Seven Selected Inaugural Addresses

Presidential Inaugural Addresses delivered by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. Curated and designed by Dennis Grady.

Baker Main Hall, Baker-Berry Library, January 7 - March 27

Sons of Dartmouth - Sons of Lwala

The story of Milton Ochieng’ ’04 and Fred Ochieng’ ’05, from their time as students at Dartmouth to their founding of the Ochieng’ Memorial Lwala Community Health Center in their home village of Lwala, Kenya. Exhibit curated by William Young, professor emeritus in obstetrics and gynecology at Dartmouth Medical School, with thanks to Kyle Chambers '03, Fred Ochieng' '04, Caitlin Reiner '06, Joel Wickre '03, Craig Parker, and Joe Mehling '69. Designed by Dennis Grady, Library Education & Outreach.

Berry Main Street, Baker-Berry Library, January 26 - March 27

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.

Bringing Russia to Dartmouth: the Legacy of Ralph Sylvester Bartlett

The cultural and social upheaval which marked the early years of the Soviet Union was highly conducive to the acquisition of imperial Russian art treasures, which the Soviet government in the period between the two world wars was very eager to sell. Many American collectors took advantage of this opportunity, including Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Dartmouth College Class of l889. This exhibit focuses on Bartlett's place among American collectors of Russian imperial art, highlighting his influence on the development of Russian studies and collections at Dartmouth, and showcasing books and objects from his large bequest to Dartmouth. The exhibit is being mounted to coincide with the symposium on Russian Art and Russian Studies in America, 1917-1945, held at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding from Oct. 2 to Oct. 4, 2008. It was curated by Eric Esau and John DeSantis and designed by Dennis Grady.

Baker Main Hall, Baker-Berry Library, October 1- December 10

Latinos and Latinas at Dartmouth: Community, Culture, and Scholarship

Highlighting the work of faculty, students, activists, and artists, this exhibit captures the vibrancy of Latino and Latina presence at Dartmouth College. Over the past decade, there have been over 100 Latino-themed projects from presentations by activist to student projects to exhibitions to live performances and art exhibitions. Together these works by Latinos enrich the intellectual and cultural community at Dartmouth College.

(photo: Joe Mehling)

Berry Main Street, Baker-Berry Library, October 1 - November 14

Publishers' Bindings From The Stacks of Baker-Berry Library

"Publishers' Bindings," the beautiful, decorative bindings that were mass-produced from the 1840s through the early 1900s, developed in response to advancements in printing technologies and the need to entice readership. Scholars have recently become interested in these bindings for their artistic mastery, cultural information, and their place in the history of book production. This exhibit displays examples from the early 19th Century through the 1940s selected from the stacks of Baker-Berry Library. Exhibit curated by Deborah Howe, designed by Dennis Grady.

Baker Main Hall, Baker-Berry Library, July 10 - September 19

Barro sin Plomo - Clay Without Lead

This exhibit presents the story of Barro Sin Plomo, a non-profit organization helping artisans in Mexico in transitioning to lead-free glazes, addressing health, environmental, and economic issues that accompany the use of lead. The exhibit includes examples of pottery and a video that chronicles the work of an international team of experts on lead poisoning (including Dr. James Sargent, pediatrician and Dartmouth Medical School faculty member) as they travel to indigenous communities with Barro Sin Plomo on a medical fact finding mission.

Berry Main Street, Baker-Berry Library, July 1 - September 26

Dartmouth College Library Alumni Memorial Books Program Exhibit

Berry Main Street through June 15, 2008

The Alumni Memorial Books Program exhibit illustrates the breath and depth of a program started over a half-century ago by the Class of 1914 to honor the memory of their Dartmouth classmates. All books acquired through this program recognize deceased classmates with a personalized gift plate honoring their memory. Over the years, fifty-seven Dartmouth Classes have participated in this program and have added nearly 13,000 books to the Library’s collection. The exhibit features the Class of 1914, in gratitude for initiating this special program, and the Class of 1958, in honor of their 50th class reunion this June.

The display was designed by Dennis Grady and will remain on exhibit through mid-June.

Facing the North Wind: The Morton E. Wise Collection of Maurice Sendak

Baker Main Hall, Baker-Berry Library, April 1-June 30, 2008

The Dartmouth College Library is honored to acquire the Morton E. Wise Collection of Maurice Sendak in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth College. The collection offers innumerable opportunities for research especially when placed into the context of the other important children's book collections housed in Rauner Library. Facing the North Wind explores Sendak's work in relation to the Victorian book illustrators he points to as his key influences while investigating dominant themes of his writing.

This exhibition was curated by Patti Houghton and Jay Satterfield and designed by Dennis Grady. The materials were prepared by Deborah Howe and Lauren Telepak.

3-d Modeling and Rapid Prototyping In Architectural Design

Berry Main Street through April 18, 2008

Baker-Berry Library currently has an exhibit of rapid prototyped models of an architectural design class using Biomimicry as an inspiration for building design. Some work was done using computer modeling and rapid prototyping to document traditional Japanese architecture. The models were produced by the Rapid Prototyper Machine at Thayer School of Engineering.

This exhibit is a direct result of the Leslie Humanities Center Fellowship in Digital Media; it is a research project of Dartmouth Senior Lecturer, Karolina Kawiaka and includes work by her students in Biomimicry Studio - Architecture 2/3- Fall 2007 from the Studio Art Department.

The objective of Senior Lecturer Karolina Kawiaka's Leslie Humanities Center Fellowship in Digital Media research project was for her to study, experience, and digitally document examples of Asian domestic and sacred architecture and gardens. She then developed a series of digitally photographed and modeled construction details and examples of traditional buildings for research and teaching purposes in architecture classes at Dartmouth College. Subsequent work by Kawiaka's students (Anna Stork '08, Patrick Hamon '08, Julian Henderson '08, and Yihan Hao '08) is included in this exhibit.

This exhibit will remain on display in Berry Library until mid-April. It is located in the Berry Main Street exhibit cases in front of the Baker-Berry reference desk. Please stop by and take a look.

Polar Connections Exhibit

Baker Main Hall and Berry Main Street through March 21, 2008

You are welcome to celebrate and explore the Dickey Institute of Arctic Studies Exhibit titled Polar Connections: Dartmouth and the Earth's Cold Regions in Baker-Berry Library. The Baker Library Main Hall panels tell the story of Dartmouth's long and distinguished tradition of polar exploration and research. These "Polar Connections" extend from the earliest days of the College and are built upon generations of faculty and student efforts to unlock the mysteries of the cold regions. This exhibit traces the history and legacy of Dartmouth's role in Northern and Polar Studies by highlighting the accomplishments of students and faculty in the Arctic and Antarctic. The Berry Main Street exhibit, Polar Connections: Ways of Knowing, features items such as sculpture, scientific instruments, texts and video to explore varied perspectives of the polar regions.

Puzzled about Math?

Mechanical puzzles from the collection of Mathematics professor Peter Winkler are on display in Baker/Berry Main Street through the end of February. They are on exhibit to complement Mechanical Puzzles Day in the Math Dept. Feb 19th when speakers and collectors will be gathering to discuss and display mechanical puzzles.

On Feb 19th Baker/Main will have two tables of hands-on puzzles we can play with and try to solve. These puzzles are on loan from the 30,000 piece Jerry Slocum Collection of Mechanical Puzzles, Brainteasers & Ingenious Objects collection held at the Lilly Library, Indiana University. Following Puzzle Day, these hands-on puzzles will be held at Kresge Library through the end of February.

Recreational math titles about or related to the mathematics of mechanical puzzles from the Cook Mathematics Collection are on display near the self check-out in Baker/Berry. Heather Gere designed this eye catching display.

Andrea Bartelstein has arranged for a stop on the Cell Phone Library Tour at the Mechanical Puzzles exhibit. Call Call 603-283-6890, then press 30 followed by # to listen to Pete's audio description of the exhibit.

Roz Chast Exhibit

Roz Chast has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker for 30 years. An artist whose drawings portray the everyday anxieties and insecurities of modern life, she provides a social commentary for our times. She is a Montgomery Fellow in residence at Dartmouth from January 28-30, 2008. Her Montgomery Fellow Lecture entitled Theories Of Everything and Much, Much More is scheduled for Tuesday, January 29 at 4:30 PM in Filene Auditorium.

Roz Chast has generously loaned some of her original drawings and they are on display in Baker-Berry Library near the reference area on Berry Main Street.

For more information on Roz Chast, see the VOX of Dartmouth article.

Mark Doty Book Display

Poet and author Mark Doty will be giving the Eighth Annual Stonewall Lecture at Dartmouth College, on Thursday, October 18, at 4pm in Filene Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program, is entitled "The Pressure of Reality: Writing in the Age of AIDS." In honor of Doty's appearance, Baker-Berry Library is displaying a selection of his works from the Library's collection.

Mark Doty is the author of seven books of poems, three volumes of nonfiction prose, and a memoir. His writings have appeared in many magazines, including the London Review of Books, Poetry, and the New Yorker, as well as anthologies and collections. Doty has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and a Guggenheim fellowship, and he is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K. Doty lives in New York City and in Houston, Texas, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University of Houston.

Guild of Book Workers 100th Anniversary Exhibition

The Guild of Book Workers 100th Anniversary Exhibition is featured at the Baker-Berry Library from September 21, 2007 through November 30, 2007. This traveling exhibition features the recent works of 62 bookbinders and book artists, members of the Guild of Book Workers. Entries run the gamut from traditional bindings and historic structures, to pop-ups and other playful book forms, to purely sculptural works. Text and imagery are produced by numerous printmaking methods, calligraphy, photography and digital output reflecting classic texts, political viewpoints, personal histories, and the sensual experience of reading a book.

Africa in 3-D: Diversity, Demographics & Discovery

The theme for Geography Awareness Week in November 2006 was "Africa in 3-D."

To highlight that theme and showcase the winners of the 2006 GIS Poster Contest, we have an exhibit which focuses on all aspects of the African continent. The photographs are courtesy of Judith Byfield, a professor in History and Women & Gender Studies.

The scenes showing on the monitor are from various episodes of National Geographic's Africa and the Wonders of Africa with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"This Is My Country": Indigenous Australian Women Speak Their Worlds

This exhibit highlights traditions and social conditions of women from a number of different Australian Aboriginal communities, complementing the Hood Museum's Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters. This exhibit was curated by Amy Witzel and designed by Dennis Grady.

Wenda Gu Exhibit

Part of his ongoing global united nations hair monument project, the green house is a massive sculpture created from hair collected from thousands of Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff and Upper Valley community members. Wenda Gu's hair sculptures arise from his dream that through his art he might unite humanity and encourage international understanding. An exhibition of the artist's recent works on paper is presented concurrently in the Hood's galleries.

Organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, in partnership with the Dartmouth College Library, and generously funded by a grant from the LEF Foundation, the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund, the Eleanor Smith Fund, and the George O. Southwick 1957 Memorial Fund.

For more information, visit the Hood Museum of Art web site at or call (603) 646-2808.

For information about Wenda Gu, visit the Wenda Gu web site.

Read Banned Books!

Celebrate Banned Books Week (September 23-30) at the Library by reading a book that has been banned or challenged. For the next few weeks, several of the Libraries at Dartmouth will exhibit books that have been banned or challenged throughout the history of reading and scholarship.

Baker-Berry Library will display a selection from the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000. Please feel free to browse through and borrow the books in the exhibit.

Dana Library will feature four books that have incited controversy in the life sciences: Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Sigmund Freud's The Essentials of Psychoanalysis, and Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.

For a historical perspective check out Rauner Library's "500 Years of Banned Books" exhibition. Focusing on only one book from each of five centuries, the exhibition exposes themes that have inspired censorship: controversial philosophy, heretical science, radical political thought, depictions of race, and sexually explicit literature.

The exhibition is on view in the Rauner Library Reading Room through October 9.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and express one's opinion in a democratic society, as well as the importance of ensuring that unpopular viewpoints are made available to those who want to learn about them. The event is sponsored by the American Library Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores, among others. For more information, talk to a librarian or visit the ALA web site.

Samuel R. Delany Book Display

This exhibition highlights the works of Samuel R. Delany, the author of such classic science fiction novels as The Einstein Intersection, Babel-17, Nova, Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand, and Dhalgren, as well as the Return to Neveryon series. Delany has won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for his work in science fiction. He also won the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature.