News & Updates

Abby Morton recently celebrated 50 years of work in the LITS Acquisitions department.   

The college archives recently acquired a collection of photographs of the family of Elihu Root, Class of 1864 (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Secretary of State to Theodore Roosevelt, etc.), from the estate of his granddaughter, Julia Grant Dietz, Trustee of Kirkland College.

Glynis Asu, Lisa Forrest, and research tutor, Tanapat (Ice) Treyanurak  presented on the Peer Research Tutor program at SUNYLA's 2015 "The Art of Librarianship" conference in Purchase NY.

Alex Rihm and Lisa Forrest presented “Poetry Speaks: Supporting the College’s Learning Goals Through Literary Programming” at the SUNY Librarians conference in Purchase, NY.

Last week I attended the annual meeting of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC), held at Lafayette College. There are seventy national liberal arts colleges in CLAC and the focus of our discussions was information technology in higher education. The opening keynote speaker was James Higa, who worked closely for many years with Steve Jobs at Apple and NeXT, and whose son attends Lafayette. He spoke about “Lessons Learned from Apple.” Here are three of my takeaways from his talk and how we might apply them to our information security initiative.

Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania, was the host of the annual meeting of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC), held June 16-18, 2015. Several members of LITS presented during the program.

Beginning July 1, Hamilton College will be a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a partnership of more than 200 university, college, and independent research libraries. CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, government documents, archives, and other primary source materials from a global network of sources, making them available to researchers at member institutions through interlibrary loan and digital delivery.

This summer LITS is piloting a program for Levitt, Emerson, and Kirkland researchers to assist them throughout their projects. The lunchtime Summer Research Roundtable series launched on Thursday June 11, with students coming together to discuss their information and technology needs.

LITS was thrilled to host twenty five seniors from Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School on Wednesday, May 20.  Tina Laramie, High School Library Media Specialist, accompanied by teachers Melanie Hoover and Beth Debany, brought both the AP English and AP Biology classes to Burke for the morning.

Thirty-five graduating seniors were recently honored at a luncheon in Burke Library to thank them for their years of service to LITS.  A special feature of the luncheon was the unveiling of books purchased in each student’s honor, based on recommendations by LITS staff.  Student majors and interests are taken into account when selecting the books, and a book plate with their name is placed in the front of each item. These books will become part of the general collection.  Below is a list of the titles selected for each student.