Aug 12, 2020
Humanities, Digitized!
Students in the Digital Humanities Summer Scholars program bring research to life.
Skillman Library
Feb 14, 2020
Storyboards for the Human Experience
John Clark, data visualization and GIS librarian, helps faculty and students illustrate their research and published works with maps, charts, and diagrams…
Feb 13, 2020
The Image of Community
Charlotte Nunes, director of digital scholarship services, has earned a local NAACP Image Award.
Feb 3, 2020
Living and Breathing Special Collections
Thoman Lannon, new director of special collections and college archives, talks about what a college library might be.
Dec 9, 2019
Paper: A Common Bond
Author and bibliophile Nicholas Basbanes lectured about his book On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History.
Nov 22, 2019
Forbidden Stories
Artist and scholar Xiaoze Xie presents his work and lectures on the evolution of his oeuvre about libraries, banned books at Skillman Library.
Aug 13, 2019
Filling the Gap
Digital Humanities Summer Scholars took a six-week journey from forming a research question, scouring scholarly resources, analyzing findings, writing…
Mar 7, 2019
Susan Orlean Finds Herself in the Library
By Stephen Wilson When Los Angeles Public Library caught fire in 1986, the blaze burned for seven and a half hours, reaching temperatures of 2,500 degrees…
Oct 27, 2018
Hunting Ghosts in the Stacks
By Stephen Wilson Consider your relationship with books. If that proves difficult in this age of reading on phones and tablets, consider your parents or…
Aug 20, 2018
Kung Fu Witch Train
By Stephen Wilson Mention the word “anime” to people and it conjures different images. None more striking than the associations between white and black…