Join us on Monday, May 19 for a reception celebrating a new exhibit in the Sussman Reading Room on the second floor of the library. This exhibit features the poetry of Yunxia Yu, selected and translated by her granddaughter, Beitong Liu ’23, ’24.
Exhibit Reception
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AI: What it does (and doesn’t do). AI: What It Does (and Doesn’t) Do
AI: What It Does (and Doesn’t) Do
A Talk by Theresa Law, Asst. Professor of Computer Science
Wednesday, May 14 @ 4 pm
Library First Floor
Is AI new? How do machine learning models (like ChatGPT) generate answers? Why do these models have the limitations that they do? This talk will step through a high level overview of how popular AI models today work, and why that methodology leads to commonly seen problems like AI hallucinations. All are welcome!
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Origami & Games!
This Thursday, May 8, celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with us with an afternoon of Origami & Asian board games! Learn the art of paper-folding or play a round of Tchuka Ruma (Indonesia), Shogi (Japan), Pachisi (India) or Konani (Hawaii). Light snacks will be provided! Happens on the first floor of Stevenson Library from 5 – 6:30 p.m.
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Community Science Panel
Community science can play a critical role in generating accurate information that can be used to repair and preserve local ecosystems, water supplies, and clean air. In this panel discussion, local community science leaders will come together to share their stories and discuss the importance of their work in a time when the federal government is pulling back research funding and removing access to scientific data. Join us for a lively discussion about the impact community science is having in our region, and how you can get involved in advancing scientific knowledge at the grassroots level.
Panelists:
Karen Schneller-McDonald, chair of the Saw Kill Watershed Community and a wetland and amphibian specialist for over 30 years.
Lorraine Farina, coordinator of the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition. She was co-founder of HVAQ in 2021, which was behind getting the first air quality sensors in the Hudson Valley.
Desiree Lyle, Bard Community Sciences Lab manager, building scientist, and indoor air quality specialist.
Elias Dueker (moderator), Associate Professor, Biology & Environmental Studies and Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities.
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Polymorph Exhibit
Anything & Everything: Five Years of Polymorph on view in Stevenson Library, 3rd floor, May 2-June 30. Opening reception Monday May 5 1-3 p.m.
Anything & Everything: Five Years of Polymorph is a retrospective look at Max Meyers’ (‘25) magazine, Polymorph. Curated by Meyers, the items on display are “both a recollection on its accomplishments and celebration of its failures.
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Author reading!
On Thursday, May 1 at 6 pm, author Alejandro Heredia will read from his new novel, LOCA (Simon & Schuster, 2025) at Stevenson Library. LOCA is a stunning debut that asks: How do we live in joyful presence when our past still harbors painful and unanswered questions? LOCA is an exploration of the immigrant experience, of queerness, of motherhood, of freedom, and of friendship.
Alejandro Heredia is a queer Afro-Dominican writer from The Bronx. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, the Dominican Studies Institute, Kenyon Review, and Trinity College. In 2019, he was selected by Myriam Gurba as the winner of the Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest. His chapbook of short stories, You’re the Only Friend I Need (2021), explores themes of queer transnationalism, friendship, and (un)belonging in the African Diaspora. Heredia’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Lambda Literary Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.
This event is cosponsored by Bard Early College Hudson Valley and Stevenson Library. Copies of Heredia’s book will be available for purchase and signing.
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Sproj help for the home stretch!
For students submitting their senior project next week, the library is here to help!
- Sproj Clinics: Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday from 3-5 pm behind the research help desk.
- Shut up & Sproj: Friday from 3:30-5 pm in room 402
- Late hours: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday the library will be open until 3 am
Can’t make the clinics? Request an appointment for a citation check or stop by the research help desk. Additionally, we have a guide to help you with formatting and the Digital Commons submission process.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! We’re here to help!
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New Primary Source Trials!
We are currently trialing several primary source collections from AM Primary. The following collections are available through our Databases list through April 30, 2025. Please check them out and let us know what you think!
From zines, newspapers and ephemera, to oral histories, films and photographs, 1980s Culture and Society is an eclectic and multi-faceted resource compiled from archival collections housed across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada…
Correspondence and eyewitness accounts from the region’s key players document the Anglo-Afghan Wars; the perspectives of Afghan and Persian rulers on foreign activities in the region; the interplay between China and Russia; and the expansion and fall…
Stretching from Jamaica and the Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago, Colonial Caribbean makes available materials from 27 Colonial Office file classes from The National Archives, UK. Covering the history of the various territories under British colonial…
This important collection invites students and researchers to explore hundreds of years of Mexico’s history through social, religious, and political change. These unique and highly significant archival materials from Mexico are predominantly Spanish as…
The resource brings together diaries and oral histories to enable students and researchers to explore the lives of hundreds of individuals from diverse backgrounds, from abolitionists to suffragists, and royalty to republicans. Vivid narratives cover a wide range of themes, including domestic life, travel, sport, feminism, gender fluidity, and class with the collection providing a platform for working class, LGBTQ+, and disabled women’s voices.
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Special event!
On Thursday, April 17 at 5pm David Salle and Francine Prose will discuss the artwork and writing of Janet Malcolm in conjunction with the exhibition Janet Malcolm: Critical Collage at Stevenson Library. David Salle, the subject of Malcolm’s 1994 New Yorker profile “Forty-One False Starts,” is one of America’s most esteemed painters. He is also the author of How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art (2016). Prose, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard, is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Reading Like a Writer (2006) and The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired (2002). She is the former president of the PEN American Center. All are welcome.
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Writing the Introduction & Conclusion of your Senior Project
Senior Project introductions and conclusions can be tricky to write. If you need inspiration, join Rob Culp, Julia Rosenbaum, and Éric Trudel on Monday, April 7, in Olin LC 115. They’ll dispense tips, take your questions, and make you glad you came.
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