New Trial: Digitalia Hispanica
Link: Digitalia Hispanica Trial from Mar 7 – April 7, 2022 Database includes access to fully searchable full-text pages and images from a variety of journals and books in Spanish. Feedback form
New Trial: Digitalia Film Library
Link: Digitalia Film Library Trial from Mar 7 – April 7, 2022 A multilingual collection of films from Spain, France and other European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from South America, Central America and Caribbean including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and others. Feedback form … Read more
New Trial: African Historical Newspapers
Link: African Historical Newspapers Trial runs through April 30, 2022. Features more than 90 nineteenth and twentieth-century African newspapers from around the world. Includes 60 African historical newspapers (1821 – 1900 ) sourced from the British Library, London. Feedback form
WESeminars and Exhibits in the library for Homecoming/Family Weekend
Friday, November 1 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM WESEMINAR Inspired by Primary Sources Join Suzy Taraba ’77, MALS ’10, Director of Special Collections & Archives, and Amanda Nelson, University Archivist, for a look at several students’ creative projects, research papers, and senior theses that began with encounters with primary sources in Special Collections & Archives. … Read more
Homage to Beckett: A Symposium
Homage to Beckett: A Symposium Speakers: Dr. Jay Levy ’60 HON ’96 Lois Overbeck, PhD, Managing Editor, The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett, Emory University Michael Meere, PhD, Assistant Professor of French, Wesleyan University Thursday, October 24, 2019, 3-6 p.m., followed by a reception Smith Reading Room, Olin Library, 252 Church St., Middletown Join us … Read more
FILM by Samuel Beckett (1965) and NOTFILM by Ross Lipman (2016)
FILM by Samuel Beckett (1965) and NOTFILM by Ross Lipman (2016) Samuel Beckett’s FILM, made in collaboration with Buster Keaton, will be shown with NOTFILM, a documentary by Ross Lipman about the making of FILM. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8 p.m. Powell Family Cinema, Center for Film Studies, Wesleyan University Free and open … Read more
Photos from the SC&A Pop Up Exhibit
On September 19, 2019, Special Collections & Archives hosted a pop up exhibit in honor of Constitution Day. Photos courtesy of Olivia Drake.
Constitution Day Pop Up Exhibit – Sept. 19 — at Special Collections & Archives
In honor of Constitution Day, Special Collections & Archives will be exhibiting some founding fathers documents, early versions of the US Constitution, Federalist papers, and Connecticut state constitutions in the Davison Rare Book Room, first floor Olin Library.
Read the latest Library newsletter, now available online!
Stories in the Summer 2019 Check It Out — *Wesleyan has joined the Boston Library Consortium — *Richard Winslow Era Collection processed — *Intern works on Queer Archive Project Collection — *Olin and PAC site model donated to Olin — *Occupy Wall Street Library book makes its way to Wesleyan — *Librarians Michaelle Biddle and Alec McLane … Read more
Congratulations to the Friends of the Wesleyan Library Undergraduate Research Prize Winners
The Friends of the Wesleyan Library are pleased to honor the winners of the third annual Undergraduate Research Prize for excellence in library research and writing: 1st place: Emma Leuchten ’19 (Anthropology and Religion), “Anthropology Beyond Belief: Navigating Dreams and Reality in the Burmese Weikza Tradition” – A Senior Essay submitted to the Anthropology Department (Prof. Traube) … Read more