It was the end of the semester and the library was filled with sleepy students stumbling towards project and paper deadlines. For as many students as I’ve emailed and met with this year, I wondered about students who need my help, but who, for whatever reason, don’t know that I’m available to support their research.…

I am a higher education junkie. I read the Chronicle with abandon every day, I intently follow the #highered hastag on Twitter, and I read blogs that discuss my field. I can’t get enough of higher education reporting and analysis. I became a higher ed junkie during my transition from humanities graduate student to academic…

“In class and outside it, in casual conversations with other students and intensive bouts of reading deep in the bowels of the library, a light still goes on for no reason anyone can supply , and a young person or a whole class suddenly see as poem or a work of art illuminated in a…

Last fall, there was a RFP for librarians, technologists, and faculty to create learning communities centered around the digital humanities. My team at Hampshire jumped on this immediately and began tracking down like-minded faculty who might be interested in joining our proposal. We had a number of meetings to develop themes, talk about methods, the…