Welcome back, Cats! Let’s get to work. Be on the lookout for the following services and happenings in your ̽̽ Libraries. And be sure to check out our new Libraries’ website at .

SERVICES AND RESOURCES

Get help from ̽̽ librarians 

Academic and research support  

Every academic department has its own subject librarian. Your ̽̽ librarians are ready to save you time, help you reduce stress and offer support for when it’s time to pick that research topic or find credible sources.

Instruction support  

̽̽ Libraries’ subject librarians also offer faculty support. They provide instruction for individual courses to support classroom research needs.  

Ask for help:   

  • Drop by the reference desk (first floor of Howe Library).
  • via chat, email or even text. 
  • Find your . 

New! Access the National Theatre Collection (vol. I) 

View 30 high-definition video performances of UK National Theatre productions with archival materials including prompt scripts, costume designs and costume bibles. The collection includes Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Euripides’ Medea, literary adaptations, 20th century classics, comedies and more. .  

Extended access to Constellate 

Want to try your hand at text analysis? Looking to develop skills in machine learning and LLMs? The ̽̽ Libraries is running a semester-long trial of , the text-analysis platform from ITHAKA, now extended through June 2025. Learn more about Constellate. 

New technology in Howe group study room 050

New tech in Howe group study room 050 allows visitors to cast their work onto a newly-installed screen or call others in via Teams. To learn more, visit the Howe Library circulation desk or 

CURRENT NEWS, EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS

Welcome back cake in Howe 

It’s become a tradition – we get cake and you eat it. for this Week of Welcome event on January 17 at 12:30, Howe first floor. We’re glad you’re back. 

Coffee and Code 

Join the Libraries (with a mug!) on the first and third Friday of each month at 8:30 a.m., Howe Library Atrium (near the media desk) to network and receive help on your R, SAS, SPSS or STATA project. Even if you don’t have a specific question, to chat with other researchers.  

Random Chats about Data 

̽̽ Libraries offer statistics workshops that are drop in and informal. Don’t know exactly what some of these topics mean? . Our specialist is available to answer all of your questions.  

Variable selection methods 

  • Tuesday, February 4 at 11:30 a.m. 
  • Bring a lunch and learn about analysis of overly complex data.
  • Dana Health Sciences Library classroom (room 108).

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) 

  • Tuesday, March 4 at 11:30 a.m. 
  • Bring a lunch and learn about approaches to finding causal relationships in data.
  • Dana Health Sciences Library classroom (room 108).

Office hours with our statistician 

Walk-in hours with our statistician are Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m.  – 12:30 p.m. in Howe Library (room 115) and Thursdays from 2 – 4 p.m. in Dana Health Sciences Library (room 108). 

Exhibit: Vermont photography by Peter Miller 

Join us in the Apse, Billings third level, beginning January 27 for an exhibit featuring works by Vermont photographer Peter Miller. 

New Wi-Fi installation in Howe

Please excuse the disruption this semester as we install faster, better Wi-Fi throughout Howe Library. If the construction is blocking your access to a resource you need, visit the circulation desk or.

Book spotlight: Cozy reads for January 

 featuring “cozy reads” to ease you back into the semester. Cozy reads are fiction books with a light-hearted tone that often include serene locations. Many popular sub-categories of the “cozy read” genre include murder mysteries, craft and hobby mysteries, culinary mysteries, and romance. We’ll also display some nonfiction works about the genre itself, books on tea, coffee, and other new popular fiction titles.  

Here are a couple from the list: 

  • The Great When, by Alan Moore 

Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends him to retrieve some rare books, one of which, Dennis discovers, should not exist. So begins Dennis' adventure in Long London. Delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers, Dennis finds himself at the center of an explosive series of events that may endanger both Londons. 

  • Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto 

Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet). But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.