Library staff spent winter break doing some rearranging and shifting.

Now our New Book collection and Faculty Scholarship section are featured more prominently as soon as you walk into the library (see photos below). Faculty Scholarship now includes published articles and other media in addition to books. We also display works by Trias Residency writers. 

Additionally, shifting our first floor reference collection allowed us to move current periodicals, which were previously housed in the far corner— now they're across from the IT help desk, right before the reference collection.

Until Feb. 8, you can stop by the library and visit the display on the second floor to learn more about two upcoming exhibits, Boy Crazy in the Davis Gallery and Feminine Monstrous in the Solarium Gallery. Both gallery exhibits will be open from Jan. 30 through Feb. 22, with receptions on Jan. 30 from 5-7 p.m. If you go to the reception, be sure to wish curator Meghan Jordan a happy birthday!

A little about each exhibit:

• "Boy Crazy is a mixed-media narrative of personal trauma by Elizabeth Clark Libert."
• Kathryn Cowles' Feminine Monstrous "sets vintage clippings of conventional magazine women and advertisements against themselves, and alongside pieces of poems, to create loopholes through which its monstrous women can slip the rotten binds of conventional femininity."

You can find more information about both exhibits on display, as well as related reading, a collage station to dabble in your own mixed-media art, and a QR code for a Boy Crazy Spotify playlist to get a multi-platform experience. Click the book covers below to find books by the artists on the library shelves. 

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a restorative winter break to prepare for the Spring term. Library staff are ready to help with anything you might need to succeed in your education! Below, find a quick rundown of a few things the library can help with (but know, this doesn't even scratch the surface of what the library offers).

Need research help? Book an appointment with one of our reference librarians! Walk-in availability is offered from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 2-4 p.m., Monday through Thursday. There's even Archives help available.

Did you leave your textbook in your room? The library might have it on Course Reserve. Ask at the circulation desk!

Can't find the book you need in the library's collection? Place an interlibrary loan request.

Need a quiet space to work on a group project?

Access Services Librarian Jen Schlossberg eagerly waiting to help you with research.

Reserve a study room. (We even have private study carrels available on a first-come, first-served basis—check out a key at the circulation desk.)

Not sure where to start your research? We have a helpful guide to walk you through the process.

Did you make a resolution to read more in 2025? Find popular titles on the Libby/Overdrive app. You have completely free access with your OneCard. 

Want to stay up-to-date with current events? You have access to a New York Times digital subscription through the library.

Recently, two long-lost books made their way back into our collections.
The first is a 1502 edition of Juvenal and Persius. It was donated in 1896 by Morris H. Morgan, a long-time professor of classical philology at Harvard University.

The second is a 1729 forgery of the 1527 definitive Renaissance edition of The Decameron by Boccaccio. It was donated in 1907 as part of the John Safford Fiske collection, along with 3,948 other volumes.

Both books were in the collection of the late book dealer Gary Woolson and were graciously returned to us by DeWolfe and Wood, rare book dealers in Alfred, Maine.

We have no record of when or how these books may have left the library but are happy to have them back safe and sound.

For more, be sure to follow @hwsarchives on Instagram.

Studying with a group on the first floor of the library?

Use one of the new monitors located near the IT desk. Currently, one acts as a touch-screen monitor that connects to your device to share your screen with a group. The other can be used as a whiteboard, perfect for brainstorming projects and research. In the future, both will function as monitor and whiteboard.

Technical Support Specialist II Tyler Short demonstrates how the whiteboard function works.

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