During a recent visit to the library Chauncey was catching up on old issues of the NYT Book Review. Inspired by their summer reading bucket list and not having a lot to do over the summer break Chauncey created a Summer Reading Challenge just for Champlainers!! Participating is easy. Read 1 book or 10 books, […]

Are you wanting to freshen up your to-read pile? Book it to the library and check out our NEW books, eBooks, and films! Browse staff recommendations and long-time favorites labeled with “Get Caught Reading” stickers.

We recently expanded the scope of our JSTOR collection; one part of this collection can only be accessed through a dedicated link as opposed to the main JSTOR search page or ChampSearch. Global Plants from JSTOR is a database of nearly three million plant type specimens (illustrations, photographs, engravings, etc.), accompanying metadata, other primary historical […]

We would like to an extend an enormous thank you to all who came out to celebrate our 4th Annual Pi(e) Day. We ate from 9 delicious entries and welcomed 62 attendees, including President Hernandez. Congratulations to our winners: 1st Place – Zach Harrison’s Biscoff Cookie Butter Pie 2nd Place – Meghan Broughton’s Lemon Blueberry […]

This Spring, Champlain Abroad is hosting the 10th annual International Photo Contest. Join us for the reception in the MIC Library on Wednesday, April 16th at 3 pm, where we will announce winners in the categories of Architecture, Daily Life, Artistic Flair, and the Natural World. Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. The prizes are: […]

This Wednesday, 4/9, from 5 pm – 8 pm, come meet with librarians, academic coaches, and writing coaches to help you ace your finals! There will be study snacks.

As more library databases incorporate Large Language Models (LLM), generative artificial intelligence (AI), and other emerging technologies, your students may question how using the library tools they know may interact with your syllabus’s AI policy. We anticipate that most library databases will begin using LLMs in some part of the information discovery or user guidance […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “Your research question or thesis statement is useful but insufficient for starting your library search. You’ll need to extract some words or phrases from that sentence and probably look up a few synonyms or related terms for those keywords as backups.” In the first quarter of the […]

How have the last few decades of LGBTQ+ history and culture been experienced at Champlain College? To what extent does Champlain College have an LGBTQ+ history of its own The library has put together a timeline that collects the intriguing history that has cultivated the culture we see today. The incidents showcased on this timeline […]

You may know the library database O’Reilly for its extensive ebook collection, but did you know it also provides access to thousands of on-demand courses? O’Reilly has recently developed and published several courses about generative artificial intelligence (AI), covering both getting started with this emerging technology and getting the most out of generative AI with […]