Library Outpost

Location: Collis Center
(Good weather location = outside)
(Rain location = lobby)

Day: Every Wednesday this summer through August 19

Time: 2PM - 4PM

Celebrating Five Years of DCAL

The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning has been promoting and supporting effective teaching at Dartmouth since 2004. This display, which celebrates DCAL's fifth anniversary, highlights its collaborations, partnerships, and the principles that guide its work. Come by Berry Main Street between July 25 and the end of fall term to learn more about one of the top teaching and learning centers in the country.

Berry Main Street, Baker-Berry Library, July 25 - end of Fall Term

One Sustainable Dartmouth

Global climate change is one of the defining sustainability challenges of our time. In the fall of 2008 Dartmouth committed to reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions by thirty percent below 2005 levels by 2030, starting with a twenty percent cut by 2015. Curbing Dartmouth's greenhouse gas emissions will require us to work together to conserve energy through individual choices; improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings; and diversify the fuel sources that power the Dartmouth campus. The five stories in the Sustainable Dartmouth exhibit highlight some of the ways in which hundreds of Dartmouth students, engaged in more than a dozen organizations, have embraced the challenge of stemming climate change by reducing our carbon footprint.

This exhibit will be on display in Baker Main Hall, Baker-Berry Library, beginning in mid-July.

The Directed Gaze: Ursula K. LeGuin's Direction of the Road, illustrated with an anamorphic woodcut by Aaron Johnson

The word anamorphosis comes from the Greek: ana -back, and morphe -form. Viewed from a specific vantage point, the distorted image recovers a recognizable form, and often seems to lift up from the actual surface.

Anamorphic forms and devices were explored extensively during the Renaissance as scientists and artists attempted to understand how vision and perspective worked. Illustrations of early anamorphic devices by Leonardo Da Vinci, Egnatio Danti, and Pietro Accolti are displayed along with artist Aaron Johnson's contemporary anamorphic woodcut, that accompanies a special publication of Ursula K. Le Guin's short story, the Direction of the Road.

Le Guin's story of a tree's perspective of the changing 20th century world around it is perhaps uniquely suited to anamorphic illustration.

On display in the foyer of Carpenter Hall all summer

American Insights: Charting Terra Incognita

In 1933, Dartmouth College was invited to become one of seventeen college libraries to participate in a philanthropic plan initiated by a wealthy bibliophile name Tracy McGregor. Dartmouth's Library, under the direction of Nathanial Goodrich, was in the process of growing into a true research library. One major aspect lacking in its collections was a strong rare book collection. This exhibit illustrates how Dartmouth's participation in the McGregor Plan laid the groundwork for the Library's rare book and special collections and it integration into the curriculum.

On display in the Class of 1965 Galleries, Rauner Library, June 13 - August 31, 2009.

Book Arts Prize Winners for 2008 - on Exhibit

Linden Vongsathorn, '10 and Gabrielle Santa-Donato, '09, shared first place for the Best Book Printed and Bound in the Book Arts Workshop during the 2007-08 academic year. Linden's entry, 'London' combined letterpress printing and a pop-up book structure to illustrate William Blake's poem in a traditional style. Gabrielle's entry, 'In San Andres, Waiting to Dry', brought to mind contemporary book art styles with her imaginative use of a clothesline to hold the text. Anne Peale, '11, also received Honorable Mention for her entry of 'Sounds of Silence'.

Anne Peale, '11, submitted the winning entry for Best Letterpress with her 'Jabberwocky' broadsheet. Jessie Maxwell, '09, created 'Mapping the Book' and won for Best Example of Hand Binding.

The winning entries are now on display in the exhibit cases outside the Treasure Room in Baker Library.

NovArt

The NovArt exhibition space is located in the Novack Café, Baker-Berry Library's 24 hour study area.

Inspired by the successful "Area" exhibition space in the Hopkins Center, run by Studio Art students, NovArt was developed and exhibits art work by Dartmouth students from across the campus community.

More information about NovArt and the current NovArt exhibits can be found at the NovArt informational webpage.