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Adopt a pocket-pet at the library (December 2nd)

lcave@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-28T00:00:00-0500

How are you relaxing during finals? Stressbusters are happening all over campus. Starting at 10am on Tuesday Dec 2nd, tiny pocket-pets will be hidden on all three floors of the Davis Family Library. Come wander the stacks and take home a cute buddy. Options will include a yellow shark, green platypus, grey manatee, orange fox, and pink/purple lizard. Locate the “chaser” pets, a silver fox and a red dragon, and bring them to the Circulation desk for a $20 Vermont Bookshop giftcard!

ON EGGS-HIBIT: Case cracked? The Mystery of Ron Powers’ Big Bird Egg Solved!

Liefe Temple — 2025-11-17T11:30:00-0500

An unusual egg with a dramatic backstory eggs on hard-boiled researcher-detective to crack the case!

ON EGGS-HIBIT: Nancy Willard’s Bread Loaf Eggs

Liefe Temple — 2025-11-12T09:30:00-0500

Nancy Willard (1936 - 2017) was an author, poet, and teacher, best known for her children’s books. During Willard’s time at Bread Loaf during the 1980s and 90s, she asked fellow faculty, attendees, and guests to sign wooden eggs. This EGGS-HIBIT is a collection of nearly three dozen hand painted and decorated eggs, themed around each signatory and their work, paired with a corresponding literary work.

New - The CSE Manual Online

Gretchen Kenet — 2025-11-10T13:39:16-0500

Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff now have access to The CSE Manual Online, the authoritative reference for authors, editors, and publishers in all areas of the sciences.

Airwaves to Archives: Using ChatGPT to make WRMC recordings more accessible online

Kaitlin Buerge — 2025-10-28T15:37:43-0400

Using AI tools like ChatGPT and Whisper, Middlebury Libraries transcribed and summarized 423 historic WRMC radio recordings now available at the Internet Archive. Then we brought those summaries into ArchivesSpace, improving searchability and connecting each program directly to its audio and transcript online.

Don't get "spooked" by midterms!

lcave@middlebury.edu — 2025-10-22T00:00:00-0400

Midterms are coming, but have no fear!

Ask a librarian for help choosing a research topic, finding resources, writing a citation, and more.

Artificial Intelligence + Internet Archive, or AI and IA: New Technology for Old Stuff

Patrick Wallace — 2025-10-20T10:57:01-0400

On the 10th anniversary of Middlebury’s first upload to the Internet Archive, we’re celebrating 52,000+ items in IA and new AI integrations for access.

Staff Picks: "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness

lcave@middlebury.edu — 2025-10-13T00:00:00-0400

Find out what the Davis Family Library is reading! Staff Picks features recommendations from people working in Davis. In this post, Kimberly Marshall, Library/Circulation Supervisor, features “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness.

^{We are reviewing items in our collections and other content that is available for free to Middlebury students, faculty and staff.}

Celebrate the freedom to read during Banned Book Week: October 5 – October 11

lcave@middlebury.edu — 2025-10-05T00:00:00-0400

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murikami

An update on Wiley Online Library Access

Gretchen Kenet — 2025-10-01T15:20:31-0400

You might encounter a new message about “tokens” when using Wiley online content in your research. Read on to learn what it means and why you’re seeing it!