Stories about "Information and Library Services"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.