Connecticut College Libraries = Shain Library 📚 🎶 + Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives 📜 + Instructional Technology 🖥
New London, CT
Joined December 2013
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Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
What's moving in the public domain in the US on January 1? Check out this new list curated by Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain!
👉 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/public…
And then ⬇️
ALT Montage of materials moving into the public domain in the US in 2025, including A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, and more.
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
🇺🇸 Early voting in Connecticut for the 2024 General Election begins on Monday, October 21.
This is the first general election in history that Connecticut has early voting. Nearly every other state already has it.
Want to know how it works? Follow this thread. 🧵
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Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Join the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) & the Library Copyright Institute for a discussion on the recent Hachette v. Internet Archive decision and its impacts on Controlled Digital Lending and libraries.
đź“… November 1 @ 1pm ET
🔗 aserl.org/event/whats-up-wit…
ALT Controlled Digital Lending logo
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
If you're unable to vote in person for the Nov. 5th general election and meet the criteria to vote by absentee ballot, request yours at MyVote.ct.gov/GetMyAB
If you've already submitted your application, ballots begin mailing today.
#vote #ct #election #civics
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Orbiting about 1 million miles away from Earth, NASA's EPIC camera onboard @NOAA's #DSCOVR satellite captured the shadow from Monday's total solar eclipse!
In this imagery, you can see the moon's shadow pass over the Pacific Ocean and through North America. #TotalEclipse2024
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
ALL LIBRARIES & the communities we serve are negatively impacted by publishers' refusal to sell ebooks that we can own & preserve. CT librarians are pushing back: ctmirror.org/2024/02/21/ct-l…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Conn participates in Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon @ConnCollege @ConnCollLibTech @DouglassDayorg conncoll.edu/news/news-archi…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
SAVE THE DATE: Feb 14, 2024!🥳
Join us in transcribing Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence with @Crowd_LOC!
➡️Live broadcast
➡️Crowdsourcing project with Library of Congress Materials
➡️Birthday cake bake off
Info & registration douglassday.org
Please help us share?
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Have you visited the Librivox Free Audiobook Collection in the Archive? With thousands of works to choose from, there is surely something for everyone. We've highlighted a few of our favorites here - mailchi.mp/archive.org/a-col…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Explore >1,000 classic sound effects rescued from crumbling magnetic tape in the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2023/05/20/…
Included in the collection is the full recording session of the famous 'Wilhelm scream'... 1/2
ALT SSE tape library - magnetic tapes in a box.
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
THIS WEEK: How can public interest values shape the development and deployment of #AI in cultural heritage? Join experts from @internetarchive, @creativecommons & @Wikimedia for a virtual panel discussion this Tuesday.
May 2 @ 10am PT 🎟️ ⤵️
eventbrite.com/e/generative-…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
We took a powerful stand for the digital rights of all libraries today in court! 📕 Here’s how to take action while we wait for the judge’s decision: blog.archive.org/2023/03/20/…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Key Agencies Missing from Central Freedom of Information Act Portal
- Congress Required Common #FOIA Website in 2016, We’re Still Waiting
- @NSArchive identifies delinquent agencies and suggests portal fixes in #SunshineWeek #FOIA audit
nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Join Chris Bourg in conversation with "Athena Unbound" author Peter Baldwin about the history and promise of the #OpenAccess movement. Reserve your spot for this online event held on March 28, 1pm ET. @internetarchive @mitpress @mchris4duke ow.ly/WQqr50N7ty7
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
To participate in the Audubon Great Backyard Bird Count, count birds on your own for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of this four-day event (2/17 - 2/20).
Report your sightings online at gbbc.birdcount.org.
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
You are in the final stretch now–you’ve got this!
View the final exam schedule, find the designated exam rooms, test rules and more: bit.ly/3P6pFW0
ALT A student is studying at a table in the library, looking intensely at their work on a computer. They are photographed from a distance, between stacks of library shelves.
ALT Addie Slade, ’24, a Neuroscience major from Richmond, Virginia, studies for upcoming final exams with Maple, her 3-year off cavapoo, on her lap.
ALT Economics major Cameron Lewis, ’25, from Chicago, studies for upcoming final exams.
ALT Kristen Hummer, left, ’24, from Brunswick, Maine, and Sunshine Pugh, ’24, from Asheville, North Carolina, share a lighter moment in their study routine for upcoming final exams.
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
An article I co-authored with my student Adalie Duran is out in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development: "Economies of community in local agriculture Farmers in New London, Connecticut, respond to the COVID-19 pandemic"
doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.…
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
Here are 100 Notable Books of 2022, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. nyti.ms/3EUwZAx
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
In the Charles Chu Room in @ConnCollege Shain Library for a talk by @alex_lanstein CC’07 “How Governments Leverage Disinformation and Espionage to Drive Intended Outcomes”. Sponsored by @ConnCollLibTech for Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Conn Coll Lib + Tech retweeted
"It was actually just an idea that we kind of threw around in the back as a joke."
@MaxGoldwasser shares why a Kent County library decided to put the 'Lost Water Bottles of Summertime' on display: fox17online.com/fox-17-unfil…
