News & Updates

Research Tutors Gretha Suarez ‘15 and Tanapat (Ice) Treyanurak ‘17, along with Research Librarian Lynn Mayo, created a resource guide to support students involved in social innovation initiatives through the Levitt Center.

Join us on Wednesday April 29 at 7 p.m. in the All Night Reading Room for a reading and Q&A with author and first year student Amy Zhang '18. Her recently published book, Falling into Place, is "An impressive debut" (Booklist) that showcases Amy's "breezy yet powerful and exceptionally perceptive writing style" (School Library Journal).

Information can also be found on the event's Facebook page.

The LITS Research Tutors will be offering mini-workshops on RefWorks after Spring Break.  Learn how to save your citations while doing research, create a bibliography using APA, MLA or Chicago style, and generally impress your professors.

At Hamilton, we strive to ensure that our users have a good experience when calling for help. When experiencing a technology problem in the classroom, we ask that all users contact the Help Desk using the "#600" emergency number dialed from the classroom phone.

Recently, I noticed that one of my credit cards was missing from my wallet. I did the proverbial high-low search with no success. Maybe it dropped out of my pocket somewhere in the snow, or at some store.  In any case, I quickly checked with the credit card company and there hadn’t been any fraudulent charges - yet.

In partnership with edX,  the online learning initiative launched by Harvard and MIT, Hamilton College has produced two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Over the next several weeks over 6,000 participants from over 132 countries will be learning from two of Hamilton’s professors. The two courses offered include: Spirituality and Sensuality: Sacred Objects in Religious Life led by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, and Incarceration’s Witnesses: American Prison Writing, presented by Professor of English Doran Larson.

Geographic Information Systems and other mapping tools will help you locate, present, analyze, and interact with data that is geographically referenced. These tools are used in many fields such as environmental studies, geography/geology, natural resources management, census data/demographics, public health, economics, history, and much, much more.

It’s spring, at least, almost.  While it may be hard to believe that the Easter Bunny will be hopping down the lane anytime soon as most of us are still shoveling out from a brutal winter, it is true.  Spring begins this month!  For some of us, spring goes beyond bunnies and green grass and lends itself towards a time of renewal and cleaning.  If this is you, put down your Clorox for a moment and let’s look at cleaning something many of us don’t think about: your computer’s hard drive.  Cleaning out your hard drive can have many benefits, the least of which can be improving performance.

You asked, and we listened  There is now a printer on the second floor of Burke Library, near the elevator

DHi is pleased to announce the next speaker in the spring 2015 lecture series. Dr. Marisa Parham from Amherst College will visit Hamilton on March 3 & 4. Her lecture, "Textual feelings, or, thinking narrative gaming in the information age,” will be held on March 3 at 4:10 p.m. (Location: TBA). Her workshop, “Text adventures in the classroom,” will be held on March 4, at 12 p.m., DHi@CJ102.