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Registration is open for fall Zotero workshops! Sign up for one of these dates:
Monday, September 26th from 4-5 pm
Wednesday, September 28th from 2-3 pm
Monday, October 3rd from 11-noon
Tuesday, October 4th from 2-3 pm
Wednesday, October 12th from 11-noon
You are also welcome to make an individual appointment with a Research & Instruction librarian to learn more about Zotero and how to use it for your research.
On Wednesday, July 27, Frost Library's digital scholarship interns William Harvey, Jennifer Lee, Norah Oteri, and Phuong-Nghi Pham shared the final product of their exploration in the digital humanities. Over the course of the summer, they learned about and evaluated digital tools with the goal of developing projects built around the Student Publications Collection in the Archives & Special Collections. Take a look at their amazing work:
Currently on exhibit in Frost Library's Mezzanine Gallery is photographer Eric Broudy's Signs of the Times, a series of portraits of homeless people from the Amherst, Hadley, and Northampton area. Join us on September 22 at 4:30 in the CHI (2nd floor of Frost) for a closing reception and artist's talk with Eric Broudy. Signs of the Times will be on display through September 30, 2016.
Thursdays, 8:00 - 11:00 PM in CHI (2nd floor of Frost)
Thesis writers, set yourself up to succeed this year by joining fellow students to write together regularly. Research and experience show us that most of us write more productively when we commit to a regular writing schedule and when we write among others. Find motivation and support among fellow thesis writers at the Weekly Thesis Write-in. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Sponsored by the Writing Center and Library.
September - College! / New Beginnings
Welcome (back) to college! Library staff and students have selected a variety of books and films about college and/or new beginnings. See one you like? Use your Amherst ID (which is also your library card) to check it out!
In May 2016, Amherst College hosted an exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The current exhibition in Archives & Special Collections features rare books donated by Henry Clay Folger (AC 1879) and others; Emily Dickinson manuscripts in which she mentions Shakespeare; Shakespeare materials drawn from the Samuel French Collections; and a bit of the history of the Folger Shakespeare Library, which Henry Clay Folger left in his will to the Trustees of Amherst College.
Amherst College now holds one of the largest collections of published work by Native American authors anywhere in the country. A small sample of the more than 2,300 books in this collection is on display on the A-Level foyer, right outside of our Archives & Special Collections.