Stay updated with breaking news from Smith College Library. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Two weeks before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I used Google to learn what was happening in Northampton. I wondered if the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program would be in-person this year. Although I’ve largely avoided large audiences, fearing...
Ordinarily a person cited, interviewed and profiled in a book wouldn’t be the appropriate person to review it. But we are not dealing here with an ordinary book, an ordinary author, nor an ordinary reviewer! And what is “appropriate” anyway? Much of this book talks about who and what were cons...
“The demonization of transgender people in the United States,” the Communist Party USA statement posted on Jan. 4 opens, “is today a focal point of the far right’s campaign for political and economic domination.
How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin's art and architecture Carolina A. Miranda © Provided by The LA Times Maya Lin stands amid "Ghost Forest," a public art project in New York's Madison Square Park that nods to the ravaging effects of climate change (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) For more than a year, I've kept a folder on my desk that was stuffed full of scribbled notes for the story I was working on when the pandemic hit. Every journalist, it seems, has a version of this folder — ideas rendered moot by the arrival of our global calamity.
Print For more than a year, I’ve kept a folder on my desk that was stuffed full of scribbled notes for the story I was working on when the pandemic hit. Every journalist, it seems, has a version of this folder — ideas rendered moot by the arrival of our global calamity. The story, about the architecture of libraries, was also a story about how women design for women. The library in question was one I knew intimately: Neilson Library, the central library at Smith College, the women’s college in Northampton, Mass., where I studied as an undergraduate. My focus was a $120-million renovat...