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Library Hours for Monday, March 18th

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Special Collections10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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Howe Library8:00 am - 12:00 am

Media Services8:00 am - 7:00 pm

Howe Reference10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Dana Health Sciences Library7:30 am - 11:00 pm

 

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News Stories

Book cover shows a musician standing on a white star with arms stretched to hold the book's title, Vermont Reggae Fest.

Silver Special Collections librarians continually add historical and contemporary materials to the Vermont Research Collection on all aspects of the state, from A-Z. Here are four recent additions published in 2023 that include the history of a music festival, a refugee's memoir, a monthly almanac and new research on eugenics.

To help researchers make use of our collections, Silver Special Collections Library is a member of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC). Applications for 2024-2025 are due February 1, 2024.

Our latest blog post looks at alumni memory books from the 1920s.

 

A UVM Today story highlights the range of materials in Senator Patrick Leahy's congressional papers.

The UVM Libraries will migrate to a new (and improved!) library catalog and search system in January 2024. Most of this change will happen behind the scenes. What to expect >>

Events

On March 27, as Vermont looks toward the April 8 solar eclipse, UVM Professor Bill McDowell will talk about art photographers who have used the sun, moon, and night sky as subjects.

On Feb. 6, 2024, Steven Kostell, Assistant Professor of Design in UVM's Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, will recount selected creative activities from twenty years of hand papermaking, highlighting collaborations and community-centered practice .

Through photographs, documents and objects, this exhibit highlights the architecturally renowned building's past as a library and student center and its current use as the home of Silver Special Collections and three academic centers.

Seeds of Renewal explores Abenaki agricultural history, cuisine, and ceremony. It will be on view in the Billings Apse from January 17 to April 28, 2023.

Photo with a sign indicating "end of spur" on a fence post in front of bushes and evergreen trees looking toward a lake in the distance.

Following a reception for Andrew Frost's exhibition, The Earth Will Hold Us, Andrew and Alice Boone will have a conversation about memory, rocks, maple syrup, and catamounts as they consider the question, what does it mean to be from a place?

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Give your research the visibility and safekeeping it merits by creating an ORCID® iD! #UVM has recently become a member organization of ORCID and has built a university integration to connect our institution with your ORCID record/profile. As a researcher, your ORCID iD is a sixteen-digit unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researchers and ensures that your work is easily discoverable and accessible. By 2025, U.S. federal funding agencies will require researchers to have a unique identifier when applying for federal grants. This will help you get credit for your research outputs and streamline your reporting obligations for grants and awards. To register for an iD and connect it to UVM, visit go.uvm.edu/orcid-uvm.

Give your research the visibility and safekeeping it merits by creating an ORCID® iD! #UVM has recently become a member organization of ORCID and has built a university integration to connect our institution with your ORCID record/profile. As a researcher, your ORCID iD is a sixteen-digit unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researchers and ensures that your work is easily discoverable and accessible. By 2025, U.S. federal funding agencies will require researchers to have a unique identifier when applying for federal grants. This will help you get credit for your research outputs and streamline your reporting obligations for grants and awards. To register for an iD and connect it to UVM, visit go.uvm.edu/orcid-uvm.

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