Caro Pinto

Category: Projects

  • Teaching a Mid-Career Librarian New Tricks: Becoming an Art Librarian

    I’ve loved art since my early, awkward adolescence. I remember the first time I saw a Picasso in person. I will never forget feeling lost in a large Rothko canvas. I felt all the feelings and did not know why. It was not for a lack of trying; In middle school, I owned a copy…

  • Reflections on a dh+lib Transition

    Ahoy! icon-anchorThe 2016-2017 school year was my busiest year in academic libraries. My role saw a number of shifts; I added art history as a department, broadened my collaborations with the College\’s art museum, and now lead the LITS WordPress Team. To make room for these new developments, I realized I had to step away…

  • Congratulations to the Class of 2017

    Over the weekend, I celebrated my fourth workiversary at Mount Holyoke College. How the time flies! The last week or so felt like my first weeks on campus: quiet. The middle of May has a unique ‘here today, gone tomorrow feel’ as exams end; students haul their luggage towards cars and buses away from campus, and…

  • Shaping their narratives: ePortfolios in the Environmental Studies senior seminar

    CP’s Note: This story about my teaching collaboration in Environmental Studies originally appears in my department’s ‘Teaching with LITS’ nook on the College’s website. It’s a wonderful look at all the fabulous collaborations that enhance teaching and learning at Mount Holyoke. Over the last three and a half years, eportfolios have become central to my work. I…

  • That Time I Visited my Book IRL 2017 Edition

    I am proud to say I had occasion to visit another book at ACRL 2017 with co-author and friend Elizabeth Galoozis! Here’s a link to our chapter.