News & Updates

Many faculty take advantage of the resources available in the Hamilton College Special Collections and Archives (SCA)and Jazz Archives.  We now have a form to make planning class visits more efficient and convenient for faculty and library staff. In advance of a visit to the SCA and Jazz Archive, please visit the following website (https://my.hamilton.edu/lits/forms/sca-class-visit-form) and complete the form provided there. This will give SCA staff all of the information they need to prepare for your visit in a timely manner, and insure that all materials requested can be located and retrieved.

As Hamilton students, we like to think we’re smart, literate students. I agree about smart. But what does it mean to be literate? In the middle ages, being literate meant being able to sign your own name. Then there’s the traditional definition of literacy that we usually think of: being able to read and write. But do either of these definitions comprise being literate in today’s society?

A highlight of every Fallcoming weekend for the last 23 years has been a gathering of world class jazz talent on campus. Archive director Monk Rowe carried on the tradition conceived by Milt Fillius Jr. ’44 and invited a select group of artists to perform classic jazz in the perfect setting of the Fillius Events Barn.

Couper Press announced the release of Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends, a book authored by Fillius Jazz Archive director Monk Rowe with Romy Britell. The book gathers memorable and informative interview excerpts from 325 sessions conducted for the archive.

Joe Williams Director of the Milt and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive Monk Rowe presented “The Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College: Preserving Words and Images” at the NYS/O MLA gathering at Cornell on October 16th.

The latest acquisition for the Beinecke Collection in Burke Library’s Special Collections originated in Trinidad in the year 1822. It is a large bound ledger book of about 350 pages with the simple title Prisons. Convictions Register. This incredible manuscript contains names of Slaves, Runaway Slaves, Free Blacks, “Black Mandingos,” Whites, Soldiers, American Refugees, etc., their Crimes, Dates of Incarceration, and Punishments, between the years 1822-1824.

Burke has a limited number of lockers available for the convenience of students. They are located in the basement, near the bound periodicals. To reserve a locker, please ask at the Circulation Desk.

Ben Salzman ’14, Educational Technologist, and Kristin Strohmeyer, Research and Outreach Librarian, joined Associate Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs and Accessibility Services Allen Harrison and Mei Lin Pratt ’16 for a panel presentation on disability accommodations at Hamilton College.

Charles Watkinson, Director of University of Michigan Press, will deliver this year’s Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Tuesday, October 20, at 4:15 in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center. Mr. Watkinson’s talk," Open Access Monographs: Why Should Authors, Librarians, and Administrators Care?", will focus on the recent emergence of high profile projects in North America and Europe that are exploring the potential of flipped publishing models for academic books.

All incoming members of the Hamilton College class of 2019 participated in one of many orientation trips.  Hamilton College offers three branches of orientation adventure trips that provide a fun and friendly atmosphere for easing new students into college life. Several members of LITS were involved with orientation trips this past August.