Hospitals nationwide share a similar problem: falls. Between 700,000 and 1 million patients fall while in the hospital, resulting in up to 250,000 injuries and up to 11,000 deaths.¹ The increased financial toll on individuals and providers is tremendous.

Beginning in fall term 2022, Erin Collins, Assistant Professor of Geography, partnered with Sarah Marcella Parella, Dartmouth Libraries Book Arts Workshop Program Manager, for Collins’ class GEOG 25: Social Justice and the City. Collins wanted to add a hands-on, interactive, and creative learning element to the students’ experience. This first collaboration was a single class session in the Book Arts Workshop.

With attendees in gowns and finery, the spotlight returned to great research. Dartmouth recently held its 2nd Annual OSCARRs—Open Scholarship Commitment Award for Reproducible Research—a celebration of Dartmouth researchers who exemplify principles of open scholarship, transparency of methodology, comprehensive documentation, and reproducibility. And the outputs of our winners, with reusable datasets, thoughtful methods, and dedicated researchers, were the brightest stars in the room.

The C. Dwight Lahr Lecture Series, sponsored by Dartmouth’s Department of Mathematics, is an annual event bringing together the Upper Valley and Dartmouth communities to engage with mathematics and hear from diverse experts in the field. Established in 2020, the series honors Dr. Lahr’s legacy and commitment to inclusivity and diversity.

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.

We’re incredibly excited to reach a major milestone in a significant project to review, revise, and redesign the Dartmouth Libraries website. The launch of our new-look website and redesigned site architecture follows two years of community engagement, research, immense team work, user testing, and iterating to get us to this pivotal moment. 

Picture this: motorbikes rumble past, diesel fumes waft in their wake. The sun’s heat penetrates your clothes. Humidity cloaks you in an extra layer. It’s 9am in a Ho Chi Minh City market. Hawkers splash water across their fruits and vegetables to make them sparkle in the sunshine. Brilliant variations of green, yellow, orange, and red cluster in front of you. You recognize some produce, but not all. The air is thick, vibrant, alive. You have three weeks to make a 10-15 minute documentary about food culture and the urban experience. There’s so much to see, do.

With great excitement, we share The New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project (NHDNP)—a Dartmouth Libraries-led initiative to digitize historic state newspapers—received almost $325,000 in grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in August. 

We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our newest library building, the Library Collections & Services Facility (LCSF). “The Libraries currently steward over 3.5 million volumes acquired since Dartmouth’s founding in 1769 as well as the institutional records of Dartmouth.