Stories about "information and library services"
Read real cases of the Spanish Inquisition on a unique Bates website
Thursday, December 2, 2021 2:21 pm
Read real cases of the Spanish Inquisition, and see images of original documents, including the inquisition a Mexican silversmith accused of wearing unsensible shoes.
Current affairs: Student programmers simplify electricity management
Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:11 am
In a special Digital and Computational Studies project, three seniors join EcoReps to improve how Bates measures campus electrical use.
Faculty and students find low cost, versatility in open educational resources
Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:36 pm
Faculty, staff, and students across Bates are using advances in information technology to make course materials cheaper and more accessible.
Q&A: For Pat Schoknecht, Bates’ distinctive melding of IT and libraries was a draw
Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:34 pm
As Bates’ new head of Information and Library Services, Pat Schoknecht’s domain…
Patricia A. Schoknecht named Bates College vice president for information and library services and college librarian
Monday, November 27, 2017 10:41 am
Currently chief information officer and assistant vice president for business services at Rollins College, Schoknecht joins Bates on Jan. 1, 2018.
Katie Vale, librarian and head of information and library services at Bates, dies at age 51
Thursday, December 1, 2016 8:00 am
Vale was a "professional of enormous breadth and intellect and a person possessed of quick wit and self-deprecating humor," said Bates College President Spencer.
Katie Vale named Bates Vice President for Information and Library Services and Librarian
Thursday, July 2, 2015 8:00 am
Vale, whose appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2015, is currently director of digital learning at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Set to debut Nov. 3, the remodel of bates.edu was driven by mobile
Friday, October 31, 2014 11:00 am
The major changes, including a homepage redesign, are all about making a website that’s easier to use and thus more valuable.
Vice President for Information and Library Services Eugene Wiemers to retire
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:00 am
Wiemers built an "integrated library and information services organization [that is] regarded as a national model among liberal arts colleges," said President Spencer.
Leading Tolkien scholar discusses director's 'Lord of the Rings' treatment
Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:33 am
As the culmination of a three-day Tolkien Film Festival at Bates College from Monday, Oct. 22, through Wednesday, Oct. 24, leading Tolkien scholar Thomas Shippey delivers a lecture titled "Filming the Lord of the Rings: How Peter Jackson Coped with J.R.R. Tolkien," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.