Update #2: Beyond Brown Paper is back! Thank you for your patience. Update #1: The upgrade is taking a little longer than expected. Please bear with us. The Beyond Brown Paper photo archive is offline for a while so we can build it bigger, with more pipes. We’ll have it back online as soon as [...]
January 2, 2008 – 4:06 pm
Deep in near record snow, Lamson Library and Learning Commons has opened for the 2008 Winterim session. Be sure to check our current hours and note that the cafe is closed until spring semester.
December 20, 2007 – 1:48 pm
We will be upgrading the Lamson Library website starting December 24th and continuing through December 25th. During the upgrade you may see inconsistent performance, and for a short time on the morning of the 24th the site will be offline entirely. Please note our upgrade schedule: Monday, December 24th: 6 AM: Site offline for 30 [...]
October 3, 2007 – 12:15 pm
In recognition of Banned Books Week 2007, Lamson Library is featuring a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech. Wikinomics authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams tell stories of how the the internet’s unprecedented collaboration opportunities are changing the rules of economics. IBM, in one example, estimates [...]
September 6, 2007 – 9:47 am
We’re (finally) converting the old WPopac to this new site. Update: it’s moved, it works, it’s live! The beta of this site went public at the beginning of the summer, and work was (mostly) completed just in time to welcome students back this fall. WPopac is now called Scriblio; you can learn more about Scriblio [...]
Connect to Beyond Brown Paper. Beyond Brown Paper is a multi-phased project that involves three collaborative departments at Plymouth State University — Lamson Library’s Michael J. Spinelli Jr. Center for University Archives and Special Collections, Karl Drerup Art Gallery, and the Center for Rural Partnerships. In this first stage, funded by a grant from the [...]
We’ve got a fancy new myPlymouth, fresh paint on the university website, and now a beta of the new library website.
The site now features new searching technology that makes it easier (hopefully) to find what you’re looking for, and a breeze to explore the collection. Find yourself a novel for the beach or keep up to date with new works covering the 20th Century (browse further and you’ll find an interesting looking book titled Mr. Lincoln’s T-mails).
And if you’re not exactly sure what you’re looking for, just try a simple search. “Anthropology,” for example, brings up the research guide to get you started, and in the right column of the search page you’ll see a list of links that let you further narrow the search. Click around and you might find that we have a few dozen online resources in that area, including three on ethnomusicology.
But this is a beta. That means some…a lot of things don’t work yet, and the whole site might fall apart while we’re working on it. Don’t hesitate to tell us about what’s broken or what you like in the comment forms at the bottom of almost every page (or tell me directly, if you’d like). This is an exciting new step for us, and we want to make it right.
Lamson Library celebrates National Women’s History Month with a display of materials focusing on this year’s theme, Generations of Women Moving History Forward. The National Women’s History Project has more information on this year’s celebration and other educational programs and resources. During March, the library blog will connect you to local events on campus so [...]
February 8, 2007 – 12:00 am
The Michael J. Spinelli, Jr. Center for University Archives and Special Collections presents an exhibit of winter activities at Plymouth. Most photographs and written material comes from the first half of the 20th century, including Plymouth Normal School and Plymouth Teachers College. The photographs depict typical winter activities, skiing, snowshoeing, and Winter Carnival. The exhibit [...]
December 18, 2006 – 12:00 am
The Brown Paper Company Photographic Collection documents much of the history of the Brown Paper Company of Berlin, New Hampshire from the late nineteenth century through the mid-1960s. Among the subjects depicted in considerable detail are the varieties of work activity from the felling of trees to the final manufacture of pulp and paper in [...]
September 13, 2006 – 12:00 am
Lamson Library celebrates Constitution Day, September 17th 2006. Standing as the oldest written constitution still in effect, its 7000 words also make in one of the shortest. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History explains: The basic document by which the United States is governed, the Constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia [...]
September 12, 2006 – 12:00 am
Asian Games: The Art of Contest opens at the Karl Drerup Art Gallery at the Draper & Maynard Building on north Main Street September 5 and runs through October 6. The exhibition addresses important themes in Asian culture while illuminating new and unfamiliar aspects of our own. A selection of works on asian games, including [...]
September 6, 2006 – 12:00 am
The transformation of Lamson Library into Lamson Learning Commons has brought with it a passel of new computers. The group study rooms on the upper level have all been outfitted with new PCs with DVD players (some rooms also have VHS players), and this line of private study carrels in the lower level now sports [...]
August 29, 2006 – 12:00 am
September 5–October 6, 2006 Lamson Library Opening Event September 13 4—6 p.m. Gallery Talk September 20 at noon with curator David A. Beronä, Lamson Library Director Japanese manga is similar to the comic book, though more popular than the comic book in America. Weekly sales of manga in Japan are higher than the total sales [...]
You can’t miss it — construction of the Lamson Learning Commons! Read all about it on the posters located on the construction walls, or online at the library web site, www.plymouth.edu/library Yearbooks — did you really have hair that long? (located on a book truck near the entrance, and also in the Spinelli Center — [...]
