botswana Today”

Food and Refreshments Provided

See you there!

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Call for Submissions for The Ramp Gallery http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/call-for-submissions-for-the-ramp-gallery/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/call-for-submissions-for-the-ramp-gallery/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:13:29 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1421 Call for Submissions for The Ramp GalleryThis is a call for submissions based on the theme of “place.” Written work, prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, and small sculptures will be considered. [caption id="attachment_1423" align="alignright" width="300"] The Ramp Gallery[/caption] Does understanding of place affect the work we make? Wh... Read more..]]> This is a call for submissions based on the theme of “place.” Written work, prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, and small sculptures will be considered.

The Ramp Gallery

The Ramp Gallery

  • Does understanding of place affect the work we make?
  • When creating a work are we reflecting on a place we are inspired by?
  • Does the space where we create work indirectly or directly influence our process and outcomes?
  • What does place mean to you in your work?

In some way, everything we create is connected to a place. Sometimes those places have more or less of an impact of the final result. With this theme in mind, The Ramp Gallery is inviting submissions for the upcoming show, which will remain installed through March 2014.

Deadline for submissions: November 6th
Format: jpeg or docx, named (last name, first initial, title of work)
example: smithI_KentIsland.jpeg

Please also include a written description with dimensions of work.
Send all attachments to rampgallery@bowdoin.edu

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Artist’s reception for Jack Mensik (2014), “90 Miles” http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/new-student-exhibit-space-in-hawthorne-longfellow/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/new-student-exhibit-space-in-hawthorne-longfellow/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:48:13 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1185 Artist's reception for Jack Mensik (2014), [caption id="attachment_1188" align="alignleft" width="329"] 90 Miles[/caption] Thursday, October 17th , 4:30pm-6pm The Ramp Gallery in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library The show, “90 Miles” is a photo exhibition complimented by Jack’s written observations about culture and the political climate in contemporary Cuba. Jack will lead a gallery discussion during the reception. “90 miles across those waters lies a world t... Read more..]]> 90 Miles

90 Miles

Thursday, October 17th , 4:30pm-6pm
The Ramp Gallery in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

The show, “90 Miles” is a photo exhibition complimented by Jack’s written observations about culture and the political climate in contemporary Cuba. Jack will lead a gallery discussion during the reception.

“90 miles across those waters lies a world that is very different from the one Cubans have known all their lives. The US is truly so close yet so far away. Cubans keep up with American pop music by tuning into American radio stations. I would sit on the Malecón at night and wonder if I could see the lights from Key West.”

See video of Jack discussing the photos Capitolo, Malecon, and 90 Miles.

The Ramp Gallery, located underground in the space between H-L and Hubbard Stacks, will be available for exhibitions of student work from all disciplines: photography, fiber arts, science poster presentations, etc. Work completed for classes or independently are both welcome.

Interested in exhibiting your work in the gallery? Email a brief proposal to The Ramp Gallery at rampgallery@bowdoin.edu.

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New Databases: NAACP Papers and Afro-American Imprints http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/new-databases-naacp-papers-and-afro-american-imprints/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/new-databases-naacp-papers-and-afro-american-imprints/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:38:37 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1377 New Databases: NAACP Papers and Afro-American Imprints The Library now has access to two valuable resources for historical research: The NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces, which includes legal files, correspondence, meeting minutes, news clippings, memoranda, reports, and legal briefs related to these issues. And Read more..]]> The Library now has access to two valuable resources for historical research:

ImageThe NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns–Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces, which includes legal files, correspondence, meeting minutes, news clippings, memoranda, reports, and legal briefs related to these issues.

And Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922, from the Library Company of Philadelphia. This database includes, among much more, congressional addresses, slave narratives, minstrel songs and shows and anti-abolition literature.

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New Exhibit Examines History of Fine Arts at Bowdoin http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/exhibit-examines-history-of-fine-arts-at-bowdoin/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/exhibit-examines-history-of-fine-arts-at-bowdoin/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 20:15:50 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1360 New Exhibit Examines History of Fine Arts at Bowdoin

Sight & Sound

Launching the Next Century of Fine Arts at Bowdoin

The new Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and Dance marks the beginning of a second century of fine arts in Bowdoin’s curriculum—the College first included formal courses in art and music during the 1912/1913 academic year.

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Sight & Sound

Launching the Next Century of Fine Arts at Bowdoin

The new Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and Dance marks the beginning of a second century of fine arts in Bowdoin’s curriculum—the College first included formal courses in art and music during the 1912/1913 academic year.

Sight & Sound, a new exhibition in the Bowdoin College Library, celebrates this “turn-of-the-century” by taking a look back at how art and music have enriched learning and cultural life at the College from its beginnings.

The exhibition features examples from the Library’s rare book collection that have supported fine arts learning, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, songsters, musical settings for Longfellow’s poems, book illustration, and contemporary artists’ books. Teaching art and music at Bowdoin over the past century is also documented through the display of items from the Bowdoin College Archives. These materials remind us of how well the fine arts have thrived at Bowdoin and suggest a promising and exciting future for the performing and visual arts in the years to come.

The exhibition is free and open to the public seven days a week.
For further information, please call 207.725.3096.

Open daily, Fall 2013
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, 2nd Floor Gallery

Image Credit: Michael Kuch’s Waterlines (2009)

 

Prof. Frederic Tillotson practicing with the Meddiebempsters, 1945. Prof. Thomas Cornell with art students in the attic studio of Adams Hall, 1965 View of the Rotunda of the Walker Art Building showing plaster “casts of the antique,” before 1937. “Book of Hours” of Marie de Medicis, ca. 1530. From Michael Kuch’s “Waterlines” ( 2009). ]]> http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/exhibit-examines-history-of-fine-arts-at-bowdoin/feed/ 0
Scientific American and National Geographic Archives Now Online http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/scientific-american-and-national-geographic-archives-now-online/ http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/scientific-american-and-national-geographic-archives-now-online/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:38:37 +0000 http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=1351 Scientific American and National Geographic Archives Now OnlineThe Bowdoin community now can access the back issues of Scientific American from 1948-1992 and National Geographic from 1888-1994 online. Talk about fun! Read Robert E. Peary's 1889 address to the National Geographic Soc... Read more..]]> sciamericanThe Bowdoin community now can access the back issues of Scientific American from 1948-1992 and National Geographic from 1888-1994 online. Talk about fun! Read Robert E. Peary’s 1889 address to the National Geographic Society about his adventures in…Nicaragua! (and that other place he’s famous for) or Edward O. Wilson’s 1972 article Animal Communication in Scientific American.

Note that National Geographic does not allow downloading of articles, but you may print. And when you search Scientific American, you will get citations to earlier issues than are available online–you can find those issues at the Hatch Science Library. natgeo

Happy explorations!
Your friends at the Library

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