Activism Trivia Night

Welcome to Citizen Science! This Thursday, January 11, join the CCE and the Deans from DOSA for a fun night of activism-themed trivia! Prizes, snacks, and knowledge — what could be better? Happens on the first floor of the library from 7:30-8:30 p.m.

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International Poetry Night!

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December Database Trials

Please explore these new resources we’re trying out, and share your feedback with Melanie Mambo ([email protected]).  Trials will run for approximately 30 days.

Africa Commons
Comprised of four comprehensive modules:

From AM Digital Primary Sources:

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969  From the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post- Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict these government documents inform the volatile situation in the region today.

China: Trade, Politics & Culture    With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.

Global Commodities    This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.

Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975   Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest.

 

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Sproj Clinic this Thursday!

Whether you’re submitting your project this fall or prepping for midways, the library is here to help you. Come to a special Sproj Clinic this Thursday, December 7 from 6 – 8 pm in the library computer lab for help with research, citations, formatting, writing, and everything in between. No question is too big or small, and we’ll have snacks!

Can’t make the clinic? Request an appointment or stop by the Research Help Desk Monday – Thursday 10 am – 6 pm, Friday 10 am – 4 pm, or Sunday from 12-5 pm. You can also check out our senior project submission guide for information about formatting, accessing the senior project template, and submitting to Digital Commons.

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New Exhibit!

On view now at Stevenson Library: “It’s Not Even Past: Periodicals from the Alan Sussman Collection.” This exhibition consists of several magazines documenting the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The periodicals on display demonstrate the continued struggle against injustices in America and abroad. The 1960s saw a proliferation of hundreds of independent publications meant to balance out what was seen as a deficient mainstream press. Please join us at the reception for exhibition in Stevenson Library on Thursday, December 7th from 4:00-6:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served including homemade cookies”

 

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Zotero Help Session!

Zotero is a free citation management tool that can help you organize your research and generate citations in almost any style. Stop by the first floor browsing area of Stevenson Library this Tuesday, Nov. 28 from 4-6 pm for help getting the most out of this powerful tool. Drop in anytime during the session for help setting up Zotero, adding sources, and generating citations or bibliographies. (Can’t make it? Check out our Zotero how to guide or request an appointment with a librarian.)

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November database trials!

Stevenson Library is running a few database trials this month. Trials give us a chance to preview new resources to learn if they may be beneficial to our collections.

Please explore these resources and reach out to Melanie Mambo or your Library Liaison with any questions, comments and feedback.

Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law (trial ends December 1)
HeinOnline’s Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law was created from a desire to consolidate the wealth of material available on indigenous American life and law, and to share the tremendous influence that these peoples and their cultures have had on the development of the United States. With more than 4,000 titles and 2.3 million total pages, this library includes an expansive archive of historical materials. Guidance on how to use this database can be found here

PRAGDA Streaming films (trial ends December 1)
Pradga is the leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. Over 500 titles can be streamed covering a wide array of the region’s most relevant topics, including the global economy, immigration and exile, feminism, education, international politics, indigenous peoples, the arts, history, and more. More info on this database can be found here

British Illustrated Periodicals, 1869-1970  (trial ends November 18)
British Illustrated Periodicals, 1869-1970 includes material from nine of these ‘sister’ titles: The Graphic (1869-1932); Sporting and Dramatic News (1874-1970); The Sketch (1893-1959); The Sphere (1900-1964); The Tatler (1901-1965); The Bystander (1903-1940); Illustrated War News (1914-1918, and 1939); Britannia and Eve (1929-1957); and London Life (1965-1966).

Zimbabwe Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1897-1980  (trial ends  November 18)
This collection contains annual reports by successive colonial administrations in Rhodesia. It ranges from the period of corporate colonization in the late 19th century right through to the creation of an independent Zimbabwean republic in 1980. The documents provide an overview of the evolution of colonial rule from the perspective of colonial administrators. They highlight their response to early anti-colonial resistance such as the Shona and Ndeble Risings of 1896-1897. The records also highlight the difficulties caused by the Smith government’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 and ensuing decades of white minority rule.

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Engage, Serve, Lead: A community reading and discussion group

What makes a community? What do we give up to be part of one? Join Johnny Brennan and Alexa Murphy for discussion on selections from The Civically Engaged Reader (edited by Adam Davis) to find out! This four-part series is open to Bard and local community members. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Sign up for one of all of the sessions here. Readings will be provided to participants in advance of each session. All meetings will take place in Stevenson Library.

This series is funded in part with a grant from Humanities New York. (Any views, findings, or conclusions or recommendations expressed in these workshops do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.)

Discussion 1: Associating
October 5th 6:30- 7 p.m.

Discussion 2: Serving
October 19 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Discussion 3: Giving
November 2 6:30-7:30  p.m.

Discussion 4: Leading
November 16 6:30-7:30 p.m

 

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Native American Heritage Month Event!

Join us for a special Native American Heritage Month event: 

Narrative (Storytelling) as a Method of Indigenization
Mohonk Friends of the Indian Conferences and Indian Boarding School Policies of the 19th and 20th Centuries
A presentation by Olivia Tencer ’22
When: Tuesday, November 14, 6-7 pm
Where: Stevenson Library (browsing area)
Sponsored by Stevenson Library and the Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
Refreshments will be provided.

Join Olivia Tencer ‘22, Post-Baccalaureate Fellow with  Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk  to learn about her research on the history of Indian boarding schools and the role of Mohonk Mountain House in supporting federal Indigenous child removal policies to further disrupt Native lifeways and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land. Olivia will share how she uses Indigenous research methods like narrative or “storytelling”, one of Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s 25 Decolonial Projects, to retell, rewrite, re-imagine, and re-narrate the history of Mohonk Mountain Houses’s Friends of the Indian Conferences and the profound influence of these conferences on Indian boarding school policies of the 19th and 20th centuries in the so called United States. What is the current narrative being shared at Mohonk? How do Indigenous research methodologies, specifically representation, re-narrate this history? How does narrative and storytelling help us as researchers to “Indigenize” colonial histories? Participants will look at various primary and secondary sources to further understand how narrative and storytelling help us as researchers to unpack history.

This talk was originally presented at the fall 2023 Rethinking Place conference at Bard College.

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Pizza & Plagiarism Workshop!

The definition of plagiarism in Bard’s Student Handbook—to “steal and pass off as one’s own the ideas, words, or writings of another”—sounds simple, right? But for many of us, the boundary between ethical and unethical source use is often quite fuzzy.
So come nosh on pizza while you learn how to avoid plagiarism in your writing.
When: Wednesday, November 1, 1–2 pm
Where: Campus Center 214 (Yellow Room)

Because seating is limited, RSVP to [email protected] to reserve a spot. Sponsored by your friends at Stevenson Library.

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