The Collections Care program encompasses five streams of expertise: conservation, digital preservation, disaster preparedness and emergency response, environmental monitoring, preservation, and stacks maintenance.
Empower
Guided by Professor Jessica Beckman's sweeping historical framework and in collaboration with the Department of English and Creative Writing, Rauner Special Collections Library, and Dartmouth Libraries Book Arts Workshop, students participate in a unique learning experience.
Baker Library's bells turn one hundred this year. Originally cast in 1926 and mounted during the building of Baker Library (completed in 1928), the bells have come to represent daily university life. Today they ring out across Hanover to signal the hour, and at 6pm, you'll hear Dartmouth’s song, “Dear Old Dartmouth/Alma Mater.” How to play the bells has evolved as technology and human ingenuity evolved.
Constantin Brancusi was born in Hobita, a small village in Romania, in 1876. He was the son of Nicolae and Maria, hardworking people from the countryside. At the age of 7, he started working as a shepherd for his family, sculpting wood objects that would have been useful around the house. Two years later, he left home and he worked at a paint shop, a grocery store, and a tavern until he enrolled in the Arts and Crafts School in Craiova in 1894. During this time, he taught himself to read and write in order to perfect his craft, and he made a name for himself by building a violin.
It’s a rare privilege to co-teach a research session in Madrid with a romance languages specialist librarian; rarer still that students in Associate Professor of Spanish Noelia Cirnigliaro’s Madrid Foreign Study Program (FSP) experienced this firsthand in the Biblioteca María Zambrano, part of the Universidad Compultense de Madrid.
If you wanted to explore a particular topic in the archives at Rauner Special Collections Library, where would you begin, what would you hope to learn, and how would you share what you discovered with others? Four students from Dartmouth answered these questions and more in a new learning program co-hosted by Dartmouth Libraries and Brown University Library.
What book comes to mind as impacting you the most during your time at Dartmouth, and why? When we asked this year's graduating library student workers that question, the results were as unique and special as they are. In this exhibit, we highlight 13 of the 28 students who submitted selections, with some sharing what their chosen book means to them. Sometimes intimate and personal, other times philosophical or pragmatic, their words offer you a peek into their world, reflecting their time at Dartmouth.
Why are some poets remembered and glorified, while others fade into obscurity? And when you do stumble upon a “nobody” poet, why research them and make their work discoverable and interpretable for others? These two questions, and a desire “to recover another feminist and political poet who was subject to erasure” formed the basis of Ella Grim '25's Stamps Scholar research project.
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What book comes to mind as impacting you the most during your time at Dartmouth, and why? When we asked this year's graduating library student workers that question, the results were as unique and special as they are. In this exhibit, we highlight 13 of the 28 students who submitted selections, with some sharing what their chosen book means to them. Sometimes intimate and personal, other times philosophical or pragmatic, their words offer you a peek into their world, reflecting their time at Dartmouth.
In December 1951, Evelyn and Vilhjalmur Stefansson made their way to Dartmouth with three railroad car-sized trucks containing a vast “polar library” in tow. Soon after establishing the Northern and Polar Studies Program at Dartmouth and adding the Arctic collection to Baker Library, Dartmouth sponsored the Stefanssons' travels to Greenland to collect as much material about Greenland and by Greenlandic authors as possible. What they amassed, in partnership with Greenland administrators and Denmark, would become valuable research and teaching material still used to this day.