Library News

Trial of EBSCO's Political Science Digital Archives Now Available
 

The library is currently hosting a trial of EBSCO's Political Science Digital Archives, which includes full-image, online access to the contents of The Nation, The National Review, and The New Republic from their first issues to the present. For more information, connect to our Database News page.

Posted 6-20-2008

Past News

ProQuest Database Trials for June
 

Three ProQuest databases are available to Hamilton users for the month of June. For more information, connect to our Database News page.

Posted 6-2-2008

JSTOR Launches a New Platform
 

JSTOR has a new look. A document describing features of the new platform is included in the JSTOR Sandbox (sandbox.jstor.org). The Sandbox also has links to tutorials and training materials focused on the new JSTOR interface.

Posted 3-7-2008

Couper Press Publishes Chester Gillette Diary
 

Hamilton's Couper Press has published for the first time the prison diary and letters of Chester Gillette, whose 1906 conviction for murdering his lover Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks received national attention. The murder and trial has inspired a number of books and dramatizations, most notably Theodore Dreiser's classic novel, An American Tragedy, and the 1951 movie, A Place in the Sun.

Gillette's diary was written between 1907 and 1908 while he was in Auburn prison, awaiting his execution. Hamilton College's Burke Library received the donation of the diary from his grandniece, Marylynn Murray, in a ceremony on March 6, 2007. The new publication may be purchased for $25 plus shipping by contacting April Caprak at (315) 859-4475.

Posted 12-21-2007

Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Presents Shaker Expert
 

"Sex, Celibacy, and Gender Roles among the Shakers," will be presented on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. in Hamilton's Kennedy Science Auditorium in the Science Center by Glendyne Wergland, this year's Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture speaker. The event is free and open to the public. Wergland's most recent book, Visiting the Shakers: 1778-1849, was recently published by Hamilton's Couper Press.

Posted 10-21-2007

Library Adds New Electronic Resources
 

The library has added a number of online databases to our collection since the end of the summer. For more information, connect to our Database News page.

Posted 9-14-2007