Events

Please join us for a presentation by Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor and Chair of Psychology Tara E. McKee and Senior Research Librarian for Peer Learning & Student Manager Glynis Asu who will discuss their teaching partnership with Psychology thesis students. Their collaboration helps students navigate sources, attribution, and citation throughout the research process, while exploring concepts of information literacy, scholarly practice, and responsible research. This lunchtime series highlights creative partnerships between Hamilton College ...

In need of a last minute Halloween costume? Join the Hamilton Sustainability Coordinators and the Makerspace for a Halloween costume upcycling workshop. Bring an old t-shirt, dress, pants, and turn it into a fun, sustainable Halloween costume! All tools will be provided by the Makerspace.

Please join us for a presentation by Sharon Rivera (Sidney Wertimer Professor for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring), Robert Knight (Professor of Art), and Bret Olsen (Associate Director of Academic Technology & Digital Support) on their collaboration in the spring 2026 course, GOVT 239: Digital Human Rights. The course enabled students to utilize OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques to conduct anonymous internet-based research, synthesize their findings, and present them as video essays. Rather than using traditional cameras, student...

or Sex with Spirits? Please join us for the Fall 2026 Couper Lecture by Joscelyn Godwin, Professor Emeritus, Colgate University  A long tradition holds that humans can communicate with the subtle beings who inhabit the Elements. Some even claimed that marriage and procreation  are possible between us and the Sylphs, Elves, Fauns, Fairies, etc. The theme appealed to poets and novelists, and took on new life with the Spiritualist movement of the mid-19th century. The idea then arose that since the dead could talk, and even apparently materialize,...

Kick Halloween weekend off with a tour of the College Cemetery aka the "Last Dormitory" with College Archivist Jeremy Katz and Connor Havelka '28! Victims should gather at the entrance to the cemetery promptly at 3 p.m. for the roughly 60 minute tour (entrance is located between Morris House and Bristol Center). Attendees will learn about the origin story of the cemetery, influential residents of the Last Dormitory, headstone symbols, and the recently release ArcGIS StoryMap. The cemetery is an outdoor venue so please wear weather appropriate a...

Please join us for a presentation by John Eldevik, professor of history on his book, Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts (Arc-Humanities Press, 2024).  The lunch series, “Celebrating Faculty and Staff Achievements,” features new scholarship from 2020 to present by faculty and staff authors, and is sponsored by Ngoni Munemo, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and Joe Shelley, Vice President for Innovation and Information Services. Lunch will be provided.

Stop by and celebrate World Digital Preservation Day with LITS staff and student workers! Learn more about efforts to digitize campus history, explore a digital petting zoo, and take home swag and informative zines on how you can preserve your own digital footprint.

Join us for a series of Lunch & Learn events focused on the transition to Workday Student for faculty, advisors, and other staff members.  These sessions will take place during the Employee Lunch service. There will be two preview sessions for each date. Sessions start at 11:45am and 12:30pm. November 5 and 16 topic: First Look at Workday Student Please RSVP here to ensure we can be prepared. 

Awareness Session for Workday Student Information System

Join us for a presentation of the work the LITS Data Science Tutors, CATTs, and Research Tutors have done in support of the America 250 exhibit in Burke Library. 

Join us for a series of Lunch & Learn events focused on the transition to Workday Student for faculty, advisors, and other staff members.  These sessions will take place during the Employee Lunch service. There will be two preview sessions for each date. Sessions start at 11:45am and 12:30pm. November 5 and 16 topic: First Look at Workday Student Please RSVP here to ensure we can be prepared. 

Please join us for a presentation by T Kira Mahealani Madden, Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, on her work, Whidbey (Harper Collins, 2026). The lunch series, “Celebrating Faculty and Staff Achievements,” features new scholarship from 2020 to present by faculty and staff authors, and is sponsored by Ngoni Munemo, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and Joe Shelley, Vice President for Innovation and Information Services. Lunch will be provided.

Come select some leisure reading to take home over Thanksgiving break! LITS Research Librarians will have a selection of books from the collection for you to browse and select from to help you relax with an analog hobby over Thanksgiving break.

Join us for some Word Play at the fourth annual Poetry & Pastries evening of multilingual poetry! We invite readers from all walks of Hamilton to contribute, in all world languages.   Submission deadline is Friday, October 30   Living is experimenting.  —Georgia O’Keeffe From whimsical linguistic games and untranslatable idioms to bold experiments that defy traditional syntax, poetry thrives when language is set free to reinvent itself. We invite poets, translators, and poetry enthusiasts from all linguistic backgrounds to share or perform works centered on the theme of play, curiosity, and innovation.   We welcome submissions (via this form) of existing poems and original compositions...

Join us to learn more about the upcoming shift to Workday for Student Registration, Course search, billing, and more! Freebies and snacks for those who drop by! 

Join this all employee gathering to celebrate the beginning of a new semester!

Get early, hands-on access to Hamilton’s new student information system before the official Spring 2026 launch! Open to all students, faculty, and staff! Drop in anytime during these open lab hours for an exclusive, hands-on test drive of Hamilton’s new student information system before our official launch. Log into the live system with guided support from the Workday Student project team to try out searching for courses, saving a schedule, registering, and exploring key academic tools for faculty! Light refreshments will be provided, and atte...

Get early, hands-on access to Hamilton’s new student information system before the official Spring 2026 launch! Open to all students, faculty, and staff! Drop in anytime during these open lab hours for an exclusive, hands-on test drive of Hamilton’s new student information system before our official launch. Log into the live system with guided support from the Workday Student project team to try out searching for courses, saving a schedule, registering, and exploring key academic tools for faculty! Light refreshments will be provided, and atte...

Training Session for Workday Student Information System 

Get early, hands-on access to Hamilton’s new student information system before the official Spring 2026 launch! Open to all students, faculty, and staff! Drop in anytime during these open lab hours for an exclusive, hands-on test drive of Hamilton’s new student information system before our official launch. Log into the live system with guided support from the Workday Student project team to try out searching for courses, saving a schedule, registering, and exploring key academic tools for faculty! Light refreshments will be provided, and atte...

Get early, hands-on access to Hamilton’s new student information system before the official Spring 2026 launch! Open to all students, faculty, and staff! Drop in anytime during these open lab hours for an exclusive, hands-on test drive of Hamilton’s new student information system before our official launch. Log into the live system with guided support from the Workday Student project team to try out searching for courses, saving a schedule, registering, and exploring key academic tools for faculty! Light refreshments will be provided, and atte...

Get early, hands-on access to Hamilton’s new student information system before the official Spring 2026 launch! Open to all students, faculty, and staff! Drop in anytime during these open lab hours for an exclusive, hands-on test drive of Hamilton’s new student information system before our official launch. Log into the live system with guided support from the Workday Student project team to try out searching for courses, saving a schedule, registering, and exploring key academic tools for faculty! Light refreshments will be provided, and atte...

Training Session for Workday Student Information System